{"id":104797,"date":"2020-07-23T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104797"},"modified":"2020-07-23T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:15:08","slug":"public-need-to-be-wise-and-intentional-in-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/23\/public-need-to-be-wise-and-intentional-in-this-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Need to be Wise and Intentional in this Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

We want to establish a people centered government, which fulfills people safety,security, diversity, equality, inclusion, experience , and happy.<\/em><\/strong>–President H.E. Gotabhaya Rajapakse.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Death\npenalty needed to be introduced ASAP for drug traffickers, vandalizes of\nancient historical heritage sites, deforesting of rain forests preserves.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been\ninviting for individuals to use their platform to educate public of upcoming\nelection and requesting to stand for the country\u2019s peace and security. We have\nto have a choice and mobilize that choice of selection and promote it. My\npersonal opinion say the media is not doing enough in this important occasion\nto educate the public. When think of peace & security we ourselves know how\nimportant that two entities to a country. We have been experienced the 30 year\ncivil war in our country. Prior to civil war we experienced the JVP insurgency.\nBoth of those resulted huge human capital loss and property damage; as it was\nmismanaged, politicized, without a leadership, it brought a huge peril to our\ncountry as well as to entire south Asia. When peace and security of a country\nuncertain, that country will not have a future. When peace not prevail in a\ncountry people are scared in their daily lives, send their children to school,\ndaily activities of business will not happen as usual. Peace and security\nrelate with law and order and justice. So achieving peace and security of a\ncountry is paramount important more than anything else according to present day\nworld circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all remember\nover the past four years our country was fragile in maintaining peace and\nsecurity and vulnerable for attacks of terrorist groups. You know what I am\ntalking about. The Holy Sunday attack made our country quite unstable and you\nremember Ranil Wickramasinhe publicly acknowledged to bring anti terrorism act.\nWhich apparently make the country much more vulnerable for more attacks. Ranil\nWickramasinghte is not a thoughtful leader to this country. I was listening to\nhis discussion with SL VLOG representative. That discussion had no depth of\nvision how to establish peace and security to this country. He said to improve\nhome economics by putting money into peoples pockets. He said he can borrow\nmoney from donor countries. That is the simple core content of that discussion.\nMy objective of this article is to educate people of this country on peace and\nsecurity and more. I need to made aware families to understand the importance\nof their freedom and safety, peace and security. Think about your country, your\nchildren, environment, what did you experience immediate past four years when\nwe were under Ranil Maithree rule. Sri lankan state was in complete mess in\nevery where of the country. Do you need a rule of such again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our people and\ngovernments does not have a very good understanding the importance of peace,\nSecurity, safety and law an order. Those are the indicators of peaceful country\nto travel and investments of modern day world for development. None of the\nwestern traveller want to make their destination if the country is not safe for\ntravelling, none of investor want to invest in a country if there isn\u2019t law and\norder. Think about what happen to middle east. Americans were needed to get rid\nof Saddam Hussein and they did it in horrific way against the will of the\npeople Iraq. After the horrific death of the American President was announcing\nthat Americans brought peace to Iraq; An Iraq young boy was saying Really\u201d! We\nknow what happen to that country after all. Once that beautiful country was\nstanding in the world map as powerful historical ancient civilization center\nfor the world. The moment the leader was gone enormous devastation happen to\nthat country, How it looked was desperation, shattered buildings, gunmen were\nfighting on streets, then ISIS\u201d entered to that country and horrific man\nslaughtering took place on daily basis. Apart from that, parents lost their\nchildren, husbands lost their wives, Wives lost their husbands, refugees, dead\nbodies, and that is how it look like modern Iraq. I heard beautiful young girls\nwas saying I felt the value of peace and security\u2019 for the first time\nin my life\u201d.<\/em><\/strong> The bottom line is no other country bring peace and\nsecurity to another country. Only themselves can find it. Americans had\ngeopolitical interest in middle east to achieve that they label the invasion as\nWe brought peace to Iraq \u201d. by way of killing the president of that country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently\nminister Bandula Gunawardena announced for the first time in \nhistory there will be a procurement\nprocess with 100 percent local reliance and without importing, Which is a great\nstep taken by any ministry. We need to let to our own state run companies to\ndevelop and progress. Then the products they manufacture will be ours and we\nwill save money as well. It says all software should be procured from local\nfirms, and if it is not possible approval has to be received from treasury and\ninformation technology agency. One time I remember former minister Daya Gamage\nsaid we wil make this country a market place for every body to come &\nplay\u201d. Which means floodgates had opened and the doors were opened for imports\nof everything. This is what was look like when Ranil Maithree dual was ruling\nthe country. We need to further tighten our imports as much as possible to\ncreate more trade surplus. I know we must proud about this great decision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurunegala ancient\nbuilding has been destroyed.These are national crimes. People who do destroy or\nvanish our history must be taken as crimes similar to drug trafficking. The\nKurunegala Mayor speaks in media and justifying himself as not guilty, Hon,\npresident Gotabhaya, we are tired of seeing this vandalism and this mayor\ntrying to be a hero commenting to media amid the fallen historical walls. Shame\non you man. He must shut up and let the authority to conduct their duty. Most\nimportantly he must be hand cuffed and put in jail as a suspect, until\ninvestigation is over. People of this country tired of seeing these national\ncrimes. I know many people cannot listen or take the national crime lightly.\nOne of the ministers of the cabinet Johnston Fernando publicly addressed a\nsensitive issue in favour of the mayor of Kurunegala. This is a serious conduct\nof conflict of interest, and minister Johnston\u2019s screaming in public to protect\nthe mayor is a huge slap on President Gotabhaya\u2019s vision and his ruling of the\ncountry. Hon President this act of vandalism of our ancient historical\npriceless siting is a slap on your face and it must taken seriously should be\ngiven death penalty to those convicts. Surprisingly these mostly done by\nresponsible people of the community. I wish to see again this historical\nvandalism make it back to normal preserving the ancient glory. We need to start\na national discussion how to preserve our national heritage. The government\nneed to take tough policies to preserve these valuables. We are a proud nation\nand these valuables are evidences to prove that glory. Please be aware and\ncontribute to preserve our national heritage as good citizen of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I listen to\nDhanasiri Amaratunga\u2019s interview at Elakkaya\u201d program. Dhanasiri seems like a\ngood person to do something different to Wathu\u201d society. At the interview he\ndid questioned and gave a brief analysis of that Colombo sub culture and its\nexistence. The youngsters of those who living in those watte\u201d areas  and their future defined by the living\naddress of them. There has been concious bias has developmed in the society\nagainst the people living in those addresses. Which is a  discriminatory element of society. Which is\nunfortunate Dhanasiri, My sincere appreciation to you as you notice that sub\nculture, which is based on living area. If a person address ends by the name of\nWatte\u201d which will decide his or her fate. How it will mitigage to his or her\ndisadvantage. It is important to identify these small societies and need to\nwork for their improvement. Most of people living in these sub areas are much\ndifferent to main culture. People use to identify those places for drug\ntraffickers, underworld activities etc. These sub cultural living segments need\nto be improved and their lives matters in our society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the week drug\ntraffickers publicly threatened to our law and order. This is a serious\ndevelopment. The drug distribution and crimes had been occurring since 2013\nwith the involvement of police officers and government officials. The huge drug\ndealers network will never surface to public if the president did not appoint\nthe task force. However, It seems like drug dealers has declared the war again\nsecurity of the country. We need to understand how south American drug dealer\nPablo Escobar\u201d maintained his drug network and the crimes he did to people of\nColumbia  other South American countries\nand United States of America. President Ronald Ragan, President George Bush\nSenior were working hard with C.I.A to caught Pablo Escobar with the\ncollaboration of Colombian Government. Pablo Escobar killed many government\nofficers of Columbia including ministers. He had planned to kill president of\nColumbia but he survived as he didn\u2019t step into the plane. Finally he died in a\nfiring battle with Colombian forces. There were many government officers in his\npay roll who supported Pablo Escobar to continue his underworld drug business.\nSo it is very important to introduce death penalty to drug trafficker if we\nwant get rid of drug menace of Sri Lanka. There is no other way of solving this\ndrug trafficking and crimes happen in our country. The government of Sri\nLanka must introduce death penalty to drug dealers without delay as we are in a\nthreshold of a time drug trafficking and use<\/strong>. Furthermore, when visa is\nissued there should be a line saying Drug trafficking will be imposed\ndeath penalty<\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days\npoliticians make numerous promises in front of people. One simple technique to\nidentifying is the truth behind these public comments. Please try to identify\nthe politicians who speaks one single solution to their electorate and how he\nis going to deliver that. Make sure the person is coming from a good\nbackground. We know these politicians are corrupted in such a way, we don\u2019t\nrely on these people. Politicians like S. B. Dissanayake, Range Bandara,\nAppuhamy in Puttalam district are few those who involved in bribe discussions in\nmedia to gain voting for power. Please do not use your powerful mandate for\nsuch politicians. Furthermore, there are many politicians on the stage who\ninvolved to central bank bond scam as well there are corrupted names like Ravi\nKarunanayake, Sujeewa semasinghe who wrote a book on this crime; please don\u2019t\nuse your valued vote for such people including the mastermind of this national\ncrime Ranil Wickramasinghe and his former ally Maithreeplala Sirisena. People\nneed to closely monitor how Ranil Wickramasinghe does his election campaign; he\nsimply accused the government with no basis of his claim and continuously\npropagating the slogan to convince public. That is the only slogan he continues\nto come to power. This old sinking ship must be removed from Sri Lanka\npolitics. Public must aware that they are the most powerful people to appoint\nthese members to legislative building and selecting them need to be done in a\ncomprehensive method. One simple example H. E. Gotabhaya Rajapakse met farmers\nof Ratnapura district and discuss of pepper harvest and their problems and\nsolutions. Last week he called in ministry officials and request them to work\non exporting possibilities as finished products and making more foreign\nexchange to those farmers. We need to observe this initiative, and its\npositiveness. Again please compare how Ranil Wickramasinghe and Sajith\nPremadasa speaks in public meetings. Can you rely on these people of what they\npromise and going to deliver to public? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to express\npeople perspectives on ethnic problem of our country. We all suffered a 30\nyears of civil war, and it was the Tamil insurgency and armed conflict to a\nTamil separate land. It is important to look for a solution to this problem\nfrom a present day communal, racial, black lives matters, perspective as well.\nWe know some of the Tamil people were brought to our country from India for\ncommercial plantation and economic reasons by the British rulers of former\nCeylon. North and east Tamils originated either from Indians or historically\nthey might have lived in those areas of the country. Our political leaders need\nto find a scientific solution to Tamil problem from a fair point of view. Human\ndignity must be respected by the constitution for all Sri Lankans. Now the 3rd<\/sup>\ngeneration of people is living in north and east and upcountry. Those people\nare Sri Lankans they need to have the same and equal schools, health care,\nhousing , benefits of development. Tamil and Sinhalese languages must be the\nofficial language of government. Public service officers must be fluent with\nTamil as well as Sinhalese languages. Eqality, Diversity, Inclusion must be a\nreality, not to confined to words but actions must be delivered at the same\ntime. This is only a perspective but could develop as an idea. If every\npolitician including Tamil political leaders work together honestly identifying\nthese entities we would have a beautiful Sri Lanka for all of us. We all can\nlive in harmony as a beautiful nation in the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage We want to establish a people centered government, which fulfills people safety,security, diversity, equality, inclusion, experience , and happy.–President H.E. Gotabhaya Rajapakse. Death penalty needed to be introduced ASAP for drug traffickers, vandalizes of ancient historical heritage sites, deforesting of rain forests preserves. I have been inviting for individuals to use their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104797","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=104797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}