Here goes:
Genocide for Sale ... to save terrorism
SubPrime Genocide to Mortgage Terrorism
Don't prostitute democracy to save Terrorism
Don't waste American Democracy to save Terrorists
Genocide is the Lifeline for Tiger Terrorism
American Democracy can't save Terrorism
Don't mortgage your children for a fantasy land
Tamil Talibans go to Washington
Genocide - Hail Mary Pass of Terrorists
American Dream = Sri Lankan Dream
Death to Terrorism
Genocide is the Rescue Package for Terrorism
That side is auditioning for Tamil-American Terrorist Idol
Desperate Terrorist Savers
Help Sri Lanka drain Terrorist Mojo
Will NOT work for Terrorists
- after will work for food
Yes We Can! (kick terrorist butt!)
Imagine a protest to save Saddam!
911 Never Again
We support Terrorism free America, Sri Lanka
Talaiban and Muslims are differant
Tamils and LTTE are differant.
OUR FIGHT IS WITH LTTE.
LTTE MOST RUTHLESS TERROR OUTFIT
- FBI -
USA HELP US TO FIGHT TERRORISM
LTTE RELEASE THE CIVILIANS - STOP THE SELF GENOCIDE
LTTE RELEASE THE UN STAFF.
LTTE = Living To Terrorize Everyone
LTTE = Leading Tamils To Extinction
KaBOOM!! Today Colombo Tomorrow USA
LTTE, WAR Plan
1) Send KIDS as cannon fodder
2) Send Pregnant women blow-up
3) Hide under Civilian and cry me a river.
4) Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Prabhakaran, LET MY PEOPLE GO...
LTTE KILLED OUR OBAMA (Preferrably with a pic of Kadiragamar)
GUNS ARE NOT TOYS, CHILDREN ARE NOT SOLDIERS
LTTE KILLED GANDHI
LTTE SLAUGHTERED BUDDHIST MONKS
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN LUNATIC
PRABAKARAN IS THE BIN LADEN OF ASIA !
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Abhorrence Of Unmatchable Magnitude: Heroics Of Herculean Tongue Continues
Author: Swarnajith Udana - swarnajithudana@gmail.com
“We do not recruit under-age children for war.”
Nadashen has spoken the truth. I am not trying to imply that he has lied recently. May be he was lying earlier but now he does not. He does not lie only because he cannot lie anymore. If we think he lies that it is our erred perception. Some one said that our reality is God’s dream. Nadashen’s reality is Son God’s dream. To be able to lie one needs to be able to recognize and feel the real world around. When one keeps lying then the falsehood usurp the person then only the falsehoods live through the person. For this living falsehood truth is the Son God. Son God may be dragging a ten Year old out of the lap of his or her mother to be sent to war front, but Nadashen is unable to see this. Son god says “Hey my prophet Nadashen “we do not recruit under-age children for war. We never use suicide bombers among civilians.” Then that is the truth nothing but the truth. Even if Nadashen is doing the dragging of children himself the truth is “we do not recruit under-age children for war. How dare UN or anybody question this God professed truth?
In the very early time when the prophet had to utter the truth given by Son God he might have felt a little awkward. Then he might have worked hard and promoted himself to the position that he could chuckle when the world organizations fell for Son God’s truth. At that time he knew he was lying. Son God might not have liked it. You cannot chuckle for people believing the Sun God’s truths. Then Nadashen should have taken the next leap to the status that he could not chuckle when the world fell for his God’s truths. Instead he would have been grateful for the God himself (Son God What I mean) for giving him the opportunity to enlighten ignorant world. That is not the end. Now he has elevated to the position that he is ready to do jihad if any one cares to deny Son God’s truth. He is so sad because he can not salvage the world’s nonbelievers from darkness of grave sin,
That is why I am telling you that Nadashen cannot lie any more. He and his organization have surpassed the stage that when they were lying they knew that they were lying. During that initial stage when they lied and world fell for the lies they would have congratulated each other for the effectiveness of their lying. That is, they have been truthful to the truth and themselves. Now they have crossed that threshold. When their gospel sayings are not believed by the people now they are really sad, upset and lament what the world is coming to. They are going through excruciating pain of carrying the cross to the Calvary Mountain to salvage us from our sins of falsehood. So they cannot lie.
In fact, come to think about it LTTE does not recruit teenagers. It was created by teenagers in 1970s. Wasn’t it? LTTE does not need to drag young kids from the bosoms of their parents. Parents and children themselves willingly come to sacrifice themselves in the altar of Son God. Suicide killing is the ultimate ritual of sacrifice that brings heavenly Son Godly bliss to the lambs. The civilians are not kept in Wanni as bulletproof garments. It is just Son God is mercifully granting the ultimate privilege of being the lambs of sacrifice so that they can attain heaven of one and only Son God. Allowing Civilians to be in Wanni is the epitome of endless mercy and boundless compassion of Son God. Nothing else. Any thing else is a lie.
If the world does not believe this gospel it is blasphemy and treachery against Son God. That is what they believe that they believe and want world to believe. Who can question these? How ridiculous to doubt these? What is the world coming to?
Can we call the most deadly snake of the world vicious? No we cannot. We can say it to a person that he is vicious. That makes sense. But, how can we blame or accuse a snake for being vicious. It is the very nature of the animal. That is how it survives. I am sure these believers might not have born like that but they have been evolved into the stage that to call them vicious is no longer appropriate. If such a dangerous animal is in our backyard even though we do not call it names we know what the solution is. we refuse to share this planet with the animal and go to a different planet. Since this is not possible then there is only one alternative.
LTTE viciousness far exceeds the ultimate level that humans can be vicious for the reason that they do not feel their viciousness. In fact they feel that their horrible crimes, suicidal killings of innocents as acts of sacredness; sacrifices for their one and only God. Everything what they do can be justified by Son God’ dream.
At this time I would like to mention the main character, (Maybe my memory is faulty here.) Raskolnikov, in Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”. The student killed a unscrupulous pawnbroker with hate, yet he did not loose the ability to repent. When he suffers from pain of repentance we almost forgive him not because of the unscrupulousness of the lady he killed but because of the tenacity of his repentance. Even if we do not completely forgive him we feel like lending our shoulder to him for comfort and patting his back. We do so because he resembles our fallibility and then he reassures us goodness of our hearts.
Raskolnikov might have never crossed the threshold of embracing blindness to one’s own viciousness. So we pat him. LTTE has crossed that threshold decades ago and has crept light years into the realm of blindness. NO LONGER PATTING WORKS OR is APPROPRIATE.
Last but not least, let us take care of ourselves and avoid being evolved into such poor examples of humanity regardless what ever the ideals or dreams we cherish.
“We do not recruit under-age children for war.”
Nadashen has spoken the truth. I am not trying to imply that he has lied recently. May be he was lying earlier but now he does not. He does not lie only because he cannot lie anymore. If we think he lies that it is our erred perception. Some one said that our reality is God’s dream. Nadashen’s reality is Son God’s dream. To be able to lie one needs to be able to recognize and feel the real world around. When one keeps lying then the falsehood usurp the person then only the falsehoods live through the person. For this living falsehood truth is the Son God. Son God may be dragging a ten Year old out of the lap of his or her mother to be sent to war front, but Nadashen is unable to see this. Son god says “Hey my prophet Nadashen “we do not recruit under-age children for war. We never use suicide bombers among civilians.” Then that is the truth nothing but the truth. Even if Nadashen is doing the dragging of children himself the truth is “we do not recruit under-age children for war. How dare UN or anybody question this God professed truth?
In the very early time when the prophet had to utter the truth given by Son God he might have felt a little awkward. Then he might have worked hard and promoted himself to the position that he could chuckle when the world organizations fell for Son God’s truth. At that time he knew he was lying. Son God might not have liked it. You cannot chuckle for people believing the Sun God’s truths. Then Nadashen should have taken the next leap to the status that he could not chuckle when the world fell for his God’s truths. Instead he would have been grateful for the God himself (Son God What I mean) for giving him the opportunity to enlighten ignorant world. That is not the end. Now he has elevated to the position that he is ready to do jihad if any one cares to deny Son God’s truth. He is so sad because he can not salvage the world’s nonbelievers from darkness of grave sin,
That is why I am telling you that Nadashen cannot lie any more. He and his organization have surpassed the stage that when they were lying they knew that they were lying. During that initial stage when they lied and world fell for the lies they would have congratulated each other for the effectiveness of their lying. That is, they have been truthful to the truth and themselves. Now they have crossed that threshold. When their gospel sayings are not believed by the people now they are really sad, upset and lament what the world is coming to. They are going through excruciating pain of carrying the cross to the Calvary Mountain to salvage us from our sins of falsehood. So they cannot lie.
In fact, come to think about it LTTE does not recruit teenagers. It was created by teenagers in 1970s. Wasn’t it? LTTE does not need to drag young kids from the bosoms of their parents. Parents and children themselves willingly come to sacrifice themselves in the altar of Son God. Suicide killing is the ultimate ritual of sacrifice that brings heavenly Son Godly bliss to the lambs. The civilians are not kept in Wanni as bulletproof garments. It is just Son God is mercifully granting the ultimate privilege of being the lambs of sacrifice so that they can attain heaven of one and only Son God. Allowing Civilians to be in Wanni is the epitome of endless mercy and boundless compassion of Son God. Nothing else. Any thing else is a lie.
If the world does not believe this gospel it is blasphemy and treachery against Son God. That is what they believe that they believe and want world to believe. Who can question these? How ridiculous to doubt these? What is the world coming to?
Can we call the most deadly snake of the world vicious? No we cannot. We can say it to a person that he is vicious. That makes sense. But, how can we blame or accuse a snake for being vicious. It is the very nature of the animal. That is how it survives. I am sure these believers might not have born like that but they have been evolved into the stage that to call them vicious is no longer appropriate. If such a dangerous animal is in our backyard even though we do not call it names we know what the solution is. we refuse to share this planet with the animal and go to a different planet. Since this is not possible then there is only one alternative.
LTTE viciousness far exceeds the ultimate level that humans can be vicious for the reason that they do not feel their viciousness. In fact they feel that their horrible crimes, suicidal killings of innocents as acts of sacredness; sacrifices for their one and only God. Everything what they do can be justified by Son God’ dream.
At this time I would like to mention the main character, (Maybe my memory is faulty here.) Raskolnikov, in Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”. The student killed a unscrupulous pawnbroker with hate, yet he did not loose the ability to repent. When he suffers from pain of repentance we almost forgive him not because of the unscrupulousness of the lady he killed but because of the tenacity of his repentance. Even if we do not completely forgive him we feel like lending our shoulder to him for comfort and patting his back. We do so because he resembles our fallibility and then he reassures us goodness of our hearts.
Raskolnikov might have never crossed the threshold of embracing blindness to one’s own viciousness. So we pat him. LTTE has crossed that threshold decades ago and has crept light years into the realm of blindness. NO LONGER PATTING WORKS OR is APPROPRIATE.
Last but not least, let us take care of ourselves and avoid being evolved into such poor examples of humanity regardless what ever the ideals or dreams we cherish.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Nadesan: Tongue of the Mission -Mission of the Tongue
Author: Swarnajith Udana - swarnajithudana@gmail.com
If there is single reason why crime prevails, what is it? It is the fact that we own one of most dangerous weapon. In appearance it is soft, delicate and pinky. The vicious aspect of this does not come from its appearance. It comes from its flexibility. This flexibility is needed for its original purpose. Being very clever we have used this most resourceful aspect as a tool of dehumanization. It can bend up and down and left and right. It can even be rolled.
The tongue.
It is one of the most vicious weapons of dehumanization. Do you need proof? Consider this.
"We are deeply sad and puzzled at the attitude of the apex institution of humanity, the United Nations, in not taking effective measures to protect the life, security and interests of innocent Tamil civilians," said LTTE's Political Head B. Nadesan on Tuesday. "
If it is not the fault of tongue what is it?
Nadasan complains that UN has not taken any effective measures to protect innocent Tamil civilian lives. How true is this? Is not this true if we assume that tongue has different meanings to the words according what slant it takes. Is it not true that UN has demanded LTTE release civilians. It surprises Nadasen that UN does not seem to stand for saving the life of LTTE. This particular Nadasen-tongue also says more than that.
It is god given right that they can maim and kill people at will. It is god given right that LTTE can do drug trafficking, prostituting, human smuggling, credit card frauds. It can wear so called its own people as defensive body armour. It can use the people that they are saying they are liberating as pawns who would face agonised death so that it can be used for propagandistic and/or military value. They can submerge “their own people” if they can just reverse their military debacles. The LTTE is asking who can interfere with these God given rights. Who will dare to question these rights given by Son God? That is what he is claiming.
Is this not the fault of tongue? To complete this note it is necessary that I mention another tongue-crime. That happened in Parliament in mid sixties. One Member of Parliament said in the parliament that he could not sleep until each Tamil is killed and he wears slippers made out of the skin of the last Tamil killed.
How can we tame the tongue? To tame the tongue we need to tame our thoughts. How do we tame the thoughts? Thoughts have materialistic base most of the time. As we believe we are evolved from apes. Apes are territorial. This had to be other wise they could not have been able to survive. We inherited this tribalistic and territorial nature form our forefathers. This is also not bad in itself if we understand that was necessary for our survival. Maybe still this behaviour has some positive role to play in our lives. The problem arises when we raise these natural instincts to level of super ideals that have no material basis and have their own existence.
The ideal become even bigger than the Universe itself. Then we develop xenophobia. If we understand that all these natural instincts are common for all of us and if we also know that we all share the same tears and laughs, dreams and hopes, life and death perhaps may be we will be able to tame our thoughts and develop a form of patriotism based on universality of justice and equality. This may help us to tame our tongues.
Nadasan’s tongue is further evidence of the viciousness of intrinsic nature of LTTE. LTTE and its supporters are basically unable to feel its viciousness. How can any one question God given right to be inhumane? Unbelievable is this for them, as it seems.
If there is single reason why crime prevails, what is it? It is the fact that we own one of most dangerous weapon. In appearance it is soft, delicate and pinky. The vicious aspect of this does not come from its appearance. It comes from its flexibility. This flexibility is needed for its original purpose. Being very clever we have used this most resourceful aspect as a tool of dehumanization. It can bend up and down and left and right. It can even be rolled.
The tongue.
It is one of the most vicious weapons of dehumanization. Do you need proof? Consider this.
"We are deeply sad and puzzled at the attitude of the apex institution of humanity, the United Nations, in not taking effective measures to protect the life, security and interests of innocent Tamil civilians," said LTTE's Political Head B. Nadesan on Tuesday. "
If it is not the fault of tongue what is it?
Nadasan complains that UN has not taken any effective measures to protect innocent Tamil civilian lives. How true is this? Is not this true if we assume that tongue has different meanings to the words according what slant it takes. Is it not true that UN has demanded LTTE release civilians. It surprises Nadasen that UN does not seem to stand for saving the life of LTTE. This particular Nadasen-tongue also says more than that.
It is god given right that they can maim and kill people at will. It is god given right that LTTE can do drug trafficking, prostituting, human smuggling, credit card frauds. It can wear so called its own people as defensive body armour. It can use the people that they are saying they are liberating as pawns who would face agonised death so that it can be used for propagandistic and/or military value. They can submerge “their own people” if they can just reverse their military debacles. The LTTE is asking who can interfere with these God given rights. Who will dare to question these rights given by Son God? That is what he is claiming.
Is this not the fault of tongue? To complete this note it is necessary that I mention another tongue-crime. That happened in Parliament in mid sixties. One Member of Parliament said in the parliament that he could not sleep until each Tamil is killed and he wears slippers made out of the skin of the last Tamil killed.
How can we tame the tongue? To tame the tongue we need to tame our thoughts. How do we tame the thoughts? Thoughts have materialistic base most of the time. As we believe we are evolved from apes. Apes are territorial. This had to be other wise they could not have been able to survive. We inherited this tribalistic and territorial nature form our forefathers. This is also not bad in itself if we understand that was necessary for our survival. Maybe still this behaviour has some positive role to play in our lives. The problem arises when we raise these natural instincts to level of super ideals that have no material basis and have their own existence.
The ideal become even bigger than the Universe itself. Then we develop xenophobia. If we understand that all these natural instincts are common for all of us and if we also know that we all share the same tears and laughs, dreams and hopes, life and death perhaps may be we will be able to tame our thoughts and develop a form of patriotism based on universality of justice and equality. This may help us to tame our tongues.
Nadasan’s tongue is further evidence of the viciousness of intrinsic nature of LTTE. LTTE and its supporters are basically unable to feel its viciousness. How can any one question God given right to be inhumane? Unbelievable is this for them, as it seems.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Death by Fire - Tigers' End-Game (updated)
Author: Rover
- update of my last post -
After 30 years of self-destruction of its cadre with the intention of terrorizing innocent civilians by creating suicide bombers, LTTE is now encouraging self destruction of their remaining cadre in protest (to gain sympathy) of being annihilated for being suicide bombers and terrorists! Seriously, how smart is this? Here I analyze generally why people resort to death by fire, the explicit message the LTTE is trying to convey by this, and the futility of this primitive practice.
People practice self-immolation for two major reasons: renouncement and devotion.
Self-immolation for renouncement: In the modern context, the most common form of self-immolation for renouncement is as a political protest. Usually, someone from the weaker political entity would burn oneself in protest of the practices of a stronger and deviant political force. This was the case when Thich Quan Duc, a Mahayana Vietnamese Buddhist monk burned himself in protest of the mal-treatment that was inflicted upon the clergy by the Ngo Dinh Deim’s government. In another case, a University of California (at San Diego) student burned himself in protest of the active presence of US troops in Vietnam. There are numerous cases of self immolation to express renouncement.
Self-immolation for Devotion: The most famous example of self immolation for devotion is the archaic Hindu practice of Sati, where a new widow jumps into the burning pier of her dead husband. This practice has now been banned in India; and was never condoned by Mahabarata (a prominent Hindu religious text). In another case of devotion, with the schism of the Russian church, entire villages of the orthodoxy (Russian Orthodox Church) burned themselves and termed it “Baptism Fire”. This is just one example out of many, especially by fundamentalist religious sects, for who practiced mass self immolation to express devotion. Self-immolation is also prevalent in India for hard to believe more mundane reasons to do with public figures. For example, a man burned himself when Tamil movie superstar Rajinikanth’s marriage was not doing well in the 1980s. In another instance when Muthuvel Karunanidhi the present chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was arrested by his rival M.G. Ramachandran in 1981, eleven Tamil people burned themselves to express devotion to Karunanidhi. Though these men burned themselves predominantly in devotion to the leader, they were also renouncing his arrest - so both devotion and renouncement can sometimes be interwoven, and hard to be distinguish from each other. LTTE now seems to be targetting this self-burning tendency of especially the uneducated oppressed masses of South India to further its propaganda.
Curiously, some Hindus and some sects of Christians practice localized immolation to show devotion to their respective gods. A sect of French Jesuits burn pars of their bodies (thigh, foot, palms ect.) in devotion for the pain that Jesus felt when he was crucified.
Importantly, however there are two more reasons for death by fire, which are usually not much talked about. These are forced burnings and self-immolation for cursing.
Forced burnings (by others) - It is known that during the time of the historical Rus' people (mostly ancient Russians, Belorussians and Ukrainians), when a slave owner died a loyal female slave was burnt with the master. In India, forced burnings of wives who didn’t want to perform Sati when their husbands died, are reported. In the old west, infidels and witches were burned at a stake. Usually a witch hunt ended in burning of a few innocents that behaved differently from others. Though “forced burnings” is not strictly a practice of self-immolation, I include it here, as you see later, because someone can be MENTALLY forced to do this.
Self-immolation to curse someone – This is little known, but at least two groups of people in India, the Charans and Rajputs self immolate to bring a curse upon someone who had perpetrated a foul deed upon them (or their people). Both these groups are North Indian Aryan (not South Indian Dravidian) sects that are renowned for their martial abilities. Interestingly, they perform self-immolation only against a closely related entity; faced with a distantly related foe, they always wage violent war. This character is important in what I am going to talk in relation to the LTTE.
Several hardcore LTTE supporters, and perhaps these were even former suicide cadre of the LTTE, recently self-immolated: one person in Switzerland and two in Tamil Nadu died, and one man in London was injured. Anyway, these acts were in support of the LTTE who is now facing an imminent military annihilation at the hands of the Sri Lanka defense forces.
The LTTE self-immolations, I argue, are a combination for all the four reasons (renouncement, devotion, forced burning and self immolation for cursing). Through these, it disparages the government’s military campaign against the LTTE, where the Tigers have lost significant amounts of land (which they fanatically revere and call Eelam) and cadre. These immolations are clearly a message to the west and the Tamil community in general to join in greater protest. But protest for what?! It must be the first time in contemporary history that supporters are setting themselves alight in the hope of saving an INTERPOL absconding terrorist chief and an internationally proscribed terrorist organization.
Through self-burning, LTTE cadre also show devotion to the cause (attaining Tamil Eelam) and the "demi-god" Prabhakaran. It is well known that LTTE have a culture very much different from the other Dravidian Hindus. The true Tigers venerate their leader and land more than anything else, even more so than Hinduism (Hinduism embodies Indian cultural aspects as well and is not only a religion), which they consider to be a pariah concept; lack of respect for Hinduism is shown by the killing of several Hindu priests, desecrating Hindu temples (for example the mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiappah was killed by the Tiger leader at point blank inside a Hindu temple), and constant Eelamization of names associated with the LTTE (for example, Eelam is now called Ezham, and Prabhakarana is called Paripaharan ect.). Interestingly, though normally Hindus prefer to cremate (burn) the bodies of their dead and float the resulting ashes in a sacred river, LTTE prefer to bury their dead so that they can build cemeteries that can later be glorified. This too is a deviant practice from Hinduism.
There is an enormous and constant social pressure from the LTTE leadership towards its members to support the LTTE; and this includes facilitating (or forcing) self-immolation. This too has been prevalent throughout its history. One of the main reasons for the west to ban this organization was the harassment of the Diaspora by the LTTE (illegal taxation ect.). One might protest the third claim, but one must remember that LTTE is not a group of freedom fighters but a world renowned group of terrorists; who have pioneered and mastered the self-destruction of human beings, the suicide bombings. So self-immolation of the LTTE is not recent if you consider self-destruction through suicide bombing (where there is also burning involved) as a form of self-immolation where you also kill other people; forced self immolation after all, is only small deviation from the psychology that is involved in suicide bombings; and Tigers are well known to brainwash people to become suicide bombers.
From some of the letters that were found at some of the immolation sites and immolated persons, it is evident that the LTTE hate Buddhism and Sinhalese deeply, and that the people who immolated themselves prominently cursed these two aspects. But unlike the Charnas and Rajputs of India, who are North Indian Aryans, it seems it is the first time that Dravidians that indulged in this practice of cursing through immolation to a significant level. So LTTE is yet again innovative in an unenviable way, in giving the Dravidians a foul name.
Now a rumor is spreading around that the LTTE leaders and its cadre entrapped in Wanni are going to commit suicide (by fire or otherwise). Fire has fascinated the first ape-men since they first started walking upright. So the death of these primitive LTTE terrorists too could very well be by fire. But I urge others LTTE supporters, especially the LTTE supporting diaspora not to get distracted by the LTTE efforts to play to the lower instincts of man. Think through your head, before setting yourself alight for a guy who thought only about himself. In addition this rumor is spread, I think, to encourage mentally forced self-immolation, especially targeting the oppressed masses of Tamil Nadu.
It is however very interesting to note that out of the three people who died so far, two are Indians from Tamil Nadu (the nationality of the person who died in Siwtzerland remain unknown). Sri Lankans are usually considered to be more educated than the Tamil Nadu Indians (literacy rate is higher in Sri Lankans than Tamil Nadu), and so it maybe harder to convince Sri Lankan Tamils to burn themselves for a lost cause. This is indeed an encouraging sign.
There are other reasons why self-immolation is a defeatist paradigm. Even from an evolutionary viewpoint, burning oneself is counter productive as one can't pass on ones genes to the next generation, or successfully raise ones children if they already have any. It is also known that, unlike in India, the Western society considers self-immolation as a problem to the society, and hence a crime. This is exemplified by the British Police charging the man who got half-burned in London, with arson. So getting fully or half-burned for Eelaam or Prabhakaran through self-immolation is, for many reasons, the silliest thing that one could do.
Finally anyway, thousands of Sri Lankan and Indian civilians and soldiers, including two heads of states (one from India and the other from Sri Lanka), who died by the fire of the LTTE suicide bombers will undoubtedly not object to the last few of these suicide cadres (or those who are closely associated with them) attaining death by fire, if they must (!), without dragging other innocents around them to go to the fiery hell hole with them.
- update of my last post -
After 30 years of self-destruction of its cadre with the intention of terrorizing innocent civilians by creating suicide bombers, LTTE is now encouraging self destruction of their remaining cadre in protest (to gain sympathy) of being annihilated for being suicide bombers and terrorists! Seriously, how smart is this? Here I analyze generally why people resort to death by fire, the explicit message the LTTE is trying to convey by this, and the futility of this primitive practice.
People practice self-immolation for two major reasons: renouncement and devotion.
Self-immolation for renouncement: In the modern context, the most common form of self-immolation for renouncement is as a political protest. Usually, someone from the weaker political entity would burn oneself in protest of the practices of a stronger and deviant political force. This was the case when Thich Quan Duc, a Mahayana Vietnamese Buddhist monk burned himself in protest of the mal-treatment that was inflicted upon the clergy by the Ngo Dinh Deim’s government. In another case, a University of California (at San Diego) student burned himself in protest of the active presence of US troops in Vietnam. There are numerous cases of self immolation to express renouncement.
Self-immolation for Devotion: The most famous example of self immolation for devotion is the archaic Hindu practice of Sati, where a new widow jumps into the burning pier of her dead husband. This practice has now been banned in India; and was never condoned by Mahabarata (a prominent Hindu religious text). In another case of devotion, with the schism of the Russian church, entire villages of the orthodoxy (Russian Orthodox Church) burned themselves and termed it “Baptism Fire”. This is just one example out of many, especially by fundamentalist religious sects, for who practiced mass self immolation to express devotion. Self-immolation is also prevalent in India for hard to believe more mundane reasons to do with public figures. For example, a man burned himself when Tamil movie superstar Rajinikanth’s marriage was not doing well in the 1980s. In another instance when Muthuvel Karunanidhi the present chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was arrested by his rival M.G. Ramachandran in 1981, eleven Tamil people burned themselves to express devotion to Karunanidhi. Though these men burned themselves predominantly in devotion to the leader, they were also renouncing his arrest - so both devotion and renouncement can sometimes be interwoven, and hard to be distinguish from each other. LTTE now seems to be targetting this self-burning tendency of especially the uneducated oppressed masses of South India to further its propaganda.
Curiously, some Hindus and some sects of Christians practice localized immolation to show devotion to their respective gods. A sect of French Jesuits burn pars of their bodies (thigh, foot, palms ect.) in devotion for the pain that Jesus felt when he was crucified.
Importantly, however there are two more reasons for death by fire, which are usually not much talked about. These are forced burnings and self-immolation for cursing.
Forced burnings (by others) - It is known that during the time of the historical Rus' people (mostly ancient Russians, Belorussians and Ukrainians), when a slave owner died a loyal female slave was burnt with the master. In India, forced burnings of wives who didn’t want to perform Sati when their husbands died, are reported. In the old west, infidels and witches were burned at a stake. Usually a witch hunt ended in burning of a few innocents that behaved differently from others. Though “forced burnings” is not strictly a practice of self-immolation, I include it here, as you see later, because someone can be MENTALLY forced to do this.
Self-immolation to curse someone – This is little known, but at least two groups of people in India, the Charans and Rajputs self immolate to bring a curse upon someone who had perpetrated a foul deed upon them (or their people). Both these groups are North Indian Aryan (not South Indian Dravidian) sects that are renowned for their martial abilities. Interestingly, they perform self-immolation only against a closely related entity; faced with a distantly related foe, they always wage violent war. This character is important in what I am going to talk in relation to the LTTE.
Several hardcore LTTE supporters, and perhaps these were even former suicide cadre of the LTTE, recently self-immolated: one person in Switzerland and two in Tamil Nadu died, and one man in London was injured. Anyway, these acts were in support of the LTTE who is now facing an imminent military annihilation at the hands of the Sri Lanka defense forces.
The LTTE self-immolations, I argue, are a combination for all the four reasons (renouncement, devotion, forced burning and self immolation for cursing). Through these, it disparages the government’s military campaign against the LTTE, where the Tigers have lost significant amounts of land (which they fanatically revere and call Eelam) and cadre. These immolations are clearly a message to the west and the Tamil community in general to join in greater protest. But protest for what?! It must be the first time in contemporary history that supporters are setting themselves alight in the hope of saving an INTERPOL absconding terrorist chief and an internationally proscribed terrorist organization.
Through self-burning, LTTE cadre also show devotion to the cause (attaining Tamil Eelam) and the "demi-god" Prabhakaran. It is well known that LTTE have a culture very much different from the other Dravidian Hindus. The true Tigers venerate their leader and land more than anything else, even more so than Hinduism (Hinduism embodies Indian cultural aspects as well and is not only a religion), which they consider to be a pariah concept; lack of respect for Hinduism is shown by the killing of several Hindu priests, desecrating Hindu temples (for example the mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiappah was killed by the Tiger leader at point blank inside a Hindu temple), and constant Eelamization of names associated with the LTTE (for example, Eelam is now called Ezham, and Prabhakarana is called Paripaharan ect.). Interestingly, though normally Hindus prefer to cremate (burn) the bodies of their dead and float the resulting ashes in a sacred river, LTTE prefer to bury their dead so that they can build cemeteries that can later be glorified. This too is a deviant practice from Hinduism.
There is an enormous and constant social pressure from the LTTE leadership towards its members to support the LTTE; and this includes facilitating (or forcing) self-immolation. This too has been prevalent throughout its history. One of the main reasons for the west to ban this organization was the harassment of the Diaspora by the LTTE (illegal taxation ect.). One might protest the third claim, but one must remember that LTTE is not a group of freedom fighters but a world renowned group of terrorists; who have pioneered and mastered the self-destruction of human beings, the suicide bombings. So self-immolation of the LTTE is not recent if you consider self-destruction through suicide bombing (where there is also burning involved) as a form of self-immolation where you also kill other people; forced self immolation after all, is only small deviation from the psychology that is involved in suicide bombings; and Tigers are well known to brainwash people to become suicide bombers.
From some of the letters that were found at some of the immolation sites and immolated persons, it is evident that the LTTE hate Buddhism and Sinhalese deeply, and that the people who immolated themselves prominently cursed these two aspects. But unlike the Charnas and Rajputs of India, who are North Indian Aryans, it seems it is the first time that Dravidians that indulged in this practice of cursing through immolation to a significant level. So LTTE is yet again innovative in an unenviable way, in giving the Dravidians a foul name.
Now a rumor is spreading around that the LTTE leaders and its cadre entrapped in Wanni are going to commit suicide (by fire or otherwise). Fire has fascinated the first ape-men since they first started walking upright. So the death of these primitive LTTE terrorists too could very well be by fire. But I urge others LTTE supporters, especially the LTTE supporting diaspora not to get distracted by the LTTE efforts to play to the lower instincts of man. Think through your head, before setting yourself alight for a guy who thought only about himself. In addition this rumor is spread, I think, to encourage mentally forced self-immolation, especially targeting the oppressed masses of Tamil Nadu.
It is however very interesting to note that out of the three people who died so far, two are Indians from Tamil Nadu (the nationality of the person who died in Siwtzerland remain unknown). Sri Lankans are usually considered to be more educated than the Tamil Nadu Indians (literacy rate is higher in Sri Lankans than Tamil Nadu), and so it maybe harder to convince Sri Lankan Tamils to burn themselves for a lost cause. This is indeed an encouraging sign.
There are other reasons why self-immolation is a defeatist paradigm. Even from an evolutionary viewpoint, burning oneself is counter productive as one can't pass on ones genes to the next generation, or successfully raise ones children if they already have any. It is also known that, unlike in India, the Western society considers self-immolation as a problem to the society, and hence a crime. This is exemplified by the British Police charging the man who got half-burned in London, with arson. So getting fully or half-burned for Eelaam or Prabhakaran through self-immolation is, for many reasons, the silliest thing that one could do.
Finally anyway, thousands of Sri Lankan and Indian civilians and soldiers, including two heads of states (one from India and the other from Sri Lanka), who died by the fire of the LTTE suicide bombers will undoubtedly not object to the last few of these suicide cadres (or those who are closely associated with them) attaining death by fire, if they must (!), without dragging other innocents around them to go to the fiery hell hole with them.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Death by Fire – the Tigers’ End-Game
Author: Rover
After 30 years of self-destruction of its cadre with the intention of terrorizing innocent civilians by creating suicide bombers, LTTE is now encouraging self destruction of their remaining cadre in protest of being annihilated for being suicide bombers and terrorists! Seriously, how smart is this? Here I analyze generally why people resort to death by fire, the explicit message the LTTE is trying to convey by this, and the futility of this primitive practice.
People practice self-immolation for two major reasons: renouncement and devotion.
Renouncement: In the modern context, the most common form of self-immolation for renouncement is as a political protest. Usually, someone from the weaker political entity would burn oneself in protest of the practices of a stronger and deviant political force. This was the case when Thich Quan Duc, a Mahayana Vietnamese Buddhist monk burned himself in protest of the mal-treatment that was inflicted upon the clergy by the Ngo Dinh Deim’s government. In another case, a University of California (at San Diego) student burned himself in protest of the active presence of US troops in Vietnam. There are numerous cases of self immolation for renouncement that I won’t go into in detail here.
Devotion: The most famous example of self immolation for devotion is the archaic Hindu practice of Sati, where a new widow jumps into the burning pier of her dead husband. This practice has now been banned in India; and was never condoned by Mahabarata (a prominent Hindu religious text). In another case of devotion, with the schism of the Russian church, entire villages of the orthodoxy (Russian Orthodox Church) burned themselves and termed it “Baptism Fire”. This is just one example out of many, especially by fundamentalist religious sects, for who practiced mass self immolation to express devotion.
Importantly, however there are two more reasons for death by fire, which are usually not much talked about. These are forced burnings and self-immolation for cursing.
Forced burnings - It is known that during the time of the historical Rus' people (mostly ancient Russians, Belarussians and Ukrainians) when a slave owner died, a loyal female slave was burnt with the master. In India, forced burnings of wives who didn’t want to perform Sati when their husbands died, are reported. In the west, infidels and witches were burned at a stake. Though “forced burnings” is not strictly a practice of self-immolation, I include it here, as you see later, because someone can be MENTALLY forced to do this.
Self-immolation for cursing – This is little known, but at least two groups of people in India, the Charans and Rajputs self immolate to bring a curse upon someone who had perpetrated a foul deed upon them (or their people). Both these groups are North Indian Aryan (not South Indian Dravidian) sects that are renowned for their martial abilities. Interestingly, they perform self-immolation only against a closely related entity; faced with a distantly related foe, they always wage violent war. This character is important in what I am going to talk in relation to the LTTE.
Several hardcore LTTE supporters and perhaps even former suicide cadre of the LTTE recently self-immolated. I am not going to mention any names or instances of these here, as this could be of propaganda value for the LTTE. Anyway, these protests were in support of the LTTE who is facing an imminent military annihilation at the hands of the Sri Lanka defense forces.
The LTTE self-immolations, I argue, are a combination for all the four reasons (renouncement, devotion, forced burning and self immolation for cursing). Through these, it disparages the government’s military campaign against the LTTE, where the Tigers have lost significant amounts of land (which they call Eelam) and cadre. These immolations are clearly a message to the west and the Tamil community in general to join in greater protest. But protest for what?!
Through self-burning, LTTE cadre also show devotion to the cause (attaining Tamil Eelam) – it is well known that LTTE have a culture very much different from the other Dravidian Hindus. The true Tigers venerate their leader and the land they live instead of Hinduism, which they consider to be a para-desha concept; lack of respect for Hinduism is shown by the killing of Hindu priests, desecrating Hindu temples (The mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiappa was killed by the Tiger leader at point blank inside a Hindu temple), and constant changes of their names (Eelam is now called Ezham, and Prabhakarana is called Paripaharan ect.). Interestingly, though normally Hindus prefer to cremate (burn) the bodies of their dead and float the resulting ashes in a sacred river, LTTE prefer to bury their dead so that they can build cemeteries that can later be glorified. I find this practice very interesting, as their organization is founded on the principles of glorifying the dead, as much as glorifying terrorism and violence (perhaps I will write a separate article on this practice later).
There is a enormous social pressure by the LTTE leadership to its members to protest in strongest possible terms; and this includes forced self-immolation. This has been prevalent throughout its history. One of the main reasons for the west to ban this organization was the harassment of the Diaspora by the LTTE (illegal taxation ect.). One might protest my third claim, but one must remember that LTTE is not a group of freedom fighters. They are a world renowned group of terrorists; who have pioneered and mastered the self-destruction of human beings, the suicide bombings. So self immolation of the LTTE is not recent, if you consider suicide bombing as a form of self immolation (destruction) where you also kill other people; forced self immolation after all, is only small deviation from the psychology that is involved in suicide bombings.
From some of the letters that were found at some of the immolation sites, it is evident that the LTTE hate Buddhism and Sinhalese deeply, and that the people who immolated themselves prominently cursed these two factors. But unlike the Charnas and Rajputs of India, who are North Indian Aryans, it seems it is the first time that Dravidians that indulged in this practice to a significant level. So LTTE is yet again innovative in an unenviable way, in giving the decent Dravidians a foul name.
Now a rumor is spreading around that the LTTE leaders and its cadre entrapped in Wanni are going to commit suicide (by fire or otherwise). Fire has fascinated the first ape-men since they first started walking upright. So the death of these primitive LTTE terrorists too could very well be by fire. But I urge others LTTE supporters, especially the LTTE supporting diaspora not to get distracted by the LTTE efforts to play to the lower instincts of man. Think through your head, before setting yourself alight for a guy who thought only about himself. In addition this rumor is spread, I think, to encourage mentally forced self-immolation (that I talked about above).
Finally anyway, thousands of Sri Lankan and Indian civilians and soldiers, including two heads of states (one from India and the other from Sri Lanka), who died by the fire of the LTTE suicide bombers will undoubtedly not object to the last few of these suicide cadres (or those who are closely associated with them) attaining death by fire, if they must (!), without dragging other innocents around them to go to the fiery hell hole with them.
After 30 years of self-destruction of its cadre with the intention of terrorizing innocent civilians by creating suicide bombers, LTTE is now encouraging self destruction of their remaining cadre in protest of being annihilated for being suicide bombers and terrorists! Seriously, how smart is this? Here I analyze generally why people resort to death by fire, the explicit message the LTTE is trying to convey by this, and the futility of this primitive practice.
People practice self-immolation for two major reasons: renouncement and devotion.
Renouncement: In the modern context, the most common form of self-immolation for renouncement is as a political protest. Usually, someone from the weaker political entity would burn oneself in protest of the practices of a stronger and deviant political force. This was the case when Thich Quan Duc, a Mahayana Vietnamese Buddhist monk burned himself in protest of the mal-treatment that was inflicted upon the clergy by the Ngo Dinh Deim’s government. In another case, a University of California (at San Diego) student burned himself in protest of the active presence of US troops in Vietnam. There are numerous cases of self immolation for renouncement that I won’t go into in detail here.
Devotion: The most famous example of self immolation for devotion is the archaic Hindu practice of Sati, where a new widow jumps into the burning pier of her dead husband. This practice has now been banned in India; and was never condoned by Mahabarata (a prominent Hindu religious text). In another case of devotion, with the schism of the Russian church, entire villages of the orthodoxy (Russian Orthodox Church) burned themselves and termed it “Baptism Fire”. This is just one example out of many, especially by fundamentalist religious sects, for who practiced mass self immolation to express devotion.
Importantly, however there are two more reasons for death by fire, which are usually not much talked about. These are forced burnings and self-immolation for cursing.
Forced burnings - It is known that during the time of the historical Rus' people (mostly ancient Russians, Belarussians and Ukrainians) when a slave owner died, a loyal female slave was burnt with the master. In India, forced burnings of wives who didn’t want to perform Sati when their husbands died, are reported. In the west, infidels and witches were burned at a stake. Though “forced burnings” is not strictly a practice of self-immolation, I include it here, as you see later, because someone can be MENTALLY forced to do this.
Self-immolation for cursing – This is little known, but at least two groups of people in India, the Charans and Rajputs self immolate to bring a curse upon someone who had perpetrated a foul deed upon them (or their people). Both these groups are North Indian Aryan (not South Indian Dravidian) sects that are renowned for their martial abilities. Interestingly, they perform self-immolation only against a closely related entity; faced with a distantly related foe, they always wage violent war. This character is important in what I am going to talk in relation to the LTTE.
Several hardcore LTTE supporters and perhaps even former suicide cadre of the LTTE recently self-immolated. I am not going to mention any names or instances of these here, as this could be of propaganda value for the LTTE. Anyway, these protests were in support of the LTTE who is facing an imminent military annihilation at the hands of the Sri Lanka defense forces.
The LTTE self-immolations, I argue, are a combination for all the four reasons (renouncement, devotion, forced burning and self immolation for cursing). Through these, it disparages the government’s military campaign against the LTTE, where the Tigers have lost significant amounts of land (which they call Eelam) and cadre. These immolations are clearly a message to the west and the Tamil community in general to join in greater protest. But protest for what?!
Through self-burning, LTTE cadre also show devotion to the cause (attaining Tamil Eelam) – it is well known that LTTE have a culture very much different from the other Dravidian Hindus. The true Tigers venerate their leader and the land they live instead of Hinduism, which they consider to be a para-desha concept; lack of respect for Hinduism is shown by the killing of Hindu priests, desecrating Hindu temples (The mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiappa was killed by the Tiger leader at point blank inside a Hindu temple), and constant changes of their names (Eelam is now called Ezham, and Prabhakarana is called Paripaharan ect.). Interestingly, though normally Hindus prefer to cremate (burn) the bodies of their dead and float the resulting ashes in a sacred river, LTTE prefer to bury their dead so that they can build cemeteries that can later be glorified. I find this practice very interesting, as their organization is founded on the principles of glorifying the dead, as much as glorifying terrorism and violence (perhaps I will write a separate article on this practice later).
There is a enormous social pressure by the LTTE leadership to its members to protest in strongest possible terms; and this includes forced self-immolation. This has been prevalent throughout its history. One of the main reasons for the west to ban this organization was the harassment of the Diaspora by the LTTE (illegal taxation ect.). One might protest my third claim, but one must remember that LTTE is not a group of freedom fighters. They are a world renowned group of terrorists; who have pioneered and mastered the self-destruction of human beings, the suicide bombings. So self immolation of the LTTE is not recent, if you consider suicide bombing as a form of self immolation (destruction) where you also kill other people; forced self immolation after all, is only small deviation from the psychology that is involved in suicide bombings.
From some of the letters that were found at some of the immolation sites, it is evident that the LTTE hate Buddhism and Sinhalese deeply, and that the people who immolated themselves prominently cursed these two factors. But unlike the Charnas and Rajputs of India, who are North Indian Aryans, it seems it is the first time that Dravidians that indulged in this practice to a significant level. So LTTE is yet again innovative in an unenviable way, in giving the decent Dravidians a foul name.
Now a rumor is spreading around that the LTTE leaders and its cadre entrapped in Wanni are going to commit suicide (by fire or otherwise). Fire has fascinated the first ape-men since they first started walking upright. So the death of these primitive LTTE terrorists too could very well be by fire. But I urge others LTTE supporters, especially the LTTE supporting diaspora not to get distracted by the LTTE efforts to play to the lower instincts of man. Think through your head, before setting yourself alight for a guy who thought only about himself. In addition this rumor is spread, I think, to encourage mentally forced self-immolation (that I talked about above).
Finally anyway, thousands of Sri Lankan and Indian civilians and soldiers, including two heads of states (one from India and the other from Sri Lanka), who died by the fire of the LTTE suicide bombers will undoubtedly not object to the last few of these suicide cadres (or those who are closely associated with them) attaining death by fire, if they must (!), without dragging other innocents around them to go to the fiery hell hole with them.
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