{"id":96014,"date":"2019-12-04T16:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96014"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:29:48","slug":"mock-mock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/04\/mock-mock\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock, Mock"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Asoka Weerasinghe<\/span> Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>4\nDecember 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador\u00a0 Hanspeter Mock<br>Ambassador for Switzerland\u00a0 in Sri Lanka<br>63 Gregory&#8217;s Road <br>Colombo 7<br>Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear\nAmbassador HansPeter Mock:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While your beautiful country is getting ready with mulled wine, Christmas Music, twinkling lights decking almost every tree around the country, and letting the aroma of baking Swiss Christmas cookies waft out of the slightly opened windows, and there is nothing more special than anticipating the magical run up to Christmas.\u00a0 But you, this Swiss-man in Colombo got the tropical heat-it perhaps, that kept bothering you, so I see that you wanting to get your mind off the itch you got involved with Sri Lanka\u2019s President Gotabaya with the Swiss diplomat\u2019s parlour game &#8211; <strong>You Mock Me, and I Mock You, We both Mock&#8230;Mock..to see who will drop his pants first to the Sock&#8230;Socks!\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nis a game of&nbsp; diplomatic strategy, isn\u2019t\nit?&nbsp; But it is unfortunate that your\nchoice of the plot was weak and silly to the point being stupid.&nbsp; From your very first <strong>Mock-ing <\/strong>move, Ambassador you were doomed with a lie and I noticed\nyour pants slipping down a little bit.&nbsp;\nPresident Gotabaya\u2019s Foreign Ministry officials have told in plain\nEnglish which I hope you understood,&nbsp; <strong>that the alleged abduction of a local Swiss\nembassy staff member on December 1, accused you, Ambassador HansPeter Mock of\nlying.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Wow! That was embarrassing and that was heavy\nand that was a diplomatic bombshell!&nbsp;&nbsp;\nYou called for it, Ambassador Mock, for being cunning, cloaked under the\nword<strong><em>\nimmunity\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Did I notice that your pants had slipped down\na little more in your Swiss Game of diplomatic strategy -\u201d<strong>You Mock Me, and I Mock You, We both Mock&#8230;Mock&#8230;to see who will drop\nhis pants first to the Sock&#8230;Socks.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Mock, I\u2019d like\u00a0 to ask you as would a British village Bobby \u2018 <br> <strong><em>Allo..Allo&#8230;Allo, Cor Blimey Mite, what is going on\u2026<\/em><\/strong>\u201d\u00a0 What is indeed going on <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was it that you Swiss wanted to undermine and discredit President Gotabaya and his new government.\u00a0 Oops! I see your pants slipping down from your waist a little bit more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bad\nstrategy.&nbsp; Bad <em>Karma,<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp; Got the wrong guy to\ndiscredit.&nbsp; This is the guy who gave back\n20.5 million of his people their most paramount human right, their <strong><em>right-to-life\n<\/em><\/strong>which was hijacked by your now non-terrorist&nbsp; gang, the Tamil Tigers\u201d for 30 bloody years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador\nMock, you nor your Swiss Government lacked the decency, guts or honesty to\nacknowledge this textbook classic, how a puny island cleaned&nbsp; up the most ruthless terrorists in the world,\nthe Tamil Tigers, according to the UN, who perfected the suicide body-pack for\nhuman bombs, by kicking their butts.&nbsp; You\ndidn&#8217;t like that annihilation, did you, on May 19, 2009, HansPeter Mock.&nbsp; Now you know how the diplomatic cookie crumbles.&nbsp; But what you did not know is that Sri Lanka\ndoes not like outsiders who think that-<strong>\n<em>We are Holier than Thou\u201dBullies<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having unravelled the lie by the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry personnel, we are told that, it has been proven that the complete story of the Swiss Embassy incident is a lie.\u201d This has been based on CCTV footage and other technology evidence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nfemale embassy staffer in question had never been at the location where they\nclaimed she had been at that time and that it has now been proven that <strong>There is absolutely no truth to the story.<\/strong>\u201d\nWow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>T H U M P\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Oops, Ambassador\nHansPeter Mock, did I hear that sound, Did you? That was your pants falling by\nyour socks. So, you lost a Swiss Strategy game&nbsp;\nto discredit President Gotabaya\u2019s Government<strong>&#8211; You Mock Me, and I Mock You, we both Mock, Mock, to see who will\ndrop his pants first to the Sock&#8230;Socks.\u201d <\/strong>&nbsp;This is undiplomatic, and pathetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So\nyou lost&nbsp; the Swiss&nbsp; Diplomatic strategy Game Ambassador\nMock.&nbsp; There is one thing this incident\nbrings to the forefront.&nbsp; Is that\nSwitzerland is no friend of Sri Lanka.&nbsp;\nNor should Ambassador HansPeter Mock be allowed to remain in Sri Lanka\nto represent his country, Switzerland&nbsp; I\nreally don\u2019t see how you could continue your posting in Sri Lanka now that you\nhave been called a Liar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So for God\u2019s\nsake Go.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sincerely<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asoka\nWeerasinghe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada\u00a0 4 December 2019 Ambassador\u00a0 Hanspeter MockAmbassador for Switzerland\u00a0 in Sri Lanka63 Gregory&#8217;s Road Colombo 7Sri Lanka Dear Ambassador HansPeter Mock: While your beautiful country is getting ready with mulled wine, Christmas Music, twinkling lights decking almost every tree around the country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asoka-weerasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96014","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=96014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}