Bruce Fein – Stay Home!
(Article By Stephen Long, Los Angeles)
I smiled with amusement when I read Bruce Fein’s article that appeared on June 8th on TamilNet. Just in case you don’t know who he is, he’s the media mercenary from Washington D.C., a former US Deputy Attorney General, who is paid an alleged $100,000 per month to campaign for an independent Tamil State in Sri Lanka. His retainer fees come from “Tamils for Justice,” which I and many others believe is a transparent front organization funded by LTTE. Mr. Fein, of course, says that it’s not, but it would be interesting to investigate where the money comes from that supports TFJ – as well as Mr. Fein’s website organization dedicated to the same cause called the “Bruce Fein Project.” The latter is a clever name, don’t you think? Sounds like something for science class or a 70’s rock band. What these two organizations promote, however, is far from benign. They plot and promote separation, death, and the destruction of a sovereign nation – yours!
I applaud the Canadian federal authorities who followed the “money trail” and yesterday published the following in “Public Safety Canada,” an official government website:
“The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, today announced that the Government of Canada has listed the World Tamil Movement (WTM) as a terrorist group, effective June 13, 2008, pursuant to the Criminal Code of Canada. The decision to list the WTM meets the legal threshold set out in the Criminal Code...which requires the existence of reasonable grounds to believe that the entity has knowingly participated in or facilitated a terrorist activity or is knowingly acting on behalf of, at the direction, or in association with such an entity.
“The listing of the WTM is meant to support the Tamil Community of Canada, which consists of law-abiding and hard working people who have left their country of origin to build a better life for themselves and their families in Canada. The Government is taking this step to help ensure that Canadians, including the Tamil community are protected from the activities of this organization.
“The WTM, created in 1986, is the leading front organization for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Canada. The various offices of the WTM in Canada transfer funds to bank accounts in Sri Lanka meant for the LTTE. The leadership of the WTM acts at the direction of leaders of the LTTE. WTM representatives canvas areas in Canada with large Tamil populations demanding large donations on behalf of the LTTE. Refusals to contribute often lead to threats and intimidation.”
Does WTM smell anything like TFJ – or “Bruce Fein Project”? These terrorists don’t fool around. They are dead serious, and as we all know, they won’t stop with a well-planned public relations smear campaign. They are dedicated and determined (though brainwashed and misguided), and they will continue to use their suicide bombers and international funding schemes to create chaos and disruption in order to get their prized Eelam.
In Bruce Fein’s recent article cited from TamilNet above he says, “I readily accept your invitation to visit Sri Lanka to talk with Tamils in confidence in Colombo and elsewhere to obtain direct and candid testimony of Tamil sentiments toward a unitary state as opposed to separate Tamil statehood.”
Please, Government of Sri Lanka, do not buy this load of you know what. This dangerous man really wants to go to Sri Lanka and privately interview LTTE plants and supporters so he can drum up false allegations about Government human rights abuses. I see clearly now that this former prosecutor’s end-game is to file charges with the International Courts so he can drag the Defence Minister and the Army General to trial.
This, of course, would just about finish off any hopes for a peaceful, unified Sri Lanka. Once the Government and these two officials are dragged through the mud, international peacekeepers would soon flood into Sri Lanka and start doing things their way. Then the LTTE media machine would kick into full gear, and because the Government unfortunately doesn’t have adequate representation in the world press, international opinion would be so swayed in the LTTE’s favor that the barn door would swing wide open.
After the peacekeepers descend, the next step would be for the establishment of the desired Tamil State of Eelam, which I feel is only a stepping stone for the LTTE to take over the whole island. Please don’t think this is as far-fetched as it may sound. It would be a relatively easy goal to realize if international public opinion was so far stacked against the Government that it was forced to capitulate – very much like recent situations we have witnessed in other parts of the world. Yep, they could wind up with the whole enchilada.
Mr. Fein sarcastically comments, “You insinuate that Tamils in Sri Lanka exult in living with Sinhalese in a unitary state. If you have the courage of your purported convictions, then you should have no fear of a free and fair referendum on Tamil statehood. If you are correct, a commanding or simple majority would vote to retain a unitary Sri Lankan state. TFJ is not demanding a Tamil state, but only making that an option in a free and fair referendum.”
Such a referendum makes absolutely no sense when you consider the fact that only 12% of the Sri Lankan population is Tamil, and most Tamil people are living peaceably with the Sinhalese majority. If the referendum proposed by Mr. Fein is a national referendum, then even if the entire 12% voted for the independent state it would surely fail. After all, what is the incentive for the Sinhalese people? Why would they vote for allowing a minority group to carve out a piece of its homeland for a separate country? The peacefully co-habiting Tamils certainly won’t go for it either. What would be their incentive? Do you think they’d want to give up everything they have, go up north, and live in the abject poverty of an isolated fourth-world dictatorship?
The whole idea is insane, and there are absolutely no good reasons whatsoever to go through the costly and painful exercise of conducting such a pointless national referendum. Can
you imagine the local advertising and media campaign for such an electoral event? Talk about picking the scabs off of fresh wounds!
The idea does make sense, however, if it is used by the LTTE and its supporters as a tool for getting the international media and political spotlight focused on such a referendum, which will give ample opportunity for the terrorists and their front organizations to air their litany of ancient grievances – no holds barred. Welcome, peacekeepers!
So please, Government of Sri Lanka, do not give this pretentious Beltway prostitute the time of day. Letting him into your country is like inviting in the Trojan Horse. No good can come of this soulless man’s cold, calculated visit, which I have no doubt will be turned into something nasty for inflicting irreparable harm upon you, the good people of Sri Lanka. Beware!
