The Daily News uses the word Legal Fraternity to refer to just one TURP within it!!

In its Headlines “Impeachment Justified says Legal Fraternity” the Daily News the Govt. Paper, today only names one hardly consequential individual of a ‘Jayatissa de Costa’ and hence HOW CAN HE BE THE LEGAL FRATERNITY. For a paper to be so blasé as to make such insinuations without a qualm is the evidence that everything the Govt. does is justified.

How on earth people can say before we know the charges that the Impeachment is justified is beyond me! This especially as the MPs who signed it were whipped into signing, as the President would know who have not, and so they would be making the calls or coming to Colombo to sign it for fear of losing the favor where their bread is buttered and thus kept firmly under the thumb of the leader.

It is really sad that the legal fraternity did not unite against it in unison and agree to keep out of the Justice system in protest. They did not due to a couple of reasons. Firstly they have no backbone to fight the regime as they believe being on the wrong side will affect their lucrative practice. Secondly they agree with the impeachment as the CJ was completely biased in the Govt. favor and passed judgments that are completely unjustified in law, reinforcing this bias and so she should be removed. Anyway it was accepted at the time that she was a political appointment as a nodding donkey!!

So when you sleep with the devil you get your just desserts one day, and the day of reckoning has arrived.

On the other hand it is ironic, that when she stopped doing the bidding of the Govt. they decided to impeach her. They decided that they could not control her and she was no longer a puppet on a string, but one with her own mind!!

Until we know the charges, except that the Foreign Minister has said she has abused the law, we cannot judge if this is justified and therein lies the conflict to properly opine. However ironically yet again the MPs who signed just signed without reading what the signed, so they don’t know why either.

Further in the UPR in Geneva, the former Atorney General, who is now a Presidential Adviser on legal affairs and also the Chairman of Seylan Bank, also defended the Govt. action, but that is nothing new as that is his job.

The question is why the Opposition and the BASL are also silent on this matter, and is it because whatever they do they will be damned, let me explain in the next blog entry.