Comments on: Why Sarath Fonseka will not be president

By: CW

CW — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:47:48 +0000

Maybe true…

BUT how sure are we that EVEN what little “positive influence” we managed to rub-off on others was actually ALLOWED to be expressed this time??

Does this not point to ONE of ONLY TWO possible scenarios:

1. That the majority of this country are SO POLITICALLY HOODWINKED that they will even tolerate a “democratic King” (and a Royal family), and will overlook EVERYthing else, be it open corruption, massive abuse of state power etc?

2. That the majority actually DID REALISE the danger, BUT even the will that they expressed was not allowed to be manifested due to those same reasons of unlawfulness bordering on anarchy?

EITHER WAY is there then ANY POINT in THOSE LIKE US even trying ANYMORE to:

1. convince the “un-convincable” as in situation (1) above?

2. uphold a purported “rule of Law” that only seems to exist in books, as in situ (2) above?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:23:27 +0000

CW what I am trying to convey is that massive corruption and nepotism of the present regime will be relevant to only a few. As mentioned at the start of the writeup we belong to the middle class minority my friend.

By: CW

CW — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:35:41 +0000

Although this purports to be an “unbiased commentary”, I’m afraid the extreme bias of this one-sided article (without equal prominence to the massive corruption and nepotism of the present regime) doesn’t leave much to imagination ole chum…no harm having your own political favourite (that’s our democratic right)…BUT we must be honest enough to say so!!!

By: sittingnut

sittingnut — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:01:13 +0000

good post . you are right.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:08:49 +0000

Thanks Arun for your comment and I have spoken to some not many from the villages. Hence my comment on the eastern province. The people who actually work are suffering as salaries are not enough to sustain their families. But there are a lot of people who are self employed and also work for a daily wage. They build their dreams on the false hopes which are given by the politicians. This is the group who the UNP haven’t struck a cord with after the death of their last president.

By: Arun

Arun — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:22:26 +0000

Decent analysis except being from Colombo u hv not looked at the effect of high cost of living on the rural folk. They know corruption is linked to it. It will be close. As close as previous election or closer. But Mahinda will win and hopefully make some changes to prove that he is not going to plunder our tax money Via his family and friends. He deserves another shot for winning the war but he must change