Hey GVs,

I said, “I will most probably never vote again.”.

Whom are you going to vote for GVs? Come election time we get two hugely long lists from the two most corrupted main Parties asking for our vote. Don’t forget, we first have to vote for the Party before selecting our preferences. We can vote for uncorrupted ones of the list, but they never get elected, ‘cos the ones who put up the most number of posters with ill gotten money are the ones who get most of the votes. So why should I waste my vote and my time? You tell me, how many times have our voters elected a list of honest candidates in the past 30-35 years?

And you said, ‘As for J’s misdeeds, a blog post referencing other sources isn’t enough. Is there the equivalent of COPE? Are the case details mentioned in the blog post available online, from the TN govt sites (not unlike some case records from SL’s Supreme Court, which are online)? What are the original sources used in the blog post? The burden of proof when making a submission, no matter how believable it is, is on you. Accurate web sourcing is the bane of mainstream media in SL, and this is just to encourage you to be better than most.’

I see that you are still living in the same hole GVs. Why don’t you do our own research for a change, to find out, from the sources you mentioned. I have done mine. You will also find out that sometimes, the Indian Police is fearless in chasing behind the high and mighty to uncover corruption and other misdeeds. But most of the time they fail in the end, as the Powerful ones wriggle out. Jayalalitha getting rid of the Special Prosecutor appointed by the Chief Justice himself is a case in point. Bofors and Telecom scandals also come to mind. Its long list and you will enjoy reading them if you know where to look, without asking me!

Its better if you can have a REPLY line below your comments so that we can reply to you direct, without my replies going under my own posts.

And Hewa, Thank You!

‘Ranga, a very simple way to test if your cartoon is vulgar is by replacing the characters with those close to you and asking you if you still feel the same way about it’s vulgarity?

Treat people the way you want to be treated. If this was a lady from your own family, would you still defend it?

If this was President Rajapaksa’s wife, would you still say vulgarity is in the eye of the beholder and continue to defend your right to share it with everyone in public.’

Alexf said,

‘There was a good question at the top of this list of comments. Would this cartoon have been published if the lady depicted was the president’s wife? Hmmm … white van time I suspect.’

I gave a reply to both above. What I asked was, whether you like to replace your loved ones in your photograph(album)s with Jayalalitha’s photos. The Super GVs edited that out too! Saying something about lewd comment-lumping everything I said together.

This our culture; nude parades of Wanni, Pahalagama thero’s child abuse, child rape, killer monks, politicos & citizens……

@ Rontejan
Bravo !!. Wherever you are from and whoever you are, you have given fitting replies to Groundviews.The cartoon is all about Jayalalitha and her knee-jerk acts/reactions to ” safeguard” her Tamil breathen. And it is against these same Tamil people that Amma seem to have commited these endless faruds.Groundviews is trying to deflect this issue in the replies they have given, but facts are stubborn and there is No Smoke without a Fire.
It is one thing to claim ( and make merry hell) that a cartoon is vulgar even if it is not vulgar, but a totally different thing to train and equip, and harbor a terrorist outfit like the LTTE to harm a democratically elected Government of a neighbor. And this is exactly what J and her ardent supporters did for which all the Sri Lankans including our Tamil brothers and sisters had to pay over the last 25 years. This woman is now trying to pour petrol on this fire which was extinguished a few years. Please please….. stay away (rather than trying to start another war which could send Sri Lanka many years back) and try to spend the twilight years of your life to do something better.

What is vulgar is training a terror outfit to kill 60,000 of Sri Lankans and destroying our economy for 30 years.

Well said, Anuk and AMR.

Ranga J,India has certainly overstepped its mark in charging Aseem Trivedi for sedition. Sorry that you are trying to equate his work with that of the Lakbimaenwes cartoon. I see no crudity or vulgarity in Trivedi’s drawings.