{"id":66926,"date":"2017-06-13T22:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T04:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66926"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:23:02","slug":"john-amaratunga-was-overdosed-of-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/13\/john-amaratunga-was-overdosed-of-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"John Amaratunga was OVERDOSEd of anger"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Rajendra Alwis, ottawa, Canada<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>I was really perturbed to read the news on how deplorably Minister John Amaratunga behaved when a journalist posed him a question regarding garbage disposal at Bopitiya in Wattala. His arrogant and mean behaviour using filthy words was clearly evident in the video footage published in electronic media. The funniest part of this incident was that John Amaratunga tried to approach the journalist threatening in anger to fight him, even miserably forgetting failing capacities of his old age.<\/p>\n

Garbage disposal is a burning issue in Sri Lanka that needs to be discussed time and again, to steer the way towards a viable solution. It is therefore, quite appropriate to question these politicians to get to the crux of the problem who paved the way for unimaginable recent disaster in Meethotamulla that destroyed many lives and properties of innocent people and also berried some alive. Any right thinking citizen in the country has an undeniable democratic right to question the wrongdoers to bring out the buried facts and expose them to public.<\/p>\n

Almost all the politicians in Sri Lanka are suffering from a chronic disease of which the main symptom is thirst for undue respect from the general public, for no reason, which is very difficult to bring under the curative care. In the circumstances, I wish to remind these politicians one good example from Canada for them to re-pattern their behaviour.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, when Mr. Jean Chr\u00e9tien was the Prime Minister of Canada, he attended an agricultural exhibition at Charlottetown in Prince Edward Island and began shaking hands with people. A man suddenly stopped crossing his path and landed a cream pie along one side of his face. Mr. Chr\u00e9tien appeared momentarily stunned, then pulled the pie plate from his face and his eyes seemed with a flash of anger. RCMP officers then hustled him into a washroom, and the culprit was arrested. This honourable Prime Minister came out calmly and addressed his Prince Edward Island supporters and said jokingly: you have developed a funny way of serving pies these days. I am not hungry\u2026..\u201d This incident was televised several times on that day. I think that this is a very good example for Sri Lankan politicians to follow suit and correct themselves.<\/p>\n

Further, I wish to quote another good story form Panchatantra<\/em> for John Amaratunga to learn a valuable lesson. It is the stupid monkey\u2019s story therein. One day, a carpenter was sawing a huge log of wood. Since it was half done, he placed a wedge in between the log to prevent it from getting closed up. Later on, a wandering stupid monkey saw this and was curious about the wedge and sat down on the log placing his legs between the half split log. Without thinking the consequences (like these politicians) he pulled out the log and got caught his private parts in the gap of the wood and experienced untold pain and heavy damage. This story teaches ignorant people not to do to unwarranted things unwittingly.<\/p>\n

Minister John you pathetically had an overdose of anger. John you are well aware personally, with your own experience, that overdosing of anything is good for nothing and it will certainly end up in catastrophe. Therefore, in the future, please stay away from doing stupid things without being a laughingstock because of your overdosed anger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Rajendra Alwis, ottawa, Canada \u00a0I was really perturbed to read the news on how deplorably Minister John Amaratunga behaved when a journalist posed him a question regarding garbage disposal at Bopitiya in Wattala. His arrogant and mean behaviour using filthy words was clearly evident in the video footage published in electronic media. The funniest part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66926","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=66926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}