I can see clearly, why can’t you?
The real battle is common sense
against nonsense, and at present nonsense is winning.
If you watch or listen to news you are
part of the nonsense crowd and if you read a paper and are able to pick and
choose what you wish to read, then you may just about have in iota of
commonsense to see the wood from the trees.
Most people do not read, and so are force
fed news as if from a bottle, being unable to decipher fact from fiction,
blissfully unaware of the particular agenda of that particular news
broadcaster, believing fake news as a matter of absolute truth!
Once 4/21 happened, the level of fake
news, especially anti-Muslim rhetoric has expanded, and people I would never
dream of circulating such arrant claptrap disburse this rubbish as a matter of
pride! I am simply disgusted and there is no one in authority to contravene the
obvious inaccuracy, and the farfetched hyperbola of the exaggerated and totally
irrational claims that are made.
For example, that the media channels,
newspapers included continue to knowingly add to the Dr Shafi case by piling on
the complainant numbers without any reference to even if any of the supposed patients
had ever met or been entrusted to Dr Shafi’s care. Now that the whole
allegation has proved to be fabricated, no one least of all the Police are even
willing to call a press conference to state they made a gross mistake due to
false allegations, resulting in them chasing a red herring.
Why is no one willing to take this on
the chin and call a spade a spade? They want to pass the buck, but who to is
the problem.
With the latest supposedly, incontrovertible
statements made by the Chief Prelate of the Asgiriya Chapter, whom most Buddhists
will believe as gospel, unquestionably being a load of bullshit, our faith in
the fabric of authority has been dashed.
It is now worth remembering that the
Unconstitutional Coup of the President should have resulted in impeachment and
then a case leading to conviction for treason and the death sentence given to
Sirisena, not being acted upon, has resulted in a death row inmate making
statements in his guise as President of Sri Lanka, that makes a real mockery of
authority as well as the decisions being taken. No telling how many jailbirds
are in places of authority ruling over us and making the wrong decisions on our
behalf.
Returning to the nonsense common
sense argument again. Who are you?
Given the above background it now has
become all too clear why nonsense seems to have traction, and common sense
disappears. Everyone who is using their bully pulpit is talking nonsense, with
common sense not being given any hearing, as either the people who have it, don’t
believe it is worth their while to even simply explain their point of view,
because they don’t believe anyone has the common sense to decipher right from
wrong. Hence, that they do not bother.
Leadership is afraid of telling the
truth, or of pulling out the person who is making unfounded allegations that
are blatant lies. The Asgiriya prelate’s position is a case in point, which
people are afraid to counter and show it for its unfounded bias. While I am no
fan of Mangala Samaraweera, at least give the devil his due, he challenged his
position as being entirely false and without any foundation, and frankly
against the law of the land, as of inciting racial hatred.
So who has the courage to indict him
under the law of the land? No one. He has broken the law in front of millions
of people, and he is untouchable. How would you feel in a minority, where every
word you say is picked upon and if any word or saying contradicts the law you
are liable to immediate arrest, incarceration and prosecution.
That journalist remanded for writing
about the behavior of Buddhist Priests, was telling the truth, but imprisoned
for belittling the religion of the land. Freedom of speech does not apply if
the behavior of some religious of the main religion in the land is questioned. We
must accept shortcomings of any religion, as being not unusual, so that we
strive to overcome them, not sweep under a carpet.
A person with common sense DOES NOT WISH
to get embroiled in an unwinnable case, where the justice system does not back
the righteous, but the criminal. This is the classic case then when the law
becomes the ASS itself and rules over us all. Then common sense has gone the
way of the fountain pen!
We can avoid this if at least one arm of
the law, such as the police are capable of enforcing the law of the land as it
stands today, and prosecute all comers who break the law. Then we will not have
people up and down the Country inciting racial hatred, and getting away Scot-free,
while Muslims with minor transgressions are filling prisons, and their cases
not fast tracked to be resolved, so innocent people have their charges dropped immediately
and released.
The anger at this mistreatment is going to
blow up sooner rather than later, and the consequences to Sri Lanka are dire.
Another case of being caught napping when all indications are, “the odds are
too high that trouble is imminent.”
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