{"id":41740,"date":"2015-02-22T06:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T13:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41740"},"modified":"2015-02-22T06:36:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T13:36:05","slug":"three-blind-mice-in-sri-lankan-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/22\/three-blind-mice-in-sri-lankan-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Blind Mice in Sri Lankan Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Prof. Hudson McLean<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Maithreepala Sirisena\u2019s (MS) comfort meal of hoppers leading to the overthrow of Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR), was like Termites eating through the woodwork beneath the surface.\u00a0 That was a Cheap Stunt!<\/p>\n<p>A REAL man with guts, would have told MR, who was his Leader that, Mr President, Thank you for the invitation to a Feast of Hoppers. However, with respect, may I inform you that I am Hopping-Off\u201d from your Leadership to stand against you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as\u00a0 any normal observer would see, MS has no backbone or any decency in character. Period.<\/p>\n<p>Then MS exacerbates his subserviency by donning an Indian Bullet-Proof Waist Coat, holding Narendra Modi with both hands!\u00a0 It was not a handshake by a President of a Sovereign State. Patronising on his knees!<\/p>\n<p>The question arises, of the Three Blind Mice aka CBK-RW-MS, were they equally stupid or who led the Mission?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, the carrot\u201d offered by CBK-RW was tempting enough for MS to bite.\u00a0 Getting an opportunity to reach the pinnacle of political life in Sri Lanka, which MS could never achieve in his lifetime on his own, was not an Offer-MS-Could refuse.<\/p>\n<p>The next questions to CBK-RW are-;<\/p>\n<p>1: Did they believe that a simple donkey like MS can run the course with a stallion like MR?<\/p>\n<p>2: Did CBK-RW believe that RW could hoodwink the Sri Lankan electorate with getting appointed as the Prime Minister with RW team of UNP Ministers, by forcing the arm of MS?<\/p>\n<p>3:\u00a0 Did CBK-RW think that the Sinhala voters would jump-up in joy to have a non-Sri Lankan and Tamil as the Governor of Central Bank, and a Tamil as a CJ, appointed by a Dictatorial Power of the Trojan Horse MS?<\/p>\n<p>4:\u00a0 Did CBK-RW believe that the Sri Lanka voters who voted for MS as a SLFP-UPFA but a Common Candidate, would give the Controlling Harness to the leader of the UNP?<\/p>\n<p>5: Did by default, MS conned or scammed the Sinhala electorate, by handing over the reins to CBK-RW, two bungling ex-leaders, and Tamil sympathisers of Eelam, and USA-EU who supported LTTE Terrorism?<\/p>\n<p>Brings back to memory the lyrics of-;<\/p>\n<p><em>Three Blind Mice.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Three Blind Mice.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Three Blind Mice.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> See how they run!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> See how they run!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> They all ran after the farmer&#8217;s wife,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Who cut off their tails,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Who cut off their tails,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> With a carving knife.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Did you ever see such a thing in your life,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As three blind mice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PS: This time, it will not be the Farmer,s wife who will cut-off their tales, but the Sri Lankan voters, who will decimate all three, at one Parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<p>CBK has no tail to lose except her &#8220;Sari Tail&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Both RW &amp; MS might lose whatever tail they sport!<\/p>\n<p>(http:\/\/www.rhymes.org.uk\/three_blind_mice.htm)<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0Express Your Opinion &#8211; Read What Others Say!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Please visit -:\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Hudson McLean Maithreepala Sirisena\u2019s (MS) comfort meal of hoppers leading to the overthrow of Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR), was like Termites eating through the woodwork beneath the surface.\u00a0 That was a Cheap Stunt! A REAL man with guts, would have told MR, who was his Leader that, Mr President, Thank you for the invitation to [&hellip;]<\/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-41740","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\/41740","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=41740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}