Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Hillary Clinton for the post of Secretary of State, is only a journalistic guess, and not an information leak.
The often repeated scoop of the choice of Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State, by the President-elect is not at all a scoop. I am sure it is the result of a guessing game. It was two days before that so called scoop I told my wife, that the President elect may select Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State. It is the most easiest of guesses. Of course I had no one else to say that to, therefore it was not a scoop and no body would have said that the information had leaked from the President-elect’s transition team.
Hence it was possible that it had popped into the mind of a journalist and she said that she had got it from a reliable source. No body could then check on it ,and the journalist concerned will get credit for it.
There is also the possibility that it had been done purposely to commit the President-elect, to give him no alternative, but to give Hillary Clinton the coveted Office.
The MSNBC TV journalists, kept repeating over and over again, that it would not be correct not to offer the post to Hillary Clinton after the leak of the information, as she had already been left out from the list of persons considered for the office of the Vice Pres
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Obama Phenomenon & a lesson to Sri Lanka
In 1950s black children could not walk into a sweet shop to buy candies. They were black and therefore chased out. The blacks were not allowed to enter restaurants. They were refused to be served if they were in. The black children were admitted only to schools meant for them, and was refused admission to any other school. They were not accepted for registration of their names in electoral registers. Many a blacks were lynched or hanged and burnt alive by the Ku Klux Klan, and other “hate groups”. The blacks had to be satisfied with lowest paid jobs, working under unimaginable inhuman conditions.
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks, a seamstress from Alabama , got into the Montgomery City Bus No. 2857, and sat on a seat just behind the ten reserved for the whites . In order to provide a seat for a white passenger who boarded the bus, after the ten seats reserved for the whites were filled, Rosa Parks along with others in the next raw of seats were asked to give up their seats and keep standing. No blacks could sit on the same raw of seats where a white was seated.
Though the other black passengers obeyed the order, Rosa Parks refused and the driver James Blake had her arrested under Alabama’s Segregation Law. She was charged and found guilty. She was fined $ 10 and costs. She appealed against the court order .This incident followed the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr. The boycott ended in victory when the Alabama’s Segregation Laws were declared unconstitutional.
In the shadows of that past racial segregation, the dark mist of which has not still disappeared, a black man with his wife , and two beautiful children walking through the front door of the White House, on the 20 of January,2009 as its occupant for the next four years, would have been furthest from any American’s imaginations.
Even if one argues that Barrack Obama is not a black man of the slave stock, his father being a Kenyan and mother a white American, in America, or in the West, a person with a dark skin from the lightest shade to coal black, is a black- a coloured person. Since slavery was outlawed, blacks in America lived in fear and uncertainty, like the dalits in India or even worse.
That was the lot of the black minority, under a white majority in America long time ago, quite a distant away from Sri Lanka, where the Communal distinction, was not a barrier to mix equally with the majority, and do every thing as much as the majority without any barrier, fear, or uncertainty.
In this background the election of Barrack Obama as the President of America is a remarkable lesson of racial integration. How did all that happen ? There are already different arguments, comparisons, and suggestions for possible ways out for nations with ethnic problems.
In America this racial integration had been possible through non aggression, and a peaceful, patient, intelligent approach. Education has played a significant role for this racial coherence, which had created not hatred, but an understanding. American racial minority followed a non violent political philosophy professed by Martin Luther King, who had been influenced by the Gandhian non-violence movement for Independence in India. There was intense heart searching to turn a very intolerant racial discrimination, to an acceptance level of political integration, as against a social integration.
In Sri Lanka Communal difference has gone beyond a search for social integration, to an aggressive search for a political integration to dominate the majority. The Muslim Community, as against the Tamil Community is going even beyond the political integration to enforcement of their religious faith to subjugate the majority into accepting their own religious culture. It is a religious fundamentalism that jumps basic social norms of communal cohabitation.
The extreme form of fundamentalism results in intolerant “talibanism”, which one should try to avoid even in its mildest form, as it was seen in a manifestation against application of rules of an institution that does not accept out word show of religious difference.
If the communities in Sri Lanka accept each other without seeking dominance over the majority community, they could foresee a day, like the racial integration of America, which promoted a black American to the highest office of the land. In Sri Lanka the ethnic difference has stepped over its racial bounds to hatred towards the majority Sinhala.
This is despite a Sinhala President who accepts all communities without discrimination. He has shown an unbelievable calmness in the face of verbal expression of enmity of all his adversaries. He does not seek to take revenge. He is manifestly aware of his mission and, does not let personal attacks deviate him, from his search for the path to reach the goal he had set.
If the Communities, leaving aside the ambitious egoistic verbal tirades of the political parties like the UNP, JVP, SLMC and the TNA, unite without hatred to really build a united nation, the day will not be far when we will have in Sri Lanka a Tamil or a Muslim President.
The greatest barrier for a meaningful unity of Communities at the moment, is the far too many Political Parties identifying themselves with different Communities. This separateness of identity distances the communities, rather than bring them together, perpetrating hatred, towards the majority. A political party identifying itself as belonging to a particular Community, shows its opposition to the other Community. This opposition is the root of hatred, which is worst than racism.
Therefore, we in Sri Lanka should adopt this non aggressive political integration by seeking political membership in the main political parties- the UNP or the SLFP which have no communal bias. That would be a first step to political integration of all communities. Thereafter, it is within the political parties that further communal integration for political leadership should be advanced.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Congratilations to the 44 th President of USA- Barrack Obama
It is very encouraging the fantastic change that you President elect Mr.Barrack Obama had been able to make, even before your overwhelming victory on the 4th November. You have been able to heal past wounds and bring the whole nation together. In your acceptance speech you made it clear that there is no black America or a white America , blue States or red States, but there is only the United State of America. That call had been heard and well received. To-day even before the Presidential Election was over you made history making the American dream come true.
As I write this you have 200 electoral votes, to 85 for Senator McCain, and going by numbers there is no doubt which way the votes are going and by the end of the day you will be the 44th President of USA.
In anticipation I Congratulate you President Barrack Obama, I wish you, and your wonderful family, all that is best and may you have the strength to see through all Changes you have in mind to make America a country of hope for all Americans without distinction, and hope for the developing nations of the world.
We pray, and wish you strength to find American economy back on its feet soon….
Asides, from that I urge you to please help developing Countries to progress by supporting them, and helping them rid themselves of barriers that have hampered their progress.
I being of Sri Lankan origin I cannot help but speak to you of the terrorism in Sri Lanka..
The Bush Administration did not understand the Sri Lanka’s reason to opt for a military solution to eliminate terrorism. The Government of Sri Lanka is not fighting a war against the Tamils, as those who take side with the terrorists may try to make you believe.
A group of Tamil youths took up arms way back in 1980s against the Government, claiming a part of the country to set up an Independent State for Tamils. For nearly three decades they terrorised the north and east of Sri Lanka, killing all those who opposed them including many Tamil intellectual, politicians, and innocent men and women mostly by blasting “suicide human bombs”.
The Government’s call for them to negotiate a peace settlement was rejected, over and over again demanding nothing less than the set up of a separate Tamil State. Having failed to negotiate, the Government was forced to resort to a military solution. The Government forces are carrying out successful military action against the terrorists, and is in the process of eliminating terrorism from Sri Lanka for good.
The forces that want to set up a separate Tamil State, including large numbers of Tamils who have settled down in foreign countries, such as USA, Canada, Australia, France etc, called the Tamil diaspora, help the terrorists, by providing them with financial support.
They accuse the government of attacking the Tamils, which is false propaganda to win over the sympathy of the International Community. The government forces are risking their lives in attacking the terrorists, avoiding the civil population , who are being used as human shields by the terrorists.
In that process the soldiers face innumerable dangers because of the booby traps and anti personal mines set up by the terrorists. The government of Sri Lanka has not neglected its responsibility to the Tamil people, and supply consumable articles and medicine on a weekly basis with the help of the UN Office in Sri Lanka. The Government is also preparing a package of political devolution to help the Tamil Community to integrate more firmly into the national fabric.
Please protect the sovereign State of Sri Lanka, without being tricked by a pro-terrorist Tamil Group in America, who has found access to you calling themselves “Tamils for Obama”. They accuse the government of Sri Lanka as carrying on a genocide against the Tamils. This is an extremely dangerous racist group, posing as wealthy Tamils settled down in America, inreality proxies for the terrorists in Sri Lanka. The terrorists in Sri Lanka calling themselves the LTTE ( Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), is currently proscribed as a terrorist organisation by 31 countries in the world.
We pray you President, to disassociate with the group who has found access to you calling themselves “ The Tamils for Obama”. Please remove them from your list of contributors for the election campaign. And before any action by word or action is made against the Government of Sri Lanka, please consult the President of the Sovereign State of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
May God bless you.
Monday, November 3, 2008
A true Christian cannot have racial prejudices. The God is love and created man in his own image. Such divine love cannot be subjected to “satanic” interest of domination of one race over the other for colour, language, religion, or wealth. Before God all human beings are equal. If there is another proposition it is not divine.
Therefore, if the Americans would hesitate to vote Barrack Obama for racial or religious prejudice, they are doing a wrong to themselves, their creator God, and the world of Nations.
Barrack Obama by his speech, act and thoughts have proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he would make a far greater President than McCain.
Barrack Obama is acceptable not only to the larger majority of Americans but to a larger majority of the Nations of the world. During , the eight years of aggressive politics of Bush Administration, and financial mismanagement; America needs a young forward looking President to bring back to America its lost respect and popularity of America, and put the finances back on to its “ feet”.
America is a nation that has given hope to the Nations of the World. America had come to help the world to find peace and liberty when it was much in need.
During the last eight years America had been blindfolded and taken down a wrong path to disaffection, destruction and disillusion. It is up to each American to give back to America its dwindling prestige, and its heroic role of a generous leader.
McCain at 72 is the past, past heroism, past pride, past honour.
Barack Obama at 47 is the future, future heroism, future, pride, and future honour.
Vote BARRACK OBAMA not for yourself, but for you children, for a better future and for the sake of those Nations looking for a change in America.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Whole world is with every American when he or she votes for BARRACK OBAMA
VOTE BARRACK OBAMA ON 4 NOVEMBER
Three days more and the on the 4th the great peopel of America will be voting to chose their next President. What a relief it would be if America changes to Democratic Party politics.
After several natural disasters, and killings by gun toting young criminals, the major human disaster caused by the Al Quaida, two major financial crashes, and a two depressive wars outside America which had taken many a noble lives of young American Solders, are the legacies that would be left behind by the eight years of Bush and Republican Administrations, to the future President to be elected on the 4th November,2008.
For the Americans who are ambitious for a better America, there is only one Choice. If they do not make that correct choice on the 4th November, they will be once again on the same trodden path, with wars , aggressions, economic mismanagements, and internally, suffering poverty, deprivation, tightening of belts, paying more taxes, diminution of welfare benefits for the middle and lower classes, with the already rich being richer and protected.
In order to avoid this latter bleak scenario, one should set aside ones, small time prejudices, fears, and mistrust and vote Barrack Obama.
Barrack Obama spells change, spells hope, spells peace and non aggression, spells unity at home, spells better social welfare, diminution of taxes, spells opportunities for the poor, spells better education.
USA is not conservative, self centred, with a class waiting for the bread crumbs falling from the tables of the rich. USA has evolved. USA is not petty minded to look down upon its own citizen because they are different, because they are poor, because they are outsiders.
Every USA citizen, is a citizen of USA whole and entire. They are not different because they have different beginning. They are not different, because they do not speak with the same accent. They are not different, because their skin is not of the same colour. Nevertheless, with all differences in a human being one could think of a every citizen of America is a full and entire citizen of USA.
Therefore, in an age where America had sent a man to the Moon, sent satellites to outer space, cannot speak ill of his neighbour who is black, white, yellow or brown. They are all sharing the same earth, same air and the same liberty .
Therefore, on the 4th November, when you vote for Barrack Obama, you vote not for a black, a half white, a Muslim, or a Christian. You will be voting for an American Democrat. And Barrack Obama, if he wins with each one of your vote cast for him, he will be just another President of USA.
But, he will be a different President, because he is a Democrat. He has the intellectual capacity to understand not only the Americans, but also the people of other Nations.
Not only America, but the people in Europe- France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia and the rest that make up Europe, and the people of Asia- China, Japan, India and the rest of Asia, Australia, people of Africa, and the people of the countries of the Middle East are waiting with their arms open to welcome Barrack Obama as the President of USA.
Therefore, the American citizens who have the power in their hand to vote Barrack Obama should not hesitate, because the whole world is with you to acclaim BARRACK OBAMA as the PRESIDENT OF USA.
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