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STRANGE OBSESSIONS

The obsession some people have with regime change seems certainly to be of the clinically certifiable pathological variety. Foreign regime change fanatics are not so sustained in their fervour; the moment they find other regimes in the world are more interesting to change, they begin to work with the Sri Lankan regime which they see as more amenable than most, good for the country's people in many ways, and also good for business ...

But local regime change fanatics of particularly the NGO and eccentric academic variety are fetishists.

Their regime change fetishes are more kinky in fact, than pathological (though in their case it is difficult to see any distinction anyway). The other day, one very hilarious ivory tower type had written that the regime needs to be changed, and would you believe it, his tract is complete with suggestions for a replacement!

The gentleman he suggests as a replacement President in Sri Lanka is one of the most devoted loyalists of the Rajapaksa government, who nevertheless has issue by issue differences with the leadership, something he asserted in a separate interview with another local daily, before the ink was properly dry on the opinion piece referred to above.

D. E. W Gunasekera the avuncular and affable gentleman politician is the last to rebel against this government having joined it in the firm conviction no doubt that it is the most progressive that suits his own particular political persuasion. D. E. W. Gunasekera will be the last to close ranks with the fire breathing loose canons in the JVP or the politically amoral neo-liberals in the UNP, and that's a certainty.

His giving leadership therefore to the kind of saboteur force that our eccentric academic has in mind, has a probability of one in a one hundred thousand. But that does not stop the usually suspect pontiffs from pontificating, and making improbable prognostications on paper!

The point is why some people never tire of making guesses about regime change, and generally being petty and disruptive. There is no rocket science in discerning why the diaspora is motivated on the other hand, for instance. After a hole was burnt in Prabhakaran's head by the Nandikadal, the diaspora has been livid.

This anger is totally due to personal considerations, and the fact that there will be no more insecurity in Sri Lanka which these people can cite as a reason to secure their tickets to stay on in their preferred Western capitals. A good deal of the moves made against Sri Lanka, such as for instance the recent grand plan to connect three issues at the UNHRC -- the LLRC, the army presence in Jaffna and the impeachment, are hatched originally in the snake pits of the diaspora, and only much later finessed in UN lobby rooms by so called international civil servants, paid generously for their services.

The point is that eccentric academics, and sometimes naive and confused lawyers (not the Lawyers' Collective variety - these are not naive and confused, they are plain vicious and downright stupid ...) cotton on to all of these cunning stratagems plotted by the diaspora leadership with such gullible abandon that it merits asking if there are still some Sinhalayas who remain absolute modayas, despite the fact that this cliche is threadbare and disproved because moda Sinhalayas could have never defeated the most ruthless terrorist organization in the world!

A certain fraction of the Sinhalayas still may be in la-la land, and these people though they are rather quaint, sometimes are idiotic to the point of being rather nauseatingly embarrassing. Those who constantly echo calls for regime change, should grow up and get out of their stretched phases of juvenile delinquency, for example.

After all, some of these opinion makers are academics. The majority of society may not give a rat's tail for what these people opine from their academic ivory towers, but these are folks who are supposed to have young and impressionable charges. The danger is the influence their eccentric thinking could have on the young that need to be fed on inspiring tales of courage and indomitability, as opposed to syrupy stories of spinelessness and general wooly-headedness.

SANCTIONS DO NOT LEAD TO NUKE ABOLITION IN ASIA

North Korea’s response to the United Nations Security Council's expanded sanctions on January 22 by threatening to resume nuclear tests and last November’s failure by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to persuade the five recalcitrant nuclear powers to sign the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone Treaty (SEANWFZ) have focused attention,

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The Human Dimension

Will we have to buy the air we breathe soon?

There was a story during the rounds recently on the web that a Chinese businessman has bottled crisp and pure mountain air, which he then sold to a populace starved for clean air. As China’s big cities experience more and more pollution and a haze of pollutants cover their landscapes,

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Parliament is right in rejecting Supreme Court judgement

Now that the sound and fury of the brouhaha about the former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake have subsided it is time look back and assess not only the triumph of the Legislature over the Judiciary but also why the legal pundits who backed the doomed case failed, particularly in cooking up legal fictions to make the guilty look innocent.

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