People, Power and the Process

People Power has no meaning unless that power is processed intelligently.

Politicians have hijacked that process by using the word democracy.

The democracy did not have any meaning until the Kings and Church were taken out of the equation.

The majority has no meaning unless laws were promulgated to verify the context.

Hunters will agree to kill animals but when a tribe with majority decides to kill another tribe of minority that animalistic behaviour invariably extends up to cannibalism.
Cannibalism still exists in some part of the world.

The law has to be no cannibalism at all.
This is an extreme example.

Not let us take a modern context.
Distribution of money (wealth is  inappropriate) is unequal.

Money has both power and the ability to corrupt humans.

Coins, paper currency and cryptocurrency have very different meaning and context.

First two reside on banking system.

Third reside on technology power of the computer and the computer farms.
It is a process to stay outside the banking and regulatory system (that had been the long standing prerogative of the banking system of the West).

This was based on dollar economy of capitalism. They can keep on printing dollar  notes disregarding the sovereign gold stock. I am pretty sure America does not have a stock of sovereign gold to go on par dollar noted (their gold assets).

The dollar economy is under threat.

Emerging economies would like to deal with gold instead of notes.

The currency flow dynamics went into upheaval in Rhodesia and soon in other African countries.

Ceylon is a classic example of failure of pegging Rupees to dollar, instead of gold.

Fortunately Ceylonese Tamils who believe in gold as a security, control the gold market. The Central Bank has no control over the gold stock.
It looks like Muslims are trying to break into this domain. A Ceylonese Muslim MP who was caught smuggling gold at the airport is one example only.

Sinhala MPs who come from Ratnapura deal with gems and gem smuggling. The current Diyawadana Nilame is also in the Gem Loop.

Fortunately we do not have diamond and diamond is the best safety free from dollar pegging.

Then there are rare metals and my understanding of them except Uranium is limited.

The people actually has no power.

They regularly cast their vote and hope for the best but real power is in the hands of those who control the processes.

Now food and grains have entered this process of global politics. European countries are beginning to feel the pinch of grains including Greece and Turkey.

That is the hub of grain politics not Ukraine.

It is bound to shipping and shipping routes.

The emerging "Third Force" in Ceylon has no future unless it finds a way to work with Russia. Unlike China Russia does not involve in regional issues.

If its sovereignty is challenged Russia always rise up to it.

Like riding a horse Russia is slow to mount but once on the horse move smartly.

What is happening is China is gradually insinuating in the place of USA and India occupied in Ceylon.

One can never trust China as a an equal business partner. They are by nature exploitative worse than capitalists.

The camel's back will break.

We cannot trust India after what Indira Gandhi did to us.

No Free Lunch in Global Politics.

3P or Priests, Politicians and Police

I will deal with other 3Ps first.

1. Parippu or dhal
2. Pol or coconut sambol
3. Pappadum

If one goes to a University Canteen all three are expensive.

But they are also infested by three other gulags.

1. Guys in saffron cloths or priests.
2. Politics and politicians.
3. Police with battens.

I think if we are to avoid anarchy in future we need several prerequisites.

RW and MJ should not be reelected to the next parliament.They will hide behind the parliamentary privileges and cannot be brought to justice.

List MPs not elected and not responsible for a particular electorate should be deprived of parliamentary privileges.

Once one becomes a President for more than 3 months he / she should not be allowed to be a member of the parliament for ever.

Then, we can get rid of Maru Sira and Maraya and keep Chandriaka out of the parliament.

JVP can appoint a guy or girl for this post temporarily and abolish the post of president in toto.

It is a theme, sure to gain popularity, as a counter to JRJ referendum

If they campaign for economic recovery they are bound to fail in less than two years.

They should cultivate relationship with Russia and President Putin.

He has promised free food for the needy.

Once we feed our guys and girls to health, it is mandatory that they should work at least 8 hours (in schools, offices and public utilities) a day. They have 16 hours left for themselves including travelling to work.

Ceylon is a country one can travel from one end to the other end by public transport in less than 24 hours.
By air only 45 minutes.

8 hour labour is the UNO or International Labour Regulation minimum requirement.  If one works extra hours for any reason one is entitled for bonus pay.
No onr should be allowed to do extra hours. What happens in Ceylon is they do gossip for 8 hours (free pay) till 3PM and do the normal work after 4PM.

Three to four is sleeping time at desk.

Mind you, I worked in public service as an administrator.

No cellphones or work from home or video conferences.

They are good for developed countries and not for Ceylon.

The above ploy is a sure way to get at least 80 seats plus the bonus seats.

Otherwise they wil get only 60 or less.

Having abolished list MPs and the post of presidency we should limit the MPs to 99.
The 100th member should be the secretary of the parliament who should be selected by a majority vote of the MPs.

He should serve only two terms.

MPs should hold only 3 terms and no pension for any MP.

New Zealand has 100 seats. I prefer less than 100.

I think 75MPs are enough for Ceylon.

Only 7 or 8 cabinet of ministries.

25 is too much and no deputy monsters but Permanent Secretaries with high class civil service experience of at least 20 years (in service in Ceylon and service abroad is discounted).

They should be like ambassadors and only 2 terms of service.

Election in every three years as in management practice.

I am pretty sure even JVP cannot bring these reforms.

All these are hypothetical wishes and I wish not to be born again in Ceylon to verify these in my next birth.

That is of course, if I get a chance to be reborn again as a typical human with hopes not fulfilled in one human life.

I think I have no hope of born again as a  human but perhaps as an alien being of reptilian base. Reason, I fear all snakes.

By the way, I do not hold a brief to JVP and I am opposed to most of their impractical policies. I certainly won't vote for them, if I remained in Ceylon.
This was not a new phenomenon and I was fourth in their death list in Digana, in Kandy, 1989. Even in their peak campaign, I openly opposed them unlike the guys who have become vocal opponents once 139 odd guys were killed in Menikdiwela in Kandy. JVP asked all of us to join thier parade against senior Premadasa in Digana.
I remained in the village with my staff and enjoyed V.S.O.A, instead. Of course my residence was vacated (house No 1) and we moved to a secret location (vacant house) for our feast.
Sinnappan our supply officer was all ready to join the protest parade and I stopped him and said, if we are to die we should give a fight and die in our safe house.
All agreed.
Had we joined the parade we we would have been among the 139.
Senior Premadasa ordered the police to open fire and that is why I still hate him and never voted for him.

Only innocent village people died in this incident and JVP guys eloped well before police goons arrived.

Then in 1971, in the Peradeniya Campus, the JVP hide the explosives on the ceiling of our room 11.Then they tipped the army guys to our room for search.
Army came into to round up the JVP guys and  remove the incendiary devices.
The lieutenant was one of our colleague guys and by stroke of luck I escaped detention. He asked the names of JVP guys and I said, none in our hall of residence, having known them by names. One of those guys became a lifetime friend of mine and I helped him to complete the course of studies in his field. None from our hall was taken into detention.
In our first year, army was stationed in the gymnasium in preparation for the Independence day celebration. It was designed to teach our undergraduates a lesson by I.M.R.A Iriyagolla.
We (I did not) hooted them from 8AM to 1PM. Rumours spread that they  were preparing to assault us after the parade. The university was closed.
I shaved my beard and kept my suitcase in a nearby house and escaped just before the army dinner time.
When I reached Kandy, the army guys in civilian cloths were assaulting young guys who pretended to be University Students.
One guy asked me are you in the university.
I asked what is university? and saved myself a thundering clout on my ear.
Luckily my elder brother was in the bus queue and I boarded the bus before him and sat on a middle seat.

Army did a full search of the bus and my brother save any embarrassment to me. I looked very young then and nobody would have (with a clean shave) passed me as an undergraduate.

I never trusted police nor army all my life.
I used to give a real workout for police on duty when I was a DMO.