{"id":48513,"date":"2015-10-07T19:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T01:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48513"},"modified":"2015-10-07T12:18:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T19:18:51","slug":"dodging-an-inglorious-end-an-orwellian-redrafting-of-recent-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/10\/07\/dodging-an-inglorious-end-an-orwellian-redrafting-of-recent-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodging an inglorious end \u2013 An Orwellian redrafting of recent history"},"content":{"rendered":"

R. Chandrasoma \u00a0<\/span><\/em>Courtesy Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

We are told by high authorities in the government that our former President has good hopes of being alive in the years ahead because of the political heroism and encompassing compassion of those who defeated him at the recent historic elections.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the claim has been made by no less a person than the globe-trotting (and oracular) Foreign Minister that the former Leader (MR) escaped an inglorious end strapped to an \u2018Electric Chair\u2019 because of the pleading and promises of the New Leadership \u2013 to purge our ancient land of the political roguery and rampant venality that (supposedly) characterized the ruler-ship of the defeated President.<\/p>\n

There was also a more ominous charge \u2013that was music in the ears of the Anglo-American \u2018mafia\u2019 that currently polices the world. MR was supposedly in the same class as the \u2018villainous\u2019 Saddam Hussein and the much-feared Gaddafi \u2013 both heavily advertised in the Western Press as brutal dictators that brought not only ruin to their own countries but imperiled the world because of their insatiable greed to be great and powerful whatever the material and human cost. Indeed. so great was their advertised political depravity that the entire world was alarmed and affronted. The hilarious comparison with MR was a staged political stunt \u2013 he had, of course, no weapons of mass destruction nor was he outside the Democratic Process and the Rule of Law that dictators are supposed to enjoy. He defeated a historic enemy and re-launched Sri Lanka as a free and prosperous nation. It is here that<\/p>\n

Orwellian Revision is famously employed \u2013 the artful suppression of the facts about a disastrous rebellion by a bloody tyrant and murderer of thousands of innocents.<\/p>\n

The heroic feat that saved Lanka from political extinction was \u2018rewritten\u2019 as an assult on the \u2018rights of the people\u2019 and the word \u2018genocide\u2019 gained importance to the enemies of a stable and prosperous Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The New Leadership \u2013the Avenging Horsemen of the Apocalypse \u2013 carried this Orwellian rewriting of history much further when what was largely a political campaign against MR \u2018morphed\u2019 into a moral crusade against an Evil Dictator and his Band of Thieves. A hallucinatory landscape was created where men were (supposedly) kidnapped in broad daylight, women raped and children molested. It was a time \u2013 so declared the enemies of MR \u2013 of robbing and fobbing when free citizens lived perilously with White Vans patrolling the streets to pick unruly malcontents.<\/p>\n

This is the Great Orwellian Redaction that the Propaganda Arm of the New Liberation Movement used with great success. Let honest citizens compare the \u2018then\u2019 with the \u2018now\u2019 \u2013the brief age of triumph and confidence under MR with the abnegatory bathos of a life under defeatism and humiliating contrition-fashioned as a Machiavellian strategy to further the political ends of those threatened with early extinction in the battle for power.<\/p>\n

A final comment on the Electric Chair. The British seized the Last King of Sri Lanka on protests made by the Ruling Elite that he was unfit to be a King. It was a historic betrayal. The surrender of our one-time President to gloating foreigners by those briefly ensconced in power \u2013 if and when this happens \u2013will surely rank with the earlier historic shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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