ONE WORD ANSWER TO THOSE
'LAWYERS' COLLECTIVE'
DESPERADOES -- CONTEMPT
The Lawyers' Collective
goes against the decision of its own professional body, the Bar
Association to say that the new Chief Justice Mohan Peiris
appointed yesterday, will not be recognized. But, this is no
Lawyers' Collective in the first place - it's a motley
collection of dollar-awash NGO mandarins, losing politicians who
have repeatedly appeared on the opposition party's ticket, and
of course lawyer sidekicks of a has-been - and now very
disgruntled --former President.
It's not a Lawyers Collective, it's a Lawyers Selective, that
comprises of a narrow segment of people with very partisan
motives, either political or foreign-driven, that have in their
desperation to emerge from the political wilderness, taken up a
hapless former Chief Justice's already lost cause.
Shirani Bandaranayake, the former Chief Justice is now
citizen Bandarnayake, and to call her the Chief Justice and ask
for the summary rejection of the new Chief Justice appointed by
Executive hand yesterday, is to be not only in contempt of the
Legislature, but also in contempt of court. Anybody that
subverts the functioning of court is by law liable to be brought
before court and sentenced, and the Lawyers' Collective is
inviting just such an action by pretending that a private
citizen is the Chief Justice, while rejecting the person
rightfully occupying that post as per Executive decree - and
ratification by the Legislature as per the 18th Amendment.
There is a simple word for such foolhardy behaviour --
desperation. J. C. Weliamuna is not the only NGO desperado who
is going out on a limb to have an imposter occupy the Chief
Justice's chair. There is also perennial NGO loser Jehan Perera,
among others such as Paikiasothy of course, rearing to make
greater clowns of themselves than ever before, by making the
most risible statements regarding the situation that follows the
impeachment.
States Jehan in one of his regular pedantic but yet soap-box
style op-ed contributions, that a newly assertive Supreme Court
might now reverse the decisions on the crossover MPs in
Parliament so as to deprive the government of the two-thirds
majority. What? And go against the Supreme Court judgements that
gave the crossover MPs the right to get to the other side of the
aisle, given legal imprimatur by the very former Chief Justice
who they covet so much, and want kept by force in office?
These are people who as much as they were down on their knees
during the last phase of the war hoping for a reprieve for
Prabhakaran and a stoppage to the successful crackdown on his
fascism, now have gone down on their knees again praying -
beseeching -- for a collapse of the Rule of Law, and chaos
resulting from their addle-headed, harebrained and totally
hilarious idea to keep the former CJ in office!
What's legal cannot be countermanded by something that is
profoundly embarrassing, and the reference here is to the
behaviour of the NGO fringe-lunatics, as it is to the Appeal
Court judgement from which these eccentrics attempt to obtain
the veneer of legitimacy for their cringe inducing acts of
ham-handedness.
The fact that the Supreme Court judges and the Appeals Court
judges as a body met with the President after the vote on the
impeachment and just before the signing of the order of removal
of the former Chief Justice, makes clear even to the most
stubbornly moronic, what was obvious from the beginning -- which
is that a constitutional process cannot and will not be
interfered with by the judges of the two highest courts in the
land.
It is in the teeth of news of these meetings that the NGO
bandmasters try to call a tune that nobody can dance to -- and
very few people have the inkling to dance to anyway, even if
they could ...
However, it is the self-serving nature of these pretenders
and their imposter Chief Justice that is intolerable. It is
entertaining as long as their act is a circus, but if they cross
the thin line and disrupt court work and the legitimacy of due
process, they should surely by law be dealt with for contempt. |