{"id":73905,"date":"2018-01-20T01:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T07:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73905"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:32:55","slug":"sirisenas-final-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/20\/sirisenas-final-task\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena’s Final Task"},"content":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The President grandly announced that the moment of quitting the august position he holds is very clearly defined\u00a0\u00a0– and he has no qualms about divulging the defining moment to the public if only to appease the thirst of his enemies in politics. He will quit when his sacred task is over \u2013 when the last rogue in the public arena – together with all crooks, cheats and deceivers – will be banished from public life and consigned to the nethermost region of that punitive torture-chamber called Hell.<\/p>\n

Politicians and moralists alike will wilt in astonishment at this statement from an All-Powerful Politician. In politics, the good and the bad are public issues and consent is reached by consensus. The bad in Politics is not morally heinous \u2013 it is merely a miss-judgement on matters pertaining to the public good. It is, of course, possible that unsavoury politicians may be moved by the love of money and the allure of public positions\u00a0\u00a0so as to betray the trust of the people \u2013 but such failings are part of the human condition and need correction \u2013 not condemnation. If \u2013 as our President believes \u2013 all wrong-doers (dooshithayan) must rot in hell before sanity and well-being are restored to the World, it is going to be a long wait. As Gandhi and the late Martin Luther King famously stated, the sword of the bearer of Evil is blunted by compassion and understanding \u2013 not by crossing weapons of hatred. A final point \u2013 there is a great difference between the Moral Law and the Secular Law of the Republic. The latter is a man-made edifice and there are times when its questioning \u2013 even its defiance \u2013 is not a moral blemish \u2013 indeed ‘dissidence’ is a natural part of the fruitful intercourse between peoples. The ‘Rouge Mania’ \u2013 ‘Okkoma Horu’ – has fatally distorted politics in this country\u00a0\u00a0and the latest statement of the President gives additional muscle to this political dystopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma The President grandly announced that the moment of quitting the august position he holds is very clearly defined\u00a0\u00a0– and he has no qualms about divulging the defining moment to the public if only to appease the thirst of his enemies in politics. He will quit when his sacred task is over \u2013 when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-chandrasoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73905","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=73905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}