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saintclair
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26 Jul 2005 14:43:08 GMT Report for Abuse
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Since a Minister's son is deeply involved against the government, it is the duty of the President or Prime Minister to advise this Minister to leave the ministry post gtill he clear this case.
This is a normal procedure in a good democratic country but in the case of Sri Lanka it is entirely different. I mean even a Minister will accompagny his son to assault a poor Police man in Sri Lanka and there won't be any case against him otherwise the officer-in-charge will be removed immediately from his job!.
So this is SRI LANKA. A Minister can stay on in power as long as he wishes. A corrupted poltician can do any damn thing against the law and he will be well covered.
An ordinary citizen can not complain or will scare to go to the Police station for making any compalint. |
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26 Jul 2005 14:43:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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Since a Minister's son is deeply involved against the government, it is the duty of the President or Prime Minister to advise this Minister to leave the ministry post gtill he clear this case.
This is a normal procedure in a good democratic country but in the case of Sri Lanka it is entirely different. I mean even a Minister will accompagny his son to assault a poor Police man in Sri Lanka and there won't be any case against him otherwise the officer-in-charge will be removed immediately from his job!.
So this is SRI LANKA. A Minister can stay on in power as long as he wishes. A corrupted poltician can do any damn thing against the law and he will be well covered.
An ordinary citizen can not complain or will scare to go to the Police station for making any compalint. |
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26 Jul 2005 15:56:52 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear Keshi,
I fully agree that we should not paint all minister?s children as bad eggs. Not only such generalizations are unfair, it is factually incorrect!
My reference is only to thradayas like SB, Mahinda, now Mervyn variety offsprings. Let us face it Keshi, if their fathers did not become ministers, these yako buggers would be plucking coconuts in their respective villages. Do you honestly think SB?s kids would even reached the territorial waters of Australia if SB did not manage to con his way to the parliament!
I have no problem with these yako buggers getting a decent education and try to be gentlemen. But that is not what is happening now. They think they are the cat?s whiskers and behave as if they are the local aristocrats. Worst of all they think they are above the law and all female folks should line up for these thradayas. You will see this sort of Haramanis boys in local night clubs. My bashing is for them not for decent folks.
Ruvi had mentioned CBK?s kids are decent and I believe her. I don?t think they behave like this. Gamini Dissanayake?s kids were decent too. Those people will remain decent. When kids of Yako parents like Mervyn comes to Colombo, they remain yakos and haramanis buggers. |
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26 Jul 2005 17:00:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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It is clear that not one of us supports what has happened. It is easy to act like a big shot when you are backed up by daddy's armed gorillas. It is the actions of a few spoilt brats (for that is what they are) that have coloured the view of many people towards the children of people in power or those who have a large disposable income.
This is completely normal..Many people feel anger towards Americans because of their government's foreign policy.
I myself think American foreign policy is hypocritical and reeks of the unfairness of brute force - however, i respect those Americans who marched against the Iraq war for example. It is harder and braver to protest against your own country in the name of reason and justice when you may be viewed by many so called patriots of being a traitor.
This may seem off the topic, but my point is that we cannot tolerate this behaviour any longer. The point was made that in other countries the minister who have been expected to resign. After all it is public money that allows for the provision of body guards. We do not pay our taxes to provide these boys with armed protection. This is gross misuse of public funds. It beggars belief that no one is held accountable.
My question is... what can we, the public, do about it?..and shutting down night clubs temporarily may not be the answer.
In an ideal world i know what i would like to do..but my question is serious. Apart from a humiliating public flogging, what instruments do we have at our disposal to make our displeasure known.
Forgive my ignorance, but was this Mervyn Silva ever actually voted in to power? |
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26 Jul 2005 17:18:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ray ray,
Mervyn Silva was not voted into power during this election, but his wife was. Then she resigned paving the way for Silva to enter the parliament. Silva actually contested but failed to get the necessary votes. I know it sounds like a ludicrous arrangement, but that is the SL constitution for you.
Silva was originally with the UNP. He contested from Thissamaharama. Then he joined the PA. He is being used by CBK to do all the dirty work. HE is basically some Gemba fellow with a big mouth. But you can see how our main political parties select their candidates. He should not have been given a ticket to contest by the UNP at the first place. Then PA took him to their side. Can not imagine why PA should take all the useless discards from the UNP. Mervyn Silva is one, the they took Bogollagama too. |
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27 Jul 2005 01:52:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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RAYRAY greetz, I'm totally with ya. you raised some very interesting points there.
SK63 yep I agree with you too...these morons who come to power, abuse that power, depriving all Sri Lankans of their rights and freedom. Even though I'm a Sri Lankan, I just loathe the Sri Lankan attitude of 'I'm a politician therefore I'm allowed to abuse'! It's appalling and as long as people are going to keep quiet about this, I'm afraid nothing is ever going to change in Sri Lanka for many more years to come...
That's why I'm proud to say I have achieved my way to Aus with no support from any form of power and boy am I not living a stress-free and peaceful life here. I'm not saying I don't ever want to go back to Sri Lanka but I pity the people who have to put up with sh#t heads like these idiotic politicians who manipulate every trade and affair in SL at the expense of the quality of life of all Sri Lankans! It's really sick that a bribe or a bend-my-a## act needs to be performed to get anything done over there!
These selfish politicians and their spoilt kids should be gassed out of their unlawfully gained luxury homes, siezed of their free vehicles & weapons and forced to live in rural places like Girandurukotte as a challenge to their leadership. Let those spoilt brats go to a Mahavidyalaya and play hop-scotch as a lesuire activity instead of polluting Colombo. And make those ministers take the bus and train like the ministers do over here. That's the real test!
DumindaK I agree with you here...perhaps we don't have the right President...however I don't think even if UNP comes to power there'll be any difference in this greedy mentality...what's needed is a change in the entire political system - the way the politicans live, act and behave! Get them down to general public's level - treat them no different!
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27 Jul 2005 03:34:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hi Keshi,
Since you are living in Australia, did you have the displeasure of meeting with SB's sons and other polician's sons of similar variety?
Do these haramanis boys actually study and pass exams there?
Given the way you express yourself I have no doubt uyou got there on merit. I am not sure if these yako boys got there on merit! What kind of courses or degrees do they read for? Can not be very challenging ones. Must be those 'very difficult to fail' variety such as Anthropology, Needlework, etc. Any idea what these yakos study?
Do these yako boys eventually qualify to get PR status in Oz too? |
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27 Jul 2005 06:38:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hey SK63 LOL! I don't think I have met any politicians' kids at the much reputed Uni I went to here in Aus...however, I know that most politicians send their kids overseas mainly using their power and not based on merits.
LOL needlework/anthropolgy might need some discipline too and I believe these losers just go overseas to show that they can hop on a plane and enter an o/s Uni. That's about it. They don't finish the course, I doubt it :)
Keshi. |
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27 Jul 2005 07:09:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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What we are lacking is the centralised control by the government. Our constitutions clearly empowers the president and to a certain extent the prime minister as the central power houses. They have to do a simple job ie. just appoint the correct person to the correct post
But question is are Our President and PM doing that?
Or just they give power to some croneys to enjoy benifits of the government at the expense of innocent civilians and justice system?
So the real culprits are PM and President, They are letting their henchmen to enjoy the life with their kids. |
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27 Jul 2005 11:38:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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DumindaK,
buddy did you forget that our so called the PM does not allowed to take his own decisions???
chao... |
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