CHOGM: Keeping Mum, Dr. Manmohan Singh?
By Jagath Asoka -November 6, 2013
Dr Jagath Asoka
Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Gentle Lion of Asia, this is your god-given moment to change the course of Sri Lanka. It is your Dharma to help hapless Sri Lankans! Dr. Singh, your prime task is to help us resurrect our Freedom of Speech and the Rule of Law. The new menace to our future is our current regime. You cannot help us by keeping mum. Even a ten year-old kid knows that Gandhi stood up against the British Empire; Lincoln against Slavery, Nelson Mandela against Apartheid, Lenin against Tsars, and Martin Luther King against racists; this world is a better place because brave people stood up against bullies. Are you going help us deal with these thugs and bullies of our current regime, because our Opposition has become impotent?
I think you must do what FDR did in 1932, during his campaign against Herbert Hoover and during his inaugural speech. FDR remained almost mum about what he was going to do when elected. Even his very close friends and associates had no clue. We all know that FDR always talked with a fatherly voice of Yahweh. He was charming, witty, affable, and knew how to diffuse any threatening situation with his humor and charm and kept people and events at a distance, giving people the impression that he was above the fray. He never let the hatred of his enemies enter his heart—even Hitler ridiculed FDR when he requested not to attack. When FDR delivered his solemn inaugural speech, he was like a prophet of the Old Testament. His enemies called him “a cripple” to cripple him politically; but he stood up like Atlas, and killed the worst dictators in the universe.
All bullies are cowards; they bully you until you stand up and fight. Those who have changed the history and made this world a better place for us, have only one thing in common: You cannot bully them.
Dr. Singh, you have helped us before; you helped us defeat terrorists in 2009. Sri Lankans do not give you enough credit for that. We need action, and ask for action, now. We started dreaming of a utopian Shangri-La after we had defeated terrorists in 2009 with your covert help. You showed the world that you are not scared to take action when action is needed. But now, we are scared, again.
I have to tell the same thing to the rest of the world: Canada, England, or any other nation who is on the fence. You must participate; you must empower hapless Sri Lankans who are suffering secretly and who are scared to talk. CHOGM is not about politicians. You participate to empower the ordinary hapless Sri Lankans; we are not inviting all of you to a soiree where you are going to have champagne and caviar and covet irresistible voluptuous women when you are drunk and have orgies and then go to your luxury hotels in comfortable Mercedes cars.
