United we stand
Jay Deshabandu
Monkey business at the parliament was once again nothing new on the
budget. Some minority politicians put the reason as the aspirations
of their people for jumping. A lot of other jumpers were quoted as saying
they were jumping due to personal conflicts with the government. No
body jumped for a specific weakness of the budget, and that is in fact
good news for the people of Sri-Lanka. The real reason was clear to
everyone: to be on the winning side and to consolidate their personal
survival.
But as it happens the common sense prevailed; the government won the
budget and a lot of money was saved which could otherwise have been
wasted in an unnecessary election.
It is in fact heartening to observe what is being done in the parliament
for the people! Do they actually do anything good for the country? Or
do they waste time in jumping and talking in the name of dirty personal
politics? Monkey will remain as monkeys as long as they have legs that
can jump!
The need of the hour is the simultaneous elimination of terrorism and
corrupt politicians while enhancing economic and social development
of the country. President Rajapaksha is at least in the right direction
on this. He who cares for his nation will be cared by his nation!
Who represent us, the common people? Who talk about long term solutions
such as producing electric vehicles, trains, motor bikes to relive the
country’s dependence on oil? We have enough brains, including myself,
who know the modern technology and necessary skills to make electricity
using wind, tidal, natural potential energy of heights of mountains
with water and solar power. This is not a difficult thing to do. Just
an initiative would make it a reality!
Who talks about bringing in laws to punish corrupt politicians and officers
who live on public money and yet steal public money and property as
a way of doing business? Who talks about bringing in capital punishment
for those bribery takers? The truth is that corrupt politicians do not
bring these laws as it would lend to burying themselves.
Sri-Lanka can not develop at least an inch by being a divided nation.
Keep your religion as a personal belonging to yourself for it is the
root cause of all conflicts between man and a man, between nations and
between man and the nature. We have to act like one nation and one child
in the Sri-Lankan mother land. We have to be proud to carry our national
flag, display it in all government offices, schools and the likes. Those
who have no respect for themselves cannot respect their own parents
or others let alone the country!
The LTTE leader Prabkaran who is now mainly confined to a hole in the
ground, has taken our country for a suicide joy ride for too long. He
knows he as no end to his dream, he keeps dreaming until the reality
catches him up which I believe is not that far away. Prabhakaran has
not only put his own race, Tamil people at ransom, but also he has put
the whole country at ransom for so long. He is planning on putting generations
that are not yet born into ransom. He has used pregnant women as suicide
bombers, disable women and weakest of the weakest women as suicide bombers.
If these are not human rights violations what are them? I would like
to ask that question from so called human rights organizations. Why
does Prabhakaran specially target women to be train as suicide bombers?
Perhaps women are more vulnerable and desire to sacrifice anything to
make money to meet the needs of their family. In India, it was common
for a widow to jump into the husband’s cremation. There is no wonder
why he uses women to kill themselves and any being near them. How about
his wife or children? Are they suicide bombers? What is his wife’s
role in the suicide organization? Apparently they think that some things
and lives are more valuable than the value of the life of a feeble woman
suicide bomber!
The government is yet to realize its becoming of wining; that is the
eradication of terrorism, when the LTTE is down with terrorism, which
is sooner than most would think, a new sun will appear all over the
Sri-Lankan land. On that day all jumpers would jump back. As with any
fight, the real win comes with hard work and sacrifices. Until then
we should cherish lives and support those who put their lives up on
the line to free the country of terrorism!
Do not support corrupt politicians for the guilt is yours!
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