TamilNet has no right to media freedom
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With the IT revolution, media in the contemporary world has become the most effective weapon for either better or worse more than any other time in history. And terrorists are obviously using it to their maximum advantage. Needless to say the LTTE has beaten all other groups in this venture. In fact today the Tigers rely on propaganda even more than firepower.
There is no better proof of it than the way they created in less than two decades a network of Western sympathizers and supporters who lobby on the LTTE's behalf in Europe and North America, despite the fact that the Tigers have been banned in the U.S., Canada and over 20 countries in the European Union.
So if - as often trumpeted - defeating terrorism worldwide is top priority for the U.S. and her Western Allies as well as Russia (among other countries) it is imperative that terrorism - whether it is unleashed by the LTTE or Al Queda, Taliban or any other extremist group - has to be dealt with on two fronts, military and media.
Crippling the Tigers' propaganda worldwide has to be an essential part of this anti-terrorist strategy. Here we need to be on high alert for those bogus free media champions who charge that blocking the strongly pro-LTTE website Tamil Net is a violation of media freedom.
The international community should clearly note that Tamil Net is not just another media organization that is criticizing the government within the democratic frame work of an undivided Sri Lankan State. If we go by this absurd `free media' logic then the U.S. government should permit the Al Queda and Taliban to publish newspapers and operate radio and television stations in that country.
As we know the websites of Islamic terrorist groups have been blocked in many countries. Hence we see no reason why the GOSL or any other government should tolerate the TamilNet.
Did the British Government allow Nazis to run newspapers and radios in Britain or her colonies in Word War II? The pro-Nazi Englishman, William Joyce alias Lord Haw Haw had to flee Britain and do his anti-British propaganda from Germany.
Cockeyed arguments on `media freedom' should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
The Tamil Net is the propaganda arm of the enemy of the Sri Lankan State and the Sri Lankan Nation – not merely the government regardless of which political party has formed it. The TN was set up for the specific purpose championing the LTTE's cause and to justify the bisection of Sri Lanka.
In fact blocking this website should have been done much earlier. Now that has been done in this country anyhow it is the duty of the big powers including India to ensure that it blocked in their countries too, if they are genuine opponents of terrorism .
Sign the on line petition by logging to; http://www.petitiononline.com/antiltte/petition.html
Sign the on-line petition http://www.petitiononline.com/antiltte/petition.html
With the IT revolution, media in the contemporary world has become the most effective weapon for either better or worse more than any other time in history. And terrorists are obviously using it to their maximum advantage. Needless to say the LTTE has beaten all other groups in this venture. In fact today the Tigers rely on propaganda even more than firepower.
There is no better proof of it than the way they created in less than two decades a network of Western sympathizers and supporters who lobby on the LTTE's behalf in Europe and North America, despite the fact that the Tigers have been banned in the U.S., Canada and over 20 countries in the European Union.
So if - as often trumpeted - defeating terrorism worldwide is top priority for the U.S. and her Western Allies as well as Russia (among other countries) it is imperative that terrorism - whether it is unleashed by the LTTE or Al Queda, Taliban or any other extremist group - has to be dealt with on two fronts, military and media.
Crippling the Tigers' propaganda worldwide has to be an essential part of this anti-terrorist strategy. Here we need to be on high alert for those bogus free media champions who charge that blocking the strongly pro-LTTE website Tamil Net is a violation of media freedom.
The international community should clearly note that Tamil Net is not just another media organization that is criticizing the government within the democratic frame work of an undivided Sri Lankan State. If we go by this absurd `free media' logic then the U.S. government should permit the Al Queda and Taliban to publish newspapers and operate radio and television stations in that country.
As we know the websites of Islamic terrorist groups have been blocked in many countries. Hence we see no reason why the GOSL or any other government should tolerate the TamilNet.
Did the British Government allow Nazis to run newspapers and radios in Britain or her colonies in Word War II? The pro-Nazi Englishman, William Joyce alias Lord Haw Haw had to flee Britain and do his anti-British propaganda from Germany.
Cockeyed arguments on `media freedom' should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
The Tamil Net is the propaganda arm of the enemy of the Sri Lankan State and the Sri Lankan Nation – not merely the government regardless of which political party has formed it. The TN was set up for the specific purpose championing the LTTE's cause and to justify the bisection of Sri Lanka.
In fact blocking this website should have been done much earlier. Now that has been done in this country anyhow it is the duty of the big powers including India to ensure that it blocked in their countries too, if they are genuine opponents of terrorism .
Sign the on line petition by logging to; http://www.petitiononline.com/antiltte/petition.html
