Kick these sons of bi.. bishops out now

To those who said that the PA's affair with the JVP will extend the life of the parliament for at least another year, here is a resounding "I told you so.'' Of course "I told you so'' is a sign of incorrigible arrogance. So here again. "I told you so.''

All the political morons and wishful thinkers can now come down from their silly perch, and keep their fingers (and feet too) crossed at election time. Among all the failings of the PA, the worse has got to be that the PA cannot deliver the goods. The growth rates are now .04 per cent, less than a single digit. That's more that in 20 years probably. But the PA and its supporters, who are frequently in cuckoo land, do not understand that these things mean much to people. When you tell them that economic imperatives will force the PA-JVP alliance to collapse inside of two months, they think it's fantastic.

In this way, it doesn't matter that the UNP joins hands even with worse rascals than S. B. Dissanayake to defeat this corrupt, inept inefficient, and most gallingly, utterly hypocritical political alliance.

The UNP has a bunch of rascals no doubt. But, for the past few years, some good voters have harboured the illusion that the PA has the "more benign'' bunch of rascals. The voters will probably overwhelmingly get rid of this illusion this year.

What the PA has is not a more benign bunch of rascals, but a more hypocritical bunch of rascals. Hypocrites galore both in the PA parliamentary group, and its core cabal of supporters honchos and henchmen. But, PA voters too, in one sense, who have bought into the illusion that the "PA is more benign than the UNP,'' also have a hypocritical streak.

Some PA voters think that they vote for the underdog and the downtrodden, when they cast a PA vote. But this in itself, either guided or misguided, is hypocritical thinking. That's because it's the underdog who gets worst hit when the PA comes to power. 0.4 per cent growth rates! These things mean nothing to PA honchos. Then there is that other illusion that the UNP is rapacious and capitalist, and therefore somehow more repressive than the PA.

But it is the PA which, just to give one glaring example, subverted the entire judiciary from top down, and corrupted the judiciary from within as never before. It is as if that arm of the state, the judiciary, as opposed to executive and legislature, doesn't exist anymore. Because politically speaking at least, one is assured of injustice in that place. ( Refer Speaker fiasco.) If J. R. Jayewardene got stones thrown at judges, that was an overt act that could be fought, and was fought at that time. But the PA corrupted the whole judiciary, right from top-down, and refuses to remove the Chief Justice from the Bench pending investigation, when no less a person than the UN rapporteur for the independence of the judiciary has requested the government to do so. But yet, the PA is more benign?

The PA's record of corruption is there for public view, from the extended power cuts, from the top-heavy cabinet, from its blatant election rigging, of which Wayamba became a cause celebre. Which kind of hypocrite is it that says that the PA is benign? It's a particularly odious kind of hypocrite.

The UNP of course is castigated as the "dhanpathi pantiye pakshaya'', and is therefore necessarily supposed to be less people-friendly than the PA. But, as said earlier, it's only a masochistic kind of people who would want to suffer more, under a more hypocritical but "less dhanapathi'' regime such as the PA.

Of course the UNP is full of rascals too, and now S. B. Dissanayake is one of the latest. But, of rascals are our political parties made and that is an unfortunate fact. Between the PA the JVP and the UNP, the last definitely has the least hypocritical bunch of rascals. For me at least, any day, the only thing worse than a hypocrite is a hypocrite who cannot deliver the goods. The PA is, almost to a man, full of hypocrites of that kind.

This is why even hard-core tried and tested foes of capitalism such as Vasudeva Nanayakkara have been at the forefront of the struggle to get this hypocritical corrupt and inefficient bunch out of power _ and if "hypocritical corrupt and inefficient'' somehow sounds a political slogan it is not. It is just the truth about the PA, and therefore _ slogan though it may sound _ it's the only way to describe the PA administration and those who are willingly in cahoots with it.

The other thing about the PA is that it is so weak and inept, that it has delivered the country more firmly into the hands of the IMF World Bank and the so-called "imperialist forces'' _ for want of a better way of putting it. 

That way again, the PA is utterly hypocritical, because it pays lip service to welfarism and such leftist/centrist concepts, but proceeds to deliver the nation, cake like, to imperialist interests.

So, it's right to say, though it smacks of oxymoronism, that "in the name of anti-imperialism, in the name of having a known straight talking capitalist devil against a devious hypocritical capitalist one ( allied to a new hypocritical devil which tried to prop it up) - kick this bunch of rogues and their hangers-on out at this forthcoming polls.'' And if you still don't want to vote for the UNP, at least go spoil your vote.