Federalism – Covid-19 & Sri Lanka
Posted on June 22nd, 2020
Let’s just imagine a scenario where the 9 provinces of Sri Lanka were given substantial autonomy to make its own decisions but remain within the ambit of what is oft described as a united Sri Lanka”. Let’s also imagine the present crisis that has enveloped the world causing over 470,665 deaths and affected over 9million people. Containing the spread of the virus has been the only successful method thus far. Let’s now imagine countries that have succeeded in containing the virus & those countries that have failed & probe why they have failed. The lessons to take from this is applicable to many more scenarios and which should clearly show Sri Lanka’s leaders as well as the general public why no form of federalism should be implemented in Sri Lanka.
USA has been the worst hit country with 122,247deaths and over 2million cases. One of the core reasons for the spread and the inability to curtail or contain the spread is that the federal states have their own laws and regulations and the mindset of the people have conformed to that thinking as well. So you have one set of states applying very rigid rules & regulations while another set of States going full liberal in allowing people to behave as they like. Not wearing the mask as a simple and basic requirement has resulted in a major increase in covid-19 and tragic fatalities.
South Carolina, Montana, Wisconsin and South Dakota do not require facial masks
Oklahoma, Ohio, Washington, Texas, North Carolina, Florida – part of state requires to wear face mask
Arizona, Georgia, Alabama, Colorado, Iowa only employees need to wear masks
Cases are rising in states that are not wearing masks.
But the crux of the argument is that in one country the varied laws & regulations is impacting on the whole country. In some cases, the politicization of the issue may likely create a bigger crisis.
Just to spite the republican ruling party leader of the country, imagine the opposing democratic party State head declaring that in his State people could do the exact opposite to what the country’s President declares!
Ultimately, the entire state will suffer and has suffered.
Fast forward to Sri Lanka, imagine a scenario if the type of federalism that TNA seeks which is essentially confederalism in nature existed during this corona crisis!
Will TNA head ruling the North wish to listen to the instructions given by the country’s President?
We know the measures and safeguards the Sri Lankan President, the health authorities and the Armed Forces, Police & intelligence agencies have taken to curtail and control the covid-19. What if the Northern Chief Minister rules that the armed forces, police or intelligence will have no role in the North’s covid-19 operations. What if a sudden spike in covid cases arose and the Chief Minister is too obstinate to seek help from the Centre, what if the Northern Chief Minister foolishly invites corona cases from Tamil Nadu to arrive without checking – the whole Northern Province would be made vulnerable by the TNA Northern Chief Minister just to play politics with the Centre. In so doing he is playing with the lives of the people and placing them in grave danger & death. When that happens what will he do, accuse the Centre of neglecting the North, ignoring his pigheaded obstinacy.
We have had 33 years of Provincial Council system brought in as a result of the 13thamendment. The PC’s have been given fund allocations but we can see that most of the development has been from the central government fund rather than the PC fund that has developed the provinces. Is there really any reason to continue with this system? In a small country like Sri Lanka we do not need the confusions and contradictions visibly taking place even in US and India.
The best example of federal hiccups was seen in India during the Mumbai terror attacks. It took a few days for the Centre to get permission from the State administrative apparatus to send in its elite troops to squash the terrorists. The delay resulted in unnecessary loss of life and kept entire populace in fear. Sri Lanka does not need to knowingly invite or walk into the same problems.
We have seen how inept and docile the Chief Ministers of North Sri Lanka have been since 2013 and they have done no magic for the people of the North except shed crocodile tears internationally on what has not been done. What they could have done but didn’t while they had the means to do is never spoken of.
In this present health pandemic, the country has 1 President who is steering the covid-19 operations together with a Task Force and Team comprising heath, public officials, army, police & intelligence and has successfully succeeded in curtailing, containing and controlling the spread of covid-19, shows we do not need 9 autonomous headaches with their laws & rules to worsen and destroy that success.
Even the citizens of US are angered in the manner fellow states opt not to wear masks jeopardizing the whole country & its people by their selfishness.
These are strong reasons why Sri Lanka must rethink whether to continue with the PC system as tied to it, are agendas and divisive programs that would impede Sri Lanka’s growth. Policy planners must wake up to the choke points that would be used by external elements as well as internal traitors and ensure those choke points are eliminated. Federalism is one such copied notion geographically unsuited for Sri Lanka, by a jobless few wanting to plug an ideology to give themselves relevance in politics.
Ideological concepts like federalism are practical chaos is what covid-19 has exposed.
Imagine federalism where even a MASK is debated for months at the cost of 122,247 deaths!
Sri Lanka must remain UNITARY in word & deed.
Shenali D Waduge
June 22nd, 2020 at 8:54 am
Federalism is the first step to annihilate the Sinhalese. Traitor foreigners while enjoying more freedom, more
benefits, living all over the country don’t want Sinhalese to live in the N&E. Even we aren’t allowed in their mini
kingdoms Wellawaththa (Velvetithura) or Beruwala etc. where the mussie have massive baby farms etc. etc.
Tamils and mussie deshapaluwas promoted murder Sinhalese and get Sri Lanka for themselves only agenda
has destroyed the social fabric and now the traitor lots don’t want to cohabit with the Sinhalese. Get federal and
in no time, the traitors will make Sinhalese refugees in their own land with the support from the disaporats and
the foreign backers fighting eternal border wars to expand their territories. Federal is a no no and if the
foreigners can’t live in Sri Lanka as Sri Lankans, obeying one law they should pack up and go.
After all Mr Modi opened the door for tamils and they are all welcome to where they came from. Mussies can go to former Buddhist countries iran, afganisthan, pakisthan, bangladesh, malaysia and indonesia (Google those countries’ Buddhist heritages) they made to mussies by multipliying or there are 80 mussie countries they boast where they can have multi wives, child brides, halal, goni billa dress (high fashion in hell among ghosts),
sharia, buria etc. etc. All those already there and they don’t have to kill any Sinhalese to get them and they can
have baby farms of any size and live happily ever after.
We didn’t bring any of these foreigners to our country. Knowing Sinhalese are divided thanks to anti Sinhalese,
anti Buddhist, anti Sri Lanka, minority worshiping, Mother Lanka dismembering GooandPee aka UNPatriotic_rats
murderous (Sinhalese Buddhists only) thieves the two foreigners are getting ready to kill us all. Sinhalese are
the only race on the planet to groom their murderers on their soil. Why we have to sacrifice millions of Sinhalese
lives to fight the traitors’ drealam and mussisthan wars? Petition the Government to send these undesirable
foreigners who are getting ready to kill us all.
Traitor alugosuwa (to Sinhalese Buddhists only) thambi mudiyanselage jr@ started the destruction of the
Sinhalese race, Sri Lanka and Buddhism. Then it groomed its murderous equally treacherous alugosuwa (to
Sinhalese Buddhists only) mega thief mega thakkadiya traitor chief die hard catholic token Buddhist bay gal
karaya Batalande wa(n)dakaya Pol Pot r@ni_leech wickrama Sinhala killer who carried on from where thambi mudiyanselage jr@ left off. Pol Pot should be hung in public for the crimes, mass murders (Sinhalese Buddhists
only of course), mass robberies, mega lies, destruction of Buddhism etc. etc to teach a lesson to future Pol Pots. Wa(n)dakaya needs a separate hell for the crimes it has done. Petition the Government to send these treacherous, ungrateful, plotting to murder us undesirables from our soil or Sinhalese going to be extinct in their own land!
Remember Sirima-Shasthri Pact which patriotic Sirima B negotiated to send 650,000+ upcountry tamils? While
the repatriation going on thambi mudiyanselage jr@ fooled Sinhala modayas with its ata ata (in the end could
only give 2) promise and Sirima lost the elections. Soon after the thambi mudiyanselage jr@ abolished the Pact
and gave citizenship to all of them. Today, they must be numbering 3-4 millions or even more and aspiring for
a greater drealam (remember 2019 Presidential election voting map – drealam map)? That’s how these
GooandPee murderous (Sinhalese Buddhists only) thieves destroy the Sinhalese race, Sri Lanka and Buddhism
for minorities’ votes. Sinhalese should avoid these traitor GooandPee as lepers if they have any children. No
children, no problem like samanala gang. Sinhalese please, please, please don’t vote for wa(n)dakaya, buuru
puthano gang plus GooandJVP thieves if you want Sinhalese race, Sri Lanka and Buddhism to survive
June 22nd, 2020 at 9:09 am
Please click in the following links to see some of the treacheries, murders of anti Buddhist, anti Sinhalese, anti
Sri Lanka, minority worshiping, Mother Lanka dismembering GooandPee aka UNPatriotic_rats thieves. You won’t
see these in so called Buddhist Sri Lanka (on paper) where all the media are controlled by GooandPee henchmen.
Remember this is only some. Also see how traitor foreigners tamils changed all Sinhalese village names to
tamilise the areas. The dutch and british brought them to work on tobacco and tea plantations and rest are
kallthonis who crossed the 16 miles of sea in the 60s to save their lives from the severe famine in tn. Grateful?
Are you mad? We want our drealam, no Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. Knowing Sinhalese are divided thanks to
GooandPee all of them are natives with 1000s of years of history without an ancient tamil brick older than 400
years to substantiate their bogus claim. All the ills Sinhalese, Sri Lanka and Buddhism facing today largely thanks
to GooandPee lately with the support of jaathidhrohee vermins’ party aka jvp thieves.
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/05/27/ranil-wickremasinghes-new-unp-3/
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/08/09/ranil-wicremasinghes-crimes-against-sri-lanka-and-its-people-for-forty-years/
http://ltte-christian-ties.blogspot.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV6_o9txURc
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/08/05/christianizing-of-sri-lanka-unps-betrayal-of-buddhism/
http://www.lankagrid.com/soma-thero/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eJ1gX_fuU
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/09/26/ltte-terrorism-church-links-can-someone-explain-these-photos/
http://www.pinsiri.com/%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%9D%E0%B6%B8-%E0%B7%84%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A-%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%9A-%E0%B6%85%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%B8/