"Protesters" "protest"
This is so bloody hilarious I absolutely had to post it! ;o)
So the Govt and the LTTE have once again agreed on talks. The JVP is once again getting their knickers (or is bloomers the right word?) about 'foreign intervention' and what not. Nothing new. What's so funny though?
This: there were protests outside the Norwegian embassy with protesters carrying banners saying things like "Hands off Sri Lanka", "We must defeat the LTTE" and "Don't divide power."
"But protesters said they had been bussed in by the Marxist JVP party and were unsure why they were there.
'Our political party informed us to come here
,' said 48-year-old farmer Hiram Ariyadasa from north-central Sri Lanka, holding a banner that read "Hands off Sri Lanka".'I don't know what it says. I don't know why I'm here,' he added, before JVP handlers ordered journalists to stop talking to demonstrators
." (See this report on AlertNet)Well, nothing new again I guess.
Excuse me while I go fall off my chair...he he he
5 comments:
Hey, nice to see you blogging after a long time.
I was going to stay away from bloggin till after exams..but this was just too hilarious to resist!
;oD
You're being too hard. Only a farmer can take a day off to protest in the city without losing pay. What does it matter if he's illiterate. He's just a bloody farmer.
Literacy is not the point.It's about the fact that this guy was bussed in to protest but hadn't been told what it was all about! Shouldn't they have been told what the protest was about? So they could decide if to come or not and indeed protest or not?!?!?
But then again, perhaps it's easier to treat ppl like a bunch of cattle than persons who could understand concepts - herd 'em all in to a bus, stand them on the roadside with a board in their hands and whip away anyone who comes near.
lol.. it doesn't really make any difference whether he understands anything or not. his primary function in this protest is to hold the placard and stand for the given number of hours and shout slogans when and if required. his understanding (or the lack of it) has no consequence on the objective of the protest.
he's nothing more than a tool. you don't ask a hammer whether it understands the concept of carpentry. its required task is to be a hammer, that's all.
the reason he is used for this protest is because only people like him (seasonal farmers, unemployed ppl etc) have the ability to participate in day time activities with the least opportunity cost.
most of the participants in these public protests and rallies in sri lanka (including those organised by NGOs, other political parties, religious organisations etc) are just like hiram ariyadasa.
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