Thanks for the courtesy for
responding to my post of Boxing Day
Asoka Weerasinghe
December 27, 2007
Rt.Hon. Keith Vaz
Labour MP for Leicester East
British House of Commons
London, UK
Dear Keith Vaz:
Thanks for the courtesy for responding to my post of Boxing Day.
It is quite obvious that you believe that you are a victim of bad journalism.
If this is so, I hope you have made a request to The Sunday Telegraph
editorial board for a correction, as you are now a pariah in the eyes
of all Sri Lankans around the world sans the Tamil Tigers and their
supporters.
If I do get over to the UK, I hope you will give me an opportunity
to meet with you. As for meeting with your Tamil group, I will certainly
entertain meeting them at a staged public debate and I as a panel member.
As for "UK is a Parliamentary democracy", that is the only
reason why the Tamil Tigers have ben banned as a terrorist organization,
and your democracy would not want to accept
any part of it. Surely Keith, isn't it why the Anti-terrorist Police
is now probing into your
participating in your group rally where they publicly praised the Tamil
Tiger terrorists?
Let us not be naive about it. Isn't it why the Anti-terrorist Police
is probing into your attendance?
Your group, which is supporting the wanting of a mono-ethnic, racist,
separate, Tamil Eelam for less than 5% of the entire 20 million population,
when praising the Tamil Tigers at a colossal public gathering, are indeed
separatists who are fighting their cause by terrorism, thus by association
are terrorists, whether you like it or not, or whether you try to top
the issue with a coat of icing hoping that the cause will be sweetened
away..
My question to you Keith is where do you fit into this equation? Isn't
it why the Anti-terrorist Police is probing into your participation
at a gathering supporting and praising Tamil Tiger terrorists, which
has been banned by UK, the parliamentary democracy? Or are you trying
to tell me that the UK parliamentary system has, since late, become
demo-crazy?
Have a good day.
Sincerely,
Asoka Weerasinghe
VAZ, Keith wrote:
> Dear Mr Weerasinghe
>
> Thank you for your email.
>
> As I said to your colleague, the Telegraph article is wrong. The
Hindu
> merely repeated the inaccuracies. The meeting was not an LTTE meeting.
> It was also sanctioned by the authorities. Thousands of British
> Citizens attended. The UK is a Parliamentary democracy.
>
> However the information you have provided is I am sure going to
be of
> great interest to members of the Group and I will bring it to the
> attention of the Group. Should you be visiting the UK I am sure
that
> members of the Group would like to meet you. In the meantime I
feel,
> and I am certain you will agree, that it is best to conduct this
> debate on facts and not on personal abuse.
>
> Thank you again for taking the trouble to trouble. I am sure you
will
> read on the internet when we have our next meeting which I very
much
> hope that the High Commissioner in London will be able to attend.
>
> With Best wishes
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Keith Vaz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Weerasinghe [mailto:weerasin@magma.ca]
> Sent: 26 December 2007 13:34
> To: VAZ, Keith; cc."Ranjith Soysa"
> Subject: Keith Vaz being probed by Anti-terrorist Police
>
> 2066 Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
>
>
> Boxing Day, 2007
>
>
> Rt. Hon. Keith Vaz
> Labour MP for Leicester East
> British House of Commons
> London
> UK
>
> Dear Keith Vaz:
>
> I was provided the courtesy by Ranjith Soysa of Australia to read
your
> response to his letter which was prompted by my letter to you about
> the news item in The Sunday Telegraph and THE HINDU, that you were
> being probed by the Anti-terrorist Police for participating at
a Tamil
> rally that was praising the banned Tamil Tiger terrorist group.
>
> Foremost, I suppose you realize that you just cannot get away
> willy-nilly with your statements siding the ruthless terrorist
group,
> the Tamil Tigers, as you have been read world wide, and you have
had
> negative comments from Australia as well as Canada. I am not sure
> whether you would want to pin these comments onto your lapel as
an
> achievement, "I am now shaking up the world wanting others
to join me
> in
>
> supporting the Tamil Tigers".
>
> The fundamental question here is, if you say, "I have no connection
> with
>
> the LTTE", then what the heck were you doing at a Tamil Tiger
> gathering which was praising a banned ruthless terrorist group?
What,
> are you nuts, Keith?
>
> Surely, you ought to be smarter than that being a lawyer!
>
> Keith, you just cannot hide under the cloak of ... "UK parliamentary
> democracy and people have the right to express..." Sure, Keith,
you
> may wish to say anything that you want to, but for God's sake don't
> you ever, ever say anything that will give the Tamil Tigers the
> license and the window of opportunity to take the lives of innocent
> Sri Lankans with
>
> impunity, by shooting, claymore-mining, suicide-bombing and attacking
> with machetes. And if you could only hear what I hear what a
> bowler-hatted honest, Churchillian-Britisher would tell you ..."That
> is a NO, NO, my good old chap. Stop kidding yourself Keith and
being a
> damn Humbug. And stop your trite trying to kid us too. You are
up the
> Gum Tree, my boy, and the only way to extricate yourself is to
give up
> your support for the Tamil Tigers and their cause for an Eelam
and
> handing out the licenses to kill the innocent Sri Lankans. "
>
> Trying to be a British maverick parliamentarian, you have certainly
> got this Canadian's goat up. And that is nothing to gloat on.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Asoka Weerasinghe
> Gloucester, Canada
>
>
>
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