Today’s Nation
newspaper another mouthpiece of the State is on a dedicated campaign to mislead
their readership of a division between the SF campaign and the UNP and to
continue to portray the UNP as one in league with the LTTE. By highlighting an
interview with Buddhika Pathirana with him saying that police and land powers
should be given to the North,(an insignificant portion of the interview) this attempts
to further add a spanner of mischief into the debate of Reconciliation.
They are on a
diatribe to proscribe a sincere attempt by a very patriotic MP in the form of
Wijedasa Rajapakse who sees the few Buddhist clergy in Parliament as another
barrier in the portrayal of Buddhism as a purely peaceful and non threatening
philosophy devoid of any malice and enmity against any other religious belief.
In fact he is protecting Buddhism from opportunists who use it to further
selfish aims, and spread lies. He to me is more of a Buddhist than the MP
priests.
Today’s Sunday
Observer states that the Ven Athureliya Rathana Thera says that Bhikkus always
represented the national interest! It is obvious it is his interpretation of
national interest that it protects, which actually destroys a nation, an
obvious traitorous act, which cannot be condoned. Do not forget it is a small
number of Bhikkus who give the clergy a bad name, and so his using the
collective of all Clergy is in itself wrong.
The intention it
appears that this Newspaper, as a matter of editorial policy has no intention
of being fair and balanced but even as the majority oppose the regime, to show
by way of division that it is only the Govt. which has a dubious mandate to do
as they please. Sadly Sri Lanka does not have a paper that tries to glaringly
show their disgust to counter such balderdash that is written today.
An uneducated
nation, taught to believe what is written and not to reason, falls for this
trap, time and again and have to pay a price of years of destruction to appease
the virulent racists on both extremes of the debate.
It is therefore
important to appeal for people of sound mind to reason, and form their opinions
based on different aspects of reasoning so that once they are able to look at
different angles including the extremist positions of both sides, realize what
is obvious.
Giving SF a
level of leadership that he does not have, further misleads the public.
Balanced opinion will portray his attempts as being opportunistic, which can
only gain traction within one of the two main political parties and not from
outside. This campaign to imply he has a following that can be sustained is
also a ploy by the state, using another pincer paper, Ceylon Today to extol the
virtues of SF at the behest of the state. The cunning of the Government in
power knows no bounds and their slaves who report on their behalf have such a
low level of understanding (see the previous blog entry) that even they are
fooled.
Little wonder
that the journalists of the Nation, another pincer in the campaign, are
completely fooled as to what their part in the show is! If they have any self respect they would jump
ship, but as they are still hidebound by the educational establishment that has
not taught them to think, are tone deaf to reason.
It is now up to the
rest of us to do our utmost to teach our youth to think. Only then will we be able
to reason with them. If you cannot think, you cannot reason. Hence with journalists
of the Sri Lankan tribe are of the unreasonable sort, except for a handful, who
have to carry the cross of reason for a whole nation, and find it hard to penetrate
the minds of readers as thinking is as alien to them as taking flight with a pair
of wings.
I have now followed
the biases of about 100 journalists in Sri Lanka, and realize that many are mindless
parrots looking for an easy way out, by espousing safe causes and leads. It is interesting
to note that I have observed that the few female journalists I have followed have
more of an independent mind and are the least swayed by what they see and read,
and only believe once they are able to evaluate from different sources what the
truth and opinion of a story are.
I was talking to
a senior retiree from the forces, who was convinced that the Hambantota killings
was a work of a break away paramilitary group bent of mischief on behalf of the
Government. Obviously they are either currently serving in the tri-forces or have
just left their service and are part of a goon squad set up by the government to
instill fear amongst those who oppose the regime. Coming from Hambantota, the bastion
of the regime it is all the believable, but as I said it came from someone who knows
how paramilitaries are set up and operate within an existing set up
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