Like right-libertarian Bruce Fein (a Ron Paul campaign staff-member), leftist Francis Boyle is alleged to have been hired by the Tamil Tigers in 2009 to propagandize for them.
The Western activists recreated the Tigers as oppressed innocents, in need of a race-based transnational “eelam” of their own.
Bailaman.blogspot.com gives some detailed background on the development of the Tigers in the West, where they are quite content to be a minority ruled by Caucasians, while demanding that Lanka cede half its territory to them.
Bailaman:
The Tamil Tiger sympathisers have always wanted moderate Tamils to think that non-violent demonstrations against laws and policies back in the 40’s, and 50’s fell on deaf years, and the Tamil Tigers were created because peaceful means yielded no results.
I have written in the past how even the non-Tamils protested peacefully at the ‘Sinhalese only law’.
The law was changed in the 50s, the Tigers were formed in late 70s.
Prabhakaran was a bank robber, a common criminal, who transformed his group of thugs into what he called freedom fighters.
Don’t fall for it. I can sit here and point out at the lies in Makenthiran’s article above. But that’s not the purpose of this post.”
(Lila: Tamil Eelam in Lanka has about as much legitimacy as Tamil Eelam in Canada, where, after all, Tamils are also a minority in a Caucasian dominated society.)
Bailaman:
The last time I checked most of Canada’s parliament was Caucasian dominated. Majority and minority representation in a government is no reason to hate. To think that Sinhalese hate Tamils with a passion is beyond logic. Not just Sinhalese, but every ethnic group hated the Tamil Tigers with a passion. And every democratically elected government is bound by laws to protect it’s citizens. No armed entity, like the Tamil Tigers, will be allowed to terrorise parts of Canada with suicide bombs and forced child recruitment to carve out a separate state for only Tamils.
To dream of a mono-ethnic state called Tamil Eeelam, and to prance around like it’s all OK, is just stupid.
Tamil Eelam, the concept and the ideology, is racist in every form.
Educated moderate Tamils should know that any contribution towards segregating Tamils from other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka is morally wrong.
That’s what Eelam stood for.
It wasn’t just a separate state, but half of Sri Lanka’s land mass, and one third of it’s coast handed to terrorist (LTTE) for a Tamil only state.”
(Lila: Since LTTE fronts for Western elite interests, that means the West would in effect have a regional nuclear base in Asia).
Bailaman:
Be ashamed.. Be very ashamed for supporting this doctrine.….
…Rudrakumar is said to have invested over $400,000 on both Fein and Boyle as spokesmen to regurgitate Tamil Tiger propaganda. He hoped that the two distinguished non-Sri Lankans will influence western decision makers. More importantly, he hoped that their criticism of Sri Lanka would help keep the Tamil Eelam flame alive by influencing the ignorant.
The Tigers raised a million dollars a month in Canada. Those digits are dropping fast. A lot is at stake.
It is no secret that the Tigers have been lobbying for support in the US for their cause. Hillary Clinton too has received donations from the LTTE.”