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Message: <blockquote data-quote="70kg" data-source="post: 20865630" data-attributes="member: 560241"><img src="http://ceylontoday.lk/image_article/ct-01-11-2016-8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />By Rathindra KuruwitaPresident Maithripala Sirisena is increasingly making himself hated by the elites and the liberals and rich kids pretending to be social justice warriors. I wrote a column last week on his critique on the 'independent commissions' and I wondered when he will get down to pissing off his former fans, boys and girls, especially those with a decidedly United National Party (UNP) bias, on national security.And he did, a lot sooner than I expected, when he said on Thursday that 'certain media organizations, journalists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and traitorous forces act without realizing the importance of ensuring national security'. He added that he will ignore these pundits, who have no idea about national security, State administration and governance.And of course some of the civil society leaders, mainly those from organizations which are equivalent to Udaya Gammanpila's Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), ie., organizations with a membership of between 1 to 10, are angry.(Note- I must reiterate that this is a critique of the NGO sector or the civil society. Hundreds of Civil Society Organizations do important and essential work around the country and the intervention of these organizations did help Maithripala Sirisena. I am just saying that these organizations that actually have a decent membership and have a presence on the ground and their leaders are not the ones criticizing the President on the two speeches he made).How dare the President 'a man who won his presidency mostly on NGO-driven platform!' say anything of this nature, one prominent social media personality said and the reactions of others like him were just the same. They are hurt, for some reason, and believe that they are betrayed, again for a reason that I don't understand.</blockquote>

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