Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
20
April 2019
Rights based
Presidents
A media personality asked me in relation
to my article headed ‘ Chief Minister or
President or v.v.?’ whether an educated Tamil candidate losing at the Presidential
elections would be worse for Tamils? I responded as follows:
[Participating
with faith will bring us victory at the global level. The idea is to lift the game to global level and
keeping it there. Pele who is exactly one year junior to CVW made it at that
level due to his faith in his ancestors. CVW has the credibility due to his
judicial background. We need to present him to show our investment at global
level – and this would split the votes of the SLFP. NOT PARTICIPATING would be
worse for Tamils because it would confirm that we lack the confidence to go
beyond provincial level]
This morning’s news brought confirmation of the
above through the following in New York Times article headed ‘Sri Lankans Accuse Him of Wartime Atrocities.
California May Decide’ :
[Harshana Rambukwella, a political scientist at the Open University of
Sri Lanka, said that if Mr. Rajapaksa runs for president, he could potentially
leverage the California litigation to drum up nationalist sentiment among his
base within the country’s Sinhalese ethnic majority.
The essence of the candidate’s argument, Mr. Rambukwella said, would be
that human rights campaigners are persecuting leaders who liberated Sri Lanka
from civil war.
But rights advocates say that the
California cases are important because they focus international scrutiny on the
Rajapaksa family’s wartime actions.]
When we share in the pain of genuine victims – we are
naturally empowered by their rights. Human Rights violations affect all of us
on earth because they upset the balance between right and wrong as per the
Truth. If we are right to us as per our conscience then we are right as per the
system of Truth. Whenever there were unjust laws, those who lived by their
conscience – fought against such laws. The value of their work and sacrifices
in doing so automatically went towards righting the Universal balance. Jesus
was such a leader. By following such a leader – we lead the government,
including the government that follows the laws that it has introduced. This is
the power of the voter who identifies with the whole. Those who vote on the
basis of human rights – vote for global governance.
All of us
know what our rights are when we go into our truth. Rights are gaps between our
contribution and benefits at a certain level. When we form a common group such
gaps are pooled at group level and ones with greater gaps are the true leaders
of that group. They become the government. If during the time of a particular government,
we enjoy our earned rights without interruptions and blockages, they are our
true government. When we are blocked in our path – then the government during
whose tenure it happened needs to be governed by us or separated from us. The
first stage of such separation is the formation of Opposition. If a government
punished us through armed force – to that extent we are entitled to use arms to
oppose them. When we use greater force than is needed to defend our rights we
become their enemies.
In the
above matters which include the death of – Journalist Lasanatha Wickrematunga, the Rights of the
group of Journalists were murdered during the Rajapaksa regime. Unless the authorities
could establish that Journalist Lasanatha
Wickrematunga acted in breach of the laws covering Journalism in Sri Lanka,
that government is proven to be guilty of failing to protect the rights of
Journalists in that nation. Journalists and Free Media are important in
connecting the individual to the whole – by helping the common reader work out which
are rights based actions and which are in breach of her/his rights as per
the parallel in the reader’s home where the reader is governor. Killing such
Journalists would not eliminate the breaches of rights of the citizens.
I explain
this natural escalation of our ‘rights’ as follows:
[Mr.
Geoffrey Alagaratnam PC
President
Bar
Association of Sri Lanka
153,
Mihindu Mawatha
Colombo
12
……………………It
is important during these times of International Conflict and Terrorism fears,
that we prevent abuse of power through hasty application of Public status. Mr.
President, ultimately – the Court, like the Parliament, is limited to its own
contributions to Common values when judging us – the People. The ultimate Judge
is the Lord. We, the litigants – have the duty to bring our Truth to the Common
Court. Often, the Courts – including the Australian Courts, fail to identify
with our Truth even when it is delivered in the language of the Law – as
interpreted by us. But, to the extent we are true to our own conscience – our
declarations of Truth are heard by the Lord of Natural Justice. That is how, I
believe I also contributed to the fall of Mr. John Howard, former Prime
Minister of Australia (Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam v John Howard S51 of 2001 in
the High Court of Australia) who was present at the spot of 9/11 attack. ]- http://austms.blogspot.com/2015/11/gajalakshmiparamasivam-mr.html]
[Mr.
Howard’s excision policies following the Tampa reality, took place effective 08
September 2001. A few months prior to that my High Court appeal against Mr.
Howard and Others on the basis of Unlawful Racial Discrimination, was dismissed
for ‘procedural reasons’. A migrant taking a racial discrimination case to our
judiciary is likely to be dismissed for ‘procedural reasons’ and it never gets
the real hearing of the court. Hence, to me, the above High Court decision is
largely to boost legal business rather than to be fair and just to asylum
seekers. If it were indeed due to genuine feelings – the decision amounts to a
handout one of common belief ]
We must escalate
our pain through the highest pathway that we have contributed to – through which
we have accumulated ‘rights’. Nature does the rest.
If Mr
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa were elected President in a free environment, then the
majority race demotes itself to the lower level of civilization. Then those who
do follow the lawful pathway to oppose the actions of that presidency and government
during that presidency become the real government as per the lawful pathway.
They have the real power to defeat such persons in real life. That was Gandhi’s
pathway.
Thus the
common voter determines the height of our civilization. It’s better to be a
simple voter in a corrupt system than to be president.
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