Scorpion’s Tail And Societal Vigilance

| by Tisaranee Gunasekara

“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that the people preserve the spirit of resistance?”

Thomas Jefferson

( December 28, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)  Recently several websites exposed a Rajapaksa plan to send presidential campaign material, thinly disguised as New Year greetings, to all military members. Around 200,000 of these letters were reportedly brought to the General Post Office and soldiers were reportedly engaged in readying them for the post.
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