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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 400 of 872 Newer› Newest»Golden Eagle said ...
[Man, if the people somehow vote Fonseka to victory, then they deaserve all the crap they are are going to get under his rule.
And may the Sri lankans be known world wide as the most ungrateful people in the whole world.]
These are exactly my sentiments!
But, don't worry ... it ain't going to happen, even if HELL BOILS OVER!
Ananda-USA said...
Golden Eagle said ...
[Man, if the people somehow vote Fonseka to victory, then they deaserve all the crap they are are going to get under his rule.
And may the Sri lankans be known world wide as the most ungrateful people in the whole world.]
These are exactly my sentiments!
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Mine too !!
There are some relatives of mine who are unbelievably blind. Nothing I have told them abt this man's character and past deeds had any effect. I wish there was a way for those who vote for him to really have a flavour of his ruling sparing the rest of us.
The Rs. 430 billion fraud, Q&A by Ajith Niwad Kabral
MIA crossed with SL being named as the best tourist location
It is right time for everyone to defame SL. A stupid decision to hold a totally unwanted election has bogged us down.
Seriously it is timely that we get someone like DayanJ to the fold. And also to get the Boggles out of the show. Foreign Affairs deserve a better man.
BreatheSL
Did you ask your relatives to consider his recent statement may be two dozens of them that contradict each other.
(1) executive presidency (now he says he does not want to abolish it)
(2) Ecconomists will be chaseed away since as long as they are there no price reduction and salary increase are possible.
(3) The weapon ship: first he said it was Gotabhaya ordered it and he cancelled it(Truth of the matter is that he did not have the power to do so)
(4) Then he ordered it Gotabhaya cancelled it and China is angry with Lanka
(5) SL editor's own assessment that SF being weak and indecisive etc And all the curves, bends and u turns
(6) He was not treated nicely that is why he fell out.
(7) He was given everything but he gave up everything since he wanted to save the people.
(8) He established a miltary regime in Ambalangoda for a short duration.
There are many many sayings. Collect all of the videos and give it to them. May be there is no time.
On the other hand they maybe of the type even if they see a woman is raped by SF then they will admit themselves into psychiatric hospital saying that they are delusional and hallucinating
GE, ananda,
re: rural voters are with MR.
i say it is NOT ENOUGH AT ALL!!!
assumptions
rural voters - 70%
sinhala - 75%
tamil - 10%
muslim - 10%
upcountry tamil - 5%
voters tunrout = 100%
(this does not change the outcome)
from the total pop, support for gonseka
tamil - 75%
muslim - 60%
upcountry tamil - 60%
their total - 17%
(sumproduct pop*support for gonseka)
sinhalas are 30% urban. assuming 80% support gonseka
their support = 18%
(75%*30%*80%)
rural pop = 70%
IF gonseka gets 30% of their support, = 16%
(75%*70%*30%)
total = 50.25%
this means gonseka should get less than 30% support in rural areas.
the highest MR got was 72% at the uva PC election.
it is not likely he will get it now.
what does this mean???
we MUST attack UNP powerbases HEAD ON in urban areas.
the MOST effective target is URBAN SINHALAS.
we MUST win them over.
and they are the most sensitive to corruption awareness too. and they are the potentially MOST UNGRATEFUL too!!! (bombs, etc. affected them directly and indirectly more).
there are two segments.
1. UNP voters
2. JVP voters
these 2 segments should be approached differently.
RE: SL deserves SF if they vote for him
I do not agree. Most voters are deceived. Most voters are in the fear that MR will take away all national property and will make his family a royal family. These kind of sentiments are induced in a well planned campaign, while MR campaign just kept on providing evidence for its allegations.
Those who support SF [floating votes], for right or wrong, believe that they support him for teh sake of teh nation. It is stupid, but it shud not receive capital punishment.
I also think that SF will not win. There are certain conditions for it to fulfill, and they all have to be fulfilled. Failing one will bring MR up. Worryingly, the floating vote move is happening, and that is one thing which I am concerned about. W/O that SF cud not have won in all cases. Sadly MR side created this flow of ppl.
As explained some time back, most Sri lankans are blind when in comes to selecting a President. Most of them want a change but dont bother to see the best options available to them rather than changing the current one.
However most of them now do not defend SF much after all these aligations but silently supporting him expecting someone to proove that all the alligations are not true. Most of them are now happy to see the ad in the newspaers countering the Hicorp case where no proof is available to say the Hicorp in USA has done any deal with SL army.
It is my undersatnding that corruption and Mervin are the reasons for most of them to support SF.
However ther is strong vote base in rural that support MR unless JVP managed to change this.
So if MR looses Colombo and suburbs by 100k - 150k still he can win because of rural base
Re: Multiple SF dream syndrome
In the room that I'm working there are ~10 SF supporters, and they each support him for diff reasons. One thinks that SF will abolish exe prez. Other wants SL to have a strict president [somewhat like a dictator] to abolish corruption. Another thinks that there is a mater plan to win the important democratic moves and SF means nothing in the process. And another guy has got a plan in which end result is having MR as exe PM [he likes MR, but hates exe prez].
There are some who hates MR for alleged corruption and they wanna give him a big punishment. Also some hate MR for "doing it all for his family", the usual jealousy kind.
They contradict, and they even debate, but they all are planning to vote for SF. It is like My plan is the right one, yours is wrong. And they say "lets' vote as see".
The relatively unknown, usually vague stance of SF has given everyone space to dream. And his campaign is spreading more than one stories for each to dream on.
Moreover SL is full of nepotism, and most public hate it [still they will do the same if they get powers]. So when public hate to see a Rajapakse appearing all over the place. And they hate to hear that a rajapakse has acquired another property. It is a very big crime as per many, and nakedly visible for them.
In the contrary during Jayawardena, B-Kumaratunga, Premadasa, Wickremasingha days the corruption happened under diff surnames. And little number of ppl knew who they were.
SF campaign very well fueled these by stating what many ppl hate. Most were lies, but there was always that one last example they can provide and hence prove "like that everything else is also true".
Ninja rightly coined the current situ as egoistic issues.
Rahul/Moshe;
Your calculations need to be revised I guess.
There are three kind of vote bases.
1. City
2. Close-to-city villages [those who work in city or frequently keep in touch with city, but live in villages]
3. Disjoint/unconnected villages [Those who go to city very rarely]
Category 1 is overwhelmingly SF. It is immaterial as their % is low.
Category 2 is fastly turning SF. Still Mr is more supported, but the idea of Sf bringing change is spreading among them. This is teh biggest vote base of SL.
Category 3 will vote for Mr. It is small but sizable. It may still be a decisive vote.
Swarnajith Udana said...
Did you ask your relatives to consider his recent statement may be two dozens of them that contradict each other.
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SU,
Believe me I have tried. The ones I'm talking about have been voting for UNP blindly over the years. Nobody can change them. Simply incapable of any kind of logical thinking but mind you educated people - that's what is most sad.
But I got to say that out of all the people that I know - city + villagers >> nobody who was a floating vote/unbiased is deceived by Fonseka.
I also do know a few city voters who had voted for UNP in 2005 now very much favouring MR.
Angry as I am at the ppl who want to vote for Fonseka - I don't fear at all Fonseka will win.
What some of you keep forgetting is that the ppl who kept quiet and silently went and voted for UNP during PC have become vocal now ! There may be the edge case of MR voter now has become SF voter due to deception, but I think this is very rare. I have not seen a single case myself.
I have been out of Colombo many times during the past 2 months and there is overwhelming support for MR in all the villages that I visited.
B-SL;
Your exp and mine are contradictory as far as floating vote is concerned. Nevertheless, I wish you're right.
I should say taht in 2005 also, my guess was that MR will loose, and tehre was an unexpected boost in some areas for him.
There is a huge silent group in SL. It includes traditional UNPers too. And it is interesting why they are not upbeat. We still dunno whom they'll vote for or whether they will.
Puligal wants Eelam shifted to India
Well it is very interesting that Bhairav is realizing teh need of hour, and also naming it "Never too late". It is very lovely to see him calling T'nadu "home".
Late enlightenment ha? Never too late.
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
B-SL;
Your exp and mine are contradictory as far as floating vote is concerned.
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I was strictly talking about ppl I know. So it is really not a contradiction. But I think we can probably see something in the middle as a generalization?
Can anyone shed some light on below?
http://www.topix.com/world/sri-lanka/2010/01/namal-meets-emil-kanthan-in-london-prime-minister-challenged-to-respond
Is photo real? Is he indeed Emil Kanthan? This photo is floating around in emails.
Terence,
This is obviously bogus. If Namal R held a "secret" discussion with whoever, why would he pose for a photograph like this?
Absurd.
Terrance;
I'm not a graphic expert, but I find that so called Namal's head/neck very much unfitting to rest. Can we have someone with graphic knowledge to verify this?
By Alwalad Awwaida - Pollster / Journalist attached to Middle East research survey organisation
Colombo, 18 January, (Asiantribune.com): A recent public opinion conducted among the Muslims in Sri Lanka, revealed that majority 65% prefers President Mahinda Rajapaksa when compared with former army chief, Sarath Fonseka who received 35%.
The Sri Lankan Army has succeeded in mid last year to eliminate the rebels of the LTTE, after the war that lasted a quarter of a century. The Sri Lankan President decided to upgrade Fonseka to the Chief of the Army before submitting his resignation and announcing his intention to run for the Presidency to compete against President Rajapaksa.
30% of Muslim contacted on phone for this survey declared that President Rajapaksa deserve the gratitude in eliminating the LTTE terrorists while 25% returns the appreciation to General Fonseka. 45% gave it to both.
The survey was carried recently on a random sample of 2450 Sri Lanka Muslims of both sexes over 18 years of age. The survey mainly covered Colombo, Puttalam, Kandy, Kalutara and Batticaloa.The margin of error was +/-2.3% with a 95% confidence.
According to the survey results, the support for the Sri Lankan President has increased significantly among the Muslims in the country, specially in the areas other than Colombo, as a result of his support behind the implementation of several development projects in Muslim communities, in addition to his consistent support for the Palestinian people and for his close relations with the Muslims in the Islamic countries. Muslim community appears to be happy about the appointment of a number of Muslim Ministers and advisors.
In general the respondents gave positive signs in their assessment of the performance of Sri Lankan President in several respects.
The results indicate that 70% thinks that Rajapaksa works well on the foreign policy and 65% feels that he has the sufficient capacity to govern the country.
When asked about their voting preference, 58% said that they would vote for President Rajapaksa in the upcoming Presidential election that would be held next 26 January, compared with 12% that would vote for former Army Chief Fonseka and 10% for other candidates, while 20% said that they will not vote at all.
Asian Tribune
Terence,
I have not seen Namal in this hair style elsewhere. You may want to dig in to the internet photo archives to see if you can find the same pose elsewhere. The other thing is that, wherever they have posted, the photo quality is extremely reduced. That is a suspicious point.
The Sapphire-gate
Now that the Fonseka camp faces very serious allegations of bribery and corruption, it ought to reveal sources of its campaign funds. The government must follow suit. There is one whole week for them to do so. Else, as the JVP said of both the UNP and SLFP once, people will say "Unuth ekai, munuth ekai – both are same’. They may also tell the JVP: "Thopith ekai – you are no better!"
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It is about time we move JVP in to the JPB list just after SF and RW. I believe they are the biggest one of the biggest destabilizing forces in SL and would continue to hinder the development of our country. Patriotism is just a cover for JVP. Their end game is to win votes even if that means making pact with the TNA, Norway e.t.c.
Testing
Most of SF's supporters/floating vote do not watch Rupavahini, ITN or read Daily news/dinamina.
How best should they be targeted?
Part 1
Mahinda and Corruption – The Untold Story
Posted on January 16th, 2010
Dilrook Kannangara
Corruption has become a hot topic once again. Unfortunately corruption is discussed only during election time. Winners of elections burry it for good until their opponents resurrect it at the next election. So the cycle continues. Lack of credible direct evidence of corruption is the main difficulty in taking action against it. However empirical evidence is available for all to see about the degree of relative corruption. Relative corruption is the level of corruption of one government compared to another government.
In 1994 Chandrika alleged massive corruption of the UNP government. It worked well for her but did the country do any better? Actually she was blaming the Wijetunga administration of faults of his predecessors! While at no place she mentioned Wijetunga’s corruption or his government’s corruption, she was complaining about Jayawardena and Premadasa administrations’ corruption. However people voted out the not so corrupt Wijetunga government and elected to office a government which is considered far worse. Turning back at the events of the last two decades, it is crystal clear that the 1993-94 Wijetunga government was less corrupt that its replacement of 1994-2001.
Corruption indicators
When there is large scale corruption it becomes evident through practical indicators. High corruption means less welfare schemes, inability to meet state financial commitments, reckless borrowing, depleting foreign reserves, selling government owned entities, economic hopelessness, reducing investor confidence, closure of universities for long periods, cuts in public spending and staff and no salary increases for the public sector.
If one compares these practical and real indicators of previous governments and the Rajapaksha government, a strange conclusion emerges. It is strange because it is not what you hear on political stages and politicised media.
Reduction or increase in welfare schemes?
Although it is not considered sound economic practice, the Rajapaksha government increased the welfare spending. The fertilizer subsidy was extended to Vanni, displacement subsidies from Mavil Aru to Menik farm, drought and flood subsidies, Samurdhi subsidy and a number of other subsidies were granted.. Not a single subsidy was cut. The increase in welfare schemes took place despite allocating double than before for defence.
Part 2
Reckless borrowing, what happened to foreign reserves?
The Rajapaksha government never went for reckless borrowing. Government’s lack of desperation in borrowing was displayed to the IMF and other donors. This was despite the war. From 2001 to 2003, within just two and a half years, Sri Lanka’s external debt rose from US$ 8.3 billion to US$10.6 billion even without a war! However, from 2005 to 2009 for four years Sri Lanka’s external debt only rose from US$10.85 to US$13.50 billion. Whether the annual increase is considered or the percentage increase is considered, the Rajapaksha administration has done very well.
The composition of the loan portfolio is also important. By 2005 about 60% of the state debt portfolio was external (foreign) debt. This reduced to close to 45% by 2009. Lesser foreign debt means less national indebtedness as it lowers the impact on the exchange rate and external reserves. This is a remarkable achievement despite the war.
External reserves reached an all time high in 2009.
Can both these happen at the same time if there was more corruption than before? Very unlikely.
Exchange regulations were eased as never before since the country has a stable level of foreign reserves and managed external debt with the hope of a gigantic economic expansion.
In the last couple of years the world went into recession. Contrary to dire predictions, Sri Lank overcame this challenge with flying colours.
Selling government owned entities
Selling government owned entities has always been a popular escape. When in a situation of unmanageable budget deficit, selling off ‘family silver’ has been a quick fix. However, people suffer as a result. How many government owned entities were sold by the Rajapaksha government? Almost none. All previous governments after 1977 sold off public owned enterprises to cover the budget deficit. Ceylon Oxygen, Ceylon Cold Stores, Textile Corporation, Kelani Valley Plantations, Kotagala Plantations, Maskeliya Plantations, Namunukula Plantations, Sri Lanka Telecom, Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation, National Insurance Corporation, Distilleries Corporation, Sri Lankan Airlines (formerly Air Lanka), Ceylon Transport Board, Lanka Gas (sold to Shell gas), CINTEC, the lucrative distribution arm of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (sold to Indian Oil Company), etc.
Many desperate attempts were made to sell Bank of Ceylon, Peoples’ Bank, National Savings Bank, State Investment and Mortgage Bank, Ceylon Electricity Board, Sri Lanka Railways, Sri Lanka Post, etc.
The Rajapaksha administration didn’t do this. Where did the government find the money to manage a US$1.5 billion war, welfare schemes while not earning a quick buck by selling off state owned entities? If the Rajapaksha administration was more corrupt or as corrupt as other administrations, this should not be the trend.
Further, previously sold out entities including Sri Lankan Airlines were brought back under peoples’ ownership.
Cuts in public spending, employment and salaries
On top of all that, the Rajapaksha administration increased the number of persons employed in the state sector. While modern economists would not like it, the government managed the increase very well. Economists note with concern that Sri Lanka has the highest state sector employment as a percentage of the GDP. Despite that salary increases were awarded as never before.
Employing unemployed graduates in very large numbers was also seen during this time. Over the years most of them have been equipped with skills to meaningfully contribute to the economy.
Where is the money? Of course the government increased taxes but total taxes as a percentage of the GDP steadily fell. It is obviously not possible to sustain such a massive state sector if corruption was higher than previous governments.
Part 3
Economic hopelessness?
There were times when economic hopelessness reached astronomical proportions. In 1971, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 2001 and 2004 were examples of utter hopelessness in the economic front. Is there economic hopelessness today as it was then? No. Although the cost of living has skyrocketed, people’s income has also increased. But above all there is much anticipation of future economic prospects.
All this is because there is wide anticipation that the economy will do well despite the loss of GSP+, 26 years of war, international pressure and other adversities.
A simple question would clarify the matter. Do you have better prospects today than there were following the tsunami (2005)? The answer is obvious.
Universities, education and healthcare
University disruptions have reduced compared to the past and the government is spending a huge amount of money on primary, secondary and tertiary education. University admissions have steadily increased. Percentage of schooling children has increased over the years. Teaching in the English medium meaningfully started and is expanding. Once this was thought impossible. The healthcare system was also protected and in fact improved. Improvement in the healthcare system helped it cope up with the very large number of war casualties from 2006-09.
If corruption had not reduced compared to the past, none of this would have been possible. When governments were in dire financial state, their attention is first directed towards these vulnerable sectors.
Investor confidence
Investor confidence has increased as never before. The Colombo Stock Exchange became the world’s best stock exchange. It shows the tremendous increase in investor confidence. If the present administration was as corrupt as the previous ones, this cannot happen. Many third world countries despite more liberal economic policies were defeated by the Colombo Stock Exchange in the past few years.
Very large scale investment activities take place from the South to the North.. Potential of these investments is even higher.
Bridges, flyovers, road construction, power plants and ports
Infrastructure development in this sector is unprecedented. A very large number of key bridges have come up linking communities and industries. New bridges have opened up new markets, production sources and reduced transportation cost and time. Economic development in the Eastern Province alone was unthinkable a few years before..
Traffic congestion around the City has been a major wastage factor causing wastage in time, fuel, money, property and even lives. Flyovers that came up during the past few years have eased congestion. Real benefits will be seen in time to come. Compared to the previous work of similar nature especially the Baseline Road Project, the present government has been very efficient..
Work on key roads has been stalled for over 25 years until the Rajapaksha government got down to it. Now these artery roads are being built at a vigorous speed. Economic contribution that comes with it would be significant.
Power plants are coming up around the country. Although some of these were on the drawing board for decades, actual work started only recently. There was a time not so long ago when governments think of power plants when CEB is forced to cut electricity.
Part 4
Finally, the war
A staggering US$1.5 billion was made available for defence. Compared to previous allocations, it has almost doubled. Other ancillary defence related expenditure also increased. Government refused to cut corners when it comes to requirements. Although the budget was passed with extreme difficulty, spending was better managed.
A massive defence allocation along with all the other large spending endeavours was possible thanks to a reduction in relative corruption.
Otherwise not only the war effort would have stalled but also the state sector would have collapsed, state enterprises would have been sold out and welfare spend would have been cut.
During election time these facts are not given enough prominence as the craze for power blinds a section of the population. However, the society must recognize these before it is too late to correct. Politicians are willing to wait another six years for power but people cannot wait for development any longer. They have already waited for 26 long years.
End of Posting
Golden Eagle
Man, if the people somehow vote Fonseka to victory, then they deaserve all the crap they are are going to get under his rule.
And may the Sri lankans be known world wide as the most ungrateful people in the whole world.
My exact thinking too.
Won't be the first time our people sell the country out for some magic beans. The hell that will break loose is something Sinhalas will deserve, only our people "vote in" our own destruction as we saw in 1977 and 2002. Its also very convenient that the 200th anniversary of 1815 is upon us. How history repeats.
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
MIA crossed with SL being named as the best tourist location
It is right time for everyone to defame SL. A stupid decision to hold a totally unwanted election has bogged us down.
It reflects sadly on the post war mentality of MR. Since May19th he morphed into some greedy and arrogant man thinking in terms of his own success –he forgot about the country.
He believed: "thats it! My work is done!" and hence all elections were "victory assured" and started measuring his robes and designed a thrown, the concept of Maha Rajaro had well and truly gone into his head. Well he got a well deserved slap in the face.
If any good has come from the Gonseka initiative it is MR coming back down to earth and realising he will always have to work hard for the country as he did for the previous 4 years. Once the Gonseka thing began, MR returned to his old pre-May self and I believe he will not make the same mistake (thinking victory is assured) again. It has been a powerful lesson.
Response from Upul Illangamge to general's Kalavedda speech, and the mystery behind Hungama lady death, was it really political?
Had this lady been killed for a private dispute, it is a major failure in the SLFP side not to highlight it. As some of you're aware some INGOs have taken it as a part of defamation too.
There is a limit for the faults in campaign for SLFP. Not only them, with them goes the nation also. Timely for them to realize teh ground truth instead of boasting about how great the victory will be.
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
RE: SL deserves SF if they vote for him
I do not agree. Most voters are deceived.
How many times have the people been "fooled"?
Before Fonseka became Gonseka many of us disliked MRs post May behaviour. When rumours of Gonsekas birth were spread by that twat Fonseka2010 none of us believed it. Then when we heard of the "rift" between MR and Gonseka we were all backing Gonseka to an extent, believing he would bring "balance" to the nation, i.e. get something like 40 seats, give MR support when he did patriotic things and take it away when MR does unpatriotic things, i.e. "control" MR when he goes nutty.
We believed that Gonseka was leaving the fold because MR was going to sell the country out/betray the victory. Turned out something more horrifying was happening and the truth finally unravelled itself with Gonsekas maiden press conference. We all saw that Gonseka was WORSE and MR would be the safer horse (as we have seen MR has categorically said he would not sell out the victory and his actions for the most part have met up with us e.g. telling the TNA to get lost, he could have easily given into their demands to get their support etc).
As for the corruption argument, that was very superficial and driven more out of politically jealousy. The fact Gonseka team up with Ranil and Ravi K is proof how farcical that concept was.
The idea of abolishing the executive presidency, we all knew that was a giant lie furthermore A) it cannot be done so easily and b) who the hell would complain about a lack of power, get maximum power of the land then throw it away?
Yet people believed it was possible, even though simple logic pointed otherwise (which in turn reflects upon Gonseka and his big bag of tricks). Worse still some people believe it will happen even though Gonseka himself has said he is not going to do it.
Its not being fooled or duped, its stupidity, laziness (liking Gonsekas quick solutions which every leader has promised and not delivered) combined with egotism. Some just cannot accept they are wrong and to save face they will vote/support Gonseka anyway).
Sujeewa,
Inquiries shed new light on Hungama shooting
Meanwhile, the husband of the woman, who was killed in the Hungama incident, testifying at the inquest on the death of the woman, said that his family for generations has been supporters of the Rajapaksas. And that at all elections, they had voted for President Rajapaksa and the President had provided jobs to several members of the family. The deceased too had been an SLFP supporter and she had left home saying that she was going to attend a meeting where pairs of spectacles were to be distributed free.
http://www.nation.lk/2010/01/17/politics.htm
/Being Nobody said...
Most of SF's supporters/floating vote do not watch Rupavahini, ITN or read Daily news/dinamina.
How best should they be targeted?/
What you can do is talk to known people to you and talk.
/kotiwaenasewa said...
Expatriate Sri Lankans,
Please don’t expect a positive election outcome while doing nothing.
Get together with patriots and buy newspaper advertisements in support of Mahinda Rajapaksa. It is very easy for you to afford a newspaper ad in Lankadeepa, Daily Mirror, Veerakesari or any other popular newspapers.
Do your bit and be part of the victory./
It may be hard doing it for blogers as no one knows any one personally. I would say call your family, friends and relatives and talk.
/Lanka Puthra said...
Most bloggers in the blog is like:
SIHINA LOKE WASANTHE
THARUKA MAL HINAHUNA……
You all are just conning each other and having a temporary joy just before the disaster……best of luck!
If anyone like to wake up to the reality…..he will get bashed up by ….you know who!/
If you believe gonseka is winning and you don't like it then its not enough just saying so. You need to do some thing. If you can't do any thing about it and gonseka is really winning I like to stay in 'sihina ahase' until 27 without crying.
I would say call your family, friends and relatives and talk.
A friend of mine here said some of his relatives back in SL (hardcore SLFPers in the SP) can't be bothered to vote thinking MR is going to win anyway and don't like queuing, have issues with transport etc. He said he had to encourage, then beg them to vote.
As you said Ninja if Gonseka increases violence, especially in MR strong holds, less people will be bothered with voting and worried about their safety on top of the other problems.
From my communications, I have come to the same conclusions as SK.
There is a huge, anti MR sentiment.
Many people are stuggling so its easy to channel their anger towards MR and his brothers, some how Mangala has tapped into this.
Middle class support is still with MR, they have sensed that there is some kind of a larger game going on here.
Elite always support UNP, they are angry that they were put out of power for so long, and they are angry about MR's nationalistic viewpoint, and are clever enough not to attack that.
The rural poor class is angry about all the difficulties they have to face, they think its all because of corruption and SF will stop corruption overnight.
The question is how much of this support will trun to votes.
SK You talked about 10ppl around you supporting SF for variouse reasons, do you know whom they voted for in 2005?
Why are Tamils in Canada backing Gonseka?
Why are Tamils in Britain backing Gonseka?
Why are Norway/EU/UK/US backing Gonseka?
Why are South Indians backing Gonseka?
Why are TNA, Mano mutt and the lot backing Gonseka?
That alone is enough proof NOT to support him. When i put these forward to hardcore Gonseka/UNP/JVP supporters i got no answer.
Blogger Ninja said...
/kotiwaenasewa said...
Expatriate Sri Lankans,
Please don’t expect a positive election outcome while doing nothing.
Get together with patriots and buy newspaper advertisements in support of Mahinda Rajapaksa. It is very easy for you to afford a newspaper ad in Lankadeepa, Daily Mirror, Veerakesari or any other popular newspapers.
Do your bit and be part of the victory
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Blogger Ninja said...
/Lanka Puthra said...
Most bloggers in the blog is like:
SIHINA LOKE WASANTHE
THARUKA MAL HINAHUNA…
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Its very difficult for expatriates to do anything.
Most expatriates are UNPiers, it is them who actually started this SF campaign.
News paper ads, blog would not have much effect.
Opposition has many media outlest working for them.
Most of the popular web sites.
Sunday leader, times
Sirasa.
Some how Basil miscalculated that Sinhala people as a group forget so quickly and they are extreamly ungreatful.
The main slogan is corruption although there is no iota of evidence to proove corruption against MR and is brothers.
Once its tide to the difficulties people face its very hard to unravel.
Blogger Pol Sambol said...
Why are Tamils in Canada backing Gonseka?
Why are Tamils in Britain backing Gonseka?
Why are Norway/EU/UK/US backing Gonseka?
Why are South Indians backing Gonseka?
Why are TNA, Mano mutt and the lot backing Gonseka?
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Pol, what you say is true, point is MR campaign was not capable of making that a huge issue.
Middle class people can see that, but not rural low income ppl, corruption is a sellable topic amoung them, looks like Mangala managed to sell that atleast to part of the rural lowincome base.
Question is, is that number big enough to swing the victory.
Pol Sambol said...
It reflects sadly on the post war mentality of MR. Since May19th he morphed into some greedy and arrogant man thinking in terms of his own success –he forgot about the country.
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I don't really understand this. What greedy deeds exactly did he do during this period? If you mean the "maharajaneni" song repeatedly being telecast, then I don't buy that. How is that an indication of forgetting the country?
දේශපාලුවා said...
Middle class people can see that, but not rural low income ppl, corruption is a sellable topic amoung them, looks like Mangala managed to sell that atleast to part of the rural lowincome base.
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I don't agree. None of the rural low income people that I have spoken to are bothered about corruption. All the poorest ppl in rural villages I met support MR.
සිංහලයෙකු හා ලාංකිකයෙකු වීම ගැන ලජ්ජා වෙමි !!! - Lankan thoughts
Blogger BreatheSL said...
I don't agree. None of the rural low income people that I have spoken to are bothered about corruption. All the poorest ppl in rural villages I met support MR.
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BSL, I dindt say all of them, from my communications, what I gathered is that a substantial fraction of low income rural vote has swung in favour of SF.
I might be wrong, I was not on ground or there is no reliable poll done on ppls income level and possible vote distribution.
On the other hand if this voting block has not changed, who is in Favour of SF?
Are you located in SL?
Ninja
I totally agree with you regarding the Newspaper Ad. Some professionals from Essex, UK are organizing a Newspaper Ad. But apparently you have to get permission from the Elections Commissioner first. But then in typical Sri Lankan fashion some of them want their names in the Ad!! Hopefully we can overcome these difficulties and have an ad in Lankadeepa day before the Election day.
No point of regretting later in the unlikely event of Fonseka winning.
being nobody,
exactly!
look at dailymirror. it does not have anything about HICORP.
one way is to publish catchy adds in the newspapers they read.
another way is for the govt to CREATE news that cannot be ignored.
e.g. arrest danuna!!
reveal the CID investigation on lasantha
sk,
i disagree.
1. each community looks at the election differently.
2. in your method there are no numerical comparisons.
Blogger Moshe Dyan said...
look at dailymirror. it does not have anything about HICORP.
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Daily mirror is from Vijaya publications, Ranjith Wijewardana, Ranils Mama, looks like they also decided to put their weight behind Fonseka , just like Sunday leader
දේශපාලුවා said...
On the other hand if this voting block has not changed, who is in Favour of SF?
Are you located in SL?
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I don't know, I could be wrong. but what I have observed is that the very same ppl who voted for UNP in 2005 and in last provincial elections, are now backing Fonseka now. Not only that. They have become VERY active compared with PC elections and 2005. Active how? forwarding emails in a major way, as I have not seen by them ever before (taking my relatives as example). I know these ppl are acting as if they found some new life source.
Yes I'm in SL. Close to Colombo, but I have contacts in few different villages of north-central province and southern province.
Guys
Why is corruption such an important issue right now. Most of the corruption that MR is accused of is false. If it was all true, then Ranil will be the first to rush and find documents to prove this to the country and in front of the court.
So we have to ask why is this not happening? Simple! most of the corruption that MR is being accused of is nothing but trumped up charges.
I know that some people have it hard in their day to day life. But if they for a moment thing that getting rid of corruption will make their life better, then they are living in a fantasy world.
Even the most fastest growing economy in the world China has a lot of corruption. But they still grow. Corruption is a stronge reality in developing countries, it will mostly die down as they become developed countries.
Top Scum Ravi Karunanayake is talking from the other mouth. Apparently, Ravi K can't remember that he talked to this "insignificant" MP. Oh well, we can replay the tapes to refresh his memory.
"Do you think anyone in his proper senses would offer an "insignificant" politician such as Muzzamil Rs. 30 million?" Karunanayake asked adding that Muzammil obviously had a bloated opinion of himself and was day dreaming.
/Jan 19 (UNP) At the recent election rally of President Rajapkse at Kurunegala , it was a sad spectacle to see that there was an exceedingly poor crowd. Consequently, the media were not allowed to cover the event and expose this poor ‘show’ of the President. Later, only the state media was allowed to cover the event and take pictures. The other media were to be given only what pictures and reports which were taken by the State media./
/One person has been killed after a grenade was lobbed at Minister of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Jayarathne Herath’s house in Kurunegala, Police told Ada Derana./
I am positive that Gonseka death squad will strike on 26. If they kill 20-30 voters with wide publicity from sirasa etc on morning will you go to vote? This is the challenge MR/GR has now.
ජාතික හෙළ උරුමයට සම්බන්ධ කිසිම ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ නමක් විපක්ෂයේ පොදු අපේක්ෂකයාට සහාය නොදක්වන බව එම පක්ෂයේ මහලේකම් ආචාර්ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමියෝ නිවේදනය කර සිටිති.
එම නිවේදනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම මෙසේය.
පසුගියදා මාධ්ය හමුවක් පවත්වමින් ජාතික හෙළ උරුමයට සම්බන්ධව සිටි ප්රධාන පෙළේ ක්රියාකාරී භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා කිහිපනමක් විපක්ෂයේ පොදු අපේක්ෂක සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතාට සහය පළ කරන බව ප්රකාශයට පත් කර තිබිණි. මෙම මාධ්ය හමුවට වැඩම කළ සහ සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතාට යම් ප්රතිපත්තිමය කරුණු ගණනාවක් මත සහය පළකරන බව ප්රකාශ කළ මෙම භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා දැකීමෙන් අප විමතියට පත් වුණෙමු. මක්නිසාද සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතාට සහය පළ කරමින් මෙම මාධ්ය හමුවට එක්වූ ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥනසාර, උඩහමුල්ලේ සිරිවිමල කළුබෝවිල කුසලÆණ යන හිමිවරු ජාතික හෙළ උරුමය හැර ගියේ 2005 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදීය. උන්වහන්සේලා 2005 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී එක්සත් ජාතික පෙරමුණේ නායක රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාට සහය පළ කරමින් ජාතික හෙළ උරුමය හැරගිය අතර එම ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ක්රියාකාරීව රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ මැතිවරණ ප්රචාරක කටයුතුවල නිරත වූහ. මාධ්ය හමුව සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡා පෙළපාලි සහ උද්ඝෝෂණවලට හවුල් වෙමින් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය වෙනුවෙන් ක්රියාකාරීව කටයුතු කළ මෙම ස්වාමින් වහන්සේලා හදිසියේ ජාතික හෙළ උරුමයේ නිල තනතුරු දරන ප්රධානීන් ලෙස පෙනී සිටිමින් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතාට සහය දැක්වීම සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් වූ බව ප්රකාශ කිරීම ජනතාව නොමග යවන එමෙන්ම හාස්යයට ලක්වන කරුණක් බව පැහැදිලිව ප්රකාශ කළ යුතුය. එබැවින් හදිසියේ මෙම ස්වාමින් වහන්සේලා ජාතික හෙළ උරුමයේ නිල තනතුරු දරන ප්රධානීන් ලෙස පෙනී සිටියේ කාගේ උවමනාවටද යන්නත් ඒ පිටුපස ඇති ලාභ ප්රයෝජන මොනවාද යන්න පිළිබඳවත් පසුගියදා ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මොහොමඩ් මුසම්මිල් මන්ත්රීවරයා කළ හෙළිදරව්වෙන් මනාව පැහැදිලිවේ. මෙම ස්වාමින් වහන්සේලා සමග පෞද්ගලිකව කිසිදු අමනාපයක් අපට හා අප පක්ෂයට නොමැති අතර දේශපාලනිකව අප සමග කිසිsදු සම්බන්ධතාවක් නොමැති අතර එම ස්වාමින් වහන්සේලා අප පක්ෂය හැර ගොස් වසර 5 ක පමණ කාලයක් ඉක්මගොස් ඇති බවත් දැනුම් දීමට කැමැත්තෙමි.
මහින්ද චින්තන පොරොන්දු ඉටුවුණා නම්
රට කිරි පැණිsයෙන් ඉතිරෙන්න ඕනෑ
අප ලබා දුන් ප්රතිඥා දහයට අමතරව
මහින්ද කඩ කළ පොරොන්දුත් ඉටුකරනවා
ජෙනරාල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා නුවරඑළියේ දී කියයි
He will say tomorrow he will give every thing MR promised too. Isn't this an insult to intelligent voter?
Ninja,
At the recent election rally of President Rajapkse at Kurunegala , it was a sad spectacle to see that there was an exceedingly poor crowd.
Where did you find this fib? Maligapitiya (grounds) was jam packed that day. every square inch from the Town Hall to Dambulla Road was packed. Perhaps the green monkey are feeling that the end game is near for them. That may be why they revert to this kind of fibs. Perhaps, it was the largest crowd a political meeting in Kurunegala has ever drawn.
@ BreatheSL
Pol Sambol said...
It reflects sadly on the post war mentality of MR. Since May19th he morphed into some greedy and arrogant man thinking in terms of his own success –he forgot about the country.
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I don't really understand this. What greedy deeds exactly did he do during this period? If you mean the "maharajaneni" song repeatedly being telecast, then I don't buy that. How is that an indication of forgetting the country?
Greedy in terms of telling the JHU to get lost, forcing that fool Anarkali on Galle, the "black magic" of the SPC. Lots of scum gathered under him and he did nothing about it, in fact he liked the new support from people who never gave a damn for the country or ounce of support for him before.
He was so sure of election success he lost sight of the ground level which had been his biggest success in grabbing votes, due to his personal appeal to those in the village. Many UNPers at the grass roots backed him because unlike previous regimes which hunt to the ends of the earth their opponents, MR did not. It made the grass roots fluid and UNPers started backing him. Then came the SPC where SLFP goons attacked UNPers. UNPers who had up to that point been either voting for him or not voting at all got angry and started voting UNP out of spite.
He got cocky and so sure of electoral success being guaranteed he allowed any crap to happen.
Him being greedy is trying to "cash" in on the post-war success to secure 2/3rds. He took votes he already had for granting while trying to accumulate extra votes by accommodating scum who jumped onto his popular band wagon and then forced them onto the people (of the SPC).
Reason he called for a PE was because of this, to cash in on the mass support he had, he did not see nor calculate the Gonseka initiative.
His call for the PE out of his own arrogance (which rose after the war but has thankfully died off after the Gonseka initiative) has given a massive booster shot and opening to all our enemies. Just look what is happening. WE DID NOT NEED A PE. MR could have spent time developing the country, increasing peoples wages (of rural folks through better economy+development schemes being completed) then he would have had MORE VOTES. Mangalas/Gonsekas propaganda directed at the rural folks (that MR was stealing money and keeping them poor on purpose) would then not have been as successful.
Don't you see it was SHORT SIGHTED. He did not think long term.
A GE would have been better choice. His own party told him to go for that first, since even if the results were not good, he would still be President for 2 more years. But he was again ARROGANT and short sighted. That is the bloody problem. This mess would not have happened had he not got bloated up after the war and stayed on the ground level has he had done for the last 4 years.
BreatheSL,
MR has made mistakes which enemies of the country have seized on. The mistakes maybe small but their impact is huge especially when you take into account the vile propaganda machinations of Mangala/Ranil/Kalu-suddhas/West/Tamils and the simplicity and at times utter stupidity of Sinhala people.
I am pointing out MRs mistakes and the fact he has made them for his own betterment. We need to point them out so they can be addressed, not brush them under the carpet in fear of giving fuel to the enemy, ignoring them is giving fuel to the enemy.
No…no….no!
When I wrote “Sihina ahase wasanthe……..
I didn’t mean SF is going to win.
What I meant is that MR’s campaign is out railed from the beginning. Everybody attached to MR’s campaign are trying to outbid others from own side. Betrayal of forces, Hi-corp and bribery charges are not effective. These allegations are only making SF supporters angry and getting more organised.
MR can win the election without sensational allegations; instead they should focus on war victory, society is free from suicide bombs, present unity of the nation, Mahinda’s leadership quality and his love for the country, north east non-merger and ongoing development work.
Only thing working for SF is corruption and family dynasty charges.
It should have been a cake walk for MR but his campaign advisers are making it difficult. May be they wanted to show that; only their campaign will bring the victory.
SamP
http://www.unp.lk/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3787&Itemid=1
I am bored with punnakku dose from LNW and LeN so I read unp.lk also now.
Pol Sambal,
You have the grasp of reality. Most of your points are correct. Especially his election timing and choice were wrong. He also got partially blinded from early popularity.
However, there is no harm, he is going to win.
A rope trick to the floating voter
On the 11th of Dec., as floating voter, I directed some questions at you through the esteemed columns of The Island newspaper. They were based on two appealing topics that featured prominently in your election promises. I have now carefully studied your Manifesto and am in a position to make up my mind whether or not I should cast my vote in your favour. Nevertheless a few public comments are appropriate as my original questions were made in public.
I started my questions with a query whether you will really abolish the Presidency. You have given the answer in 1.1 of your Manifesto thus, "After abolishing the Executive Presidency, I will continue to work as President with the support of the Parliament for the nation and the people". I consider this statement a Sri Lankan rope trick conjured up by the cunning politicians around you. Only they are capable of abolishing something and have it still standing and functioning as well as it did before abolition! As an amateur politician this is an amazing learning achievement by you! As I have stated in another article before, your campaign was started off with a big lie of "abolishing the Presidency"!
Now it is my right to demand the nature of this born-again new presidency because I am not willing to vote for something wishy-washy and indeterminate but an Office packed probably with unbridled power. It is my suspicion that after a general election, there might not be a political party or parties that now supports you with enough members to carry through your many promises. It is also possible that the electors might choose to give power to your opponents as compensation for not selecting their candidate as President. In short, it is possible that we end up with a stalemate parliament which could easily deteriorate into political anarchy forcing you to take action for the stability of the country. This is precisely why I want to know the exact nature of the powers you will exercise as President after this amazing rope trick.
continued..
My fear is that you will not be able to abolish the Presidency due to lack of numbers in the new Parliament. In this case you will still have all the powers of the Executive President as at present. My alter ego prompts me that in this situation the temptation to dismiss the parliament as unworkable and convert your Presidency to military dictatorship would be compelling, appealing and in accordance with your military perspective of political life. Many a military takeover of elected governments all over the world were done on the pretext of safeguarding democracy and the promise of future elections. I hope I am not revealing your secret plans. You can scotch it by telling us all about this new world of born-again President, and, in case that fails to materialise due to lack of numbers in the new Parliament, your plan of action. Please oblige, your voters need to know.
You have totally failed to address the question of democracy within our political parties. It is my thesis that until and unless our political parties become democratic in themselves, there cannot be democracy in practice by those undemocratic politicians. You have also failed to say anything about the proportional representation system of election we now follow. Perhaps this was too much to expect from you just now.
The second topic I raised was corruption. You have failed to tell us what you would do with the four specific examples I did mention in my letter. In 2.1 of your Manifesto I welcome your declaration to "bring in new regulations to combat fraud and corruption in conformity with the UN Convention against Corruption. Persons found guilty will have their ill-gotten gains confiscated. A new powerful agency to combat fraud and corruption will be established". This is attractive and persuasive to the floating voter ignorant of the various allegations of corruption now levelled against you, backed by plausibly genuine documents which are now in the public domain. It is imperatively incumbent on you to clear yourself of all these allegations and establish your unblemished character which you projected to us at the start of this political venture. Until then your credibility remains diminished and your manifesto statement sounds empty rhetoric and you will become a lame-duck disabled candidate with no intention to do what you aver you will do. How can I vote for such a candidate?
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In my original letter I did draw your attention to the fact that you were surrounded by corrupt supporters and therefore your ability to combat corruption would be unsuccessful. My accusation has been proved by the latest scandal of Rs. 300,000 lakhs to buy the crossover of an MP to your side and use him to pillory an MP who supports the government. All things they say yield to money (pecunia obedient omnia). Alas you and your supporters appear to be no exception as alleged by the victim of this scam, and is it the case that you too have a price? Your lily-white image appears to be a fake hype. It is up to you to convince the floating voter that you are genuine.
There are two other important topics that have surfaced since my original letter. Your alleged statements (1) at your alma mater that LTTE cadres with white flags were shot and (2) that the Defence Secretary gave illegal orders to shoot all cadres with or without white flags did throw most of us who supported the Security Forces into despair. I do not know how the men and women in the Forces would have felt themselves. If these allegations are true, then on proof, punishment will be due to the alleged offenders. As you were the Commander of the army and as you have taken upon yourself all responsibility for all the actions of the security forces, do you realise that punishment is due to you first and foremost before anyone else. How can we vote for you given these circumstances?
The second topic is the alleged agreement/understanding with the TNA. It is correct that we should have communication with the TNA and other Tamil parties and persuade them to join in nation-building. They should all join the national political scene and make their contribution to make peaceful life possible by healing the wounds and patching up the fractures. Unfortunately the TNA is still buried in the past and is imbued with racist mindset. This prohibits anyone having any agreements with them without any conditions. I cannot imagine why you did not have the guts to present your conditions to TNA when they thrust their loaded conditions to you for your acceptance without even a whimper. Why was it not possible to ask TNA to agree (1) that this is one country with one border and that is the surrounding sea, (2) that this country is homeland of everyone born here with the right to live anywhere they wish, and there is no exclusive racist homeland anywhere here, (3) there is only one national security force, national judiciary, national police, and one national currency, (4) and finally that TNA renounce armed rebellion in pursuit of exclusive Tamil homeland. According to some of the TNA MPs you failed to even mention any of the conditions above and simply accepted their conditions. With respect to national and international politics, this makes you a weakling without any savvy to see through the machination of the enemies of our motherland. The destiny of our nation in your hands would be a reckless exercise inviting disastrous consequences in the future. I rest my case. I have got enough reasons why I cannot vote for you however much I desire to change the present conditions of our political life.
Durand Appuhamy
Negombo
http://www.island.lk/2010/01/19/opinion5.html
PS
True MR made some mistakes such as with anarkali. Violence in SPC election was a result of 'manapa' system. For me, I don't expect a perfect human for president. The mistakes MR made are of minor nature compared to others.
MR winning PE => 125+ in GE is the only practical way for political and economic stability required for this country's development.
If GE called first and UPFA lose then country will be in a huge mess for 2 years.
How Tamil speaking Sri Lankans were deceived, cheated and kept at dark, by TULF & LTTE, same thing is now going on with Sinhala speaking Sri Lankans. They are duped by this Gonseka Gang.
This election is going to see to lots of blood in next few days.
If Rajapakse fail to win this elections, that will be repeat of 1815. we may have to wait another 200 years.
Anyway this election gave us the chance to identify the true patriots.
Ninja,
Instead of tinkering with PC elections in the second half of the last year, he could have called a GE before the Velu's ghost left the country. At that point, there was no way UNP could even dream of winning.
Ninja,
MR should not have bothered with any election then, well he would have to hold a GE in April whether he liked it or not but he would still be President. If the UPFA did not get a majority and a huge mess did happen, he could easily dissolve Parliament after a year and assuming UNP/JVP caused problems (most likely they would) he would have received more support come next GE and the following PE in late 2011/earlier 2012.
Look at this twat:
Corrupt and Censored, Sri Lanka's Presidential Elections Could End Like Iran's
by Drala Dralala January 18, 2010
I am writing in fear that I could be under threat if my identity becomes known. The elections here in Sri Lanka are rife with violence and intimidation. This morning, a person pasting posters of the opposition candidate Generel Sarath Fonseka was shot and killed.
This is an appeal to the foreign media to be alert and make a special effort to report the true facts to the running up of the elections on January 26. The hands of the local free media are tied and will face many consequences if they do not adhere to the guidelines and censorship imposed by the ruling government.
The state TV and press are being used for the ruling president's publicity campaign, distorting many facts, all at the expense of public funds.
This is a cry of help to safeguard free media and democracy in Sri Lanka. We do not want a re-enactment of the Iranian presidential elections. Incidently Ahamedinjad is a close friend of Mahinda Rajapkese
http://www.groundreport.com/Politics/Presidential-elcetions-in-Sri-Lanka_18/2916292
SamP
Agree. He had 2 chances. After 2005 PE. After May 19.
PS
Such a way will make country even worse.
Anyways now no point arguing on things we can't change now.
desha,
re: dailymirror, etc.
yes it is owned by RW family.
but it is the MOST popular news media.
so we cannot disregard what it is doing. we have to match that.
adaderana is doing a commendable job but that is not enough. we need other PENETRABLE media.
we must PENETRATE into the UNP vote base.
sam, ninja,
i've been saying that since may 22.
it was so stupid to continue PC elections and not hold the DUE GE.
holding a PE in 2012 is also not good. but after a GE in august 2009, a PE could have been held in feb 2010.
expert,
the 1815 thing is not highlighted enough in media.
i'm sure it will be a GAME CHANGER.
guys,
i know the following words very well. they are all borderline filthy words. but don't know the exact meaning. pls provide the closest english words.
1. paharaya
2. kalavadda
Moshe said ..
[re: rural voters are with MR.
i say it is NOT ENOUGH AT ALL!!!]
Good credible analysis!
ERGO, We have to retain the RURAL BASE, and win over more of the UNF URBAN BASE where their strength is concentrated.
Paharaya is a derogatory term that means a person from another country.
Kalawadda is an animal found in SL. This is also a derogatory term such as "Balla" to refer to a person.
/Paharaya is a derogatory term that means a person from another country./
I think its paraya not paharaya.
I don't know english words but for sure these are not to say in public from a reputed person.
PolSambol said ..
[ WE DID NOT NEED A PE. ... A GE first would have been better...]
The UPFA did not have the popularity to win the election with the majority MR wanted. It was the Rajapaksa brothers who had the popularity among the people. Therefore, to get the required majority in parliament, it was necessasery to get MR elected first.
Therefore, I agree with MR's logic in calling for the PE first.
But, as Sam Perera said, the election should have been held last year, say in July 2009, at the height of MR's popularity.
However, that was simply not possible. The North was devastated at the end of the war, and taking care of the IDPs, and hunting down the LTTE cadres, recovering weapons before releasing IDPs, and combating international critics were FOREMOST among MR-GOSL priorities. It is only now that the IDPs are even able to live properly, much less vote with any sense of gratitude to their saviors.
I think that an early re-election of MR is the best strategy, and this time is the earliest it could be done. SF's treachery was entirely UNANTICIPATED by us, and perhaps MR as well.
It is up to the people of Sri Lanka to decide whether Sri Lanka will survive as ONE nation rapidly moving towards UNIMAGINABLE PROSPERITY under MR, or whether it will continue to be embroiled in a perpetual turmoil backsliding into a economic and political DISASTER ZONE like HAITI under SF and his anti-national gang of former terrorists.
There are many here becoming ANXIOUS about the future of the MOTHERLAND; but FEAR NOT ... I am CONFIDENT that Sri Lankans have learned their lesson from our recent history and will vote MR to a LANDSLIDE victory.
thanks 007 and ninja.
so very roughly i will equate paharaya = bastard and kalavadda to another animanl term like swine, dog, skunk, worm, maggot, etc.
good enough.
when hudson was using similar words a BIG ha ho was made.
now what!
OBVIOUSLY if this is how a president is going to talk when he cannot answer opponents' claims, he is not suitable for the post.
Ananda again you come very close to my sentiments
Ananda,
One thing of great concern is the ground work being laid for an Iran in Sri Lanka.
They will try and discredit the election to have something to attack Sri Lanka with upon an MR victory (this is also part of the Gonseka initiative).
Western media is now "showing interest" in Sri Lanka. With poll day drawing nearer we are seeing more activity from them and they all say the same thing, "Gonseka is leading in the polls".
They are barking about "opposition supporters being killed", of course a nice manipulation and distortion of the truth (they naturally do not bother with the details).
Does not matter if the election is declared, "free and fair" by every monitor there is and everything is clean. A few protests here and there by JVP/UNP and some deaths + destruction caused by them and they will say the elections are "fraudulent". JVP/UNP thugs will try and provoke the Police to attack them (such as if they start destroying property then) cry "dissent being crushed". They will do it. Just watch. In fact they will even draw parallels to Iran itself. We will hear a lot of "since questioned/discredited elections in Sri Lanka there has been violence". Then they will do a Kenya on us and try and get the UN involved. They have never given up with trying to bring that useless organisation into Sri Lanka. Naturally our local traitors (i.e. UNP/JVP politicians) will be jumping up and down at the prospect, even though there may not be a country left.
Ananda about timing of PE and other matters, in fact you have verbalised exactly my thoughts.
In addition to that, if MR did not declare PE he would have become a lame duck President since this ugly noise of JVP/UNP and Mangala Clan.
I strongly feel that MR will prevail. We will prevail. Our country will prevail.
just now i received the "anal-ysis" referred to by the telegraph.
a comprehensive analysis i must admit.
each district is analysed. the total registered voters 14m is correct and district reg voter numbers are also correct.
in their prediction gonseka wins in,
1. jaffna
2. vanni
3. trinco
4. batti
5. digamadulla
6. n'eliya
7. galle
8. colombo
9. kandy
10. puttlam
.......
gonseka wins by less than 1%.
there are many BS assumptions here.
the important thing is - this is what gonseka crowd EXPECT.
now we know their GAME PLAN.
we have to attack MAINLY the above districts.
1. galle, colombo, puttlam, kandy
IMHO the strategy should be to RECLAIM the past victories. some method should be carried out APPEALING to gonseka voters NOT TO DIVIDE THE SINHALA VOTE.
of course this has to be done carefully among sinhalas.
2. ANOTHER SIMILAR CAMPAIGN NOT TO DIVIDE THE MUSLIM VOTE.
3. tamil majority districts
the game plan should focus on supporting the boycot campaign which is now gaining momentum. boycot means not voting for SF and MR. voting for rahu and sivaji is OK.
4. n'eliya
SB has to fire with or without thonda.
5. kandy, matale, kegalla, anuradhapura, polonnaruwa and kurunegala ONLY
(i expect blame which is OK!!)
we have to bring the caste factor subtly into the traditional UNP vote base.
UNP succesfully brought the UPCOUNTRY/LOWCOUNTRY crap to some of these areas in 2005 favouring RW even among SLFP supporters.
i don't approve caste BS but according to JRJ it is a vote winner. even in 1994.
UNP is already doing the reverse. in kalutara, galle, gampaha, matara they are targeting KARAVA SLFP supporters to get support for gonseka.
Golden Eagle said ...
[Corruption is a stronge reality in developing countries, it will mostly die down as they become developed countries.]
A very perceptive statement.
I have thought a lot about why there is greater corruption in developing countries. The most obvious explanation is that when the ECONOMIC PIE is smaller, and jobs don't pay enough to maintain a decent life, people try to beg, borrow or steal the money they need ANY WAY THEY CAN.
When the economy is strong, and good jobs are plentiful, as it has been in the US for many years (though not right now) the WINDOW IN SOCIETY in which people can live without engaging in theft or corruption WIDENS.
In the USA, for example, corruption exists mostly in the LOWEST and the HIGHEST strata of society, leaving a WIDE WINDOW in the middle where people can live a law-abiding honourable life, consistent with their ETHICAL TRADITIONS.
When I left Sri Lanka for graduate studies in the USA, many decades ago, bribery and corruption was endemic in Sri Lanka .. it still is. The greatest thing for me about the US was that I could work hard and be rewarded without politics and corruption getting in the way, EVEN THOUGH I WAS AN IMMIGRANT from a third-world country!
My DREAM is for Sri Lankan society to achieve a similar society with a WIDE CORRUPTION-FREE WINDOW.
But, that is possible only with absolute NATIONAL SECURITY & POLITICAL STABILITY giving rise to a VIBRANT ECONOMY.
THAT can only be ATTAINED by re-electing the MR-GOSL with a MASSIVE MAJORITY in the upcoming Presidential and General Elections!
Moshe with respect to DailyMirror, a lot of people outside Sri Lanka visit it, and large sections of the Sinhala diaspora are made up of more UNPers than SLFPers and although they maybe against Ranil/Gonseka they love DailyMirror.
just now i received the "anal-ysis" referred to by the telegraph.
Which telegraph?
this is called the FRONTAL ATTACK.
attacking gonseka camp's frontal lobe!!! lol!
.......................................................
recently passed away relatives' polling cadrs and IDs must be obtained by our ground troops. gonseka buggers are buying these for 7,500. we must follow suit.
both men and women must be used to caste these votes.
remember rigging is out of the question. each ballot paper is signed by the officer. if some idiots rig votes those ballots will not have the sign and out they go to the bin.
impersonation is impossible to stop.
govt should also team up with GS buggers and get as many IDs for party supporters.
this is called the FLANK ATTACK!!
don't want to do this?????
gonseka is already doing it. we either play the game or get stuffed. we have come into the KICK BOXING ring. we have to play kick boxing not JUST boxing.
the kick is allowed.
pol,
re: dailymirror
NO! mate, i did my homework! lol!
according to alexa, 80% of internet readership are from SL.
almost 100% readers of the paper version are from SL.
re: telegraph.
telegraph.co.uk
i read the news items on warrior recently. now toiletnet refers to it too.
Ananda-USA,
I agree with your comments except the last paragraph:
Massive majority as you said may drug MR regime with blind sense of security in fast changing political environment.
DeshaP;
[[SK You talked about 10ppl around you supporting SF for variouse reasons, do you know whom they voted for in 2005?]]
These ppl are all Mr supporters. I did not take anyone who has voted RWR/UNP from 2005 into comparison. Anyone so senseless doesn't need reasoning for even voting Prabhakaran.
In fact UNPers are voting like a ritual and they don't try reasoning it. The actual dreamers are floaters wrho mostly voted MR in 2005.
This is my concern.
malin abeytunga from lankaweb,
"SF must be thinking that Sri Lanka will flourish with milk and honey by merely replacing Rajapaksa’s charismatic smiling face with his moron face like Hitler’s."
well observed.
look closely at gonseka's shit face in his manifesto.
bugger is frowning at you just like SHITLER!
but disagree about the central bank thing.
CBSL cannot monitor private money transfers although they should. especially when NGOs are involved it is impossible.
As Ninja and Ananda have said if people vote SF into power so be it.
In that case we all will hope what we are thinking as SF would be doing was just a night mare or somehow by sort of a miracle SF would act in a manner that what we are prdicting would be all wrong.
If SF comes to powere he will be much worse than he is now.
Meek, timid cowardice egotistic people become more vicious as they get more and more power and they would become more and more devilish.
Let us hope that all of these are just false if SF comes to power.
Otherwise we will have to lament for decades to come. The consequence may not even be reversible.
Moshe,
Telegraph is a foul paper with some bastard called Richard Dixon and his anti-Sinhala racist filth published without question, i found it just as bad as the Times in terms of their hatred for Sinhalese and SL (at least the Times did not drag religion into their rants or raves against the Sinhala identity).
Are they saying Gonseka will win the election as a whole or those districts? No surprise they would say it is their moron.
Who is the author of the article?
@About DailyMirror, sorry i got confused with internet version :))
1. randy is due to be released tomorrow on bail.
what the fcuk CID, etc. did all this time???
they should have obtained info on HICORP from this brat who is its arms dealer.
now ppl are forgeting HICORP!!
at least get danuna into custody. and record a PUBLIC statement implicating gonseka of corruption.
2. gonseka's first victim - danawathie - has been brought to colombo and kept in a safe place.
apparently GR has stopped her from appearing in TV saying that it will give the impression that army guys habitually screw domestic aides in camps. BS!
they have to bring her to public. gonseka will go bersk!!
3. taking away BR from public pallies, etc. is good. but appointing GR as the election head is a stupid decision.
he doesn't understand anything in politics.
at least now MR should appoint a proper campaign manager.
one week to go.
SU,
Gonseka coming to power brings huge instability, even if he (which i highly doubt) does the right things, there will be period of uncertainty and confusion. Re-arrangement of how things are run will have an adverse effect on development schemes, economy etc.
We do not need change now because it will cause massive problems for SL. This is why i believe elections were unnecessary at this point.
pol,
mate, its not they saying it. the analysis which was done by one bugger among the SL parliament research staff, says it.
also check as to HOW we should look at it.
it says the gonseka PLAN. nothing else.
agree with the telegraph's stand.
re: maha raja
there is confusion here.
pls understand that MR didn't get a song composed for himself!!!
MR didn't force anyone to call him "maha raja".
it was an independant expression of some artistes opinion.
Ananda-USA i suggest you read on, see my other posts. I am not completely blind to MRs flaws and they should be pointed out for his own betterment, not ignored.
Re: Why do ppl line up with the enemies of nation??
[[Why are Tamils in Canada backing Gonseka?
Why are Tamils in Britain backing Gonseka?
Why are Norway/EU/UK/US backing Gonseka?
Why are South Indians backing Gonseka?
Why are TNA, Mano mutt and the lot backing Gonseka?
That alone is enough proof NOT to support him. When i put these forward to hardcore Gonseka/UNP/JVP supporters i got no answer.]]
Let me aggressively assume that you [Pol Sambol] do not live in SL, and give you a pic about mentality here.
- When we won the war we held a mega celebration. I was outrageous. What I expected was a slow [resilient] and strong celebration, but idiots danced on roads with bottle wrapped in national flag. This was even before the funerals of war heroes of WMV was held. My military contacts were outrageous, rightly. From then on it was on wrong foot.
- MR held dozens of victory celebrations, and in each it was clear that his intention is to tell the world that it was his leadership. It was surely known and accepted fact. And needed not to tell. Repeating it would only tarnish the claim, making a pic of a greedy politician of him.
- ITN/LakeHouse/Rupavahini/SLBC kept on singing praises. Each repeating the same tone for... well more than 6 months now.
- Every enemy of MR was regarded as an enemy of nation. And a supporter of tigers.
- Every corruption/nepotism/mismanagement charge was avoided by using war victory, and the threat of tigers raising head. It was said more than possible. Some such statements sounded funny in the eye of viewer.
- Everywrhere MR is challenged the song was "to save nation from tigers pls get lined up with MR". This was rhetorically used, no facts given.
- Even during PC elections, MR clan asked vote them "as they defeated terror" and "to avoid tiger raising head". Instead it shud have been "for the X & Y plans to develop region" since PC context is different and irrelevant for war.
- Even Maha Rajaneni which is a lovely and deserving song, was sung too much that we all hate hearing it now.
- And right now followring terms hold no validity anymore as they were overused.
"XXX [enemy of MR] is a tiger supporter"
"There is a western conspiracy to oust MR"
"Tigers are raising their head, so support MR"
"NNN got money from tigers"
- Sadly a pathetic situ has come that each of above terms may be true after all, but by now, ppl are no longer believing them, especially if they are told over ITN or Hudda or Lake House etc.
- Even now the MR campaign is singing the same song, and it fails to pass through many neurons in ppl's head.
- Us who have firsthand access to see the cyber prep of pussycats cannot spread it w/o being branded as "MR ta kade yanawra". It is that bad.
Note that ppl in above post are ppl of break away SF clan. And in this context they're all that matters
There is no better way to commit political suicide. I still hope that he will be saved by at least a whisker [still the situ is not that bad, but deteriorating].
Pol Sambol said...
[It reflects sadly on the post war mentality of MR. Since May19th he morphed into some greedy and arrogant man thinking in terms of his own success –he forgot about the country.]
I TOTALLY DISAGREE with you on this.
What has MR Done to deserve such an accusation? You must provide the specifics; not just unsubstantiated statements without a BASIS.
The MR I know won the war, got vast sums of foreign funds from NEW ALLIES to offset the funds witheld by the West, put in place a MASSIVE PROGRAM of infrastructure development in the country .. roads, bridges, ports, airports, power plants, factories etc etc to lay the foundation for future economic growth, captured LTTE leaders and brought them to face justice in SL, recovered LTTE assets abroad, and most importantly, set about establishing diplomatic and economic alliances with many countries to assure SL the support and trade links it will need in the future.
To my mind, NO OTHER LEADER has done SO MUCH for SO MANY, SO FAST!
MR did not inherit the Presidency of a CORRUPTION FREE Sri Lanka, and had to deliver on his vow to REUNIFY the Motherland with a minimal majority in Govt. It is a TESTAMENT to his Political Skills and Good Judgment that he was able to accomplish that where all those who went before him HAD ABJECTLY FAILED!
In EVERY SPEECH he held out the VISION of ONE Nation, ONE people sharing ONE Destiny without regard to race, religion, caste or language.
He even learned to speak TAMIL to set a personal example of the vision he so ABLY ARTICULATED.
I therefore ask, in what way, shape or form did "he morph into some greedy and arrogant man thinking in terms of his own success - he forgot about the country."
He DID NOT do so my friend; you have NO FACTS to support your contention.
Every fact and statistic related to his brief 3 1/2 years in office as the elected President of Sri Lanka gives TESTIMONY to his TREMENDOUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS! No other modern leader, anywhere in the WORLD, has achieved SO MUCH!
Please WITHDRAW your accusation, or DEFEND IT!
Moshe, sure he didn't write or force anyone to do it, but it went into his head.
His behaviour at the SPC is the proof.
Ananda-USA, again, i suggest you read on, see my other posts. I am not completely blind to MRs flaws and they should be pointed out for his own betterment, not ignored.
SU
Abraham Lincoln told "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Wanna test.. find some innocent guy and give him some money and power.. you see the difference..
For gonseka, now we know what he has done with limited power as army officer and imagine with executive powers..
Some one must be nuts to think a guy behaving this insane without power will do any better after getting power..
There are no ifs or buts gonseka winning means he will be sri lankas idi ameen. But if thats what people in my country wants so be it.
I do not like to see SF winning forthcoming PE at all. In fact if he loses it with a massive difference, it will be fitting reply. However, for MR; massive majority means his close associates will think that public has overwhelmingly endorsed their style which will be a disaster.
Therefore winning with a simple majority will give another chance to MR to control his allies properly for next GE.
Pol Sambol: I do not wish to see SF coming into power. Decieved or not logical or unreasonable if people vote for him then we need to be humble enough to accept the verdict and expect the best. This would have been much easier if it were Sirima or Dudley. But this time we have a Devil of the worst kind who was supported by International enemies and a great leader.
Ananda, in my point of view if MR played his cards properly he would not have even had any compettition at all. He would have got 80% majority even without campaigning. After the war he took people for granted at least for some extent.
Stil he will win a landdslide but there were many things MR would have done differently but it is not about timing of PE and GE. I agree with the timing.
He gave easy weapons to Mangala clan to attack him and counter attacks to neutralise those perceptions did not come timely so the tree was strong when he took the axe into hand.
Sujeewa,
Thanks for that analysis and explanation.
You are correct i do not live in SL.
But i am aware of some of the things you pointed out, hence why i said MR was greedy and arrogant post war, he did not look like the same man he was the years before (his behaviour at the SPC was atrocious and worse it was completely unnecessary, he would have won by a bigger margin if he did nothing).
But saying such gets a lot of friendly fire.
This is why i believe MR should have launched more development programs and made sure the ones already underway were completed then tell the people what he was doing to uplift the economy, improve lives, when the people felt and saw it they would not so easily believe Mangala's/Ranil/UNPs/Wests propaganda that he is "keeping people poor on purpose while feeding himself". (Albeit i believe the people should be better aware by now that "easy solutions" have always been promised by the likes of UNP/whoever is in opposition and they have never delivered but that is different issue to do with Sinhala psyche involving laziness and short cuts).
MR is only now talking about development and upliftment and it sounds like "election gundu" as Gonseka supporters say. A lot of the projects, development he started did not get much attention, after the war had he blasted the country with news about these developments and how as a nation we would reap the benefits and excel people would see what he is doing for the country and that he is not "wasting money" etc.
Even something as vital and huge source of revenue as well as improvement for the nation, the Hambantota port, is being smudged in vile propaganda by UNP devaluing its importance. MRs counters to such propaganda are slow, late and get classed as "election gundu". I know this because I have a UNP friend barking away AGAINST the Hambantota port and even asking me how much commission I personally am getting from it when I countered his bs.
Of course Ninja: But I am not going to cherish that and say Did not we say so. I am weeping. Chandasoka became Dharmasoka. Angulimala became Ahinsaka. So I hope (this is not realistice thoug but I just hope ) if he wins power as by a miracle he would change.
But it is unlikely and nearly impossible, impossible. Meek, timid, egotistic brutes will become more brutish when they get even a little power.
If a stronger person sees a vulnerable person he feels compassion and affection but a cowardice brute will see a prey to be hunted down and eaten.
There seems to be two competeing models on the voter distribution on the comming PE election.
From my communications in SL I also got these two models.
One model is as suggested by the three scientific polls. Rural vote and low income vote stays with MR, MR wins by a landslide.
Second model is little difference, rural votes and , urban low income votes that MR secured in 2005 split, its hard to guess in which propotion. In this case the deciding factor will be upcountry tamil vote and eastern tamil muslim vote.
pol,
sure.
but what he wanted was to get his own men/women there. this is a bad move. he shouldn't have done it.
he was driven by the fear of the samaraweeras. mongal still has a strong say in the southern province. MR feared ppl who respected mongal would creep into the SPC.
desha,
both those models don't point us towards ACTION.
the only way to look at is to take each district (or a cluster of districts) sepetarely and tamil, muslim, upcountry tamil votes separately.
don't forget upper middle class and upper class also has MORE connections with MR now due to the strong connections milinda, rajitha, wijesekera, hemakumara, rambukwella, bogalagama, punchinilame, navin, etc. have.
they were one time UNP stalwarts and still have their connections, organisers, businessmen, societies, thugs, etc.
also some UNPers don't like marrying the JVP.
Bastard Ravi Karunanayake still ridicules our forces with Pamankada-Medawachchi mockery. At this point, I believe that he needs to be given a quick ride to Eelam. High doses of radiation is required to remove this kind of social cancers.
Being more than a normal human being and a great leader under utmost provocations and extreme difficult situations MR stood up to the testing time. He has made mistakes, he has been a little arrogant but he never vascialted on service to Mother Lanka.
I have problems with his selective use of Law and Mervin factor.
I hope being true to his word he clear things up after the PE and GE. Even if he will not he is the best bet not that animalistic Devilish poor example of a human being.(You know that I do not use strong language but here I think not using this language is wrong).
I do not think that there is any risk of defeat of MR but it is not impossible. But what is more possible is a landslide victory for MR.
Even the law and order in Sri Lanka (apart from incidents in war time thanks to Mervin and SF) has improved.
No smoking or drunkard people in streets. Speed ticketing is largely working.
Blogger Moshe Dyan said...
desha,
both those models don't point us towards ACTION.
the only way to look at is to take each district (or a cluster of districts) sepetarely and tamil, muslim, upcountry tamil votes separately.
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I agree, I think best place to tartgett would be western and central provinces
patriots,
IF gonseka wins, we should not give up on SL.
first gonseka will target nationalists but that will soon end.
his biggest challenges will come from the tamil diaspora which wants tamil elam.
he is by default a racist.
i'm 100% sure gonseka will end up as another JRJ or worse.
we all blame JRJ for HORRIBLE crimes he creatively did especially against SL tamils.
1983, jaffna library, massacres, etc.
JRJ achieved some of the most lasting pro-SL things in ways we cannot approve at all.
but SL benefits from these shit things, unfortunately.
e.g. chasing away 1.3 million tamil elamists out of the country. imagine all of them still in SL.
e.g. violent colonization in welioya (manelaru), etc.
e.g. destruction of icons used by tamil elamists to draw inspiration.
i DON'T APPROVE these means.
but if gonseka does these things, he should not be disturned.
as napolean said when your enemy is doing a mistake, DON'T DISTURB HIM.
it also serves as FITTING punishment to some tamil elamists who openly canvass for gonseka.
next time TNA (if it survives) will come to our feet at our OWN terms.
so if gonseka wins, he will start behaving like JRJ. don't disturb him.
i know humanitarians will disagree with me but this is the best long term plan IF gonseka wins.
desha,
yes. western & central.
for some reason kurunegala has become the MOST important election battle ground. so we should also add k'gala.
population wise.
1. colombo
2. gampaha
3. KURUNEGALA
4. kandy
5. kalutara
6. ratnapura
7. galle
8. kegalle
9. badulla
10. matara
we should force into ALL.
i don't agree with the ALTERNATE DISTRICTS view.
to explain...some political anaysts think winning alternative comparable districts is enough.
e.g. you lose col but win gam.
lose kandy but win k'gala
lose ratnapura but win kalutara
lose galle but win matara
this won't work.
going further, they argue the same thing within a district.
lose col-central but win kesbewa
we should attack all electorates without giving up.
3,000 pm allowance is likely to attract school leavers. we have to target them with a rumour that if gonseka wins he will bring compulsory military service. with rape in the army, etc. ppl will be very reluctant to be the LOWEST ranking guys in the army.
Tongue slips generally exposes subconscious. Mangala and Anura Kumara say that MR's victory is inevitable. Tilvin says that SF breaks election laws.
Paaharayaa - nearest non-literal meaning is son-of-bitch
Kalavedda - [Dandycoot] nearest non-literal meaning is prairie dog.
Just heard that Anura Kumara, Mongala et al have told Gee-urinal to use only innocent animal names from here on. Innocent ones like samanalaya, poosa, battichcha etc.
Kidding I am... so do the swan clan anyway.
Swarnajith Udana said...
Tongue slips generally exposes subconscious. Mangala and Anura Kumara say that MR's victory is inevitable. Tilvin says that SF breaks election laws.
January 18, 2010 7:02 PM
Where did you hear this? Any links SU?
SK,
KALAWEDDA is a nocturnal animal looks like a mini version of a monkey. It is similar to possums in other countries. It’s habitat during day time is tree tops and attics. We experienced few of them living in between our roof and the ceiling when we were in SL.
Pol;
[[This is why i believe MR should have launched more development programs and made sure the ones already underway were completed then tell the people what he was doing to uplift the economy, improve lives]]
MR did this mate. Sadly the donkeys in his campaign do not present it right. Still they're in the war victory dream.
sk,
thanks. i have an idea.
we should make a presentation with all the key idiots in the UNP-JVP with gonseka type animal names.
starting with gonseka - haraka (ona gona story)
gonseka again - buruwa (any ass can fight)
ranil - kotaluwa
anura kumara - ura
mongal - mugatiya
hakim - wal ura
mano - wandura
sambandan - kotiya
ravi - nariya
somawansa - panuwa
tilvin - hal messa
tiran - balla
karu - kenahila
arjuna - urumeeya
wijedasa - mada kariya
gamini jayawickrama - gemba
"If there any credible reason why economic activity will grind to a halt if SF get elected?" someone asked in another forum.
According to SF to reduce cost of living and and increase salaries economists have to be chased away(He could have meant "killed"-like Pol Pot).
So I think SF is consistent in these matters and now applying SF's super wisdom logic
To develop the country Engineers should be killed or at least chased away.
To improve health the nurses and doctors should be killed or at least chased away.
To improve education, teachers should be killed and books should be burnt.
To increase food production farmers should be killed.
ETc, Etc, Etc,
If any supporter of SF has any questions do not come back to me. Call the super wise man and ask him.
Moshe;
I agree with you that in the core SF is a patriot however much he's dosed with anger and revenge. I still hold that opinion. He will oneday give eelamists a lesson to eat their votes back. But the cost is, the incapable man SF will mess SL all together, and stop all the good work of MR and won't do any other good either.
As you said he'll be a JRJ indeed. Most social issues that we face today are rooted in those years of abnormal ruling of JRJ.
All the good aspects on SL's ethnic issues by JRJ, conducted in wrong manner as you said and the overall outcome is not worth it. May be colonization is the only better aspect if any.
Yet, if SF is the president of SL tomorrow, I will stand by him and defend SL with him. We have only one side and that is Sri Lanka.
Moshe;
I agree with you that in the core SF is a patriot however much he's dosed with anger and revenge. I still hold that opinion. He will oneday give eelamists a lesson to eat their votes back. But the cost is, the incapable man SF will mess SL all together, and stop all the good work of MR and won't do any other good either.
As you said he'll be a JRJ indeed. Most social issues that we face today are rooted in those years of abnormal ruling of JRJ.
All the good aspects on SL's ethnic issues by JRJ, conducted in wrong manner as you said and the overall outcome is not worth it. May be colonization is the only better aspect if any.
Yet, if SF is the president of SL tomorrow, I will stand by him and defend SL with him. We have only one side and that is Sri Lanka.
/Yet, if SF is the president of SL tomorrow, I will stand by him and defend SL with him. We have only one side and that is Sri Lanka./
This is what di-ass-pora and many tamizs did with VP. Perhaps some did the same way with Hitlor. Anyways lets wait and see.
SF' patriotism will stay with him until it serves his ego.
He will become extreme terminator to Tamil people and others
But to keep his power if International Masters command him he will give the Elam and will worship the International Master.
Then if he feels tha he has crossed the line that he has the power rigidly wrapped in his hands and when these international masters hurt his ego he will go to confrontation and bringing more disaster to Lanka. At this time these international Masterrs will help another movement like JVP/contra Al Qaida to get rid of SF in the name of "humanity" or even encourage India to invade Sri Lankka. (Iraq)
/Yet, if SF is the president of SL tomorrow, I will stand by him and defend SL with him. We have only one side and that is Sri Lanka./
This is what di-ass-pora and many tamizs did with VP. Perhaps some did the same way with Hitlor. Anyways lets wait and see.
Yes sometimes to defend the country you need to go against the Government and sometimes go hand in hand with the Government. It depends on the circumstances.
However SF has not given any indication that he would bring any good to the country by his victory rather he will bring extreme disaster and unstability. This will unsettle SF and he will go to his Devilish roots.
But if SF looses then it would have done marvellous things to lanka by demoralising Mangala/Ranil and JVP clan and giving a shock to MR.
sk,
i will not stand by him but will be OK if he does horrendous crimes that may chase away another million tamil elam racist voters.
e.g. in a 1983 type situ i will never stand by the country. but when time comes for a true patriot to take over the country few years later, i will not ask those who left SL due to 1983 to come back.
sadly, this is the only thing gonseka can do. so we have to adjust our expectations of him accordingly.
he is not a patriot as much as JRJ wasn't.
he is a racist. and only a racist would do some horrendous shit which may be later used for the betterment of the country.
MR got a big shock on wastage, corruption and nepotism.
i'm sure he learnt a lesson.
Re: if SF won
I can't agree for all the claims you make. He won't be the evil he looks now, when he gets power. But as a man he's unable to hold a big role and do good work humbly. He'll be a paign is a**.
Nevertheless, let's leave this discussion for the moment, as still it is a MR victory as far as ground reality is concerned. May not be a landslide though.
Re: If SF looses
He'll do more evil than if he won. Regardless our debate he's served his nation as a top general and inbhis mind he'll find strongly hurt if he finds himself a fugitive [although there's no one but him to blame, which he won't understand]
If he leaves SL with heavy heart, anger and hatred he'll find refuge among our enemies and work for them, like Chu-nanda Desha-apriya is doing. MR's first challenge will be internationally countering SF.
I still believe that Mr will be able to retain SF in SL. MR is a remarkable man when winning hearts is concerned. I cant see that SF fits any role in Mr govt, and SF's only future is in Oklahoma [or whereever his GC will find him settled]. But he shud be sent happily and feeling patriotic. Some smoothing is needed.
Although SF deserves gallows, in pragmatic sense, I see it never gonna happen. Winning Prez never puts his opponent in prison in SL. It is not the nature of well brought up SL man, although it disagrees logic. [Unless of course you're JRJ the rascal]
Re: the lesson for Mr
I doubt it. The lesson was more than visible in SPC election, but they never learnt it. Sadly he'll continue doing what he does, for good and bad of it.
We gotta be glad to have Gota in his seat. As the whole country is dancing in the music of PE, one man is still ticking on.
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මූලික මැනුම් කටයුතු අවසන්
ප්රියදර්ශන ලියනගේ
කොකාවිල් ගුවන් විදුලි සම්ප්රේෂණ කුළුණ ඉදිකිරීම හා ත්රස්තවාදීන්ගෙන් මුදාගත් උතුර ප්රදේශයේ අලුතෙන් හමුදා කඳවුරු පිහිටුවීම සඳහා වූ මූලික මැනුqම් කටයුතු සියල්ල මිනින්දෝරු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් සාර්ථකව මැන අවසන් කර ඇත.
උතුර ප්රදේශය සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ උතුරු වසන්තය වැඩපිළිවෙළ යටතේ මෙම මැනුම් කටයුතු සිදු කර තිබේ.
යුද හමුදාව, නාවික හමුදාව හා ගුවන් හමුදාව මගින් නම් කරන ලද ස්ථානවල රජයේ මිනින්දෝරුවන් විසින් හමුදා කඳවුරු පිහිටුවීම සඳහා මැනුම් කටයුතු සිදු කර ඇති අතර මේ සඳහා සම්පූර්ණ ආරක්ෂාව හමුදාව විසින් ලබාදී ඇත.
Irish Kangaroo court
I wonder how much inspiration is gained from SF. We need to resist the Irish govt further. When the main western nations can't be fooled anymore, the pussycats trying smaller nations.
sk,
SF has lost it. he is now a fully fleged traitor.
but in case he loses he has to be handled one way or the other.
RW will be reclaiming his leadership and SF will be a nobody once again. i don't give a flying continenet if he is bumped off.
no point having an accidental war hero who absconded when the army was fighting its bloodiest battle.
he was made the army commander bcos he would do and actually did everything GR told him to do without questioning.
who built the great wall of china???
emperor hwang (or whatever it is).
not the bricklayers wan lee, his wife shin lee and his son qin lee.
who unified SL and killed 1,000,000 tamil nadu invaders in the 4 century AD???
king datusena not migara the army commander.
Moshe;
[[RW will be reclaiming his leadership and SF will be a nobody once again. i don't give a flying continenet if he is bumped off.]]
This kinda things belong to 77-94 era. Usually SL is not like this. MR is not this kind.
If needed SF has done enough crime to go life imprisoned. But even that won't happen.
SF will be targeted only if he becomes a political threat. But if he's turned into nobody, he will not be disposed.
Note that GE is set to follow.
Moshe
MR got a big shock on wastage, corruption and nepotism.
i'm sure he learnt a lesson.
January 18, 2010 8:26 PM
Moshe i believe this to be the only good thing from the Gonseka initiative. MR has learnt powerful lessons. His mistakes and flaws have been thrown in his face, things the many "yes men" he has around him covered up out of their own incompetence.
BreatheSL said ...
[The ones I'm talking about have been voting for UNP blindly over the years. Nobody can change them. Simply incapable of any kind of logical thinking but mind you educated people - that's what is most sad.]
Your family then seems to be very different from mine, but who knows how they will vote in the voting booth irrespective of their public stand, when their own survival in Sri Lanka is at stake.
In my family, there are hardcore SLFP people, hardcore UNP people, with most in the middle, but now practically ALL of them are going to vote for MR!
The surprise was one of my brothers-in-law, a very successful businessman, who has been a strong UNPer all of his life on economic grounds, but now even he is going to vote for MR. I take his stand as a bell-weather for the country as a whole.
Why, you may ask.
Because ABOVE ALL, he is a Sri Lankan Patriot, who wants to see Sri Lanka survive as ONE Nation, in which his descendents and those of all Sri Lankans can have a good life in the future. His feelings of Patriotism TRUMPS ALL OTHER LOYALTIES & CONSIDERATIONS.
I see this kind of thinking CONTROLLING the THINKING of MOST Sri Lankans. This election, and the GE to come in April, are too important for them to throw their vote away in the voting booth on idealogical stands and short term interests. Only the anti-national elements will want Sri Lanka to slide into chaos.
That will ENSURE a LANDSLIDE victory for MR on January 26th, for people will not entrust their entire future to treacherous professional rascals (SF, RW et al) and former terrorists (TNA, JVP).
Pol Sambol said ...
[Ananda-USA, again, i suggest you read on, see my other posts. I am not completely blind to MRs flaws and they should be pointed out for his own betterment, not ignored.]
You dodged my challenge, and did not provide facts to support your charge against MR.
Please write a factual reply to support your charge instead of making a vague reference to your previous posts. OK? :)
Ananda-USA,
I have already answered your "challenge" in earlier posts when BreathSL asked me the same thing, as well as in addiotional posts that illustrate my position with regards to MR, all of which you happened to "miss". I am not going to waste my time repeating myself, if you think MR is perfect and makes no mistakes then good for you.
Tamils thought the same about their leaders too until everything they believed in was found bloating in a lagoon in an obscure corner of Sri Lanka.
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
Irish Kangaroo court
I wonder how much inspiration is gained from SF. We need to resist the Irish govt further. When the main western nations can't be fooled anymore, the pussycats trying smaller nations.
January 18, 2010 9:07 PM
Ireland is easy to "punish" because it is not a big player as the other Western countries, though it is no surprise it dances the same (they all the same after all). Should try and exact vengeance for this in some form later and let them know we are doing so because of it.
For example we can always throw a spanner in the works to Irelands cricket. Block there almost begging for Test status and full membership from the ICC. SL should make it clear that SL had a hand in scuttling their requests (a loud mouth statement) saying "they are not ready", at the same time float around cryptic messages in SL media as well as to the Irish Cricket board (if they ask) about this trial thing (also that they voted against us at the UNHRC as well). That would send the message we are hitting back.
Can also try and screw up their entry for 2011 WC and deny visas up to the last minute for 2012 T20 WC(which is going to be held in SL).
Pol;
My foreign policy always stands that, when making friends, make the whole nation one. When fighting enemies, isolate individuals and attack them personally.
I see GOidoing similar in many cases [bar the aggression of few like Rat-na-ganna-siri].
We should get a list of names, run thru each, find their faults and meet Irish officials and ask, what is this man, who are these ppl, and what representation do you provide them. We shud push them to the corner in teh friendly stance.
DJ and Siripala made one mistake by takig on against Israel, which we got nicely backfired. We shud make all 200+ nations in teh world our friends, and there shud be only one enemy, puusycat and its mythical den.
sk,
SF can implicate GR, SS, etc. in war crimes. it makes sense to get rid of him after the GE.
in USA, russia, israel, etc. this kinda things still happen. if he loses he will become a threat to RW as well and he will not give a rat's ass about SF.
i know MR would not do it. i want the defence establishment to do it.
mark my word, this bugger will be a real pain in the a*.
[[SF can implicate GR, SS, etc. in war crimes. it makes sense to get rid of him after the GE.
in USA, russia, israel, etc. this kinda things still happen. if he loses he will become a threat to RW as well and he will not give a rat's ass about SF.
i know MR would not do it. i want the defence establishment to do it.
mark my word, this bugger will be a real pain in the a*.]]
Agree, but equally I believe he will never be bumped off in SL. Not even gota.
More likely is that if SF becomes humble enough to accept] that MR will appoint him as an ambassador to a non-important nation and drop him off gently. That is SL's way, like it or not.
And so, the election terrorism heats up.
I hope the UPFA does not retaliate in kind, but sends the police and security forces after these guys with a vengeance
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Grenade attack on Sri Lanka minister's house kills one
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Jan 18, Colombo: A grenade lobbed at the residence of non-cabinet Minister Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Jayaratne Herath killed one person and injured four others today, Police said.
Reportedly the grenade was thrown at the house which is also the election office of the Minister from a passing vehicle.
The latest killing brings the number of poll-related deaths to four. A opposition supporter who was pasting posters was killed by a gang early Monday morning.
Still more Nation Building!
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President opens flyover bridge in Gampaha
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Dec 18, Gampaha: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today declared open the flyover bridge constructed across the Gampaha railway crossing for public transport.
The construction of the flyover was commenced in 2000 but interrupted until the intervention of the President to resume construction.
The 325-meter long and 15-meter wide bridge consisting of four lanes was constructed at a cost of 520 million rupees. The flyover is expected to reduce traffic congestion on the main road.
TNA is engaged in a despicable campaign to drag India into Sri Lanka politics, former Indian MP says
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Jan 18, Colombo: The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is engaged in a despicable campaign to drag India into the internal politics of Sri Lanka by falsely asserting that India supports opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka in the forthcoming presidential election, a former Indian parliamentarian said.
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Vice-Chancellors & Academics pledge support to President
January 18, 2010
Vice Chancellors of all Universities and Academics today declaired their support to the candidature of President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the upcoming election on January 26th.
They jointly commended the efforts & the vision of the President implemented under the "Mahinda chinthanaya ", a vision for a better future for the country.
They also recognized the success achieved over the past four years under the leadership of the President and called upon all the people to support the Mahinda Chinthanaya ,the only way forward for a brighter future for the country.
These Vice Chancellors claimed there was no comparison that could be drawn between the Mahinda Chinthana & the opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka's Manifesto - "Believable Change". "The President's Manifesto is more comprehensive and practical",they noted.
The Vice Chancellors who attended the press conference were Prof:Gamini Samaranayaka the Chairman of the University Grants Commision, Prof.Susirith Mendis the Vice Chancellor of Ruhuna University, Prof. Nandasena the Vice Chancellor of Rajarata University, Prof. N.L Karunarathna the Vice Chancellor of Jayawardanapura University, Prof.Jayasena Kottegoda Vice Chancellor of University of Aesthetic Studies,The Vice Chancellor of Colombo University Mrs.Kshanika Hirimburegama.,The Vice Chancellor of Open University mUpali Widanapathirana,The Vice Chancellor of Kalaniya University Dr.Sarath Amunugama,.Mahinda Rupasingha of Sabaragamuwa University, S.M.M.Ismail the Vice Chancellors of South Eastern University, J.A.Liyanage ,Director of The Gampaha Wickramaarrachchi Aurweda Institute and Dr.K.Premakumara Vice Chancellor of Eastern University.
The UGC Chairman Gamini Samaranayake stated that the President's leadership has helped to transform university graduates to become nationally & economically developed citizens.He asked the people to elect the President for the next six years so that we can transform the country to a developed country in the future.
Then the Vice Chancellor of the Ruhunu University Susiritha Mendis highlighted that if Sarath Fonseka came into power the country may fall into a millitary dictatorship thus undermining the democracy the country has gained from its Independence.Further he elaborated the power of the five forces that the President has mentioned in the Mahinda Chinthanaya's second Manifesto which will bring forth future development for the country under the President's leadership.
Jayasena Kottegoda, Vice Chancellor of University of Aesthetic Studies stated the President had a clear vision to manage Sri Lankan economy while fighting a separatist terrorist war in the country.Further he said that the President increased the per capita income of a person in Sri Lanka from US $ 1000 to US $ 2000 during the past 4 year period.
Then the Jayawardanapura Vice Chancellor mentioned that due to the government's poverty alleviation projects such as ' Gama naguma', 'Maga naguma' many people were benefited and it helped to develop the country.
The Vice Chancellor of the Colombo University called upon all the women in Sri Lanka to be grateful to the President for defeating terrorism and giving the people the opportunity to live peacefully and happily. Thus she asked all Sri Lankans to elect The President in the upcoming election and give him power for another six years so that we will have the opportunity to sustain the development of the country in the future.
SK, when dealing with this lot they enforce collective punishment on the likes of nations like SL without a second thought, the ordinary people generally do not care because their lives are not affected one bit and because such actions are done by their Government for their own benefit and securing of long term interests.
We should do the same (or threaten to) if we have the chance/ability/power and our interests have been damaged (as per the case with this Irish donkey dance).
Western countries see softness, tolerance and friendliness as weakness. It is a massive cultural thing.
What you advocate works well with every non-Western nation if they happened to entertain a donkey dance. On the other hand asking Ireland "why did you allow this" they will say "Ireland is a free country". We need to punch them first then ask questions e.g. such as with the cricket thing :))
I would not be surprised if US/UK were also involved.
No need to treat Ireland as an equal, we would be giving unneeded importance especially when they are not as "big" a nation like UK or the US. Furthermore using a totally unrelated tool miles away (cricket) is the best way to send the message we disapprove of the donkey dance. We do not to give them such prominence by "confronting" them directly but get back at them another way.
If we want to have a good society we need to create a sciety in which a Devil like SF will not get to be commander or stay in public service for that long.
It is a disgrace for Mother Lanka for a rapist to be the Army Commander let alone President.
For that and many things his place is jail for life.
Ananda,
"OK. You dodged answering the question I posed .. because you cannot support it. "
I already "answered" this and you missed it and are unwilling to accept that I had answered it in a post after the one in question or the fact you missed it for whatever odd reasons.
"Now comparing MR to VP (see above)? Wow .. that is a quite stretch is it not? "
I am comparing mentalities of people not leaders, but unsurprisingly you missed that too.
RE: SF's future
I am not talking about what shud happen, but what [I think] will happen.
Pol Sambol,
Re: greediness > Understood what you meant although I don't agree with some of it.
I'm 100% with Ananda's opinion re: holding PE at this particular time. I don't believe there was any better option.
Pol Sambol, my friend,
First, why can't you restate your evidence against MR, in list form, instead of asking me to research all of your posts? Should be simple .. is it not?
Second, you are right and I missed it .. you were referring to Tamils who believed in VP, and compared them to us who believe in MR!
I still maintain that the accusations you made against MR, to wit
"It reflects sadly on the post war mentality of MR. Since May19th he morphed into some greedy and arrogant man thinking in terms of his own success –he forgot about the country."
are way off base, and constitutes an unwarranted misrepresentation of the truth.
Pol Sambol said...
I know this because I have a UNP friend barking away AGAINST the Hambantota port and even asking me how much commission I personally am getting from it when I countered his bs.
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There you go. This is the reality. We have to understand that all this hype abt Fonseka is not necessarily MR's fault.
MR had done much more infrastructure development than I ever expected in 4 years - leaps and bounds ahead of any prev leader. You say publicity for those should have been given much earlier than this. Yet if that was the case someone would say Sri Lankans have very short memory these things should have been opened close to elections otherwise nobody would even remember.
Such each is the BS he has to deal with AFTER doing all this development.
I for one, am sick of the stupid and ungrateful behaviour of Lankans and don't hold MR responsible for that.
If there is any justice in this world SF cannot get any thing more than 35%. That is what I think. If he gets more than that then MR must really think hard. If SF does not get that much MR should be humble and think he should not have got even that much becuase my opponent was really rubbish.
In both situations MR has to reflect and deliver.
This is the most hilarious place on earth. I don’t know whether some of these people getting money from MR’s camp. Most comments sounds like their solr survival is depending on MR’s victor.
I wonder who these 150% solid patriots are, or are they working tirelessly for money that really belongs to ordinary Sri Lankan’s.
You decide the way you want but these patriots are not real unless they have vested interest on Mahinda’s victory.
Swarnajith Udana said...
I have problems with his selective use of Law and Mervin factor.
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I agree with this. This is a real issue that matters.
this is really funny. an-ura says MR is certainly winning. tilvin says gonseka is violating election laws. another JVP idiot says JVP will never allow to seperate the north and east. vesi senanayaka says lion can seperate milk from water. lol!!
Lankaputhra when SF has publicly said that he was Pol Pot and Idi Amin, then if anybody votes for him what do you think? See below!
A wonderful Plan For Development of Sri Lanka.
Why cannot anybody else think about it. Only Sarath Fonseka(SF) is wise enough of thinking of such a genius plan.
According to SF to reduce cost of living and and increase salaries economists have to be chased away(He could have meant "killed"-like Pol Pot).
So I think SF is consistent in these matters and now applying SF's super wisdom logic consistently we conclude:
To develop the country Engineers should be killed or at least chased away.
To improve health the nurses and doctors should be killed or at least chased away.
To improve education, teachers should be killed and books should be burnt.
To increase food production farmers should be killed.
Etc, Etc, Etc,
What a genius! One and only one never before, never later. Do not miss your unique chance. Let us flock to vote for this Pol Pot. Hurry up please!
If any body has any doubts about this plan then contact the genius.
You will have earful of decent language.
Do you wonder why we want MR to win. It is not just because we like MR and we gain any personal benefit from MR's victory. It is only because if SF wins he will make our country a pool of blodd.
If you have any question about this development plan please consult the wise devil himself because it is not my saying or my plan. IT is the plan and the statement of the Devil himself.
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
Moshe;
I agree with you that in the core SF is a patriot
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He is a racist, not a patriot. There is a big difference.
If he was a patriot he wouldn't have risked lives of soldiers the way he did in Mahamale to try and gain credit for himself. His grand plan was to draw all credit for himself and make himself some kind of God, no different from Prabhakaran.
Ananda-USA said...
In my family, there are hardcore SLFP people, hardcore UNP people, with most in the middle, but now practically ALL of them are going to vote for MR!
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That is great to hear.
My immediate family will all vote for MR but I was talking about some relatives.
this is really funny. an-ura says MR is certainly winning. tilvin says gonseka is violating election laws. another JVP idiot says JVP will never allow to seperate the north and east. vesi senanayaka says lion can seperate milk from water. lol!!
Their tongue slips (at least most of the times)exposes their subconcious thinking.
Rajapaksa set for easy win, says survey by an Indian company
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa seems set for an easy victory over his rival and former army chief Sarath Fonseka in the Jan 26 presidential poll, according to an opinion survey.Viplav Communications Pvt. Ltd., which has earlier been strategic advisors to numerous Indian politicians and conducted election surveys in India, conducted the survey in Sri Lanka. The findings of the survey were made available to IANS here.
The poll shows Rajapaksa leading in all provinces other than the Tamil-dominated north and multi-racial east and enjoying a 12 percent lead over his opponent in the island as a whole.
According to the survey, Rajapaksa holds a dominant lead among the majority Sinhalese population who account for 74 percent of Sri Lanka’s population. He also enjoys a narrow lead among the Muslim voters.
However, he trails behind Fonseka among the Tamils of the north and east, the war zone where the military crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May last year leaving thousands dead.
Among the Tamils of Indian origin living in the tea plantation areas, Rajapaksa enjoys majority support.
The sample size for the Jan 6-13 survey was 10,225.
According to it, people have graded the president very high on the skills and experience needed to run the next government.
Fonseka’s inexperience as a political administrator coupled with a pro-Rajapaksa environment in the country was the clinching factor, the survey said.
The president is expected to do very well in Sinhalese-dominated North Central, Southern and Sabargamuwa provinces.
Fonseka has a good support base in eastern and northern Provinces. He also has the support of Tamils in Colombo.
Rajapaksa has a slight edge over Fonseka among Muslim voters. Muslims, who also speak Tamil in many areas, are the second largest minority in Sri Lanka after the Tamils, who are dominantly Hindus.
According to the survey, Sinhalese Christians — most Sinhalese are Buddhists — support mostly the president compared to Tamil Christians.
Fonseka also has more support in urban areas while Rajpaksa wields clout in rural areas. More women were found to be supportive of the president.
The survey found that a majority of respondents expressed the fear that the Tamil ethnic problem had not been solved fully.
The credit for winning the war against the LTTE is largely credited to the president, who came to power in November 2005 with a pledge to end the Tamil separatist campaign.
He then scored a narrow win over his main rival, Ranil Wickremasinghe, who is now backing Fonseka. Fonseka was a personal choice of Rajapaksa as the army chief but they two fell out after the war ended last year.
The role of Fonseka is appreciated by people, but more credit is given to the president due to his leadership qualities during the war, according to the survey findings.
Most people see the president as a strong leader who did not bow to international pressure to stop the punishing military campaign against the LTTE.
ha ha this is funny. An email I received:
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one fear about the similarity of two symbols.
Sarath Fonseka -Swan
Sarath Koangahage -Duck
Beware of the names and Symbol when Casting your Votes
Both these names and symbols are likely to appear one after the other on the ballot paper. Upcountry Tamils as well as people with poor eye sight might vote for the traitor Koangahage by mistake.
The SF team must address this issue in their propaganda campaign, ideally just before the election. Many people I have met over the past few days, are concerned about this.
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ha ha ha I love this man Kongahage :)
Mussamil's Left hand has bribed his right hand. We can conclude this because Ravi/Ranil/Mangala/SF clan has complained that Mussamil has taken a bribe without a bribe giver.
What is happenning to the SF camp?
Delusional?
Moshe Dyan said...
2. gonseka's first victim - danawathie - has been brought to colombo and kept in a safe place.
apparently GR has stopped her from appearing in TV saying that it will give the impression that army guys habitually screw domestic aides in camps. BS!
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Very good decision by GR ! If he allowed it, it would have been a 'goma binduwa in a kiri kaley'
I'm really glad that he's in a position to stop attempts at short sighted deeds as above.
Those who don't want to believe still would not believe whether Danawathi appeared on TV or not.
"A petition was filed in the bribery commission seeking the arrest of two ruling party Sri Lankan parliamentarians including a party leader.
Namal Rajapaksa, Attorney at Law, in his petition has urged the Commission to arrest parliamentarians Wimal Weerawansa and Mohamed Muzamil who have admitted accepting a bribe to defect to the opposition camp."
what a joke!!
this bugger should read the powers and procedure of the B&C commissioner!!
breathsl,
that is bullshit logic.
ppl know that such individuals are the exception not the norm in the army. gonseka is an exception. a MENTAL CASE.
however, there are attempts to change this stupid attitude of GR. he is a good battle planner but a poor politician with extremist bullshit.
ppl NEED to know. besides dhanawathi was not in the army.
blocking army personnel from coming in front of the TV is unacceptable no doubt. but this is ok. hope they will sort out their differences soon. only 5 days of campaigning left.
I am very angry at GR. He with JVP force SF on MR. Now he is stopping Dhanawathie coming to say her story.
What about her?
What about Mother Lanka?
What if MR is lost by a few votes?
This attitude worshipping and covering up of of cruelty and brutalism is sickenning.
By covering up and by ignoring such cruelty they have put the Nation at the verge of the peril.
How sickenning?
First of all we need to have a country to have respectable army.
Then the respect should be earned by heroism not by covering up.
That is what our poor soldiers did.
SF abused and raped them.
Still covering up?
Are they trying to make up with this Devil later?
Is that it?
su and breathsl,
the more we cover up and give partial details the more damaging it is.
SLA is not at all reputed or disreputed for rape, etc.
so we must clear this ASAP.
its just one MENTAL CASE called SF. let it be known in no uncertain terms.
besides he didn't get any punishment in 1975!!!
let him pay for his crime in this life and protect ppl and SLA from paying for his crimes.
our stupid constitution has provisions to "sack" a president for immoral conduct (subject to 2/3 + court sanction). but aswe all know it is incomplete!!! so no provision to STOP such a fellow from becoming the president in the first place.
now dumb!!
prevention is better than cure. so that is ppl have a DOUBLE TASK to do.
1. decide the president and avoid the rapist
2. punish at least now for the crimes gonseka did in 1975.
vezapillai's crime of 1975 (murder) was punished in 2009. now its time SF's 1975 crime is publisized and punished.
i hope not.
that would be the blunder of the millinium!
there was some chance of it a few weeks ago but now its over.
Yes Mosses:
This is not the Army. One Devil.
It brought tears to my eyes when see our heros risked their lives to save civilian lives.
Just because of one sick individual all these brave and decent heros to suffer condemnation?
They got to be kidding.
Some more terrorists join the terror consortium
What right do they have to talk about SL? They are fugitives.
Regardless whatever we imagine about this vote, there is one thing very clear. Mongala and JVP are campaign masters. They can sell even the best lies as truth. Even MR knows that his 2005 campaign was led by two parties.
I thot WW will be better, but I see him not penetrating minds as expected.
As many of you stated here, I also think that still it is MR's chance to win. But I still see the same trend among floating voters, unchanged. A little pondering has come after late response by Kabral on corruption claims. Yet the converts still worry about the two unproven allegations.
1. corruption
2. Nepotism
And they believe in gen that he will not betray SL, as many think he has won the war for us. [note taht they do not have access to all media nor do they follow like we do]
Another argument by SF campaign is the unusual rise of Sri Lanka's Current Account
They claim that it is due to madness of borrowing, which they claim to have been taken away by MR's clan.
At the first place, even if these are loans, SL can't complain. MR is into projects like never before. SL's biggest project to date is Mahaweli and compared to that H'tota and Mankulam are gigantic. These are only two out of say ~100.
Secondly, I challenged them to prove that the rise is purely loans. They can't. But serves no purpose as they idiotically believe so.
BTW, this was brought out by a former MR supporter. Why he changed sides... because he started hating MR after watching ITN. You can call him a stupid and ungrateful man, but that won't get his vote back, will it?
Anyway, I like to get the current account for you all to view, and pls provide me facts to prove that it is not purely borrowing. Also I like to verify who this source is.
SK,
Ask your friend to read lankaenews and lankanewsweb. Surely, He will change his mind!
Just Kidding!
OH MY GOD WHAT DECEPTION. SEE HOW SF CAMPAIGN DECIEVE PEOPLE
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/01/18/the-rs-430-billion-fraud/
BreatheSL
Pol Sambol,
Re: greediness > Understood what you meant although I don't agree with some of it.
Thankyou BreatheSL, that is what I meant with what I said (it was not clear the first time around), and i have no issue with you not agreeing with some of it. We all have different points of view.
I'm 100% with Ananda's opinion re: holding PE at this particular time. I don't believe there was any better option.
I am just scared as hell Gonseka will:
A)Actually win (thanks to the violence he has already unleashed scaring away voters in addition to the ones who have swallowed his "change" and false promises) by like 0.5%.
B) Steal the election
C) Do a Mugabe on us with a false declaration.
D) Discredit the election:
i) Say violence has scared people
ii) Make a big deal with his Western NGOs backers (funny that these clowns are monitoring our election) about "unfair" representation in the Media, all that crap about MR having more resources, use their fake polls and bogus statements that Gonseka is leading in the polls to say he "should have won" etc etc.
iii) Accuse MR of election theft.
iv) Accumulation of all 3 above will be used to start protests by JVP/UNP, a couple deaths, provoking the police; looting and Western media will harp on about "violence ever since Sri Lanka's discredit/questioned elections". Even if ALL monitors declare the election free and fair, the above style protests happening will be enough for the West to basically call the elections "fraudulent". Thus we will have our Iran.
E) As a result of D, they will question MRs legitimacy as President and try and push isolation/sanctions on Sri Lanka. They want something to punish us with for defying them so bluntly with regards to the LTTE, Gonseka is providing it now and will provide it by doing the above.
F) Following E, they will "request" UN inquiry to SL, like Kenya. Knowing MR will say rightly "get lost" they will do more of E with smiles on their faces and keep pushing to get the UN, thus when that set of useless puppets are in Sri Lanka they will concoct more charges against Sri Lanka (even go close enough to imply "OMG! There is genocide happening!" –West are expert manipulators) and try and re-create the CFA style environment of 2002-06 with the UN as the guarantee this time.
This is what Gonseka has promised with his deal with the TNA, it is the CFA all over again and just like in 2002 this "new" agreement has been signed in the presence of Ranil/West/LTTE BUT in closed doors away from the people of Sri Lanka. You need to take into context why Alston also suddenly re-appeared, back in December Gonseka said he has no problem allowing the UN in here to conduct investigations, also Ranil said the same. The West has been pushing to get the UN hear to basically steal our sovereignty and create a Tamil separate state in all but name.
This is why i believe the election was unneeded, especially a PE. But we've already crossed that bridge now.
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