A Gamble is a Gamble

Winning or losing is an afterthought

by Wakeley Paul, December 28, 2006

"A gamble is a gamble..." PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSE thrives on this phylosophy, while we Tamils are governed  by the hardened reality that - until God chooses  to reveal the future to mankind - all our wisdom is based on two words, wait and hope.

Beyond this moment is the rest of time, during which we are committed to prevent the Sinhalese from boring into our rights and lands like weavils in a biscuit. We cannot and will not forget the fact that  they are like a giant cobra wrapped around the island.

The grant of Independence to the Sinhalese by the British turned into an attitude of insular arrogance. They developed the belief that they are the bosses and we are their subordinates.. They assume this falacious idea that - like the Pope - they are infallible and divine, when in fact they are a bunch of virgins in the political wilderness. Like the mafia, they believe they have a right to fill the power vacuum everywhere. They deliberately avoid the realization that the suspicious are ungovernable.. They remain continually ignorant of the fact that they have taken away any spark of faith we Tamils could have had in them..

The Sinhalese have delberately muddied the historical waters to justify their irrationality.and stick to this nonsense like granite. They are a perfect example of a people riddled with contradictions, claiming with one voice that they are an ideal democracy, while delighting in engaging in discrimination to maintain their  political superiority.

In short, their attitude toward us is nuclear.  They are convinced that Buddhism is in every pot and pan. They are convinced that they have opened up new apostolic horizons. They will never cease to grasp at  whisks of smoke to justify their dreary determination that they are just and justified in whatever they do.

Their right to rule us is in tatters. We have to put an end to it.

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