Even More Outrageous Conduct From Those Who Don’t Seem To Know The Meaning Of The Term!
By Emil van der Poorten -September 16, 2012
Emil van der Poorten
Recent news reports about the performance of this government, collectively and its separate elements up to and including the Chief Executive, makes one shake one’s head in puzzlement. That puzzlement does NOT stem from the disorientation that might come from having spent better than three decades in an “orthodox” democratic country before returning to the Miracle of Asia.
You have a man, Thilak Karunaratne, who speaks to the fact that he was arm-twisted into accepting the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission making statements that simply accuse the very Chief Executive whom he considers (considered?) a trustworthy friend pushing him out of a regulatory role where he was expected to “clean house”. His crime? Trying to do just that!
You have a politician on the stump in the recent provincial election campaign exhorting his supporters to “be not afraid” because they will be saved from the consequences of committing capital crimes if those crimes are committed in the promotion of the ruling party’s interests.
You have Mervin Silva threatening to interfere with the rituals of a Hindu temple, rituals that are considered sacrosanct by adherents of that religion. With no admonition, contradiction or even attempt at defusing such inflammatory rhetoric from On High. Does anyone remember the mosque attack in Dambulla and the eerie similarity of response from the forces of law and order?
You have Mervin Silva threatening to interfere with the rituals of a Hindu temple, rituals that are considered sacrosanct by adherents of that religion. With no admonition, contradiction or even attempt at defusing such inflammatory rhetoric from On High. Does anyone remember the mosque attack in Dambulla and the eerie similarity of response from the forces of law and order?
You have haphazard actions by the Elections Commissioner, pecking away at inconsequentialities in a rotten-to-the-core bunch of Provincial Election campaigns. Given, by his own admission, the (again) monumental contravention of every election law still on the statute books, why is it seemingly inconceivable that this man should have, at least threatened to cancel the polls or their results and compel a government which was brazenly contravening every election law on the books to go back to square one in the process? Wasn’t this the only threat that was likely to get the attention of those concerned for even one fleeting moment?
Ah! But no, serving the rulers of the Miracle of Asia must take precedence over every principle of decency mustn’t it? Read More
Ah! But no, serving the rulers of the Miracle of Asia must take precedence over every principle of decency mustn’t it? Read More
