{"id":108961,"date":"2020-11-23T17:06:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T00:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108961"},"modified":"2020-11-23T17:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T00:08:58","slug":"the-foreign-stooge-3d-jayatillekes-obsession-with-presidents-anniversary-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/23\/the-foreign-stooge-3d-jayatillekes-obsession-with-presidents-anniversary-message\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foreign Stooge 3D Jayatilleke\u2019s obsession with President\u2019s Anniversary Message."},"content":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa\u2019s Anniversary speech and the brilliant 2021 futuristic Budget presented by the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa have raised the trust of the people who suffered immensely under the destructive yamapalana government for the last 4 \u00bd years. The Anniversary speech clearly outlined the performances achieved during President\u2019s first year under various obstacles made by the Sirisena\/Ranil government and restrictions that had been placed upon him by the obnoxious 19th<\/sup> Amendment.\u00a0 The President also outlined details of the work to be carried out and steps to be taken in the next four years of his term.\u00a0 Hat these measures will definitely be carried out regardless of opposition from any quarters. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this atmosphere\nthe foreign servile discarded and despicable Dayan Jayatilleke(the 3 D\nJayatilleke) in his utter frustration of success being made by thus government\nhas made silly and stupid attempts to admonish the President on what and what\nhe should do and what and what he should not do and what coarse correction he\nshould undertake. This stupid writer says that the President must seek the\nMiddle Path, occupy the moderate political centre, not the extreme, and return\nto the mainstream democratic political culture and tradition of his family, the\nRajapaksas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking that he is the Messiah\nreborn he states that the President has made strategic blunders and his term of\noffice will end up in a one-term wonder, like the Trump Presidency (2016-2020),\nYahapalana (2015-2019), and the Samagi Peramuna (1970-1977). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showing his dislike with one of Sri Lanka\u2019s much-admired political columnists Chandraprema, he says that back in \u00a0June, GR insider, author of the Gota\u2019s War (2012) and Sri Lanka\u2019s new ambassador\/PR to the UN-Geneva, commented that Trump will win and argued assuredly that polarisation around the \u2018law and order\u2019 vs. \u2018anarchy\u2019 issue guaranteed a white majoritarian tsunami for Trump and this 3D stupid adds that in a fascinating coincidence, this was the core of the successful GR game-plan of 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referring to Sirisena presidency he states that when that Sirisena Government was heading rapidly in the wrong direction, which will prove unsustainable, result in unfavourable polarisation, and crash and burn unless there\u2019s a drastic course-correction back to the moderate centre, Sirisena heeding to the advice given by him and some other prominent people instituted a coarse correction.\u00a0 Ignoramus Sirisena may have needed such advice but it does not apply in the case of much talented and highly erudite President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This 3D fool says that the\nGotabaya Presidency, as per his diagnosis won\u2019t end well, but it will end\nsooner rather than later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He blames the President for adopting a zero merit policy and asserts that the Gotabaya administration hasn\u2019t yet had a bond scam type scandal on its watch, but the factor underlying that scandal is something that the GR Presidency has been greatly susceptible to not appointing officials on the basis of the highest merit of excellences similar to Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s choices. In President Gotabaya\u2019s first year, the abandonment of meritocracy has become a rule rather than an exception. Despite internationally admired steps that have been taken to arrest Covid-19, this fool asks whether anyone believes, or can anyone believe, that the finest available Sri Lankan talent, the best available brains, the human resources of the highest quality and achievement in the fields relevant to the COVID-19 virus, have been mobilised and are actually driving the national\/State effort to rescue us from the pandemic?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President\u2019s appointments\nto\/within the military have been fine, but the appointment of the serving and\nretired military to posts in which they have registered no expertise or\nexperience, still less excellence, will prove at least as systemically\ndamaging, he says.  He may have said the\nsame thing when Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as the Secretary to the Ministry of\nDefence took steps to place suitable security personnel to fight the terrorist\naggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He points out that the retreat\nfrom the principle of merit in post-Independence Sri Lanka began with the\nSirimavo Bandaranaike Government\u2019s twin measures (in the early 1970s) of the\nabolition of the independent public service and the introduction of\ndistrict-wise and media-wise standardisation at university entrance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government of Madam\nBandaranaike was forced to introduce the standardization system for University\nEntrance to rectify and overcome a long felt anomaly for Sinhala and Muslim\nstudents under which majority of students selected for the Medical and\nEngineering faculties had been Tamil students. \nInvestigation carried out in this respect revealed that prior to the\nUniversity Entrance examinations Tamil Professors held clandestine classes for\nTamil students and passed out the question papers and also they were told to\nwrite the word OM\u201d in their answer scripts to facilitate their\nidentification.  Only after the\nstandardization system and the Z score system the anomaly was rectified and\nstudents from remote areas like Monreagala and Anuradhapra districts got a fair\ntreatment for entering Universities and the artificial merit system of Tamil\nstudents getting concocted higher marks were stopped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, he says that it is\npresupposed that ex-military appointments across the state system, and the\nannexation of civilian functions under the Defence Ministry headed by a retired\nGeneral, accord with the criterion of merit, because the military\/ex-military\nhas the collective institutional \u2018karmic merit\u2019 for having performed the\nultimate meritorious deed of saving the country from terrorism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This 3D fool further states that\non many occasions since January, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has gone on\npublic record, including two international audiences \u2013 the SAARC leaders\nvirtual summit and the UN 75th anniversary world leaders summit \u2013 respectively\ndownplaying the danger and claiming success in containing Corona (in\nself-congratulatory detail). If the anti-coronavirus campaign had been fought\nby an elite Task Force of the finest trained and credentialed professionals in\nthe field, the President would not have made such statements because he would\nhave been far better briefed and advised. Instead he has set up an echo\nchamber. Sadly, he is imitating the practices not of the victorious last war \u2013\nthe nation\u2019s and his elder brother Mahinda\u2019s finest hour, and his own finest\ncontribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He predicts that the next major\ncrisis we shall face is the economic crisis. This time too, it won\u2019t matter to\nthe suffering citizenry that there was a global pandemic, any more than it\nmattered to the voters who threw the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Government overboard\nin 1977 despite the OPEC oil shock of 1973 affected a great many countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in the case of combatting\nCovid-19, this is not what the Gotabaya administration has done. Pushing Dr.\nDushni Weerakoon, Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS),\nout of the Monetary Board is hardly a sign which inspires confidence. Having obtained\nher PhD at age 27, she has risen to be perhaps our top professional economist,\nwith a reputation for non-partisan, independent policy diagnosis and lucid\nprescription. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He asserts that the Sirisena\/Ranil\ngovernment was doomed to a one-term existence by its adherence to an\nideological model rather than to Realism. That Government felt it more\nimportant to drive through a set of reforms which stemmed from its obsolescent\nideological model of the neoliberal glory days of the 1980s and 1990s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referring to the previous government which he admired in all its aspects, the 3D bluffer now says that the UNP Leader, Ministers and civil society ideologues were blissfully unaware that in the 21st century a social backlash had overthrown the model in favour of statist-nationalism in Russia and populist religio-nationalism in Eastern Europe. Even when the rebellion reached the West with Brexit, followed by the Trump victory of 2016, the UNP didn\u2019t change course. These global trends apart, the reality of Sri Lankan society \u2013 made transparently clear at the Feb 2018 Local Authorities Election \u2013 made the Ranilist UNP model utterly untenable.

The UNP, he adds, sought to turn us into a neoliberal neo-colony of the West. The GR model was designed to turn us into a military-occupied territory \u2018liberated\u2019 from liberal-democracy and inhabited by a regimented, controlled, drone-monitored citizenry. The Yahapalana and Gotabaya administrations share the assumption that their electoral victories were some kind of \u2018revolution\u2019 and a mandate for a total transformation in accordance with their respective ideologies.\u00a0

The first anniversary of the Gotabaya Presidency coincides with the victory of Joe Biden. He admonishes that President GR must learn the correct lessons of the defeat of President Trump, whose proudest boast of not being a \u2018politician\u2019 but a success in other fields, was the source of his biggest blunders, since as a political amateur he had no respect for the values, norms and ethos of democratic politics and governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GR and his fellow (Sinhala) long-time supporters of the California Republican Right must absorb the lessons of the two-thirds vote that the Democratic ticket obtained in California (possibly due to Kamala Harris). With or without Democrat control of the Senate, President Rajapaksa can surely figure out the implications of a Democratic administration. Space could open for generalised, permanent \u2018lawfare\u2019 under \u2018universal jurisdiction\u2019, which could go global.\u00a0

For the moment the biggest political advantage that President Gotabaya enjoys is the fog of intellectual and psychological confusion in the democratic resistance space. In a threatening note to President GR this American worshipping 3D fool says that in the USA, the democratic intelligentsia (most indelibly Noam Chomsky), the media and the politicians (most notably Barack Obama) sounded the clarion call that the main existential danger was a second term for President Trump \u2013 Chomsky called it a threat to humanity \u2013 and that the indubitably overriding objective must be to prevent it. In the midst of the primaries, the Democratic field suddenly cleared for the candidate who had the best chance of winning back the blue-collar white voters and breaking through to the American heartland. The left, progressives, women, and the Black community rallied around him, submerged differences to attain the objective of stopping a second Trump term, perceived as the portal to Fascism of some variety and form.\u00a0

He laments that by contrast, the Lankan democratic intelligentsia remains \u2018The Gang That Couldn\u2019t Think Straight\u2019. Recently, an emeritus political science academic urged the democratic Opposition to model itself on that led by Sirimavo Bandaranaike \u2013 who it must be noted, never proceeded to lead her country after she lost the General Election in 1977 and was beaten to the presidency by populist Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1988.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This pro-Indian betrayer states that he associated Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa for more than 20 years and hence he knows more than Viyath Maga-Eliya hawks may assume and adds that being only a student of politics, he remained a passive participant at the meetings his father had with Lakshman and George Rajapaksa, gathering valuable points\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When an extremist ideological\nnetwork-cum-pressure group (self-professedly pro-China) \u2013 the Janavegaya \u2013\narose within the ruling family and Coalition Government and spread through the\nState apparatus, George and Mahinda Rajapaksa stood against it. The Rajapaksa\npolitical culture was light years away from a \u2018Military First\u2019 or \u2018Make the\nArmy Great Again\u2019 (the local MAGA) perspective in peacetime. It was civilian,\nparliamentary, democratic, centre-left progressive, moderate nationalist,\nundogmatic, pragmatic, flexible, open, reasonable and consensual.
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\nIn a ridiculous attempt to create a rift between the President and the Prime\nMinister similar to the failed attempt he made to creep into Viyath Maga and\ncreate dissensions in that organisation this 3D foreign stooge says that Mr.\nMahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s decade was not reshaping the country according to some\nideology or model and he was determined to achieve a decisive end, operating\nwithin the democratic Constitution, to the existential danger that confronted\nthe nation: Prabhakaran and his LTTE. By doing so MR achieved the most historic\ntransformation of all. Like his elders, he was very comfortable with the\ncountry\u2019s democratic character and civic way of being, in which he swam like a\nbig fish in the sea. 


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