{"id":41243,"date":"2015-02-04T00:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T06:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41243"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:06:14","slug":"lets-save-mother-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/04\/lets-save-mother-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s save mother Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mrs Kumari Samarasinghe\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Dear Editor, Lankaweb<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been watching the 2015 Sri Lankan Presidential elections and how the previous President was defeated with a chain of lies and a coalition that never could work together.\u00a0 Now that the new man is in power, SL has become a comedy act.\u00a0 I think it is high time (because if we wait for the 100 days, it could be too late) the Sri Lankans who love their mother land have a forum to show their support.\u00a0 The new government\u2019s actions bring to my mind the mantra Wimal Weerawansa was saying all along.\u00a0 Asthaavara<\/i><\/b>, Araajika<\/i><\/b> leading to Aakramanaya<\/i><\/b> by the west.\u00a0 The 25% retrospective tax on companies is paving the way for Asthaavara<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0 Not that the current regime was not aware of the repercussions of such a stupid tax on the businesses.\u00a0 The purpose of the tax is mainly to frustrate the business community.\u00a0 There will be many more to come brining disintegration to the doorstep. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I live in England and have voted to support the Palestinian state hood, save the planet earth etc. Etc…\u00a0 Therefore, I like the idea of somebody launching a web site to keep SL united and get people to vote online.\u00a0 We could have a question like Do you want to maintain the territorial integrity of the mother land\u201d if so please vote.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The website should be in all three languages, we need all communities to unite, and it should not be a Sinhala Buddhist only.\u00a0 We need to garner support from Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, Buddhist, Christians, Hindus, Blues, Greens, Reds, and Yellows, people living in the South, North, East, West and Central.\u00a0 At the height of the Final War SL Defence launched a very informative and an un-biased web site, which I later learnt was viewed by more people than all the other news media.\u00a0 Also Occupy Wall Street campaign has a good web site with a provision for people to donate money.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Can you please give some thoughts and get an independent panel to work on this?\u00a0 We need to register it and set up a bank account for future so that donations can be accepted.\u00a0 We could also publicise any demonstrations etc taking place in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 It is best to pay the staff, so that the progress will be quicker.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My worry is for the announced general election, My3, Chandrika and Ranil will preside over the nomination lists and will not allow any patriotic politician to stand for elections from either SLFP or UNP.\u00a0 The set of jokers who get elected will raise their hand to any resolution that comes before them.\u00a0 If that happens we will never be able to reclaim the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until a website is set up, please organise to get an online voting campaign going.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs Kumari Samarasinghe\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mrs Kumari Samarasinghe\u00a0 Dear Editor, Lankaweb I have been watching the 2015 Sri Lankan Presidential elections and how the previous President was defeated with a chain of lies and a coalition that never could work together.\u00a0 Now that the new man is in power, SL has become a comedy act.\u00a0 I think it is high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41243","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=41243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}