Passing
the Baton and the beating the Police Baton Polla
This
piece is bit spicy.
We
have moved from the community spirits of passing the baton
(responsibility) to beating the baton (iron fist of the police)
mentality.
It
is all due to family brandism and now the baton is passed exclusively
within a family.
This
in addition has mutated to passing the buck dualism.
From
DS it passed to Dudley.
Thanks
to vociferous left Dudley left politics and lived up to old age as a
common man.
JR
was in the background and was incubating hate to the entire nation.
Real
destruction started with SWRD who introduced racism and religion to
politics and sadly Sirima took the baton after his demise and even
the army was brought into the forefront to destroy JVP.
People
were killed in the bread queues with socialist not having a recovery
program to fill the empty coffers.
Manioc
was the staple food of the poor.
Nobody
helped except perhaps China with rice (started from Sir John
Kotalawala)
Sir
John left to UK saying it was far better to hunt foxes than doing
politics in Ceylon.
It
was then lovingly called Ceylon.
Only
one who did not have a formal family (he may have fathered out of
wedlock).
JVP
was an aberration in our politics (one phrase is enough to describe
it in entirety).
Ranasingha
(called running (duvana) president by the LTTE) Premada having used
army to throttle JVP extended his hands to LTTE and programed his
own death.
JRJ
was in between and introduced a bizarre constitution of his family.
His
son was a STF man and is no more.
Anura
to Chandrika was family brandism with a arm twist.
Chandrika
twisted the arm of his brother and continued to cajole with the
defunct left.
That
is the period of anarchy in this country.
Unfortunately
I was abroad and returned to see the rejuvenation of this country.
I
was proved absolutely wrong.
The
last stage of the family brandism is now in display.
We
thought we reversed the trend in 2015.
MS
who took the baton turned backwards on the masses and went backward
and handed over the baton to the last man in the relay team.
He
has a family but he could not brand it quick enough.
What
an upshot and RW was passing the buck of the central bank and still
have to form a family of his convicts.
Then
the son of Premadasa is going to take the family baton in style and I
bet he would fail (by ruining the party his father started by
eliminating Gaminie and Athulkathmudali and many more).
While
all these happening another family is benefiting while doing sweet
nothing (except stirring racism) in the process but wanting to go
back to beating the Police Baton Polla mentality.
We
use the baton as a polla to hit or slavery and not as a proverbial
relay of responsibility.