I would suggest that it be slightly updated to be accurate after the election, and put on this site in PowerPoint Show format. I’d like to download it and email it around to people, it’s a very good way to educate people about the economics of electing Mahinda.

Is that possible?

Latest Popularity Analysis by SNAD

The Winner is Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa
This is a graphical representation of popularity Analysis. The sample inlcluded were mainly done from day to day commuters. Each person was given two to three question depeding on their their choice to select the preference between Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickramasinghe.

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For these extremists, the sooner all the non-Christian “pagan” and “Satan-inspired” religions perish or are annihilated, the better the world will be; a rather fanatical, nazi-esque position if there ever was one. By sending evangelist teams around the world and setting up shop in non-Christian majority countries, these evangelist organisations work to destroy the pillars of religious coexistence and tolerance and erect their own pillars of religious supremacy and intolerance in those countries. And Sri Lanka is just another one of their many targets – yet another country “infested with evil pagans” who need to be brought to the “light of Jesus Christ.”

With the kind of mentality explained above, these evangelists have no qualms about using whatever means necessary to gain converts. As they have invaded countries that may not be wealthy, and as is the case in Sri Lanka, they use material inducements to convert the poor and destitute non-Christians to Christianity. For them, buying souls for their God is not an issue, but the tally of supposedly “saved souls” is. Conversion today has become a big business with big bucks behind it, and, unfortunately, the world we live in appears a battle ground for the Christian evangelists where the competitors are not only the non-Christian religions but rival Christian sects as well.

And to them, all is fair in war. Encouraging new converts to smash statues of the Buddha and Hindu gods and godesses, burn pictures of the Buddha and Hindu gods and godesses, burn Dharma books and renounce “pagan” cultural activities are all considered suitable methods of propagating Christanity. Giving potential child converts biscuits fashioned in the shape of a Buddha image, and encouraging the kids to eat them while preaching Christianity do not strike the evangelists as insensitive and indecent. And following in the footsepts of the colonials in Sri Lanka, these cash-rich evangelists offer food, money and employment to convince poor Sri Lankans to convert to Christianity, asserting that it is the Christian God that is the harbinger of prosperity and that it is the “Satan-inspired” Buddhist/Hindu/Muslim traditions that continue to keep them in poverty.

It is no wonder that many Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and moderate Christians are simply apalled at the way the evangelists carry out their proselytism, and are extremely worried about the impact it will have on religious harmony in this country. It can already be seen that the provocative activities of Christian evangelists have led to the destabilsation of peace and harmony among the various religious communities, and if these evangelists continue with their unethical and iconoclastic methods of proselytism the situation is bound to get worse. Sri Lanka could very well do without these people who are hell-bent on creating a religious imbroglio in this beautiful island.

a weak and incompetent government is jvp ‘s aim. if you read unbiased histories of so called socialist revolutions you will see that most are in fact sort of coups, not by the military (military on those cases at least initially do nothing because of low morale and even less loyalty to government) but by a small armed group. that is certainly what happed in 1917 october on russia, the more or less democratically elected government that came to power after february 1917 was dependent on socialist parties (bolsheviks were not even the largest socialist party) for survival thus weak and incompetent.

let us hope nothing similar happens here.

MR has organisational and administrative skills which are useful as an MP but he lacks a wider vision. Like CBK in 1994, he probably comes in with good intentions, but his thinking is narrow and parochial and he has no grasp of either economics or the wider political environment.

On his own, he would be merely incompetent, which is bad enough given the fragile state of the country. With the JVP pushing a communist agenda and the JHU pushing an isolationist one he becomes positively dangerous.

Driven by desparation, fearing a lack of support within his own party, he has cobbled togther an alliance, made promises thatare either impossible or contradictory.

If he does get elected, the whole thing is goingto dissolve into one sticky mess. My greatest fear is that the JVP, a scurvy band of opportunists, will exploit this for their own ends.

You’re nothing but a facist when you censor free speech. And here you are screaming and wailing at others about being “undemocratic.” Do you know the world “hypocrite”? If not, check out a dictionary. If you’re afraid of free speech and discussion then close down your comments sections. Otherwise you are inviting comments on your rantings and ravings.

If you can’t hack people exposing your bald, pathetic arguments and showing off all the holes, then why not turn off the comments section?

And there you go again…. deleting and banning yet AGAIN.

Are you that afraid of having your thoughts pushed?

I mean really Indi? You’ve been on a deleting spree.