Nein Fuhrer! This guy wants a blooming Hitler
MEIN HEAVEANS! To what new hell’s depths can Lanka further descend? If the present economic, political, social chaos was not enough to damn Lanka to kingdom come, then to make the tragedy complete, a SLPP State Minister chose this week to concur with what he thought were the wishes of the voters that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa become a Hitler incarnate.
In an amazing exhibition of his fascist belief that only an iron fist and a studded jackboot can prevent Sri Lanka’s slippery slide into anarchy, State Minister Dilum Amunugama revealed his gross ignorance of the manifest lessons of history when he called upon the duly elected President to swerve from the democratic course and apply the Hitler solution to halt the country’s worsening crisis.
Speaking from his hometown Kandy, former Foreign Minister Sarath Amunugama’s nephew, Dilum opened his exhaust and spelt out his recipe for total disaster thus:
‘’If the people are blaming the government for its lack of progress, they do because the people voted President Rajapaksa into power expecting him to play the part of a dictator and get things done. Even the Maha Sangha expressed the same sentiments. They said it does not matter even if he becomes a Hitler. But today they are blaming him for not becoming a Hitler. This is the root cause for him to be blamed. Even I believe that. ‘
‘’The 6.9 million who voted for him believe he should be a Hitler. He is being blamed for not doing that. I don’t think the President wants to be a Hitler at once. But if he is pushed to become a Hitler due to the actions of various groups, he will turn into a Hitler and then no one will blame him. Everything will be fine.’
The State Minister’s flight of fascist fancy was immediately cut down by Ven. Muruttettuwe Ananda Thera, the custodian of the Mahinda Rajapaksa temple.
The venerable monk said: ‘’We don’t think President Gotabaya will become a Hitler on any grounds. Truth be spoken, the Rajapaksas are a group of leaders who worked against Hitlers. We don’t know whether the minister made such comments to get credits from anyone or to destroy the country. We do not know that and we condemn such statements. This is a land the Buddha has visited thrice and our Dhamma is based on kindness. No one can boast or claim that 6.9 million votes were received because of him. Only Mahinda Rajapaksa can make that claim. The addition has only been 500,000 votes but now that vote base is gone. After the leadership of Mahinda Rajapaksa we have no idea as to who we should stand with. ‘’
But let’s hear from a man whose immediate forefathers would have experienced first-hand the full brunt of Nazi horror. The German Ambassador to Lanka, Holger Seubert tweeted on Tuesday:
‘’I am hearing claims that say "being Hitler" could be beneficial to Sri Lanka today. Let me remind those voices that Adolf Hitler was responsible for human suffering and despair beyond imagination, with millions having been massacred. Definitely, he can never be a role model of any politician!”
The State Minister of Vehicle Regulation, Bus Transport Services and Train Compartments and Motor Car Industry, Dilum Amunugama should stay put in his compartment belted, regulating bus timetables and conducting vehicle emissions, instead of driving headlong into the buffets, flying the Nazi Swastika and hailing the most hated man in history since World War II, as the ideal role model President Rajapaksa should aspire to be and, to paraphrase the words of Milton in his Paradise Lost, ‘sole reigning to hold the tyranny of Lanka.’