{"id":90690,"date":"2019-06-23T12:40:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T19:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90690"},"modified":"2019-06-23T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T19:40:35","slug":"elections-for-what-purpose-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/23\/elections-for-what-purpose-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections for what purpose (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Perera <\/strong>Kadawata<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

As\nregards the topic under discussion, the revolution I forecast cannot be an\narmed uprising. The servile military and armed forces of the SYSTEM will, with\nthe blessings of their local leaders and foreign masters, mow down the Sinhala\nyouth as they did in 1971 and 1989 without the least fears of charges of\ngenocide. Such is the value of the famous TRI-SINHALA for the foreign\nexploiters of this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\nwe vividly recall the unprecedented event which was the MARXIST led uprising of\n1953. It united not only the Sinhala but the entire nation. What result did it\nproduce? It sent Dudley and his government scampering helter-skelter like rats\nfor refuge into a British warship anchored in the harbour. They had\nrelinquished their charge through fear for their skin. Confronted by the nation\nin uprising, the army was rendered helpless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nMarxist initiative bore no result because the Marxist leaders the hunters, were\nof the same class as the hunted, The Marxists <\/em>of that time<\/em> were exploiting the workers, to ensure for themselves the same\nbourgeois life style as the other political party leaders. This is what\nprevented them from setting themselves up on the empty vacated throne. And so\nthe strikers who had penetrated the empty citadel of government were\nunceremoniously sent back empty handed and highly deluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nwas furthermore the god-less Marxist led strike that paved the way for the\ndowntrodden caste-less Tamils to occupy the Vishnu Kovil during the\nMaviddapuram revolt. The mighty Sunderalingam who guarded the temple gun in\nhand, even firing the first shot of the battle, was unceremoniously pushed\naside by people whose shadow he would not tread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nalso know how the Buddhist monks sided with the Marxists in events leading to\nIndependence. The monks were accused by the powers that were joining hands with\nanti-religious forces. But Buddhism is not a religion in the strict sense of\nthe term. They sided with what was right for the nation. The Marxists of that\nperiod are a spent force now, but NOT the monks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nsaw how Rathana Thero’s fast united the Sinhala population threatening an\nisland-wide strike and a march on Colombo, that brought this rotten Gamarala\nSIRA and the even more rotten Ranil to their knees and accelerated the asked\nfor resignations. It is such a mass revolution that can save this country. An\noutcome from within the present legal system is an unrealistic wish. It will\nnot work. The radical change the country needs will not be brought about from\nwithin existing constitutional structures, so putrid, so decrepit, so reeking\nwith the unbearable stench of corruption and every imaginable illegality. Just\nimagine a head of State who violated the constitution several times in a row\nstill remaining in office with impunity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\npolitical powers must be brought to their knees by a rebellious country-wide\nuprising that will march from all directions on Diyawanna Oya, with saffron\nrobed leaders at their head. The Diyawanna Oya Bastille must be stormed, not\nwith hammers and sickles as did the rural French, but by motivated, determined,\nand unrelenting Sinhala masses led by the founders of their age old\ncivilization: THE MONKS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis the monks who are the veritable founders of our civilization. They were the\nmentors and educators of our greatest kings. They put the ones on the throne\nand brought down others. We recall how Arahat Mahinda even tested the\nintelligence of Devanam Piyatissa with his riddle about the mango trees. It is\nMahinda who told the political power: you are only a TRUSTEE. The trustees come\nand go but the founders, the architects of our civilization, the writers of the\nMahavamsa, founders of Theravada Buddhism, compliers of the Tri-Pithaka, unshakeable\nopponents of colonial rule paying with their lives for their convictions, are\nthe monks. They remain watching over the Sinhala nation. They will not allow\nmere trustees to assume ownership of power over the nation on a foreign gifted\nDEED that is this constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmonks are our saviours. Only they can save this nation from falling over the\nprecipice to which the rabid mad-men of the Diyawanna Oya mental hospital have\nbrought it. There is no time to wait and ponder. It is NOW or never. RISE you\nyellow-clad guardians of the TRI-SINHALA. GALVANIZE the Sinhala, and put to\nrout the enemy within who has undone all that you built over two thousand six\nhundred years, falsely clothed in their FAKE Buddhist piety. This deception has\nreached the end of its tether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario\nPerera<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kadawata<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mario Perera Kadawata As regards the topic under discussion, the revolution I forecast cannot be an armed uprising. The servile military and armed forces of the SYSTEM will, with the blessings of their local leaders and foreign masters, mow down the Sinhala youth as they did in 1971 and 1989 without the least fears of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario-perera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90690","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=90690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}