Rajpal's Column

Arms deals busted in Sri Lanka

Scenario: President Chandrika Kumaratunga comes on national television, at the exact time that the private television channel, ( you know which) is broadcasting the tapes which clearly contain footage of Sri Lankan Army and Defence top brass taking bribes for procuring combat equipment.

She says :

"This television channel belongs to the Opposition leader's brother. Look what these dirty journalists are doing now. They are taking this so called exposure from a Internet Website, about our gallant armed forces.

And they are splashing it all over the place. This Website belongs to a journalist who can be bought for a bottle of Red Label. Actually a bottle of Arrack would do. 

This sort of journalism is not done anywhere in the world. We have instructed the Attorney General to file a criminal defamation suit. This Kehelkan.Com is using totally unethical methods to trap our gallant forces personnel who are at the moment engaged in fighting a dangerous war against the nations enemies. 

They don't know anything about journalistic ethics. I was also once an Editor of a newspaper, and we never resorted to these Kehelkan methods. 

Are these responsible journalists, pretending to set up an arms company selling arms to our gallant forces? 

This arms company is fictitious. I told the Attorney General about it, and he says that setting up a fictitious company is against the companies act. I' m now in touch with a top legal team to discover ways of filing legal action against these Website pathrakarayas, who have abused the journalistic freedom that has been given by this government after the UNP suppressed these freedoms for 17 years. I told the Deputy Defence Minister also about it. 

These people have nothing better to do than try to sling mud at this government. Now the opposition is using Websites to harass me. 

My Deputy Minister of Finance wants me to burn these Websites. As a government, we can do that, but we will not do that. Unlike the UNP, we have allowed a free press to function. But, we will take legal action against these Websites, because they are traitors.

We know that most right thinking persons are now thinking of destroying these Websites and the people who are behind them. We cannot blame people for being inflamed about these traitorous scams by those who are slinging mud at me and my government. And my Deputy Minister of Defence. 

I have not spoken to the people about the harassment meted out to me by the irresponsible media in this country which is abusing the freedom that's been given to them. But I decided to come out, because now they have created Websites to attack our gallant forces and our whole Defense Establishment.''

If our Defence deals had been exposed by a Sri Lankan Website, Minister S. B. Dissanayake will say:

I will not allow anybody to use computers in this country. We can do it. It is in the interests of national security. These sites are having a demoralizing effect on our armed forces, and we will even get rid of the internet soon.

If our Defence deals had been exposed by a Sri Lankan Website, the Daily News will say :

Police are now, on an anonymous tip off, investigating Khelkan . Com's publisher for accessing pornographic sites through the Worldwide Web. Police are hot on the trail of the Kehelkan boss's accessing of pornography through the World Wide Web.

Kehelkan.Com which has traitorously inveigled some of the nations top soldiers into accepting bribes, is actually run by boozing men, whose amorality was exposed by President Kumaratunga who said yesterday in an Emergency address to the nation that "Kehelkan.com's publisher can be bought for a bottle of Red Label – even arrack."

Meanwhile amidst all this, students of Kanishta Balika Vidyalaya in Ambalangoda went in a massive demonstration yesterday saying that the Kehelkan.com portal be burned, and it's publisher and Editor be held accountable for their crimes against the nation. 

Four weeks after our Defence deals had been exposed by a Sri Lankan Website, the Sri Lankan public will say: 

Everybody knows the Defence establishment takes bribes; we saw it on video very clearly no? But, you see, this Kehelkan fellow is also no saint. He has been drinking Red Label and all these things. S. B thinks he can close down the Internet. Ha ha ha. 

But you see already I couldn't access Hotmail yesterday. I think like tapping telephones, the government has started tapping the Internet. All this because of these Kehelkan. Com fellows.

Eka navai, Machang, what's the score ah, Sangakkara out da?
 

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