Mr
President – Why are you not mad at your legal advisers for making you look so amateurish
in the world of public opinion?
The
once envious legal profession seems to be in crisis, reaching a new low with the
contents of the charge sheet. The President’s legal advisers on Constitutional Law,
Mohan Peiris, GL Peiris and Asoka de Silva have let him down in the 14 point charge
sheet presented to the Speaker calling for the Impeachment of the Chief Justice
of Sri Lanka. Surely it must have been prepared under their direction and it is
a shoddy document with no teeth.
Further,
the Constituents of the PSC are too heavily weighted with yes men, and none with
independent thinkers, a requirement for it to be objective. This will not auger
well for a balanced review and therefore will be unkindly referred to as the Kangaroo
Court of the Regime.
If
one looks at the psychology of those who advise the President if they believe they
are invincible because they represent a regime that is totalitarian, then they would
not be careful in their drafting of the motion. After all the motion is full of
elementary errors of fact that needs to be corrected!!
In
reality the Chief Justice should be credited for the confident and swift manner
in which she has dealt with all the accusations deftly through her lawyers Neelakandan
and Neelakandan, who answered all the questions to the newspapers that have laid
out accusations of a misleading nature.
It
will be interesting to see what next as the onus is on the Govt. to prove these
are impeachable, and now the facts starkly look mighty irrelevant in the context
of seriousness of the lapse of conduct. I cannot see anyone in Govt. caught off
guard by such flimsy evidence, trying to justify impeachment anymore in any but the lamest excuse for a reason!
It
is time the President distances himself from these people to save face and perhaps
sack them as his advisers for deliberately making him look stupid, especially as
he is also a lawyer and should know better.
It
seems to me that when power goes to people’s heads, they seem to lose objectivity
and are unable to gauge their poor judgments. They have few people who can be honest
with them, as sycophants only want to please and will not contradict or advise against
a proposed action, however it may seem
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