“Square Pegs In Round Holes” – Idiots Exercising People’s Sovereignty

By Elmore Perera -May 4, 2014 

Elmore Perera

Not a day too early! The Island Editorial of 11^th April 2014 says it all!

Money has taken precedence over everything else in politics. Time was, when the super rich became paupers because of their politics. But now, we have rogues in the garb of representatives. Some politicians who wore flip-flops, rode rickety bicycles or snatched gold chains before entering politics, have become billionaires owning palatial houses, both here and abroad and fleets of super-luxury vehicles. Cattle-rustlers, boot-leggers, killers, rapists, racketeers and dregs of all sorts, drug dealers and their beneficiaries, and even those not fit to be labourers in a government institution have become law makers and placed themselves above even top-bureaucrats and are going places in politics.

The Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers of the Sovereign People are currently all vested in one single individual. The elected representatives of the people are solely responsible for this sad state of affairs. By the18^th Amendment these representatives divested the Sovereign People of their “Inalienable Sovereignty” and vested same in the Executive President. Some of them belatedly admit their folly and even shed crocodile tears, but, without exception, they all continue unashamedly to reap the benefits of their treachery and continue to exercise people’s power as their representatives.

Those in the highest echelons of governance are blatantly violating the law in the full glare of public scrutiny. Privileged persons have no law to obey. The wrongs of headless anarchic attitudes and the ruin of a nation are on the cards – and on the heads of the Sovereign People.

Bleak indeed, is the future of a country where people’s Sovereignty is exercised by a bunch of idiots at the levers of power. The country cannot aspire to development so long as it trusts semi-literate, intellectually retarded, corrupt elements with the management of public finance                                     Read More