Rizana provokes new thinking on many fronts
Rizana Rafeed is no more. The least we can do in
her memory is to set this process of selection of right, free of the
corruption that has been pervading it for several decades, with huge
amounts of money being earned by registered and unregistered
employment agents and no doubt by willing accomplices in the
official institutions that are involved in this work. An immediate
task is to introduce the most fool proof method of ascertaining the
accurate or most approximate age of an applicant without sole
dependence on a birth certificate, the forgery of which is not the
stuff of rocket science,
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NEVER AGAIN, THAT WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT
Where would an Appeal Court pass a writ on
Parliament when there is already settled law saying that affairs
within the purview of Parliament are not subject to the writs of
courts? All this is why Jude has to be told that a little learning
about law and constitutions, can be a dangerous thing. And I’m not
paraphrasing Jude’s Pope here either, but the other Pope, Alexander
was he? Jude should have known that Thomas Jefferson called the
judicial branch the ‘most dangerous’, barely five years past the
formation of the American union,
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Laws and religion -- some concerns of Sinhala Buddhists
Yes, the Sinhalese Buddhists are concerned. Do
they have reason to be? Yet the concerns of Buddhists are never
given an unbiased voice in the mainstream media and instead
Sinhalese Buddhists are labeled as “racist”, “extremist” and even
“militant”. Their version also needs to be heard.
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