Beware the White Van

I have always been disturbed by the way this country is run. I have been at a loss for words to describe what I feel. Because I always felt it should be described in specific socio political neoclassical modernistic and God knows what jargon. Explained intellectually to put it another way. But screw that! I am not some reporter, I am not some election observer or uptight piss arse politically correct writer, and I can’t explain it intellectually because I am NOT a bloody intellectual! I am just an average guy trying to fucking LIVE in this place. I have many, many grievances. And I don’t give a shit if you think they are irrelevant, or unpatriotic, or cowardly, or that I am an attention freak. Because I am pissed off and I am shouting about it!



First, our sad excuse for a president. That great lummox of an idiot should not have been elected. Let me express my heartfelt scorn to every single person out there who voted for him. Hopefully you did not know what kind of monster you were creating. It was shameful the way he won (because of the restriction of voting in the north, where he would have lost), and it is bloody shameful the way he is running this country.



Shameful I say! Do I need to elaborate? Fine I will. Take Mervyn Silva, everybody’s favorite neighborhood thug. How many atrocities has he committed? Why is that devil-spawn still on the loose? Take corruption. It is rampant. It is open. The president’s government does not give a rat’s ass who sees what they do. They’ve scared everyone with the war. Sure they’ve made advances in that respect, but they are using it to fill up their own pockets, expecting people to put up and shut up as long as they keep kicking the asses of the Tigers.



This is crazy, and I am continuously surprised as to why we put up with this whole fiasco. This circus of a government. They are like a pack of locusts swarming around a dying animal, the dying animal being our country. And the reason it is dying is because of the activity of its people! Yes. It’s people. The politicians are not different from a country’s people. They are the upstarts who take the lead to come to the forefront to lead us and then they lead us all down the road to still more suffering, pain and deprivation of basic human rights. We voted for them (I didnt, but we did). What the fuck were we thinking?



Wait a minute. Did you just say human rights? What’s that? We are not familiar with that term. What? You have a complaint? On the violation of human rights? By a government official? Oh, by a politician, okay. But how can someone violate human rights when they don’t know what it means? Please go and register the term in the National Vocabulary Institute for recognition in Sri Lanka and please wait 6 years while they do the appropriate research to determine its exact meaning and then another 4 years while they review its appropriateness for use in this country. Then another 5 years for parliamentary review and another 2 for presidential approval. Then come back.



In the meanwhile we will continue to deploy our white vans and abduct random Joes like you for various reasons and torture you before deciding whether to kill you or let you go. We will also go onto abduct whoever we want for ransom to fund the country’s ‘war effort’ while actually channeling those monies towards various offshore bank accounts and proceed to kick out of the country any discerning organization or person who tries to stop us. Because we don’t know any better see?



Things are going at a crazy pace. To a crazy place no doubt. But I feel it’s crazy enough as it is. I wonder if this post is crazy enough to warrant a white van of my own? Now that’ll be some negative feedback.