Former shotgun terrorist appointed to the PSC to impeach Chief Justice

( November 11, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The government announced on the 8th the members appointed to the Parliamentary Select Committee to probe the impeachment motion against Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice Mrs. Shirani Bandranaike.

All the ministers appointed are known cronies of the government, who lacks broader perspectives or have any credibility to reflect beyond their prejudices. They are the Ministers Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Nimal Siripala De Silva, Susil Premajayantha, Dr, Rajitha Senaratne, Wimal Weerawansa, Dilan Perera and Deputy Minister Neomal Perera appointed to the PSC.

Most of the Ministers and parliamentarians are part of an embodiment of corruption and have become mega rich at the expense of the very same people who have elected them to power.

By appointing the former shotgun terrorist Wimal Weerawanse, who had not gone through a much needed rehabilitation process (or even a thorough psychiatric treatment)  accorded to the government branded LTTE terrorists, the government has jettisoned the very independence and legal maturity needed for appointments to such an important PSC.

Wimal Weerawanse’s political life since the end of JVP terrorism in the late 1990’s is riddled with eccentric  discharge of venom, hatred and embodied in corruption. His anti Tamil - anti India - anti UN - anti US stance of setting free his hatred publicly are his only special qualifications to his failed shotgun terrorism during JVP rebellions.

The Rajapakse & Co, will not appoint Ministers with professorial standing, knowing very well the outcome of the PSC will not be favourable to extend their family agenda. The well known professors in the parliament like Prof. G L Peiris, Prof. Tissa Vitharane and Prof Rajiva Wijesinghe are sidelined to get an outcome with the unconventional persons like the potty Wimal Weerawanse. The government knows the professors will support the inexorable decision of the mavericks outright as they too have lost their scruples in their compromising deals with the Rajapalse & Co.

The state of governance in Sri Lanka is progressively eroding as the President thinks his power base is embedded in the lumpan lot who are there to scream and shout for him at grass root level. These elements are plentiful in the Sri Lanka parliament.

There are many more cheeps in the parliament. They are Champika Ranawake, Udaya Gamanpillai, Mervin Silva, Douglas Devananda, Raul Hakeem and LTTE’s Col Karuna  who will wash the dirty linen for Mahinda & Co., in public at any cost.

The lines have been drawn and if the judiciary become affirmative on the abuse of power of the Executive and Legislature, any case involving the government on violence, corruption and governance issues will have serious consequences for the confrontational politics of Rajapakse & Co.

There was only one newspaper - the ‘Sunday Leader’ that exposed the inherent corruption of the successive governments. The Editor in Chief Lasantha Wikramasinghe was sent to heaven in the broad day light in the heart of Colombo and his successor Fredrika Janz sent to exile for good recently and the only hurdle government faces now is the judiciary. It has decided to give a hammer blow to its head, the Chief Justice, so that the other judges will tow its line in the judicial decision making.

It is the Sunday Leader under the able Chief Editorship of Lasantha Wickramatunga that exposed the massive fraud of house building of the shotgun terrorist Wimal Weerawanse. The paper also revealed how the shot gun terrorist village manike (wife) was becoming posh! posh!! attending beauty parlours to compete with the other minister’s wives.

If Lasantha is alive, he would have fearlessly dissected the Kommission Kaakas of the government including Rajapakse & Co., who are involved in crude money laundering activities and cashing in on ever escalating percentage terms and how they are hiding their ill gotten money in the Chinese banks for their use in the rainy days when politics turn adverse for them.

There is no doubt the white vans and gun totters will go on their rounds against any judges crossing the lines of Mahinda & Co., once the impeachment process is over and the path is clearly set for the family cronyism and mega corruption deals to continue unchecked if the judiciary succumb to the well planned hammer blow of Mahinda & Co.