Comments on: Registering for another pogrom in Sri Lanka? https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka Journalism for Citizens Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:26:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: sittingnut https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4448 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:26:48 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4448 In reply to The same Anonymous.

… anonymous:
while i would be happy engage in a rational debate on correct 'polite" form of address to anonymous commenters that would be rather off topic here. anyway my sincere apologies for calling you 'mr'.
(my earlier reply to you was written before your reply became visible.)

if you or anyone else have anything rational to say or even point any irrational assumptions i make relevant to the topic, i would be happy to read them

]]> By: garawi https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4447 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:26:14 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4447 No Problem. All of you who protest have at one time or the other given your personal data to many web sites, if you are onliner, the expats have given their's to authorities in their adopted lands. All of them are on online data bases. So what are you protesting at. This is an attempt to streamline the data on a computer database. Only those shady characters need to be worried as it will not be easy anymore to give the slip to the police!

]]> By: sittingnut https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4445 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:16:43 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4445 In reply to sittingnut.

mr anonymous
just to add to my earlier reply to your comment.
i am well aware that impassioned exaggerations do play a part in politics, and is even justified when some of that emotion is authentic(though it is a hard business to judge authenticity of emotion of others) but given the consequences of such appeals in history ,and the double headed nature of emotions, do you really want to go there ?
isn't it better to stick to reason and facts? and expect others to do so?

]]> By: The same Anonymous https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4444 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:11:05 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4444 In reply to sittingnut.

Oh Mr Sittingnut that's all you could try for a reply? Bravo!! How did you guess that the anonymous was a Mr? Like many of the assumptions that you make? Good.

]]> By: sittingnut https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4443 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:59:03 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4443 mr anonymous
thank you for helping me make my point about irrational hysteria on display about this here.

]]> By: Anonymous https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4442 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:03:05 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4442 In reply to sittingnut.

Mr. Sittingnut,

1. it will be compulsary but at the discretion of the government (i am not kidding)

2. Practical in the sense as to how it will be used? i am not sure unless you have access to the government..

3. i have registered more than five times now. I havent, at these registration places, seen any organised way of collecting information. why do they do it? to scare the tamil population here in colombo? Gotta claimed the other day according to a lakbima news report that they were able to bust an LTTE link because of this. I wonder how? Did the LTTE willingly come and register?

what reason do you give for a tamil citizen not to be hysterical about this and remain calm Mr Sittingnut?

I carry this white paper that they have us as registration which i call a visa to stay in colombo. it has an expiry date. reason of stay etc. Why should we take this burden Mr Sittingnut?

]]> By: Janaka https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4396 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:46:46 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4396 it is a joke
http://www.infosl.com/doyouknow/?p=86

]]> By: punitham https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4361 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:48:27 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4361 JR's eletoral list +++.
Early twentieth century with the growth of Colombo as commercial centre Tamils were slowly moving to Colombo. 50s/60s/70s/early80s riots slowly sent them back to Northeast. Military occupation of Northeast and military assaults of late80s/90s sent them back slowly to the South. Now in this regime …..

]]> By: amelie https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4360 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:11:26 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4360 This is so totally "Big brother is watching". George Orwell's 1984 or nothing. I dont belong to the Tamil community but am totally hybrid. What do I say my ethnicity is? This is unbelievable. I think its a great idea for us to enter distorted ethnic labels in this website.

]]> By: Arjuna Jayaweera https://groundviews.org/2009/01/11/registering-for-another-pogrom-in-sri-lanka/#comment-4357 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:34:02 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1062#comment-4357 Perhaps the Tamil Citizen will be glad his/her Colombo Visa can now be extended online. The state offers such valuable services. We should be glad.

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