{"id":71331,"date":"2017-11-05T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T06:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71331"},"modified":"2017-11-04T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T23:42:52","slug":"federalism-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/05\/federalism-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Federalism \u2013 Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laksiri Warnakula<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

‘Making a mountain out of a mole is a lot easier than bringing a mountain that has grown high, far and wide down to the size of a mole’<\/p>\n

Our politicians have never understood this, either because of their stupidity or their greed for power and personal gains. I for one, would put my money on the later.<\/p>\n

The emergence of LTTE followed by its growth to a point, where they could or were confident enough to take on the whole defence force of the country, is a classic case in point.<\/p>\n

Politicians, who keep clamouring about making our country a federal state must not compare it to other countries that have such governments, which are supposedly doing fine there. And they should not be audacious enough to assume that such a model would work in Sri Lanka too.<\/p>\n

And even though times have changed and progress can only be made by keeping up with the times wisely, it doesn\u2019t mean that we should do it as if trying to keep up with the Joneses! and go along with the wishful thinking that it would work.<\/p>\n

We think differently, have our own values, histories, customs and many more that have existed for many centuries. What needs to be done is to promote understanding of these values and the rest amongst all communities as best as it is humanely possible. We can throw the outdated away, educate the people where necessary and promote only what is best for the people of the country.<\/p>\n

By the way, what exactly are the problems that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have today that can only be sorted out by making it a federal state? Can someone please enlighten me? However, the Tamil leaders do have a problem. They may still carry pamphlets and leaflets in their pockets with the LTTE emblem on the front covers and some are even bold enough to let them be seen in public and even photographed. They probably even dream in their sleep of an Eelam too. They seemed to have placed themselves at the beck and call of the Tamil diaspora, who fuel the drive, to say both literally and metaphorically, for a federal status.<\/p>\n

Hacking and removing all that is rotten on the bark is one thing. Yet cutting up the core is another. It will kill the tree in the end.<\/p>\n

Copying a ready-made template from somewhere else and pasting it on our own land could end up in disaster or even disintegration of Lanka, in the end!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laksiri Warnakula ‘Making a mountain out of a mole is a lot easier than bringing a mountain that has grown high, far and wide down to the size of a mole’ Our politicians have never understood this, either because of their stupidity or their greed for power and personal gains. I for one, would put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71331","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=71331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}