i have no idea whether the MR is lying, and neither do you. what you are claiming is that an allegation becomes fact as long as the allegation is made by a particular individual.

you still seem unable to explain how DJ being in an NGO has relevance to his criticism of just GR and not MR. is this because you don’t know and are simply repeating something in the hope that you will sound intelligent? i look forward to your explanation.

i also don’t think GR has “exposed” anything about NGO plans. he too has made allegations, but again, do you contend that an allegation is a fact?

Come come David, stop beating about the bush. Are you saying the President Mahinda (twice democratically elected and tiger vanquisher) is lying?

Either he is or he is not, only ONE could be true !

Let us focus on Dayan and his NGO connections for now, since that is the subject we are talking about.

Option 1:

If Hon. Mahinda is NOT lying,then it is established that Dayan indeed works for a NGO and his recent rants against Hon. G Rajapakse (who lead our army to victory) is motivated by his NGO connections.

?Option 2:?

If the president is lying, it means he lied in front of millions of people worldwide …..

If he lied and Dayan does not work for a NGO, then, given that Dayan has in more than one occasion claimed that it is only Mahinda that can “deliver” Sri Lanka’s much needed peace and prosperity (definitely not CBK, Ranil or Rev. Sobitha) Are you suggesting that Dayan has been asking us to support a “lier”??
(if that is true, then that speaks more about Dayan than Mahinda).

It can only be one of the above two options-its that simple !

Dev, since you believe that all that is necessary for something to become fact is for the Prez to say so, i am sure you now accept that as fact that there were zero civilian casualties in the NE.

Fitz, until Dev is capable of actually providing the context that would make DJ’s alleged employment by an NGO significant to his criticism of GR (but not of MR), his simple repetition that it is significant has no value as an argument.

Thank you for your comments and your exposure.

You have missed Dev’s point. Dayan said he criticized the defense secretary (in his own words: one of if not the first public personality to name and criticize Gotabhaya ). Dev raised the point that given his involvement with an NGO and given Gothabhya’s criticism of NGO’s, is his criticism motivated by his involvement with a NGO?

This is NOT rumour but stating the facts as laid out by our Hon. (twice democratically elected) president regarding Dayan. Simply a fact ! (unless you are suggesting our excellency deals with rumors and innuendo).
I am simply saying that given this exposure by our honorable president, Dayan’s statements need to be taken in that context of his NGO involvement together with the government’s (in particular our defense secretary’s) warnings about the many machinations of the NGO’s that is all.

You have missed the point Patriot has made!

in spite of your attempts to intimidate me by suggesting i have called the president a liar (i haven’t even mentioned him) and derail the conversation into one on rumour and innuendo, i press you once more to instead engage with what Dayan is saying instead of why he is saying it. in case you missed it, my original comment about Dayan was simply in passing; the main point was the JVP.