groundviews crap and Publis's postmortem to EP-PC elections

i got a load of crap via Groundviews today , the so called citizens journalism site managed by CPA under the funding from USAID titled "the eastern provincial council elections:a brief post-mortem".

why i call it crap is for few reasons but thats a different story.may be i don't want to waste my or your time on going on explaining why its really crap. few words from the actual article below might give any one a hint , why i call it crap....

"Compounded with the patent illegitimacy of the manner in which the election was conducted, of which the most significant factor of course was that the central government's principal proxy in the East was armed and was not diffident about displaying the fact, it is difficult to share the government's sanguinity about the re-establishment of a great New Jerusalem of democracy in the East."

so whats this about this 'great new Jerusalem of democracy" that Publis seems to be so entrenched about?
what about the conduct of the election? in fact can you even think about a election in the east under the shadow of the murderous LTTE? the bloodthirsty LTTE led by psychopath V.Prabakaran has no bounds when it comes to waging violence against any practice of democracy and sadly Publis' failed to realize this.

"central governments principal proxy in east was armed..." ..right on mate, what do you expect anyway...? they are a break away gang from the LTTE ( and no different than the LTTE , after all they ARE a pack of terrorists ,till few years back!) and yes, they still have the culture of the gun with them. whole exercise of having them in this election, of the government taking them under the wing is about trying to give them some space, make them change., its not like the CPA organizing forcing trips on Federalism to the LTTE or providing 'capacity building' and 'confidence building ' support to the LTTE as they did in the past ( may be even now!!!?) , that the same treatment was given to the breakaway faction..

CPA paid lip service , and back behind the screen, forced the LTTE to "solve" the issue of the breakaway faction, so much so that once Sunil Abeysekera (so called defender of Human (LTTE) Rights) requested Erik Soilhaim to 'tell the LTTE leadership to take out " Kauna and his senior cadres.

and about holding on to the guns, well ..can you survive without he guns , as long as LTTE is there, not only in the North and East , but effectively rest of the country? LTTE has gunned down, blown to bits so many of their opponents, so much so that they amount to more that 15-20,000. thats a lot of people, not to mention a whole generation of moderate Tamil politicians that died under the hand of the LTTE, the so called liberators of the Tamil race.

so Mr.Publis , what crap are you talking about this New Jerusalem, when you have the blood thirsty pack of Prabakaran running around with guns and bombs?

Publis' ends his crap load of crap by saying;

"What is nevertheless surprising, however, is that the Rajapakse regime's conception of political self-interest did not extend to seeing the value of a free and fair election conducted through independent institutions, from the windfall of legitimacy of which, it could have been the primary beneficiary."

are you nuts or blind, or may be you're under orders form the LTTE, but make no mistake Mr.Publis this election is not about being free and fair, its all about giving a former pack of blood thirsty LTTE'rs a chance to experience democracy , so that least try and change them from believers in violence to practitioners in democracy.

that docent happen overnight, and that will take time, and we the people who are against the LTTE and its murderous ways, need to be bit calm and focused.

and then on the other hand if this election was about the LTTE , and had it being contesting , the Flower Road 'Civil Society' and its champions like Publis would make a terrible effort to justify the LTTE holding on to its guns and liberally discharging them on the innocent.

its very good to have LTTE mouth pieces like the Groundviews cause it not only keep the rest of us informed about the many ways the LTTE wages terror , especially psychological terror but also provides justification for more tougher action against pseudo liberal democratists like Publis, who is on the payroll of LTTE.