{"id":40946,"date":"2015-01-20T02:51:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T08:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40946"},"modified":"2015-01-19T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T02:50:42","slug":"dhumb-sirisena-the-peanut-episode-absolute-power-corrupts-most-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/20\/dhumb-sirisena-the-peanut-episode-absolute-power-corrupts-most-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhumb Sirisena & the Peanut Episode – Absolute Power Corrupts Most Humans!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. Hudson McLean<\/h2>\n

When the Korean Airlines executive Ms Cho Hyun-ah, abused her power over a packet of peanuts, as the daughter of Cho Yang-ho the Executive Chairman of Korean Airlines, she was publicly “Grounded” from all her powerful positions in the company.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/k892e2f<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/13\/world\/asia\/korean-airs-chairman-removes-daughter-from-executive-posts-after-nut-incident.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n

Similar incidents are now racing around Colombo by Dhumb Sirisena, the newly empowered son of the newly elected President Maithri Sirisena.<\/p>\n

Actually looking at the Dhumb Sirisen photos in Facebook, he resembles somewhat like, Namal Rajapaksa, but with a face more like a common ill-educated thug.<\/p>\n

Unless, President Sirisena uses his own personality to control the “wild horses” of CBK-Ranil, as well as his own Sirisena clan, now led by his own thuggery son Dhumb, the Sirisena government will run into “Brick Wall” sooner than expected.<\/p>\n

Already the “dead-men” from LTTE Tamil Terrorist Diaspora are beginning to walk, using the great road infrastructure built by ex President Rajapaksa. Parallel to the Tamil-Muslim ambitions, the corrupt UNP brigade is sharpening their horns, will be the first to gore President Sirisena by highlighting the corruption from within, by his own family.<\/p>\n

One writer pleaded to ex-General Sarath Fonseka that the ole soldier should be prepared to take over the reins, in the absence of comfort from the New Regime.<\/p>\n

Although, Sarath Fonseka might still have affable connections in the Defense Forces, Fonseka still carries the “stigma of corruption” by using his son-in-law (now released on-bail).<\/p>\n

“Sarath Fonseka, his son-in-law Danuna Tilakaratne and Director of HiCorp Pvt. Ltd. Wellington De Hoedt were accused of defrauding the Army by purchasing military hardware going beyond the tender procedure.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/29126\/danuna-thilakaratne-surrenders-to-court-released-on-bail<\/a><\/p>\n

Time will show “How the Cookie Crumbles!”<\/p>\n

PS: May I add that, I supported ex-President Rajapaksa, Chamal Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa, Gothabhaya Rajapaksa, and with a low-esteem on Namal Rajapaksa, till the news hovered around the family connections to corruption.<\/p>\n

I have followed opinion of Lorenzo with interest, and look forward to his practical and patriotic comments.<\/p>\n

As a fellow journalist, I hold a deep respect for Mr. HLD Mahindapala, and his approach towards the Sri Lankan political bandwagon.<\/p>\n

An example of corruption!
\nI was approached by a Sri Lankan businessman-entrepreneur during 2013-2014, seeking an investment of US$40-50 million for a questionable Business Plan.<\/p>\n

The “bottom fell-off” when I was told that the “cash-price” or bribe to a well known (Opposition) UNP politician who is able to “make-the-clock-tick” within Temple Trees, would be US$ 5 million, upfront. This sounded more like a “Silly Scam” for the Deaf & Dumb. “Sh*t” then hit the fan or the pan. The project interest was flushed down the Dubai toilet, in disgust.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Hudson McLean When the Korean Airlines executive Ms Cho Hyun-ah, abused her power over a packet of peanuts, as the daughter of Cho Yang-ho the Executive Chairman of Korean Airlines, she was publicly “Grounded” from all her powerful positions in the company. http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/k892e2f http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/13\/world\/asia\/korean-airs-chairman-removes-daughter-from-executive-posts-after-nut-incident.html?_r=0 Similar incidents are now racing around Colombo by Dhumb Sirisena, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hudson-mclean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40946","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=40946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}