We here at PODM would like to pause for a moment to mark the passing of a man of the people, a man of vision, a man that will be missed. I refer of course to Velupillai Prabhakaran, seen here in happier days in his official portrait for 26th annual Tamil Tiger smörgåsbord, golf tournament and pointless violence awards banquet brochure.
Prabhakaran was a shy, quiet and unassuming murderous thug as a child and didn't commit his first murder/assassination until1975 when he was twenty one. He founded the LTTE ( Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) to establish a socialist state for ethnic minority Tamils and like every good socialist immediately started killing anybody he could get his hands on. He piled up an estimated 100, 000 bodies during the course of his war for the liberation of disinterested Tamils and turned a once prosperous island paradise into a humanitarian catastrophe.
Liberal ball washers have noted his many innovations in the field of terrorism, female suicide bombers, forced conscription of teenagers into his army and the air, sea and land capability of his liberation army. The L.A. Times described him as "innovative and ruthless" a description usually reserved for the founder of a successful business empire based on a clever kitchen utensil. I guess the headline, "World well rid of Maniac" is reserved for Dick Cheney. The Christian Science Monitor wonders whether the the LTTE can continue with out a sadistic charismatic mad man to lead them. The Guardian laments that Prabhakaran's vision of an earthly socialist heaven was "tantalizingly close" but holds out hope that overseas Sinhalese will support some other psychotic megalomaniac and keep the good times rolling.
Adios Velupillai Prabhakaran, you never missed a meal but your obsession with a socialist home land for Tamils impoverished them, killed off their best hope for the future and guaranteed a generation of repression in retribution for your "liberation" army's excesses. You sowed the whirlwind baby and got for it precisely nothing.
3 comments:
Heck of a 'stache.
I think his followers are keeping it alive.
I would.
Thanks for pointing the many inaccuracies and blatant lies in the posting, I should be run off the internet like the ranchers did the sheepherders. Perhaps I could be dragged behind a runaway mustang then branded by righteous cowpokes until I've confessed my many errors to their commissars. This would of course occur in a parallel universe where the trail drives were run by Old Bolsheviks.
But I digress.
Many good socialists have impressive facial hair, Marx (Either Groucho or Karl, take your pick), Stalin and Castro most notably but Lenin and Mao were mustachioed although I may be confusing Mao with Charlie Chan. I heard that LTTE hired the best guys to preserve it, guys that worked on Lenin and Disney. Whatever, the bloated little mustached homicidal maniac will always hold a place in our hearts and memories at PODM.
In the iconic image of Che, his weak facial hair make him seem a bit fey by socialist goon grooming standards.
Getting snuffed by the Bolivian army may have saved him a lot of grief.
Rumors were already circulating of torrid summer nights in the jungle with Raul C.
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