Panorama
This piece is about
self analysis our constitutional experts must undertake before
finalizing the text.
This text has no
value if we cannot bring order into the systems.
I will dispense with
the first quickly.
The number of
security officers in a society is a reflection (including temples and
religious places of warship) that the rouges are in plenty and they
rule.
I found that
(Mahaveli Project) security officers were the major culprits of large
scale theft.
In a leading
hospital in Colombo within six months, I was instrumental in sacking
three firms.
This is why security
experts are changing over to video cameras but that can be easily
tampered with.
The level of
sophistication of the thieves increase n proportion to the counter
mechanism.
The second is the
number of professionally trained security arms go parallel with the
level of violence in a country.
Less I talk about
them with the ongoing investigation of disappearances, is better for my
soul.
The third point is
the one I give serious attention.
Theft of books from
libraries.
This includes
lawyers, engineers, doctors and down to school children.
Why this happens in
a country where the government dish out (often outdated) books?
The fourth is more subtle.
Intellectual thefts
is the worst of it kind, some professors (I can name them a few who
are dead and a few who are living at geriatric age, but that won't
diminish the intents) steal the hard work of students.