It is the Sri Lankan disease that we
have had the misfortune of being enslaved by people who purport to serve us,
but who have instead ruled us, and since at least Independence, from which
point we have been the masters of our destiny, destroyed this country, no
matter what way you look at it.
The Time is ripe to change this
phenomenon, that has clearly NOT WORKED, and with the maturity and lessons we
have learned through heavy loss of life during this period, where forces took
on the brutal Governments of the past and lost, we must resolve ourselves not
to look on Government as some alien creature, but the result of our own folly,
where we appoint, in the pretext of electing individuals, who you would never
trust your infant child with for all the tea in China!
Fellow Countrymen, we will continue to elect
people, who you will never trust with your own possessions, so in order not to
be disappointed with having to permit them to hold sway, let us strengthen the
institutions, namely the Presidential Commissions hopefully devoid of elected
people, so that those unfortunate enough to be elected due to winning a beauty
contest, and good enough only for that contest don’t have power over how people
are ruled.
For example let a Public Service Commission
determine how public servants pay, promotions and recruitment are managed. NO POLITICIAN
should have any say in how someone gets a job in the public service.
GET IT!! If we succeed in strengthening these
institutions, then the elected people merely change some of the subtle points of
our lives, and NOT the whole fabric of our lives. In most Countries things don’t
change drastically no matter who is in Government, and the less they can influence
us, the better, so we can get on with our daily productive lives, with the State
being the sole source of a barrier.
Let us only allow them to determine matters
of policy in line with some of their manifestos, but the daily functioning of society
must be left to local elected officials and strong institutions to ensure, stability,
continuity, safety of the citizen and if a new constitution that enshrines legal
safeguards for vulnerable sections of society, then it will further strengthen the
rights of citizens, that elected Governments cannot change willy nilly. It is important
that we continue to pressure our Government to put in place the checks and balances
they promised, and NOT allow them to conveniently forget the conditions on which
they were elected, and once these cast iron safeguards are in place we will be able
to breathe easy, knowing personal grudges, and pettiness cannot destroy.
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