Many versions of the Aluthgama
riots actually bother dD. Their premise was somehow that all this violence is
justified. An eye for an eye thing. Today was particularly a bother as the taxi
driver bringing dD home was seriously racist.
Clever wordsmiths will provide many
versions of the facts. dD feels that by the very fact front line media paused
on reporting the facts, social media and speculation were the only vehicles of
information for the general public.
You can't blame social media or the
rumour mongrels (Intended), everything happens in real time, gone are the days
you have to wait to read the paper or watch the evening news to be informed.
Most of us are logged in all the time to social media.
On a personal note, dD has of
course by choice spent one third of dDs life in the west. A humbling experience
for dD on how a minority in any country feels like.
Pot smoking, rabbi loving, halal
eating, vodka drinking, pork eating and bacon loving Sinhala Buddhist dD maybe,
but dD abhors any type of racism from anybody. dDs in Sri Lanka because dD
honestly believes that our country has a future.
Fighting amongst ourselves is not
going to help that.
Its wrong that priests had to intervene
on a matter for the Poleece. Even in vibrant democracies public demonstrations
are kettled and the violators brought to justice by law.
Many are the pictures we see of
protesters in the west bashed on the heads with clubs and dragged away by the
Poleece. The Poleece in the west actually electrocute protesters by tazing them
with over 20,000 volts of electricity. dD's saying it's not right, but what
happened in Aluthgama was a matter purely for the Poleece. Not to electrocute
citizens, but to resolve and disperse.
Yes, dD's also crazy enough to
imagine a Sri Lanka like Lennon sang about in his song. All the people in Sri
Lanka living life in peace.
STOP Violence
STOP Racism
Build toilets in India
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