moju hypocrisy

new post at moju calls me an extremist and and the author calls himself a democractic-pluralistic-centrist. i just call them hypocrites and unlike them i have facts to back me up. i as always let readers judge for themselves.

moju blog allowed a large number (40+ in last 5 days) of scurrilous spoof comments under the name sittingnut to be posted. they only removed them after i made repeated protest comments and sent repeated emails to admins there. however each time some spoof comments were pointed out and removed, new ones appeared within minutes.

as i said before given that no other commenter's name was spoofed so far and that info-share.org whose project moju is has connections to centre for policy alternatives(cpa) and employs people like sanjana hattotuwa who is connected with cpa, i reasonably suspect that spoofing was intentionally done in order to discredit me and make me out to be an extremist after i questioned the cpa report on trinco.

their new post which has my name on its title (and makes what i take to be a probable and rather lame scurrilous reference to me in the text, since spoof comments were posted with both capital and simple 's') does not mention any of that. so much for their fair mindedness but it does label me an extremist among other things. hypocracy plain and simple don't you think?

i would also ask anyone to point out where i have taken any one of the extremist positions indicated in the post. namely,

• Bombing, killing and maiming each other is the way to a solution.
• Negotiations are useless and a terrible sign of weakness
• All Civil society organizations are a bunch of terrorist ass lickers
• Tamils are evil aliens
• All tamils are terrorists
• All sinhalese are terrorists
• Burghers? What is that?
• The government/army can do no wrong
• LTTE can do no wrong
• And all the other countless weird old-world psychotic delusions

in addition to not believing any of that, i also don't the take other similar extremist positions not mentioned there . namely,

• peace is preferable at any cost
• ngos can do no wrong and are always unbiased.
• anyone criticizing ngos with or without evidence is an extremist

as i said please point out where i have taken any one of those positions or any other extremist position.

in addition to my comments in moju and other blogs you may want to check my posts in this blog.

btw imo the author of the present post dmonk has a style of writing that is very similar to the spoofer's though he has left all the abusive homophobic language out.

present post was published today, 13 may around 15 hours (though it seem to have been written yesterday and nominally carries the timestamp12. may 2006 at 23:01 ) after i asked logs of moju be made public, a request i have made at least two times before. they have made no reply whether they will make them available or not, so far. may be they are afraid that such transparency would make it clear who is posting the scurrilous spoof comments under my name. putting forward excuses (technical difficulties about dynamic ips etc. as some commenters there have done) shows their own limited understanding.

so i again request that moju logs (at least from 8 may 2006) to be made available. if they are made available i will prove who was making those scurrilous comments. but i expect they wont be because they are hypocrites who post under other people names and then write posts like the present one labeling anyone who disagrees with them extremists and themselves democractic-pluralistic-centrists.

democracy requires equality and transparency not partial disclosure of facts and hidden logs, pluralism requires tolerance and honest debate not discrediting of opposing views with spoof comments, and labeling everyone opposed to one as extremists does not make one a centrist.

(update - the post which was originally at rather tellingly named "http://moju.lk/2006/05/12/draft-heh-heh-heh/"
was changed to the present location
"http://moju.lk/2006/05/12/sittingnut-syndrome/" after this was posted here)