{"id":82692,"date":"2018-11-01T22:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82692"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:23:40","slug":"not-so-fast-sri-lankan-students-wait-for-the-complete-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/01\/not-so-fast-sri-lankan-students-wait-for-the-complete-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT SO FAST SRI LANKAN STUDENTS!!!! Wait for the complete picture…."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anjalika Silva<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.\u201d
\n\u2015 <\/em><\/span>Helen Keller<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

There is a hasty attempt by many folks based on reading half the story and jumping to conclusions to paint a picture that is inaccurate.\u00a0 It is time to take a deep breath and give some credit to the intellect of leaders and the legal luminaries in Sri Lanka however much we may not like them based on partisanship. Their knowledge should not be tainted by the color of their politics.\u00a0 \u00a0The time has come to look at the\u00a0 bigger picture of the country we call our homeland.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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These folks are not stupid.\u00a0 They have a battery of legal experts who understand the constitution that was written and digested in Sri Lanka by fully informed individuals.\u00a0 The executive presidency has unrestrained powers.\u00a0 The union between two parties that formed a government was dissolved when one side pulled out.\u00a0 That is democracy when we can remove what we deem is not doing the country right.\u00a0 Didn’t that happen in 2015?\u00a0 Didn’t the biggest Bond scam to bankrupt the Central Bank happen in February-March 2015?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Such a dissolution makes all the cabinet from the appointed PM downwards no longer valid as members of the cabinet that was no longer holding together.\u00a0 This is explicit in the constitution and removing the PM was not the primary action, pulling out from the joint party deal was the primary action that led to everything else becoming null and void.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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It is not the Parliament or cabinet that has powers to appoint or sack a Prime Minister.\u00a0 We had a Prime Minister who was appointed as opposed to being elected.\u00a0 The appointment was made with Presidential Powers and removal is also with Presidential Powers.\u00a0 So if the Attorney General and the legal heavy weights have taken the stand that action was within the framework of the law, why should any one half informed and barely conversant with the constitution stir things up? Do not sling mud about the country.\u00a0 It was slipping down a slippery slope with the huge bond scam, biggest in our history, it was selling national assets to foreign powers outright (not aid or loans but outright ownership) and it was planning to pay reparation for LTTE terrorists and no compensation for those who were victims of suicide bombings, killings of Buddhist worshippers, killing of mosque worshippers, villagers and a whole bunch of people who were blinded and maimed.\u00a0 What about reparation for them?\u00a0 Why do people look at only one side of the equation?\u00a0 If the equation doesn’t balance on both sides, it has to be acted on.\u00a0 If people don’t like Rajapakse, it is better to have a person who made mistakes and will learn from them.\u00a0 It is up to all of you young people to rally round and advice the leaders of what you wish to see happen.\u00a0 As for Political Protocol, I don’t think it is wise to taint opinions on Social Media without knowing the facts and legal implications completely.\u00a0 We don’t need to wait for assasinations like what the LTTE did to a valuable person like Lakshman Kadirgamar, to act.\u00a0 We have to be proactive because power grabbing is a terrible thing but if people love the country then it is up to the voters to shape their actions.\u00a0 Put your energy to better use!!!!\u00a0 The international reputation of Sri Lanka is in tatters.\u00a0 Do something to reverse the opinion that we are like tribes killing each other on sight.\u00a0 Visiting Sri Lanka, the amicable cohabitation has to be seen to be believed but the stories in the international media intentionally misrepresented is doing more damage than removing an appointed Prime Minister.\u00a0 We the people of Sri Lanka, every one of us owes the country to serve in more productive ways.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Anjalika Silva Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.\u201d \u2015 Helen Keller There is a hasty attempt by many folks based on reading half the story and jumping to conclusions to paint a picture that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82692","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=82692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}