Malaka Silva; Scottish Take No Crap

By Helasingha Bandara 

Colombo Telegraph

The English take the Mickey out of the Scottish claiming that the Scottish are more of brawn than of brain. At times that brawn comes handy. Wherever they are, the Scottish do not take crap from people like Malaka Silva. The story could be that the diminutive but lecherous Malaka cold have poured saliva over the pretty girlfriend of the Scotsman. He must have approached the girl in that indecent, depraved, uncultured manner of the youth of Sri Lanka today. Those guys do not know the world and they have not seen how decent people approach a woman. So they think that their macho approach would win a woman. This writer has no doubt that the Scotsman would have stood his ground to protect his girlfriend from abuse and sexual harassment and in that process may have thumped the ugly little brat of Mervin Silva. It is no surprise that those unruly sons of politicians are surrounded by many bone suckers. They must have assaulted the foreign couple having numbers in their favour. I bet if the little sucker faced the Scotsman on his own he could have been a pulp by now.

This is one virus that the Rajapaksa regime is grooming to be a politician to govern this country, what a terrible mistake it can be! There is no end to the thirst for good looking women in this thug’s brain until one day, without doubt, someone takes that brain matter out. Those people can survive only in a cesspool like Sri Lanka where there is no rule of law, no democracy, no fair play, no discipline and on the part of people no brain.

“We people are the masters of congress and the courts. We are here not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the people who pervert the constitution” (Abraham Lincoln). Does this ever apply to Sri Lanka? I doubt!

We Love our country, certainly not who rule it, certainly not a section of the society who exploit and rob its wealth and to do so use numerous means of evil. We still call this land a blessed land. Are we from the blessed land or are we a blessed nation?

Without an iota of doubt, it can be proclaimed that the Scotsman comes from a blessed country and a blessed nation. Although the English ridicule the Scottish for their bravery, the English used to send the Scottish to the battle front all the time when they went on conquering the world. I am here to remind all of them that the Scottish are not only brawn but brain too. If we look at who changed the world for the better forever, they come from this tiny nation of now five million people. The following few and many more from this nation revolutionized the way of life of human beings forever. The world should worship them and celebrate their lives.

James Watt, a Scotsman, invented steam engine which revolutionized industries and transport.

Alexander Graham Bell, the great Scotsman Invented telephone and his compatriot John Logie Baired invented Television and those inventions have made the world too small in terms of communication. If not for Alexander Fleming, another great Scotsman who discovered Penicillin, the world could not be the same. Other Scotsmen like Kirkpatrick Macmillan-bicycle, John Boyd Dunlop -Modern Tyre, James Black- Beta Blockers, James Young Simpson- Chloroform, William Murdoch –Gas lighting etc are another few great Scotsmen, the list is endless. Those are the blessed people and they belong to blessed lands and nations. Not Malaka or Mervin Silvas, neither the Rajapaksas.

Editorial from The Island - Tears for the police

November 8, 2014

On reading Police Spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana’s response to our query why no action had been taken against the Ministerial Security Division (MSD) personnel found at a nightclub with Minister Mervyn Silva’s son Malaka during last Saturday’s brawl, tears rolled down our cheeks with the corners of our mouths trembling in our attempts not to cry.

Our tears were for the police.

SSP Rohana sees nothing wrong with MSD guards protecting politicians’ offspring who, he has said, should be provided with security wherever they go! If there are threats to politicians or the ordinary people, for that matter, and their children they must be protected. But, what is at issue is not the MSD personnel accompanying a minister’s son or daughter to school, hospital, the theatre, the cinema, a shopping mall, a gym etc. The issue here is that the MSD guards have been used to protect a politician’s son at a nightclub, of all places, in spite of his history of drunken brawls at those places.

We thought bovine King Kekille, who always punished the innocent party in a dispute and Mahadena Mutta, on whom people could depend on for the wrong advice, were only fictitious characters in folk stories. But, it looks as if they had really lived in this country. For, some high ranking officials in the public service seem to have inherited their idiotic genes as it were.

Isn’t the Police Spokesman aware that following an incident where Malaka and his bodyguards assaulted an accountant in 2007 a court order was issued prohibiting him from visiting nightclubs?

What one gathers from the Police Spokesman’s explanation is that the armed MSD personnel can even accompany politicians’ sons visiting brothels and wait outside until the latter’s return! The SSP ought to remember that Malaka is no ordinary son. He and his bodyguards set upon a group of Police Narcotics Bureau sleuths conducting a raid on a Colombo nightclub in 2005. Those officers were punched, kicked and even pistol-whipped; the assailants were granted police bail! In 2012, Malaka and his goons assaulted an army major at a hotel. How can anyone justify the police being detailed to protect such a person at nightclubs?

It is eight days since Malaka’s latest brawl and the Police Spokesman tells us that the police haven’t so far been able to find out whether the MSD guards had been inside the nightclub at the time of the incident! So much for the ability of the police to conduct investigations!

The police promptly release to the media videos of robbers staging heists or burglars breaking into shops, but they have not yet shown us the footage obtained from the CCTV cameras at the nightclub where Malaka assaulted a foreign couple last week. Are we to conclude that it is in the process of being edited?

It is high time a proper threat assessment in respect of all politicians was done and security provided to most of them reduced drastically. If a minister can spare several of his MSD guards to go with his son to nightclubs, that means he does not have a security threat at all. Why should such politicians be given security?

The government brags that it eliminated terrorism. It should be given the credit for that feat. If the LTTE had been around, this country would not have been safe for anyone—not even those who are now commemorating Prabhakaran and calling for war crimes probes. But, its ministers continue to be protected as though Prabhakaran were still alive. There is no threat to them from anyone; they are a threat to one and all except their political masters. It is the people who should be protected against them.

People who visit police stations are made to wait for hours to have their complaints recorded for want of personnel. Burglars, armed robbers, rapists, chain snatchers and other anti-social elements are having a field day, but community policing is conspicuous by its absence owing to a severe shortage of policemen. Nevertheless, the police have enough personnel to guard politicians and their violent sons!

We suggest that most of the MSD personnel be attached to the police stations that experience a manpower shortage. The time has come for the political dregs scourging the society to be stripped of their firearms and security. The Tigers in spite of their terrorism had some discipline; they at least obeyed their leader. But, the gun-toting politicos and their sons are a law unto themselves. If they are allowed to enjoy the freedom of the wild ass in this manner not even the thirty three million (this thun kotiyak) deities who are believed to have made this country their abode will be able to protect us.