To address your comments on the two amendments:

1. The 13th Amendment is a sham and I believe that if it had any real value, it would have solved the problem 20 years ago. I don’t think Police Powers is the problem. I think its final control over resources. The reason there was an unfortunate UDI in the NE PC back in the day was that the Chief Minister was deeply frustrated at the lack of cooperation by the Center as far as resource allocation was concerned. The real issue is one of money. Give the provinces some control over cash so that they can determine the development agenda of that region.

My point about Police Powers relates to a broader issue. The issue of watering down an already shameful solution. It illustrates the true commitment of this regime to bring about any real change. I would expect it to at least stick to the 13th Amendment and not bicker about Police Powers, notwithstanding the fact that the 13th Amendment does not really provide any genuine platform for self determination in any case.

2. As far as the Constitutional Council is concerned, I don’t see what you are complaining about. There is no National Police Commission at the moment because the CC has not been reconstituted and the previous NPC’s mandate expired. All the individual appointments that are supposed to be made by the CC are now being made by the President.

But if you are talking about the Constitutional provisions in theory, I find it curious that you would call a potentially multi-racial body which is meant to be apolitical, “racist”. It is merely a body that ensures that appointments to these commissions are non-political. Bear in mind that in any event, the political representation of the CC makes its apolitical nature questionable. However, practically speaking, the requirement of various representatives coming to an agreement amongst themselves in terms of these appointments should have the ultimate cumulative effect of non-political appointments.

That is why the composition of the CC and its appointments to these commissions permit the representation of a wider cross section of society. It is in essence a good idea. But as you might notice, good ideas don’t get always implemented under this government.

TYFR

As long as the LTTE was around you had a nice terrorist tree to shelter your prejudices. However, now that the terrorists have been gloriously vanquished, you have no way to conceal your bias. So you compromise. Asymmetrical federalism becomes devolution; devolution becomes decentralization under the 13th Amendment; and the 13th Amendment become a little too much. Soon we will all agree that a unitary state is “kinda sexy”. You now blissfully place the fate of the Tamils in the hands of this government. Because, in truth, you don’t care what happens anyway. You just want to be able to live in the Capital without being bothered by whining minorities.

TYFR

Isn’t that the point you dimwitted racist?! You have to give them police powers because that’s what we agreed on. You’re just reinforcing the views of other idiots like agrgagdgevuaturtta who are suspicious of this great government. We can’t be suspicious of people anymore. We have to trust. Distrust begets distrust asshole. You’re the reason we couldnt solve this before. Now let people who have a better understanding of constitutional affairs take care of it.

SO WHY IS THE 17TH AMENDMENT RACIST??? Because it gives every community an opportunity to be represented?? Look up the word “Racist” in your dictionary. Not the “Disctionary for racist assholes” which has the thing backwards. Look up the Oxford or the webster.

It’s racist not to give communities an opportunity to decide on constitutional matters. I don’t know much about the 17th amendment. But if what you say is true about its composition, then its a damn good idea.

You’re not a muslim. Ha! You’re just a sinhala racist asshole who’s trying to pass off his racism by posing off as a minority person. The muslims will be much happier with the 13th amendment with a logical government like the one we have now than a unitary state where all the bloody tamils will be whining till kingdom comes. You have to trust this government. You speak up when the JHU ever comes to power. Yeah you go work on your reincarnation, asshole.

You fucking moron. It would be better if you actually knew what you were talking about before you started spouting your self obsessed rubbish. Why is the 13th amendment dangerous? Because it gives police powers to the provincial councils. Why is that dangerous? Because everything from the orders the policemen receive to the number of policemen to the types of arms and ammunition they use is finally determined by the council.

Why is this a problem? Because the safeguards that existed, such as the cadre for the police and control over the weapons they had were originally determined by the police commission which was supervised by the president. But after the fucking 17th amendment, appointments to the police commission are made by the constitutional council.

Who’s in the constitutional council? 10 people. Prime minister, opposition leader, speaker of the house, 1 presidential nominee, 1 minor party nominee, and 5 nominees selected jointly by the PM and OL. Now that sounds just hunky dory until you get to the small print. Of the 5 nominated by the PM and OL, at least 3 have to be members appointed from minority parties to represent minority interests.

Not only that, the council itself is charged to appoint different ethnic groups to the commissions that it is in charge of. If there are 8 ethnic groups in the country (and there are, according to the census), and this rule is strictly followed, then only 1 person from the majority in a commission that has 8 members. That’s not racism? Fuck off, you liberal, guns and roses misquoting twit.

As for why Muslims would be happier in a unitary Sri Lanka – we’re the real losers in this war all along if you look at it on real racial lines. And we’re no longer the second minority in this country, we now outnumber the Tamils. But you don’t see us pushing for separatism; we’re very happy getting along with everyone else. So in this little pissing contest between the majority and the Tamils, we’re the unaccounted losers. Why the fuck should we take that lying down?

And don’t let my name confuse you. I’ll call myself Pope Benedict if I want.

This government believes in the 13th amendment and it is a good place to start. Remember the LTTE agreed to the Indo-lanka accord and the 13th amendment at first. It was after this tailor made solution was rejected that things went out of control.

We have to support this governtment’s efforts to restore the 13th amendment. It’s a good thing that it plans to hold elections. Patience. In the words of GNR all it takes is just a little patience.

I don’t know about the 17th amendment but please tell us how it “institutionalizes racism”?!?!?! That’s pretty rich coming from a muslim wanting a unitary state. rofl.

“if there is a legitimate concern that she will bite my cock off…I wont take the chance”

Agradevevevedutaaata, you need to give this government a chance. Your pessimism doesn’t help the situation. It’s only when the general public EXPECTS the government to solve the political problem, will the government actually be pressured to do it.

If we are pessimistic and have no hope like you, then the Government might sit back and do nothing because no one expects it anyway.

“Expect Nothing. And All is Beyond Expectation”!!?!? This is you attitude to life?? You must be a very unhappy man/woman…