Editorial: Why flay the messenger? - The Island

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

''Gotabhaya addressing a gathering at the Weherahena Temple in Matara the other day, flayed the media for what he called helping hostile, external forces throw Sri Lanka in a bad light, by overplaying crime and violence. But, is self-censorship or the suppression of information the way to prevent a black picture being painted of this country? The answer is an emphatic 'NO' ''

We have a government of morons. A cantankerous minister notorious for putting both his feet in his extra-large orifice has audaciously claimed that a family of three could survive on a meagre income of Rs. 7,500 a month. Another ministerial nitwit wants a licenced liquor bar opened in every village to send shebeens in the rural sector out of business. Yet another minister with bats in his belfry, instead of calling for the rehabilitation of tanks or wewas whose capacity has been greatly reduced by silt, encroachment and years of disrepair, to irrigate fertile paddy land, is urging rice growers who ask for water to switch over to cash crops like maize!

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