{"id":41885,"date":"2015-02-28T15:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T22:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41885"},"modified":"2015-02-28T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T22:42:53","slug":"to-the-sinhala-politicians-coming-on-sinhala-votes-and-then-going-behind-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/28\/to-the-sinhala-politicians-coming-on-sinhala-votes-and-then-going-behind-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Sinhala Politicians coming on Sinhala votes and then going behind minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>New Focus Today\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Sinhala politicians are either Buddhist or Christian\/Catholic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0If they are Buddhist they have better chances of coming to power &#8211; so they pretend to be devout Buddhists and pray, worship, frequent as many temples as they can, pay homage and do whatever it takes to win the Buddhist votes who are foolish to think these politicians are devout Buddhists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0If they are Christians\/Catholics generally the Church heads would decide who should come in or not and the Church network suffices to get the congregations every Sunday who they should vote for (not directly but the message is conveyed subtly) Invariably all staunch Christians\/Catholics will vote for one of their own. It is only the handful of Christians who realize the covert actions of the Church that puts country first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What the\u00a0majority of the Sinhala Buddhist politicians end up doing AFTER they come into power is to FORGET\u00a0that it was BECAUSE of the Buddhists that they came into power and FORGET to return the favour by addressing the grievances of the Buddhists and instead they go behind the minorities &#8211; Tamils, Muslims and Christian\u00a0lobby linked to the West because they become recipients of handsome handouts that cannot be matched by the majority Buddhists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0These\u00a0lowdown scums eventually come back to the Buddhists at each elections\u00a0hoping the Buddhists will again bring them back to power for them to once again go behind the minorities giving the minorities every thing they seek for legislatively\u00a0and legally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is time the Sinhala Buddhist voters REFUSE to vote for any Sinhala Buddhist politician unless they deliver the demands of the Sinhala Buddhists&#8230; we have been taken for a ride long\u00a0enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Focus Today\u00a0 The Sinhala politicians are either Buddhist or Christian\/Catholic. \u00a0If they are Buddhist they have better chances of coming to power &#8211; so they pretend to be devout Buddhists and pray, worship, frequent as many temples as they can, pay homage and do whatever it takes to win the Buddhist votes who are [&hellip;]<\/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-41885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41885","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=41885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}