{"id":104274,"date":"2020-07-05T16:29:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T23:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104274"},"modified":"2020-07-05T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T23:29:51","slug":"message-from-stop-mcc-save-sri-lanka-movement-sri-lanka-depends-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/05\/message-from-stop-mcc-save-sri-lanka-movement-sri-lanka-depends-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from \u2018Stop MCC Save Sri Lanka Movement\u2019 Sri Lanka Depends on you"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Gandara John<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong><em>DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY OF THE RECOGNISED POLITICAL PARTIES<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Democracy is\nthe unfettered exercise of universal suffrage by the people of a Sovereign\nState. Democracy in Sri Lanka has suffered; it has been hijacked by the\npolitical Parties in the country.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>It has been\nour experience that a Party after being elected to power by the will of the\npeople, tosses out the will of the people and substitutes instead the will of\nthe Party leadership. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>There is no\ndemocracy in the country, only the simulacrum of democracy remains. This, the\nAmericans found to be very convenient.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Seeing how\neasy it is in such a situation to capture State power, the Americans have\nsimply hijacked the hijacker; they have bought out the leadership of all the\npolitical Parties of significance. To the Americans therefore, it matters not\nwhich Party wins at the Elections; whichever Party wins, the Americans wins.\nHeads I win Tails you lose.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The MCC is the\npreferred instrument of the Americans to physically capture the geographic\nterritory of a country whose legislative, executive and administrative organs\nare already under their control. The MCC is the coup de grace. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>At this\njuncture it is the people, AND THE PEOPLE ONLY, who can save Sri Lanka from the\nAmericans; &nbsp;the people must insist that&nbsp; Gota, Mahinda, Ranil,\nSajith, Anura Kumara, other party leaders and their candidates renounce\nunambiguously, at all public rallies, the MCC, in any shape, form or\nre-arranged form, and publicly pledge to rescind all laws and treaties that\nhave eroded the sovereignty of the country, if these Parties and their\ncandidates wish to receive their vote.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>If the Party leaders and Gota fail to do so, the people are urged\nto vote for any honourable,&nbsp;NON-PARTY candidate in the voting list\nwho publicly pledges to renounce and rescind the MCC, ACSA and SOFA.\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandara John DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY OF THE RECOGNISED POLITICAL PARTIES Democracy is the unfettered exercise of universal suffrage by the people of a Sovereign State. Democracy in Sri Lanka has suffered; it has been hijacked by the political Parties in the country.&nbsp; It has been our experience that a Party after being elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gandara-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}