Don’t Give The Government Money
They suck. The government is drawing up plans to ban reconstruction of the coast for up to 300 metres. That is the dumbest thing I have heard in a while. Beach gets hit by Tsunami. Never go to beach again. We should all move to the mountains and wear diapers and scuba gear at all times. Travel to California should also be banned. Actually, planes are kinda sketchy too. I don’t know why we have those.
These are some other jack-ass things the government has banned:
- Color Photocopiers: Cause we might counterfit money. Do you know how many Rupees you’d have to print to buy anything? The biggest functional note is worth $10.
- Private Helicopters: Terrorists! Or superheroes like Harrison Ford who could’ve saved some people.
- Shortwave Radios: Terrorists! Or rescue workers, but who can tell?
- SB Dissanayake: Cause if you criticize the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court will put you in jail.
- Community Radio: Cause community means communism… but wait, the government is communist. Socialist really, but it includes the ‘I Like The Red Flags’ wing of the Communists. Perhaps they just had no idea what they were doing. Nalaka drew my attention to this (below)
If you’re giving donations don’t give to the Prime Minister or President’s fund. Please don’t encourage them. Anyone can ban stuff. We need people to build.
I started off not really liking General Sarath Fonseka, him being part of the aggressive war effort. I didn’t support the war (largely cause I thought it would fail), and I thought Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Fonseka were gleefully stomping everything. Fonseka even came out and said “I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people,” in 2008 (
General Sarath Fonseka was arrested on a bunch of trumped up charges, but mainly for daring to threaten Mahinda in a Presidential election. Despite his poor health, Fonseka was arrested in February 2010 and sentence to three years. Word on the street now, however, is that he’ll be released soon. Like any day now. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told 
I’ve been testing a lot of apps. A very interesting one is iPlayboy, from Playboy magazine. It’s bad porn but a good magazine, especially since you can read issues from its cultural heyday – the Mad Men era of the 60s.
I’m going to get back to blogging. I buy a shitload of stuff on my iPad. Not that I like spending money, and the exchange rate terrifies me, but it’s just so easy, and so good. For example, I’ve been reading comics again. Spiderman, and 
Wel said, Indi. Extremely well said. It is not just the current government in office, but ALL Sri Lankan governments in living memory have demonstrated utter stupidity when it comes to coping with crisis – the war, disasters, or any other. In fact, anarchy seems preferable to this kind of gross mis-government. A woe on to all the politicians and political parties!
Among the other things successive governments in Sri Lanka have disallowed is community radio, saying it can endanger national security! My foot! National security is the catch-all excuse for all cowardly governments that cannot even properly defend/justify their internal contradictions. Community radio has been allowed in recent times – to a limited extent – in Bangladesh as a means of broadcasting disaster warnings to the people. Would Sri Lanka now allow community radio? We have never had community radio in this country.
Keep up the good work!
[...] the popular ‘When In Doubt, Ban’ policy. For more see my extended post on the government sucking. I did some Googling and apparently the Queen President [...]
[...] where the Tsunami hit and that’s where the affected people are. The government has banned reconstruction on all land within 100 meters. It is, in effect, finishi [...]
Hopefully these gys are not informed enough. You guys must learn on matters relavent before posting in public forums like this. There is no ban on color photocopiers, I have one at home too. Private helicopters are not allowed considering the puclic safety. If a suiciding terrosist flies a helicopter laiden with explosives to a city like Colombo, how can detect it? How can stop it? Conventionally, radar is used to detect all flying objects, but unfortunately, you cann’t either identify unknown craft or detect explosives on board. You are talking about california beach. I bet you are typing all this nonsense being in USA. US$10 = Rs 1000, but one pound of egg plant is US$2 = Rs 200 in USA. But is Sri Lanka one pound is about Rs 15. Be careful when you make unknown comparisons. I don’t want to waste my time to explain SB’s uncivilized statement. Anybody can challenge/criticize supreme court decisions like civilized humans in an accepted manner, not like a paraiya.