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Reasons I love Mihin Lanka Airlines…

January 17, 2008 at 9:46 pm · Categories: Colombo, Disaster Management, English | by The Under Dog

By Under Dog

Let me count the ways:

I love the way you worked for the benefit of the nation by busting through 1.4 billion rupees of public funds in 9 months.

I love the way you used 385 million rupees worth of fuel from the CPC without paying for it.

I love the way you convinced the Treasury (public funds) to pay off the fuel debt on your behalf.

I love the way you drove Lankaputhra Development Bank (founded with public funds to make small loans to small businesses) into insolvency by ‘borrowing’ 500 million rupees from it.
I love the way you plan to utilize synergies (steal profits away) by rationalizing routes (taking routes from) Sri Lankan airlines.
I love the way you take off with bits and pieces missing from an engine: “heck, most of it is there, it’ll fly” and the “Mayday! Mayday!” that facilitates speedy entry for unscheduled stop-overs.

Frankly, what’s not to love about Mihin Lanka Airlines?

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JM said,

January 17, 2008 @ 10:23 pm

Mahinda never had a mandate to do any of those things. None of us asked for Mihin Lanka. How could we let him get away with wasting our money on a pet project of his? Why hasn’t the Sri Lankan civil society, which throws all sorts of tantrums every time the police arrest a terrorist, done anything about this? Finally here’s something we can all agree on, and you decide to ignore it. Even those of us who support his military strategy are not going to let him get away with this. These are the real issues affecting the Sri Lankan people.

nandasena said,

January 18, 2008 @ 9:08 am

As long as the sinhala people believe what ever the government’s propaganda without researching and thinking for themselves, Mahinda and Co. will do what they want and get away with it.

Regarding the comment from JM, “These are the real issues affecting the Sri Lankan people” How can JM speak for all the Sri Lankan people? For him Mihin Airline may be a big issue. For the Tamils, (and some of the fair minded sinhalese)their lives, and freedom from oppression from the TERRORIST Government is a big issue. May be JM thinks that the Tamils do not belong to Sri Lanka!!

I find it very puzzling and amusing that when it comes to anything related to Tamil problem, the average sinhalese swallow everything what the government says. When there is a bomb in the south they make so much noise, which is understandable. Have they stopped to think of the poor civilians who are at the receiving end of the aerial bombardment day in and day out. The sinhalese poeple believe,( or pretend to believe ) that the government is bombing the LTTE. If that is the case LTTE would have been finsihed long ago.

Who said that killing civilians by aerial bombardment, shelling, and by multi barrel launchers are not TERRORISM?.

Deane said,

January 18, 2008 @ 12:37 pm

That’s right. the civil society seems to be obsessed with “peace, human rights and democracy” that’s all fine. but someone’s got to get into this massive over-spending.

Java Jones said,

January 18, 2008 @ 6:30 pm

Hey JM - there’s a whole lot more ‘real issues that affect the Sri Lankan people’ that Mahinda never had a mandate for. The ‘Helping Hambantota’ scam, where he stopped the investigation, the huge amount of hangers on that accompany him all over the world that we taxpayers foot the bills for, the ‘merv’ fiasco - and I’m sure that if you want more, there’ll be a lot of folk that can provide lists.

And who, pray, ‘are not going to let him get away with it’?

JM said,

January 19, 2008 @ 2:34 pm

I didn’t vote for Mahinda and I certainly don’t agree with most of this Chinthanaya. I however support how he’s conducting the war and his opposition to foreign intervention in Sri Lanka. What really worries me is that this so called civil society of ours has lost all credibility by regurgitating LTTE propaganda, that now when they try to bring attention to real issues that do concern us, people brush it off as just another smear campaign. This cry wolf effect has completely emasculated the ability of these NGOs to do what they are mandated (and paid big money) to do.

With Mervyn’s case, they could have got not just the opposition, but even parties like JHU and JVP on their side if they took to the streets asking for his dismissal. The CJ with his political ambitions seems to be happy to delivery populist judgments, so why couldn’t the CPA or someone else sue the government for fiscal mismanagement, corruption or something else. I wouldn’t want Mahinda to be thrown out of power (just yet) but at least he shouldn’t be allowed to get away with all this.

shami said,

January 19, 2008 @ 3:11 pm

JM, in your comment about ‘civil society throwing tantrums every time the police arrest a terrorist…’ are you saying that all those arrested are terrorists??? Nice to see that kinda racism alive n kicking…

nihal pathirana said,

January 22, 2008 @ 10:12 am

All governments are responsible for the breakdown of law and order in the country.The primary cause was with the interfering with public service and judiciary. Before 1970 there were permanent secretaries appointed by the public service commission which is an idependent body. The secretary was more powerful than the minister and is accountable to the parliment and to the COPE.This scenario has changed completely and became worse after 1977 with lawyers who did not have practice support a political parties became secretaries outside the public sevice . Well I know a person appointed in the ninteeneighties by J.R.J as the secretary to the judiciary commission who was from the bank of ceylon working as a legal officer where this position earlier held by a senior appeal court judge according to the seniority.The constitution of JRJ is that president is above the law and he is not accountable cannot be challenge in courts. All heads of deparments corporations and statury bodies are governed by A.R and F.R. which is a act of parliament which the ministers of the present previous goverments didnot care did what they want and continue to do so. God bless Mahindha Chintana

Deane said,

January 22, 2008 @ 4:39 pm

Nihal, This is not so much a partisan issue. I don’t think anyone here was suggesting that.

Java, i do think Civil society has a role in dealing with issues dealing with governance, all you can hope in a democracy is to scream what you think is going wrong and hopefully it will find some resonance with the voting public. screaming of course can take more sophisticated forms. that’s why u need a civil society. Otherwise we could close everything and use this space to host p0rn. I promise to visit often.

While you are right that nothing will probably stop mahinda, but hey you got to give it some chance.