{"id":113859,"date":"2013-11-07T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=113859"},"modified":"2013-11-12T03:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T21:34:35","slug":"no-tears-for-departed-attorney-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-tears-for-departed-attorney-generals\/","title":{"rendered":"No Tears For Departed Attorney Generals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Basil+Fernando&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\">Basil Fernando<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113777\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/llrc-chairman-passes-away\/c-r-de-silva-mahinda-samrasinghe\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113777\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113777\" title=\"C.R. de Silva, Mahinda Samrasinghe\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/C.R.-De-Silva.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/C.R.-De-Silva.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/C.R.-De-Silva-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-113777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C.R. De Silva<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Why I have no tears for departed Attorney Generals:<\/p>\n<p>Do we feel sorry for ones extinguishing the light<\/p>\n<p>Leaving everything in the dark?<\/p>\n<p>Is there any crime worse than<\/p>\n<p>Killing the soul of a nation?<\/p>\n<p>Is not justice the soul of the nation?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Subverting justice was raised<br \/>\nTo an art.<br \/>\nMolding the young to lie<br \/>\nWithout compunction.<br \/>\nTeaching the abductors and murderers<br \/>\nIn uniform to lie under oath<br \/>\nAnd crafting them false affidavits<br \/>\nTo subvert the writ of habeas corpus.<br \/>\nCynically putting into wastepaper baskets<br \/>\nThousands and thousands of letters<br \/>\nWritten by mothers in tears.<\/p>\n<p>Eloquently lying in august international forums,<br \/>\nDefending the indefensible.<br \/>\nAll this for a post or a promotion,<br \/>\nFor the proverbial 30 pieces of silver.<br \/>\nTurning upside down<br \/>\nThe house of justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No, I have no tears<\/p>\n<p>For departed Attorney Generals.<\/p>\n<p>They killed the soul of my nation.<\/p>\n<p>We are all dead now<\/p>\n<p>Roaming in a justice-less nation.<\/p>\n<p>Tears are for the citizens, the living<\/p>\n<p>And those yet to come,<\/p>\n<p>To the desolate nation.<\/p>\n<p>No, I have no tears for departed Attorney Generals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":47652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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