Thursday, June 16, 2005
Thus Spake Chandrika |
No, she did not start on time. She started about a good half an hour late, which means they could have run my show and then some. But SLRC and SLBC were ready fro her from 6.30 playing stupid 'filler' songs on precious prime time air.
She started off her speech with a kind of a look back at her past 11 years in power (which is something she likes doing a lot, particularly since she has no future now). She said their Government, and she, had won four main things in those years.
About the joint she said several thing. I don't remember all of them because I was very sleepy (Next time something like this happens I will take notes) but here's what I remember:
Moving on, what she said about the JVP was the best.
May the force be with her!
She started off her speech with a kind of a look back at her past 11 years in power (which is something she likes doing a lot, particularly since she has no future now). She said their Government, and she, had won four main things in those years.
- They abolished state tyranny, stopped abductions and executions and restored law and order so people could feel safe again.
- They rescused an out of control and spiralling-down economy and gave the country economic stability.
- They crushed corruption and completely abolished corruption and bribery in the upper ranks in the power structure.
- They laid the foundations for a negotiated settlement to the ethnic conflict and pursued a policy of peace-through-political-means.
About the joint she said several thing. I don't remember all of them because I was very sleepy (Next time something like this happens I will take notes) but here's what I remember:
- The Joint Mechanism will force the LTTE to understand that they must work together with the Government, therefore it will not add to the power of the LTTE but will in fact disable them and erode their support base further.
- It will not give the LTTE even a fraction of the control it wanted through the ISGA, which the UNP was ready to give to them.
- If anyone thinks the Tamil people of this country do not have the same rights, or that the Government is not bound to offer them the same opportunities as anyone else, then they are racists.
- No one can ask for instant peace. We need to heal wounds first. And things like this are needed to heal the wounds of 20 years of war.
- If we don't do this the peace process has no future.
- We will not sign this document without telling anyone, like the UNP did.
- We will do whatever is necessary to establish the Joint Mechanism.
Moving on, what she said about the JVP was the best.
- The JVP are idiots (Modayao) and they make stupid decisions.
- They killed all the intellectuals in Sri Lanka in the 80s.
- The Killed 135 people in my party in the 80s.
- They're wishy washy, and change their stand all the time. They hated the Provincial Councils in the 80s and now they're dying to get into the bloody things.
- They are racist because they only want things for the Sinhala people. They don't want to give anything to the Tamil people.
- All the projects they said they did, including the 10,000 tanks were failures. Even the 300 tanks that were built were built by us.
- I ask them to come back to the Government, it would be good to have them back. But even without them we will do this. They are irrelevant. We may lose a few in numbers but numbers in Parliament don't make a Government. We have the support of the people.
- Those racist elements who dress like Buddhist monks and try to tarnish the name of Buddhism will be dealt with severly, like they were dealt with the past few weeks.
May the force be with her!
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