This is a very interesting story. Very funny.

“Deputy Minister DOCTOR Meryvn Silva who is in the centre of controversy, yesterday said youngsters who did not behave like his son, should be shown to a doctor.” It’s time we all went to the doctor I think to see if we are normal !

I really don’t think he knows what his son gets upto. It’s total ingnorance from the side of the parents. Well these days with the way things are we can’t always blame the parents, but in this case, when they don’t admit they are wrong that’s when it get becoming really stupid.

It’s great what the police are doing, those days I didn’t like going into clubs beacuse of hot heads like our friend. It’s not an enviroment to take a decent person to. In the toilets they do drugs, big shot are walking around with guns and bodyguards. You look the wrong way and your toast !

10 years ago, a night out was enjoyable. These days you’re on edge. you wave to a friend who happens to be standing next to a girl of a big shot, as soon as you get out, the next place you will be visiting is the hospital.

Now will all the pressure from the poilice, these places are becoming more responsible, and are night outs and even our days are becoming safer.

This normal he talks about is about 0.000000001% in our country

My son behaves normally: Mervyn
Thursday, 11 August 2005
The Island

Deputy Minister Meryvn Silva who is in the centre of controversy, yesterday said youngsters who did not behave like his son, should be shown to a doctor.

Speaking in Parliament during an adjournment debate on the crime situation, Mr. Silva said the IGP had enough `spine` to take action against clubs and karaoke bars.

‘If someone says that my son is the only one to behave like that in the world, I would hang him in the Galle face. But it is not so. So many youth behave like that. It is natural for them to make such mistakes at this age. If a youngster of his age does not behave like that, that boy should be shown to a doctor,’ he said. However, JVP frontliner Anura Kumara Dissanayake countered the Deputy Minister`s statement saying such behaviour originated due to bad examples set by the father.

‘The Deputy Minister says it is normal for youngsters to beat up police officers on duty. But the sad realty is it is not normal for youngsters of the common folk to beat up policemen. It is `normal` only for a select few,’ Mr. Dissanayake said.

In response Deputy Minister Silva said people who did not have children would not understand about a child`s `normal behaviour` while the JVPer quipped saying `God bless the child`.

Public security Deputy Minister Jayaratne Herath said the crime rate in the country had dropped by 12 percent in the first quarter of this year while 22 underworld figures had been killed during clashes with police.

The UPFA and JVP charged that UNP MP John Amaratnuga had no right to speak about the underworld and the crime rate, but the former Interior Minister rejected the allegations.