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9 February 2012

Rathika Sitsabaiesan NDP, Tamil Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River,Ontario   House of Commons, Ottawa.

Dear Rathika:

I just saw the video clip of your address at the Canadian Human Rights Voice Conference (CHRV) at Parliament Hill.  What an abominable farce it was.  The more you try to look and pretend to be a smart rookie MP you keep falling flat on your face.

You know what Rathika, I would have loved to have subjected you to a polygraph test to find out how true your story as a kid was, when you said that what you remember as a kid was being shot at by a uniformed person and found a dead body on your doorstep.  I would say that it was meant to produce a ‘tragic-blood-curdling dramatic image, with “tut-tut’ gun shot sound effects,’ but ended up as an awfully failed ‘tragic-comedy’ about the alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka.

You failed me and made me resentful, when you purposely alluded  that the person who shot at may have been a government soldier, but you purposely ignored letting the audience know of the other possibility, that if it had truly happened - “I wasn’t sure whether the person was a uniformed Tamil Tiger, who had come to kidnap me to train me as a suicide bomber. That is what they were doing, kidnapping young girls to brain wash them and train them as suicide bombers.”  That would have been more cogent for an intended drama.  What you also did not tell the audience was whether you were playing hopscotch as a five year old under a mango tree when it happened.  Obviously you were outside the house to have been shot at and whether it was a soldier or a Tamil Tiger, either perpetrator was a bad shooter not to get you at short range.  And  that is why I don’t believe your story. That is how silly and a bunch of outrageous baloney, it was.  My hunch is that you were not telling the truth and you certainly weren’t a convincing storyteller either.

Rathika,  stop being a martyr trying to get at Sri Lanka for the alleged Human Rights violations against your Tamil tribe which you know sweet nothing about. 

How come you have not gone hammer and tong at your adopted country, Canada, with outrage for heir human rights violations of the Native peoples in the remote Reserves.   If you think that you are God’s gift to humanity, you are wrong because you are not one of them in any shape or form.  These First Nation peoples need your help as an elected member of  the Cnadian parliament than the Tamils in  remote Sri Lanka’s north and east, who are, as you know, are well looked after  by the government of Sri Lanka having been dragged  through hell by your Tamil Tiger leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran for 27 bloody years.

Here are some topics for your home work assignments, if you want to smarten up on Canadian Human Rights, as a Rookie MP - Attawapiskat First Nation’s Reserve, Lubicon Cree, Dudley George, Oka Crisis.   Get your Amnesty International friends, Alex Neve and John Argue to give you a crash-course on these subjects,.  And speak to Marlene Galyott, the Conservative candidate who contested you at the federal election about the Tamil community in the North of Sri Lanka whom she had met and seems to understand more of the Tamil concerns than you, as you continue to blabber mouth knowing nothing.   If you are really concerned about helping your Tamil tribe in the northern Jaffna peninsula, sit with Marlene, and she will provide you with a lot of honest information of the ground reality.  She seems to be on top of this file, far better than you are,  as you have not visited Sri Lanka’s north since you left as a five year old kid, and Marlene has, twice I believe recently.

Here is a quote for you Rathika from the January 11, EMBASSY: “The conditions of Aboriginal communities and women in Canada has one former Canadian diplomat calling it the “number one human rights problem in Canada.”  Isn’t your heart bleeding for our First National native peoples?  So what is all this crap going after Sri Lanka when your concerns of human rights  are happening right at your doorstep, and a few hundreds of miles north of your constituency.  This was another fau pas of your career at a rookie parliamentarian.  I know where you are coming from, and you know where I am coming from on this file and I am keeping an eye on your performance when you are going after Sri Lanka with baseball bats with the help of MPs like Patrick Brown, and Jim Karygiannis.

And Oh My God, what a blooper that was, saying that Canada has a population of 9 million.  You took Canada’s population history to around 1930, when it was roughly around 10 million then,  You were 82 years behind with your information on Canada.  Phew…!

Then when it was pointed out by someone in the audience that Canada’s population was 34.5 million, you tried a quick effort to damaged control of your failing grade of the general knowledge on Canada, and you said that you were thinking of the number that came out to vote.  You failed again Rathika.  Your general knowledge about Canada is nothing to be proud of.  The 2008 federal election had 13,929,093 ballots cast.   And again you were out by about 4 million.

And all what I can do is to throw my hands up and shout “Sweet Mother of Jesus, what does this rookie Tamil MP know who is trying to govern my country.  Please, Canada needs help with such MPs around!”

Sincerely,

Asoka Weerasinghe