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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, June 24, 2017
Tyrant And Tradesman; Gota & Dayan
“I
think Gota has changed considerably for the better since 2015, but even
if he hasn’t, he is ten thousand times preferable to Ranil and his gang
of traitors ….” ~ Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
That
is pure poppycock. Brazen bullshit. Deplorable drivel. These musings
are about political sophistry. To qualify it further, it is about Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka.
Political
pundits and hair dressers have much in common. One rearranges hair. The
other splits them. Given Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka’s present assignment in
coiffuring, we must concede that he is an exceptionally gifted friseur.
Yet, he fails to groom or dress up Gotabaya Rajapaksa as an acceptable
presidential candidate.
Both
Gota and Dayan are experts in abuse. Gotabya abused his power. Dayan J
is abusing language in pursuit of Gota’s return to power – an evil
objective.
The
German Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper (1904-1997) also regarded as
the ‘philosopher of virtue’ has explained what Dr. D.J is attempting to
do.
“ .. Abuse
of political power is fundamentally connected with the sophistic abuse
of the word in the fertile soil in which to hide and grow and get ready,
so much so that the latent potential of the totalitarian poison can be
ascertained, as it were, by observing the symptom of the public abuse of
language. The degradation, too, of man through man, alarmingly evident
in the acts of physical violence committed by all tyrannies
(concentration camps, torture), has its beginning, certainly much less
alarmingly, at that almost imperceptible moment when the word loses its
dignity.”
Now,
that is what happened to us in the ten years that the Rajapaksas ruled
our land. The word lost its dignity. [I am not suggesting that Sirisena
and Ranil have restored its dignity. On the contrary they have made the
‘word’, the instrument of deceit. That is another subject for another
day.]
In
the digital age, there are lasting records of almost every word spoken
or written. Chose the wrong words, and you not only share them publicly
but rue the day when you are made to masticate them.
What did Dayan say? “There
is something I want to reveal. A highly placed defence official has
sent a SMS to me and asked me who I was to be criticising Israel. I said
I was the Ambassador appointed by his brother.”
There
can be no argument about who said what and about whom. The identity of
the parties – the highly placed defence official, his brother and his
brother’s choice of ambassador.
So,
instead of fruitless fornicating with spiders let us agree that the
reference is to Gotabaya Rajapaksa the then defence secretary and that
he is a ‘cardboard’ Nethanyahu – committed to a Sinhala Buddhist version of ‘ Eretz Yisrael’- the ‘Singhe Le.’ Just as the Jewish nation, the Sinhalese are the chosen people and Lion land is the Promised Land.
Dr. D.J. points out in one of several rebuttals he has penned recently that the Colombo Telegraph report “proves
that at a time when no one — including today’s Yahapalana heroes–had
the guts to criticise Gotabaya who was at the zenith of his power,
openly and on the record” he bearded the ‘lion’ in his den.” [Pun intended]
What does
the Political Scientist DJ mean by the curious phrase ‘Gotabaya at the
zenith of his power’? What happened when Gota was at the ‘zenith of
power’? Lasantha’s murder?
Keith Noyahr’s beating? Ekneligoda’s disappearance? Aluthgama pogrom?
Rathupaswala carnage? The list runs long. Dayan knows what he is talking
about Gota at his zenith.
Although
Dayan has turned from political critic of Gota to his political
marketer ‘Ranil represents Political Evil. Gota is the Exorcist.’
Ranil-CBK
are administering political-ideological poison to the nation. Gota is
the Antidote, Ranil-CBK-Mangala are committing sins and crimes against
our nation. Gota is The Punisher. Dayan, the critic of Gota was indeed
and in fact was shit scared. I don’t blame him. He knew his adversary,
the exorcist, the antidote, the punisher very well. Dayan should be
commended. At the zenith of his power, Gota was the antidote – the
counteragent of democratic freedoms, the exorcist who rid Mahinda of the demons that haunted his conscience, and the punisher of those who dared to challenge the power hegemony of the family.
Dayan says, “I
have written proof of this, and my friends also have written proof of
this in case something happens to me”. So when Gota was at his zenith,
Dayan did seriously consider that something may happen to him.
When
Gota was in power, we did indeed enjoy freedom of speech. What we did
not have was freedom after speech. Worse, we were cautious before
speech. We had second thoughts before exercising free speech.
Dayan
rightly points out that one cannot have the cake and also eat
it. However, that is precisely what he did with Premadasa, Mahinda
Rajapaksa and now with Gotabaya Rajspaksa. Premadasa was a populist
tyrant. He had what was then called the Lawrence mafia which his
successor D.B. Wijetunge dismantled immediately after he was sworn
in. We are yet to discover the full extent of the grip of the
Hendawitharana octopus that made even the brave Dayan consider the
possibility of something nasty happening to him.