Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
07
May 2020
CORONAVIRUS & RACISM
ABC reports under the
heading ‘Coronavirus-fuelled
racism prompts debate on whether Australia's laws are strong enough to protect
victims’:
[A spate of coronavirus-fuelled racist attacks have sparked calls to
simplify and strengthen Australia's racial discrimination and vilification
processes, amid concerns they are too complicated and toothless to properly
protect victims.]
As per my experience with the authorities – starting
with the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, there is
very little real value in these laws which are largely ‘copied’ from the UN to
make us look pretty. As per the above report:
[Last month,
the Australian Human Rights Commission revealed one in four people who
reported racial discrimination in February and March linked it to
the coronavirus pandemic.
Members
of Australia's Asian community appear to have borne the brunt of attacks and
vilification.]
In Australia as well as in Sri Lanka, the cases in
court are largely about which lawyer wins.
By the time facts are presented in court – they are infected by the greed of
lawyers and even simple statements are legally decorated to take the issue
beyond the reach of the litigants. The victims themselves may find it easier to
think that it was racial – just because the attacker looks ‘white’. In the
above instance the ‘facts’ are reported
as follows:
[James
Lin was targeted while sitting on a train in Melbourne in late February, well
before tough social restrictions were put in place to try to slow the spread of
COVID-19 across Australia.
Four
men turned on the Chinese-born Australian citizen, pretending to cough around
him and hurling abuse that he must be infected as he was from overseas.
While the taunts were verbal, Mr
Lin said he also felt physically intimidated by the group. A female passenger
stood up for him, telling the group they were being ridiculous.
"Because that lady stood up
for me, I said that it was true Aussie values," he told the ABC.
"And the racist guy said,
'this guy clearly doesn't look Aussie'."
Police were at the next station and
were alerted to the group's behaviour.]
On
29 April 2020, the Australian High
Commissioner in Sri Lanka, handed over “Personal Protective Equipment to Lieutenant
General Shavendra Silva, Head of National Operation Centre for Prevention of
COVID-19”
Was that not to a ‘foreign’ country? It is because the current President
demonstrated in action that he considered those bound by UN Resolution a ‘foreign’
ruling? Voice of America reported as follows on 19 February 2020:
[Sri Lanka's
prime minister said Wednesday that the government has decided to withdraw from
co-sponsorship of a 2015 U.N. Human Rights Council resolution calling for the
investigation of allegations of war crimes committed during the island nation's
long civil war.
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's announcement comes days after the U.S. State Department imposed a travel ban on Sri Lanka's army commander, Shavendra Silva, and his family over alleged human rights violations in the final stages of the civil war in 2009.
“The people should be the judge of how fair this is,” Rajapaksa said. “Even though this collective punishment has been meted out on the grounds that the army commander had committed violations of human rights, no one knows what these allegations are.”
Rajapaksa said the resolution has enabled other countries to blame members of Sri Lanka's armed forces for being human rights violators.]
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's announcement comes days after the U.S. State Department imposed a travel ban on Sri Lanka's army commander, Shavendra Silva, and his family over alleged human rights violations in the final stages of the civil war in 2009.
“The people should be the judge of how fair this is,” Rajapaksa said. “Even though this collective punishment has been meted out on the grounds that the army commander had committed violations of human rights, no one knows what these allegations are.”
Rajapaksa said the resolution has enabled other countries to blame members of Sri Lanka's armed forces for being human rights violators.]
The UN
Resolution in relation to Sri Lanka was initiated and led by the USA,
cosponsored by Australia includes the following:
[Reaffirming
that it is the responsibility of each State to ensure the full enjoyment of all
human rights and fundamental freedoms of its entire population]
When the Government promised to withdraw from this –
the Australian leadership ought to have distanced itself from that government.
Why were the PPE not handed over to the Sri Lankan Department of Health? Why
was it done military to military? Intuitive connection of the like-minded?
If so what is wrong with a White Australian ‘seeing’
a Chinese looking guy as ‘foreigner’ and connecting him to the ‘Chinese flu’
that the American president labelled it to be?
During global problems, maintaining our Sovereignty is
more important than seeming to be of good conduct. If the fear in the White
Aussie regarding Coronavirus that as per his knowledge originated in China was
stronger than the pain of being labelled Chinese and therefore part of the problem,
then it is understandable and beneficial to the nation as a whole due to strengthening
of sovereignty in clusters.
During the time the Trespass case against me by the
University of NSW was being heard at the Waverley Local Courts – a trader
referred to me as being connected to the ‘Bad Tigers’. Even though I reported
this – no action was taken by anyone. I shared my experiences in my book ‘Naan Australian’
which found its way to the National Library of Australia. That is the way of
Truth.
The work I did and the pain of ‘failure’ I
experienced resides in me as Shakthi / Energy. Now I take my position whenever
my need to do so is stronger than my need to be harmonious.
Due to this approach – I learnt not to overly punish
the less educated through the legal pathway. In the village of Thunaivi in
Northern Sri Lanka for example, there are times when the hierarchy through
which their local sovereignty is maintained gets upset when the local
coordinators override my directions and take power into their own hands. In
that village physical possession becomes ownership. They recognize my authority
in their own way but not that of another local equal to or below them in
status. Seeing is believing in that village and others like them.
The system of Natural Justice operates on the basis
of Truth. Today, Hindus celebrate the Chitraguptan the personification of our hidden powers. The
above shrine in Thailand confirms the hidden Hindu power in Thailand. Some say
that this power protected Thailand from becoming colonized by Western powers. The
above City Pillars were built by Kings Rama I and Rama IV. King Rama IV/ King
Mongkut about whom Wikipedia presents the
following:
[Outside
Thailand, he is best known as the king in the 1951 musical and 1956 film The King and I, based on the 1946 film Anna and the King of Siam – in turn
based on a 1944 novel by an American missionary about Anna Leonowens' years at his court,
from 1862 to 1867]
In contrast the Sri
Lankan government named its Satellite after King Ravana :
[When
naming the country's first satellite, Sanath Panaavanna, Director General and
Engineer at the Center for New Technology - Arthur C. Clark Institute of Sri
Lanka, along with his two engineering students wanted to put forward an authentic
name that represents Sri Lankan culture and history. Inevitably the name
"Dadu Monara" ("දඬු මොණරය" in Sinhala) was a go-to choice. Dadu
Monara is a flying device that appears in early Sri Lankan folklore and it is
often accredited by historians to be the first aircraft ever created. However,
due to the complexity of the word and the difficulty most non-native Sri
Lankans would have with pronouncing this word, it was named after King Raavana
("රාවණ රජතුමා" in Sinhala), who ruled Sri Lanka at the
time the Dadhu Monara was built. King Raavana is a notable King in Sri Lankan
history with many contributions to ancient Sri Lanka]
The above is the
parallel of China’s One Belt One Road developed on the heritage of Silk Road
during Han dynasty. The Silk Road is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Where one
invokes heritage for economic gains or for ‘show’ the negatives during that
period are invoked and they are exponential in value. War memorials ought to be
for respect and not for ‘show’. Likewise, all properties of heritage value.
Buddha was born
Hindu and hence the Buddhist philosophy is not different to Hindu philosophy. When
Sri Lankan political leaders ‘show’ Buddhism as the foremost religion – they separate
themselves from Hinduism. Current Administration is relative and when a
religion is brought into the Administrative formula it loses the heritage
value. Heritage values are absolute values. They ought to be combined with
respect as Energy values and not used as direct relative values. At relative
level the then Authorities did not like Jesus pointing to the invisible power of
God as the Ultimate Reality.
Chitraguptan writes
that invisible Energy – good or bad – at the time of our death. This I believe
is our conscience which lives beyond the body. As per Hindu philosophy we are
reborn in a new form at physical and intellectual levels. We write our next
chapter – once our conscience is clear of the physical and the intellectual.
The indicators are produced during the last active stages of
our current life.
Lord Buddha is
taken to have attained complete and permanent divinity and therefore merged
with the Universal power. Every person who believes in Buddha would invoke
divine powers in the form Buddha gave his values – the values he discovered.
Ravana did not
attain such a state. Yet the satellite was named after Ravana. Now Ravana
habits are surfacing as follows:
[At a press briefing on 1
May, 2020 Spokesman for the Cabinet of Ministers Minister Bandula
Gunawardane said that
expatriate Sri Lankans and local and foreign investors could deposit unlimited
foreign currencies including “black
money” in special deposit accounts at any private commercial bank in Sri
Lanka.]
Such is a Separate anti-Buddhist
state.
The Sri Lankan Government mentally withdrew from direct global
supervision because UN laws are ‘foreign’ laws that disturb their overt practices
of separatism and activities that would
be considered uncivilized by others. Unless the power of the citizens is
stronger than that of the government – we would keep writing our horoscopes to
depend on others who are ‘free’ of Accountability. Here in Australia, Racism
was bound to surface to balance the Liberal Party’s credit through virus
control to which migrants contributed strongly through their natural obedience.
During John Howard’s regime that
position acquired strong racism karma. It will continue to disturb the mind of
that party’s victors – unless they repent and redeem their past wrongs.
When victims absorb
that pain and continue to feel Australian – they would have the true Governing
Power that Jesus identified with and confirmed through His self-resurrection.
Exponential powers resurrect themselves. The virus was such a power and could
be overridden only by a parallel positive power. Many Hindus prayed to Lord Dhanvantari
to help heal against Coronavirus fear. The Indian Government by Policy
celebrate Lord Dhanvantari –
as the Lord of Ayurvedic medicine / Indigenous faith based medicine. By send
medicines and troops off to other countries – the government confirmed lack of
faith – because they would not work with those who believed in and practiced
other forms of medicine.
Racism or Corona – it is the unseen value that is
the greatest challenge for this generation.
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