Living in a Fool’s Paradise

With no disrespect to the position of the President, we citizens are convinced that the Incumbent President is clearly ‘living in a fool’s paradise’. Sadly he wants others also to believe him’ forgetting that the new generation is far more advanced and brainy than the generation that he belongs to.

Firstly, in his budget speech he is ridiculously trying to put the blame for invading the Presidential Residence and Office, by a mammoth crowd, months back, on to Kumar Gunaratnam of the ‘Peratugami’ Party. The attached picture shows hundreds of thousands of suffering public taking part in these protests. Some other Pohottuwa eccentric stooges called them drug addicts. If Gunaratnam can organize such a big crowd, he is a powerful man. RW does not say a word about the enormous sufferings by the masses at that time and even now, about the fuel shortages, gas queues, power interruptions, unemployment due to industries being closed down, collapsed health and transport services, collapsed fisheries and education facilities and above all, shortage of basic food including bread, rice and dhal and many more leading the Society to a “living hell’, all due to the corrupt leaders who fleeced the country’s wealth.

Our simpleton president wants citizens to believe that people rioted by a “clarion” call by a hardly known political activist whom the President says is a dual citizen. I call this statement by RW as the joke of the century. He is simply trying to cover up Rajapaksas who made him a puppet king.

Mr. President, my advice to you as a professional in late eighties, is not to talk rubbish and expect people to believe you in this hour of crisis but to keep your mouth locked up without making yourself another “Mahadenamutta” who ordered to cut the goat’s head to recover the pot as the legend goes.