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| Anti gun-ban US lobbyists flood SL Mission with mail
The National Rifle Association (NRA), one of the most influential political lobbying groups in the United States, is leading a virulent campaign to literally flood the Sri Lanka Mission to the UN with letters, postcards and e-mail messages protesting an upcoming conference on small arms to be chaired by Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam. At last count, he had received over 77,000 letters and post cards -- most of them arriving at the staggering rate of about 4,000 per day. The message is virtually identical in what appears to be a rigidly coordinated letter-writing and hate-mail campaign for which the NRA is notorious in this country. "As chairman of the upcoming gun-ban conference, you should know Americans like me have over 230 years of experience defeating the anti-freedom aims of petty tyrants and powerful dictators alike," reads one letter. Ambassador Kariyawasam says the NRA campaign is totally misguided because the conference, scheduled to take place on June 26 through July 7, is not aimed at banning small arms or controlling weapons that are legally manufactured, purchased or traded in conformity with national laws. |
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