Columnist, Emil Van Der Poorten writes in the Sunday Leader, Everything from Soup to Nuts: "Defenders of The Realm" in Sri Lanka (04 Dec 2012):
"I have in previous columns made passing reference to those whose well-remunerated task it is to defend the status quo in this country."
"Let me, on this occasion, make the attempt to differentiate between them and the tasks that they appear to shoulder for a government that sorely needs defenders of various kinds, given the manner of its governance."
"One of the “enabling factors” to the Armageddon that seems to await us is certainly a dearth of easily accessible information about what is really happening around us. With the electronic and print media either completely controlled by the government or self-censoring itself into inconsequentiality (for reasons that should be obvious to anyone in this country), a citizenry that has no ambition to spend all its waking hours trying to get beyond the censorship of the Web is vulnerable in the extreme to the brainwashing that the state is indulging in."
