Ballot Paper
Is it easy to save a baby elephant's rights or the ballot paper at the election? Let me deal with the baby elephant first.Mum and dad elephant in this country have no voting rights or animal rights.
Voting or fundamental right of the mum elephant is to keep her baby with her.
It is blatantly violated, especially after 2009, in the wild.
More than 200 were rounded up after the war and over 100 had died during incarceration and before disposal by wild life experts (of course illegal) in this country with proper political connections.
They are sold at exorbitant prices.
The beauty is how a wild baby elephant illegally captured, becomes one who is born to a non-existent domesticated she elephant (all on paper, forged and authenticated).
Then the sex of the elephant changes.
Then the owner changes.
That include monks in saffron cloth who does not understand the emancipation Buddha taught.
Finally judge takes custody or the proud owner (all on paper but all alone, it is an illegally captured baby elephant) of the animal who has no voting rights or animal rights.
In spite of many regulation in the books.
This all happen in a 100% Buddhist country with ideology perhaps even above the Lord Buddha's contemplation.
If the above can be taken as how the rule of law applies to animals, one would assume that the humans fair much better, no worse.
This is the question the election commissioner should ask himself before declaring and conducting an election. His record is very poor from the time the British left this country.
In the elephant's case it is very simple.One takes hold of a deceased animal's record and substitute an illegally captured animal.The case is closed well and truly, if the owner happens to be a judge.
For the election commissioner (poor voter too) there are no checks and balances.There are many steps where the above illegal manifestations can be planted and implemented, at lib by the instigator/s.
Steps that leave gaps and holes in the exercise include;
1. Printing of ballot paper.
2. Custody of ballot paper.
3. Delivery of ballot paper.
4. Actual use of ballot paper at the polling station.
5. Security of the used and unused ballot paper.
6. Transfer to the counting center.
7. Opening (this is where boxes disappear and appear by various means) of ballot boxes. 8. Actual counting (the latest design, to alter the verdict is applied here) by the counting officers (they manipulate themselves). 9. The transfer of data from local centers to Colombo.10. The computer data entry personnel (having a field day) verifying the data and final declaration. Please note that the storage of ballot papers (used and not used) after the completion of the election is not taken into account since it has never been recounted to validate the authenticity of the final result for over 35 years. What I say is, there is room for manipulation even after the election is completed. There are so many stages in this exercise, if the commissioner says that he has successfully conducted an election, fairly and truly, all over the country, it is probably a big lie. He may have to use that big lie to stay put and if a sitting judge can stay put why not him? Why I write this is to highlight the fact that the vulnerability of the opposition is insurmountable and no party has the machinery to monitor it except the ones who are in power. So it is better to affirm the winner at the very beginning of the declaration of elections and say it saves lot of money for the country, if we have less frequent elections, say once in 20 years.So it should be a bounden task of the opposition to take every available avenue and mobilize resources at all levels, if they want to have a taste of power.
1. NGOs and the proposed common candidate cannot accomplish it.
2. UNP cannot (they have no routes or roots, leave alone grassroots).
3. DNA has no machinery.
4. TNA has no machinery.
5. Perhaps only the JVP has the emotional and physical capacity and those who are in power knows very well that is a factor and mobilize and neutralize that option by having a snap election and a very short period of campaigning. Just now Ceylon is almost a failed state and my opinion is that holding of elections premature is a failed exercise, just to show the outside world that this is a vibrant (not practically) democracy. There is so called checks and balances are (increasing 3 seats for Monaragala -last there of the Majestic Hathiraja-Kula was killed to obtain ivory- is a blatent act) not there. Even if they were there, they are crippled and inactive. Having a transparent box is an expensive gimmick.
Soap Opera type.
I think it is time election commissioner and his loyal staff to show it is not the case, at least this time round ans leave enough room for alternative political views to be heard for a prolonged and constructive period (longest not the shortest) from now onwards and actual holding of the elections.
He should not be bogged down by the actual script in the constitution but by the spirit of the body politics of this country. Above all he should be sensitive to the evolving trends in the landscape and not the central Power Keg. He should show he loves democracy and not the power that beholds individuals or the the post one holds.
We are watching.
The whole world is watching.
Be fair to every citizen, is my CRY, whether one is rich, poor, ethnicity, religion or atheists.
Is it easy to save a baby elephant's rights or the ballot paper at the election? Let me deal with the baby elephant first.Mum and dad elephant in this country have no voting rights or animal rights.
Voting or fundamental right of the mum elephant is to keep her baby with her.
It is blatantly violated, especially after 2009, in the wild.
More than 200 were rounded up after the war and over 100 had died during incarceration and before disposal by wild life experts (of course illegal) in this country with proper political connections.
They are sold at exorbitant prices.
The beauty is how a wild baby elephant illegally captured, becomes one who is born to a non-existent domesticated she elephant (all on paper, forged and authenticated).
Then the sex of the elephant changes.
Then the owner changes.
That include monks in saffron cloth who does not understand the emancipation Buddha taught.
Finally judge takes custody or the proud owner (all on paper but all alone, it is an illegally captured baby elephant) of the animal who has no voting rights or animal rights.
In spite of many regulation in the books.
This all happen in a 100% Buddhist country with ideology perhaps even above the Lord Buddha's contemplation.
If the above can be taken as how the rule of law applies to animals, one would assume that the humans fair much better, no worse.
This is the question the election commissioner should ask himself before declaring and conducting an election. His record is very poor from the time the British left this country.
In the elephant's case it is very simple.One takes hold of a deceased animal's record and substitute an illegally captured animal.The case is closed well and truly, if the owner happens to be a judge.
For the election commissioner (poor voter too) there are no checks and balances.There are many steps where the above illegal manifestations can be planted and implemented, at lib by the instigator/s.
Steps that leave gaps and holes in the exercise include;
1. Printing of ballot paper.
2. Custody of ballot paper.
3. Delivery of ballot paper.
4. Actual use of ballot paper at the polling station.
5. Security of the used and unused ballot paper.
6. Transfer to the counting center.
7. Opening (this is where boxes disappear and appear by various means) of ballot boxes. 8. Actual counting (the latest design, to alter the verdict is applied here) by the counting officers (they manipulate themselves). 9. The transfer of data from local centers to Colombo.10. The computer data entry personnel (having a field day) verifying the data and final declaration. Please note that the storage of ballot papers (used and not used) after the completion of the election is not taken into account since it has never been recounted to validate the authenticity of the final result for over 35 years. What I say is, there is room for manipulation even after the election is completed. There are so many stages in this exercise, if the commissioner says that he has successfully conducted an election, fairly and truly, all over the country, it is probably a big lie. He may have to use that big lie to stay put and if a sitting judge can stay put why not him? Why I write this is to highlight the fact that the vulnerability of the opposition is insurmountable and no party has the machinery to monitor it except the ones who are in power. So it is better to affirm the winner at the very beginning of the declaration of elections and say it saves lot of money for the country, if we have less frequent elections, say once in 20 years.So it should be a bounden task of the opposition to take every available avenue and mobilize resources at all levels, if they want to have a taste of power.
1. NGOs and the proposed common candidate cannot accomplish it.
2. UNP cannot (they have no routes or roots, leave alone grassroots).
3. DNA has no machinery.
4. TNA has no machinery.
5. Perhaps only the JVP has the emotional and physical capacity and those who are in power knows very well that is a factor and mobilize and neutralize that option by having a snap election and a very short period of campaigning. Just now Ceylon is almost a failed state and my opinion is that holding of elections premature is a failed exercise, just to show the outside world that this is a vibrant (not practically) democracy. There is so called checks and balances are (increasing 3 seats for Monaragala -last there of the Majestic Hathiraja-Kula was killed to obtain ivory- is a blatent act) not there. Even if they were there, they are crippled and inactive. Having a transparent box is an expensive gimmick.
Soap Opera type.
I think it is time election commissioner and his loyal staff to show it is not the case, at least this time round ans leave enough room for alternative political views to be heard for a prolonged and constructive period (longest not the shortest) from now onwards and actual holding of the elections.
He should not be bogged down by the actual script in the constitution but by the spirit of the body politics of this country. Above all he should be sensitive to the evolving trends in the landscape and not the central Power Keg. He should show he loves democracy and not the power that beholds individuals or the the post one holds.
We are watching.
The whole world is watching.
Be fair to every citizen, is my CRY, whether one is rich, poor, ethnicity, religion or atheists.
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