Herold Leelawardena

Is it in the Bible that says; ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-tell me who your friends are; and I will tell you who you areƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚. Anyway, Stupid Fonseka (SF) showed the Sinhalese who his friends are: They were the JVP, the Marxists revolutionaries who bloodied this country in two failed revolutions; and the UNP that got its thugs to hammer and slaughter sixty thousand JVP cadres; and the TNA that gave the cover to LTTE suicide bombers to kill and maim tens of thousands of civilians in buses, trains and public places. SFƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s alliance or soup is so odd; Sinhalese viewed their moves and speeches with suspicion.

The US and their International Community (IC) thought we are a puny country and expected to act as such. Sinhalese always knew they wanted LTTE leader Piripaharan go free and fight his war on another day. IC knew; Rajapakse not only ignored them but ordered our forces to wipe out LTTE leaders en masse. Sinhalese were grateful for Rajapakse for he had shown IC that Sri lanka could even beat them at their own turf such as in UN human right council.

Sinhalese knew it is the busy bodies of the IC that cajoled SF to contest against Rajapakse to teach him and Sri Lankan nationalists a lesson.

When SF demonstrated the Sinhalese who his friends were they knew who he is. When SF changed his priorities from promise to abolish Presidency to an undertaking to punish Rajapakses, Sinhalese started to suspect his motives. Tamils began to like FonsekaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s wild remarks, but Sinhalese started to dislike it. The more he opened his foul mouth the more he showed his true colours and more Sinhalese started to shift away from him.

Most Sinhalese that worshipped SF as the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”war heroƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ during the war, started to drop that notion and tagged him the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”traitorƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ label. Amazingly those that ridiculed him when he was commanding the army against LTTE just few moons back started to hail him as the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”greatest war hero ever in Sri LankaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢. Alas for SF, the new Pharisees were by far the minority among Sinhalese. SF did not notice the signs of losing.

Sinhalese do not like ungrateful people. SF is an ungrateful man because he had forgotten that it is Rajapakse that made him the commander of the army just thirteen days before his retirement. If not for Rajapakse SF would have been another retired Major General today. Sinhala people were sad because SF bit the hand that fed him and joined those that ridiculed him. Now that is only one reason Sinhalese had not voted him.

Without analyzing any of the above mentioned aspects, International media started to portray that Sinhala nationalist vote is divided 50-50 between Rajapakse and SF. And, IC had inculcated their NGO and INGO parasites to write fairy tales about Fonseka winning the Presidency. Tamil diaspora and born again Christians and Colombians and those who carry a hatred against Rajapakses took it to the internet face book, twitter and what not and wrote as if they have already won. Stupid Fonseka and his (ill-) advisers took the comments that were posted in them in his favour as a measure of his popularity. When each one of them started patting the others back for their achievements on the E day, voters were casting their votes for Rajapakse in doves. Idiots never knew that vast majority of Sinhalese are not internet savvy and they were not bothered about their opinion.

Those red shirts and green and red flags that you saw in SFƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s meeting were the ones that had being bussed from place to place. True, there are hardly any JVPers left in any Sinhala villages today. Also true is; all green blooded Sinhala UNPers had voted SF. But that won’t have been enough for an overall win because not enough of them could be found in Sinhala villages, today.

However, voters in Colombo proper were expected to vote for SF. By and large Colombians are anti-Nationalists and UNPers. No wonder 75% of them listened to RanilW of UNP and voted for SF. Reflection of that vote pattern is another proof to show election had been fair.

TNA and Tamil diaspora had communicated to Tamil voters to vote for SF and get from him what they couldnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t through LTTE. And they did as they were told by the separatists. SF won all but one district in the Eelam map of LTTE with as much as 75% of all votes. 25% that Rajapakse got is a tremendous achievement because he got virtually none in 2005. With the strong presence of the army there, if the government was up to mischief, they could have stuffed the ballet boxes and won all those seats if they resorted to sham practices.

SF also won one district in the central hills where Tamils were the majority is another proof for this election had been fair. The fact that SF had won every where Tamils and Muslims are the majority is a good enough proof for election had been fair.

Now, the so-called International Community, NGO parasites and SF buddies readily accept SFƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s winning part of the results but dispute the overall results. SFƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s statements have become a joke, and SF has become a joker. So, SF may cobble his soup together again; people know he will not be a winner. People know this time ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”swanƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ will get not 39% but less than 30% of the overall votes.

The ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”swanƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ is like Humpty Dumpty that fell from the wall. If all the kingƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s horses and all the kingƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s men couldnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t put humpty back together again; how could soiled trio the JVP, the UNP and the TNA put swan back on the wall?

Herold Leelawardena