Only The Corrupt Stay in Politics
I was following the American election with one thing in mind.
Will the Americans (both Democrats and Republicans) change from War Mongering to Peaceful Global Existence?
War is in American blood, the simple answer to the question raised is BIG NO.
I come from a country where we fought internecine war brought on by India for 35 odd years and I hate War.
The
end result is our coffers are empty and we are no better than a
sub-Saharan country, while the war mongers pilfered everything out of
this country.
I
think the Corona Virus pandemic was something welcome (low death rate)
and ordinary citizens started coming to senses and coming back to basic
human values without discrimination.
From nowhere America brought a War on Ukraine using a puppet actor.
In our country minority raised against the majority but in Ukraine majority raised against the minority Russians.
That did not leave any room for Russia to sit and wait.
This War was started by America in 2014 with EU abetting.
Over 50% of the arms delivered to Ukraine is going elsewhere including to African subcontinent.
That is the American Design since Senate cannot approve them without oversight.
There is bipartisan support to pour in more and more weapons to Ukraine.
Original idea was regime change in Russia.
For their part Russians did not meddle in US politics.
They knew whichever party comes to power Russo-Phobia will continue.
On the contrary Russia is self sufficient in Oil, Gas, Food and Vodka whereas West is reeling with Economic Crisis.
Come Winter 2024 Germany, Italy and France are in dire straights.
UK is no different and seems to be the worst affected.
Coming back to today's topic:
Only The Corrupt Stay in Politics
I have to refine this statement bit further by saying that the corrupt take up politics and stay in politic for ever.
This is totally against the management policy, I used to a talk lot about, many moons ago, "The Total Quality Management" training to which on a latter day was added the term "Equal Opportunity".
It looks like Quality does not apply to politicians of all colours and shades.
The basic ingredient is corruption.
I used to apply this only to developing countries and it looks like, the West is catching up fast, especially the Americans.
Just look at the amount of money the Democratic Governors added to the mid term elections (bills).
They are never accounted for and they come as donations and are free from TAXES.
It is staggering high and they are openly boasting about it.
Whereas, the election officials who work over 8 hours are not paid enough to meet their family needs.
Of course, they cannot take trade union action to represent their needs.
Just giving a few old computers, poorly networked is not going to help.
Actually the computers are a hindrance.
The American system is bizarre.
It takes weeks for the final result to come out.
They have no appetite for simplifying the process.
I will highlight only a few.
It takes days and weeks to count the ballot.
That leaves ground for malpractices.
If this method is applied in Ceylon we will have twice the number of registered ballot papers counted in a given polling station.
We know how to engineer elections.
We had a President who changed ballot boxes that come from the North of
the country and exchanged for new and original ballot boxes (with
marked ballot parers) in Air (I mean in helicopters and his security
guys saying "Yes Sir" ).
In another event,
My father in law who passed away 3 months before the election came back from heaven and voted for a female president (on her second coming).
My father in law who was a teacher in Comparative Religion was so devoted to his duty he even voted as an absentee voter.
I was privy to this incident and verified this incident and made a formal complaint Nothing happened.
In
my case I did not register for 20 years so nobody could steal my vote
and I worked hard to get the National Identity Card as a prerequisite for
getting the ballot paper to vote.
By the way, a current MP in parliament and his wife have multiple ID cards.
There are currently about 20 MPs who are ineligible to become a MP due to dual citizenship are enjoying the parliamentary privileges.
I call them political prostitutes.
The parliamentary secretary who is a Public Servant never checks or verify these facts, even though he is assigned for these jobs.
Then there is a Guy who is a total alcoholic and scrounger in parliament.
For over 30 years he is a list MP.
He
has the gift of the gab only when he has three times the legal level of
alcohol in his blood.
He replenishes, it from the parliament bar.
His
salary is not enough to pay the alcohol bill and other members pour him
enough to get his tongue twisted to the need of the one who pours (other members) the drink (who is unable to speak for self).
With my management skills I can detect all the loopholes in a System of Voting whether paper based or digital.
It is common sense but I won't volunteer the US Government to detect any system faults.
I
am totally against the vote in absentia (absentee ballot) for very good
reasons unless he or she is working in essential services (really
speaking this is also not necessary- one can give half a day break on
full pay) on the day of the election.
Equally the elections should be done on day light hours of a non-working (either Sunday or Saturday) day.
The bottom line is that the process should be simple to administer and it is visible to the voter at the time of the voting.
In Ceylon we have done all that is required to get the system in order.
Can you guess the final outcome?
The voter interest dropped to 60% from 80%.
We love corruption and the moment it is eliminated people lose interest in voting.
Our current president lost his seat in the last popular election.
He has (list MP by default) devised an ingenious (legally dubious) method to manipulate his entry into the parliament and catapult into becoming the President in 10 days.
I do not know what a crime I have done in my previous life to call him our president?
My resolution never to be born again in Ceylon.
The
Americans have a lot to learn from our system, I beg them to make it
MORE corrupt, so that only the corrupt ascends in power, like in Ceylon.
In that scenario, Democrats are the most corrupt on this planet.
That is why they have sent an investigative team to Ukraine, to do weapon inspection.
What a bright idea after 9 months of shoddy deals and pilfering?
Ukraine is second only to America in corrupt arms deals.
America always comes on top or first in corruption.
60% arms are sold in the black market and the Ukrainians want more and more arms and the war to go on for ever.
Americans love war and no diplomacy is needed.
In America Diplomacy is Dead Meat and they want live ammunition to hunt each other, preferably in global scale.
But
Putin does not believe in live rounds, his general believes in "to rain
in" rockets, some experimental in design for better one to come in a later time, on the course of events, in the history of this globe.
LIE Detection Tape or PACHA Tape
This is a million dollar investment plan.
While I was doing a
chapter on "Lies and Alcohol" and how an alcoholic confabulator creates, an instantaneous lie for the next draft of tot.
The idea of lie detector came first.
It is to insert a "Lie Detection Tape on Our Politicians, starting with Wira Wansa.
Now we are
manufacturing Face Masks for the entire globe, only a little
modification to the manufacturing technique can achieve my goal, for two
reasons.
It needs to be mandated how long one can wear a mask.
In my belief it should be only 20 minutes.
The second is how to dispose it without causing environmental pollution.
My design of the Lie Detection has a color code inserted to the Face Mask..
White illuminance for truth.
Red for a While Lie.
Green for neutral conversation.
It should be located around the mouth and within seconds of a lie, it should dissolve into the mouth with a bitter taste.
One need not cut the tip of the tongue to get Kasthuri (Universal Medicine) out of an offending guy or girl.
This should not be allowed domestically, since the institution called marriage will not last.
In any case one need not wear a mask at home.
The first million doses or million batch should be given to Anthony Fausi for his consumption.
He is a Lie Factory
and he has to finish the lot in one day for the million lies he uttered
for China to go scot free on Coronavirus origin.
One can modify this and copyright is left free.
If we use this
technique in the next general election and the same old guys get elected
we can say this country has only liars and we only love lies like a
confabulating alcoholic.
By the way all our politicians are alcoholics and lying is their professional trade mark.
We need not have television to propagate propaganda of lies.
Origin
of Lies
I
did a little research recently to see at what stage when children
start to lie. With my experience of children under 12 who were at one
stage or another sick, I never felt children (unlike adults) lie
either with symptoms or complaints, especially when they are in
hospital.
For
that matter the best history of appendicitis was obtained from a
child under five, who happened to be one of my professors youngest
child.
It
was a textbook history.
As
a medical student I made my diagnosis without a hitch.
He
said, the pain was there and it is here now, pointing to the left
iliac fossa. I gently kept my hand over the iliac fossa and looked at
his face to see his reaction which was one of fear. I did not
probe anymore but called the senior guy on call. Next thing that
happened was I was given the task of explaining to him the evolving
scenario.
I
decided not to lie but to explain in simple English the next stage of
the hospital stay.
I
explained my own terms that we need to take a little finger
(appendage) like thing inside his tummy out without any further do
and he will be out of hospital soon. We would like to do that in his
sleep and he would not feel any pain or discomfort.
Then,
when he wakes up, his tummy would be little sore with a big plaster
over a little cut where he had pain before.
Without
much a do we took him to the operating theater and all went well in a
matter of hours.
Mixing
words with no meaning is probably the beginning of Grand Old Lies and
it is Grand Old Party Symbol of Ceylon.
Sometimes,
it is the grand old grandfather who confabulates even without a bit
of spirits to elevate his moody moods of old age. With senile
dementia catching up with age there is no return to reality of young
age. He has already forgotten childcare and his childhood memories.
My
maternal grandpa was a real gent but my paternal grandpa was a
different kettle of fish who was indifferent and messed up with his
life and health in general. He had frequent hospital admissions. I
had to go and see him in hospital ever so often.
The
fairy tales (with tails tagged) often of religious verbosity from
Church, Temple, Kovil and Mosque that insinuate the young minds are
an extension of the Lies and Life in particular.
Then
we have the teachers, lawyers and politicians adding their bit to the
global trading of lies.
Every Tom and Dick take their appropriate
place in our history.
Sometimes,
the history itself is a grand old lie concocted long after the demise
of the Kings and the Queens.
Sometimes,
it is the religion, sometimes it is the race and sometimes it is the about the Kings and Queens.
The
young kid begins to realize it is the way of life of adults and why
not I emulate the basic traits.
At
least till the age of 3 years, children do not have the traits of
lies mapped in their brains or in their genes.
It
is the very environment with the mother and the father adding their
little tales like you came out from the belly button that initiate
the grand old lies.
I
often begin to think, even inside the uterus, the foetus hears a good
dose of lies and he or she is not immune to, in his or her fluid
environment that transmit sounds and ultrasounds very well.
The
adults who invent and invest on lies and soon he or she begins to
realize that to get a good school and then later to become a
politician the concepts of lies is the fundamental prerequisite.
From
home to preschool to national school lies get bigger and bigger and
better and better and the entire country is ridden with lies.
The
story that a kid was lost in a balloon illustrates the fact that,
given the opportunity the kids do not lie.
The little kid spilled the
beans when he said, “We did it for a show”.
At
the beginning it was for publicity but later the very survival of the
story was at jeopardy.
With
the election campaign in hot pursuit we must train the next
generation of kids to lie and not get caught like the kid in America.
We must send our kids to America to make Americans learn the tricks of the trade.
Lie
Detection
If
you live in a country where everybody lies, it is very easy to get
sucked up by the smaller lies.
Our
media and daily papers are very good at it.
They
call it editing.
The
editors of our local papers lie for their investors and for political
convenience.
They
best way to avoid lies is not to listen to daily media news or daily
news papers.
I
have been doing that for few years to gather my childhood sanity back
into my life and home.
The
first day of my working life was a big lie.
It
was a police officer who lied to me.
His
consorts were public health inspector, the village headman, school
teacher, coroner and a few others.
All
of them were involved in the killing of the local thug except perhaps
the coroner.
I
later added a few magistrates, into this list.
It
was my postmortem labourer who guided me.
He
said all of them are liars and not to trust them.
From
that day I coined a phrase, “that everything in my working life is
a lie until proven otherwise”.
One
has to be paranoid about it.
Our
lawyers are trained to lie from birth.
That
is why they take up that profession.
I
will finish with a true story.
To
keep you excited, I will not tell you why this guy lied.
I
had a brief practice in Kandy.
One
day a guy came the local residency.
I
was new to this locality then and I did not know anybody except the
pharmacist.
I
visited a few pharmacies and tendered my signature and telephone number
for verification (standard practice abroad).
This
guy wanted whole body X-rays.
I
declined and ordered only a chest X-ray and asked him to come back
with films.
He
did the next day and it was OK and I told him if you need more X-rays
for the money tendered, I could order an I.V.P and that will clear any kidney
problems.
Idea
was to put him off with needles and because of his insistence ordered
an abdominal X-rays and a nasty purgative to go with it.
From
the first day, I had figured out this guy was an impostor of some
sort.
Few
days later he came back with the abdominal X-rays but it was of very
poor quality with lot of gas shadows and he had not taken the purgative as proscribed.
It
confirmed my suspicion.
Then
he laid out the biggest lie of his time to me stating they went to
Ratnapura and the vehicle crashed. between Kegalle and Ruwanwella.
I
asked him the exact location of the crash and put him under duress and he
could not.
I
had worked in Ratnapura and Kegalle and I knew every possible
accident prone location but his location was not verifiable.
I
declined telling him a liar but asked my wife about the family and
she told me not to trust them.
His
father was a bogus M.E.P. candidate in my current locality.
I
refused anymore full body X-rays and a week later, I got a call from
Australia purported to be his relative and an engineer.
I
point blank told him that he was a liar and cannot be an engineer in
Australia.
Australians,
particularly engineers, except perhaps (recent) cricketers are not liars, I
told him.
Later,
I figured out their plan was to get Visa under political
victimization (they did not want to use JVP label but MEP was an easy
victim).
That
brings me to politics and our politicians are the best liars in the
world.
Wait
till the next Presidential election more lies will be laid down (RIP)
and the biggest liar will win.
