Hulugalle (center) at the MCNS in 2010.
Every now and then you get a soap opera without turning on the TV. In this case, what seems to be an affair between a government catcher and the wife of a businessman has blown up into 23 transferred police officers, public letters to the papers and the dissolution of the Media Center For National Security (MCNS).
Sri Lanka is generally laissez-faire about public figures and their sexuality. Duminda Silva had a serious case of statutory rape, Ranil Wickremesinghe is widely acknowledged to be gay, and it seems to be the default for politicians to have affairs. These things are not really reported on. On one level this is good, as dragging human foible into what should be a job sometimes keeps talented people out of that work. On another level, however, the tolerance for rape and abuse of power is abominable and we only see the tip of the iceberg there.
In this case, it’s not really whether Lakshman Hulugalle and Sudharma Neththikumara had an affair. That’s, quite frankly, their business and I only mention their names because it’s already all over the papers. The issue is, however, that Hula (as he’s being called) seems to have ordered 23 police officers transferred for raiding an illegal Neththikumara gambling den. The more salacious details emerged in a letter from Gamini Neththikumara, the husband, alleging that Hula’s security would basically occupy his house. Mahinda’s response to this mess has been to dissolve the MCNS, even though (as Ravaya pointed out), it has been allocated Rs. 24 million in the 2014 budget.
The press has really only blown this open since the opposition brought it up, which I think is ultimately a good thing. Hulugalle has conducted a fascinatingly terse interview with the Nation while Gamini Neththikumara has blown it all up in the Sunday Times.
It is also, of course, blowing up in the gossip columns, but – the romantic scandal aside – it is good to see someone finally getting pulled up for abuse of power. For a while it seemed that anyone was immune to anything, as long as you were loyal. Now it seems there are limits to loyalty. Of course the traditional Sri Lankan loop after this sort of scandal is to lay low and eventually come back. Still, it is nice to see the undeservedly mighty laid low, even if only for a time.
We were starved of some excitement since the CHOGM controversy……
You know, the one good thing you can say about Goebbels is that he didn’t fuck around.
” Goebbels is that he didn’t fuck around.”
LMFAO. You must be special kind of stupid.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345551/Joseph-Goebbelss-sexual-conquests-detailed-new-biography.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8247909/Joseph-Goebbels-the-Casanova-of-the-Nazis.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
Geez. I didn’t know any of that. I guess only being aware of man’s ideas and being completely unaware of his sex life is something only straight men experience.
Dunno. Don’t have an idea about how Homosexuals feel about things.
But Goebbels sex life is a part of Goebbels life which is a part of history.
You don’t have to be an gossipmonger or homosexual to be interested in history.
Why, aren’t you aware of your own feelings? See, when the I read about a historical person’s life, I usually read about their public life. If it’s a politician, I read about their political life. I don’t go and read two articles on the internet that are devoted to exposing that person’s sex life. If this was a person living now, this is the kind of thing that you’d read in a tabloid. Since this person lived in the past, this is the kind of thing that would have made it into tabloids of the day. So basically, you are a tabloid reader. That’s pretty gay.
Why, aren’t you aware of your own feelings? See, when the I read about a historical person’s life, I usually read about their public life. If it’s a politician, I read about their political life. I don’t go and read two articles on the internet that are devoted to exposing that person’s sex life. If this was a person living now, this is the kind of thing that you’d read in a tabloid. Since this person lived in the past, this is the kind of thing that would have made it into tabloids of the day. So basically, you are a tabloid reader. That’s pretty gay..
Now now Sharanga, acting like a stupid teenage girl is not going to help you much.
I really don’t know what types of history books you read but they are probably the ones that suits you. Read the Wikipedia article then.
But I really didn’t knew that you would become a homosexual by reading the Wikipedia or Speers “Inside the Third Reich”.
Now now Sharanga, acting like a stupid teenage girl is not going to help you much.
I really don’t know what types of history books you read but they are probably the ones that suits you. Read the Wikipedia article then.
But I really didn’t knew that you would become a homosexual by reading the Wikipedia or Speers “Inside the Third Reich”.
I think this is yet another conspiracy of western countries to tarnish the good name of Sri Lanka and our great leaders. Hula is innocent so as Suda.
Err..Actually its stupid teenage girls who read the stuff you’ve linked to if they lived in that time. No you don’t become homosexual by reading Wikipedia or Inside the Third Reich. But you indicate such tendencies when you have read two articles, one titled “Hitler’s club-footed propaganda chief had scores of affairs, reveals historian” and the other “Joseph Goebbels: the ‘Casanova of the Nazis'”. I’m also pretty sure that you didn’t get this Casanova shit from Speer’s book because there was none of that shit in it and both the articles refers to a book written by Longerich very recently. I’m pretty sure you didn’t read that because otherwise you would’ve dropped its name here instead of Speer’s work.
So, your Google Search history must look something like this,
Goebbels sex
Goebbels had sex with many women
Goebbles + Casanova
Goebbles + was he gay
Goebbles + are you still alive?
I think Lal is right. Maybe even Channel 4 and its local agents are behind it.
Those two articles I got from google purely for your consumption since you don’t seem to have done you homework before posting here.
I got my info from wikipedia and Speers book.
BTW since those articles were written based on a book by Peter Longerich (history professor), are you actually saying that he also exhibits “stupid teenage girly” and “homosexual” tendencies?
According to you anyone who’s even reads those kind things has such tendencies.
So what about the people who do research to uncover those things and write books about them. I mean, according to your logic they must full of those “tendencies”.
And am I really supposed to be a stupid little girl and homosexual at the same time?
The only importance of Gobels affairs that I see is that he did those things (casting couches, affairs, etc.) while preaching about the evil Jews who seduce gentile woman.