Now CM Digambar Kamat calls for introspection among Goans. He blames Goans for selling land, a myth that has been propagated by none other than the star campaigner of GBA. Has anyone questioned why Goans prefer to sell their land? If any Goan decides to keep his land, are there laws to protect that right? Even if there are, what is the time one has to spend in obtaining justice and the economics of defending this right? Are the land acquisition Act and the Mundkar Act behind the cause for panic that compels Goans to sell their land, because a bird in hand is worth two in the bush? Goans may want to do many things even trade their wives and daughters but the laws will not permit. What has stopped the Government from freezing development of hill slopes rather than all those shit rules of 25% gradient and average hill slope and such stuff? What has stopped the Government from keeping very low FAR in the villages to make it non-profitable for real estate developers? Who says that this Digambar and his gang of footsie activists want to save Goa? What unity among activists are guys speaking about when the interests are being traded on the weekends? We Goans are experts at brushing our problems under the carpet, pretending that nothing is happening and thinking that no one else knows anything. 'Denial' is one of the primary symptoms that never allows recovery in addictions. So is it with our Goan society.
-Soter
