Prof. Augusto Pinto is nicely demonstrating the cheap political campaigning tactics that I had mentioned in this thread - tactics of smearing, linking with devilish political opponents, terrorist organizations, murderers, etc. The following quote of the professor has everything he accuses me of and more - twisting of words, spin-doctoring, verbal abuse and insults:
QUOTE I am sure the Sanatanists will be very grateful to Santosh Helekar for diverting attention away from this terrorist organisation and the irony of it is that he has accused FN - who was instrumental in pointing out to their perfidy - of being the aggressor!! UNQUOTE .....Prof. Augusto Pinto An utter lack of self-reflection is also evident. This is the malady that afflicts people who are driven by an unbalanced view of the world centered around recycled ideologies and visceral identities, rather than independent rational thought. Do you think these people will ever succeed in doing anything constructive for the secular cause? I don't. They will continue fighting their petty political battles, cherry picking which murderers to shill for and which murderers to attack based on their prearranged ideological agenda. The same holds true for whom they abuse in public forums. Do you think Prof. Augusto or Admin Noronha will confront, speak out against or abuse AF for the following post? QUOTE when I first read of Mr. Pereira, the supposed intellect-turned-painter-turned-grumpy old man, i opined that he was just a self-taught wannabe great. Now, I read that he has painted Christ in the nude ( and the Hindus get angry that he has painted their Deities in the nude, too), I wonder where and how did he ever imagine where in the Bible there was any reference to a naked Christ. This man claims he has done research on nude Deities before formulating his drawings. I say he just wants to rile up the locals, from his self-exiled foreign perch. Shame on Mr. Pereira! UNQUOTE .....AF Please see: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-August/196900.html I don't. Cheers, Santosh --- On Mon, 8/2/10, augusto pinto <pinto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to congratulate Dr. Santosh Helekar on his > ability to > twist arguments, ideas and words in such a way that others > are put > completely on the defensive. This spin-doctor-ability is an > absolute > marvel to me. > > Look at the issue at hand. The subject is: Re: Jose Pereira > at XCHR: A > Recounting of Events. I had originally raised this issue to > point to > the perfidy of the Hindu Janajagriti Samiti who had through > an allied > organisation - the Sanatan Saunstha - put out hate > propaganda through > its newspaper the Sanatan Prabhat, and had published the > phone numbers > of the Xavier Centre for Historical Research which led to a > spate of > hate calls to the XCHR, wherein the 79 year old Dr. Jose > Pereira was > even threatened of being decapitated. > > At the XCHR talk by Dr. Jose Pereira, where the > activists of the HJS > intruded to lecture him about their "hurt sentiments" > Frederick > Noronha pointed out to them their perfidious act of > publishing the > phone numbers of the XCHR and suggesting to their misguided > readers > that they make threatening phone calls to the XCHR. > > Santosh Helekar used this point to hijack the subject > of Jose Pereira > at XCHR: A Recounting of Events - to turn it into a > diatribe against > FN. The fact that an old scholar, artist and philosopher > has been > issued death threats has been drowned out in the > meanwhile. > > Remember, the Sanatan Saunstha is the organisation which > wanted to > explode bombs on Narkasur day last year. The fact that they > failed and > killed two of their own members is a different issue. > > I am sure the Sanatanists will be very grateful to Santosh > Helekar for > diverting attention away from this terrorist organisation > and the > irony of it is that he has accused FN - who was > instrumental in > pointing out to their perfidy - of being the aggressor!! > > I wish to congratulate Santosh Helekar on his excellent > rhetorical skills. > > -- * * * In every way, the Goans of Bombay were part of the great melee that was this metropolis, distinct perhaps in the way communities often are, holding on to their own traditions but merging slowly nonetheless and forming the thin thread of nationhood that would eventually become India. -- Selma Carvalho, in *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
