Im sorry but I totally disagree.
Are we really to accept that the people who didnt rise up and fight ... despite sri akal takhat being blown to peices, despite children having heads smashed in by indian soldiers, despite having guru granth sahib ji shot and urinated upon, despite sikh women being gang raped for over 3 days in delhi, despite seeing their sikh brothers and fathers being forcibly shaved, despite their sisters being forced to drink a police mans urine, despite seeing the desecration of 40 gurdwaras in june and hundreds more in november, despite seeing hundreds of thousands of sikhs being killed across punjab, despite hearing the screams of tortured singhs and singhnia in prisons, despite seeing our little baby sisters Satnam Kaur and Vaheguru Kaur jump onto tanks with grenades to blow them up ... despite all of this happening, that IF and only IF sant jarnail singh ji had been declared shaheed THEN they would have fought? i really really dont think so.
If that is the case for a few people, then they should feel some sort of sharam for using this as an excuse for why they didnt stand. Are we meant to be sikhs of Guru Granth Sahib Ji or of Sant Jarnail Singh Ji? As sikhs of the Guru, our pyaar and anakh is connected to the Guru. If on seeing the beadbi done to guru sahib our anakh doesnt wake up, then no matter how inspirational a person is, it wont make any difference.
This talk is just talk brother and excuses made by people. If despite all the above, they (including us) didnt/havent stepped up and fought back... then NOTHING will make them stand and fight. If seeing all that does not awaken their anakh, then nothing would have.
Can we imagine a person who tries using this as an excuse for not standing up saying this to the face of one of the delhi sikh widows (the ones that say they want nothing but justice)? Could anyone really stand there and say, 'I would have done something to get revenge for your honour and the murder of your family, but Sant Ji was not declared shaheed and therefore i lost my own honour and anakh and couldnt do anything'. Of course not, because it would be ridiculous. The truth would be that our own lives are to important to us, but were embarassed to admit that so need an excuse to get out of the shame.
The movement stalled because of many other things including, police using torture and inhumane methods of policing, laws changed to make it legal to murder sikhs, rape used as a weapon to stop people joining the singhs, brainwashing and media, infiltrators and cats, the world looking the other way, undercover agencies acting dressing up as sikhs and committing crimes to turn public away from the movement, and unfortunetly in fighting amongst the singhs (not about sant jis shaheedi but over power, control, paranoia, personal vendetta's, chinese whispers etc etc). These are the real things which led to the movement slowing down.
As for today, if you find your inspiration and your desire to stand up and fight for the panth comes from Sant Jarnail Singh Ji's shaheedi, then fantastic. We need people to make a difference and do something.
But at the same time, others will get their inspiration from Sant Jarnail Singh Ji's life and teachings, again fantastic and we need them to do their bit for the panth.
We also get those brothers who think Sant Jarnail Singh Ji made great mistakes and wasnt even a Saint at all, ... but some of these brothers will still stand and fight for the panth because they look at what our people have gone through and cant just sit there and do nothing.
Either way, no matter how we are inspired, we need to try and work together, like the singhs on the front line of the fight for khalistan did. If we carry on as we are, then we will just waste our lives in talking.