Dear Elvino,
If anyone at all does qualify for the Highest GOAN award, name it whatever
it may be, YOU Elvino deserve that AWARD for saying what you have said.
WHAT IS THAT WE GOANS NEED TO CALL OURSELVES 'INDIAN' SO THAT WE ARE PROUD
OF THE COUNTRY'S CITIZENSHIP FORCED ON US????
We would be and have reason to be PROUD IF:
1. Our age old GAONKARIES aka COMUNIDADES were preserved just like the
Portuguese did.
2. If Our Civilian Dabolim airport was handed over to the Goa's Civilian
Authority after the invasion, to make it actual LIBERATION. and not cling to
it as the spoils of war.
3. If the Army Signal Corp. had to vacate their present HQ in Panjim and
hand over that prime building back into Goan's hands.
4. If they had preserved Goan's right to vote without diluting it with
migrant voters left right and centre.
5. If Our Freedom Fighters were not manufactured to make them PENSION
FIGHTERS.
6. If Goa was Goa and not a DRUG PEDDLING CENTRE OF INDIA.
7. If Special Status was given to Goa, which promises have enlarged the
vocal chords of the leaders of India including Nehru.
8. If Goa was not diluted and divided by sanctioning the OPINION POLL for
and against MERGER OF GOA INTO MAHARASHTRA.
9. If Goans didn't have to go look out for paying jobs elsewhere, other that
pre-invasion job seekers like cooks waiters and butlers. Today, even after
being educated, other States of India are given jobs in Goa (read government
jobs) to their compatriots. Ex. PWD, Electricity departments.
10. If they did not manufacture their own GOAN chamchas in Goa who loot and
plunder daytime or night, hand over 3/4th of the loot to Indians and keep
the rest to themselves.
11. Let our sons not be killed in custody by the INDIAN POLICE and then go
to say WE ARE A DEMOCRACY.
12. Let us Goans see the Enforcement Directorate and CBI put to work in Goa
on everyday basis and scoot out the looters and plunderers and jail them,
even if they are the GOVERNORS of GOA. We do not care.
13. If our valuable assets which are our golden beaches were not converted
to sewage dumps.
I could go on and on.
So why do we Goans who are not interested in licking any nationality but
GOANNESS have to be EXTRA PROUD OF INDIAN AND INDIAN CITIZENSHIP???? Do we
need to be PROUD OF THIS COUNTRY when it's esteemed Foreign Minister readS
the speech already read by his PORTUGUESE counterpart in the UN Security
Council to make us the LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD?? GOANS have considered
the Portuguese the DONKEYS for having signed the co-operation treaty with
India without asking or confiding in GOANS. When Indian Foreign Ministers
read the speeches of the Portuguese Donkeys, are they not the DONKEY'S PAR
EXCELLENCE? Do we need to be Proud of DONKEYS?????
Let India sack this joker and only then maybe, just maybe, we Goans shall
consider.
Let the powers that be answer all the above questions and then we GOANS
shall embrace the citizenship and value it like it was part of our lives.
NOT BEFORE.
CHEERS TO GOA AND GOANS.
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elvino Rodrigues" <elrock...@gmail.com>
To: "Goanet" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Glorifying colonialism: Ignorance of history or
slavish loyalty? Uday Bhembre,
In those bygone times, Goans were mostly believers and of poor class use
to
believe who ever say anything. When Portuguese were saying they are
Portuguse they were considering themselves as Portuguese and when Indians
came in and Indians told them they are Indians they still believed so.
Because they were of hard working type of people therefore, their main
motive was to live as day come and goes by night. They much did not care
who
they were or are. But as time went by and education is rampant now every
one has opened their eyes and started questioning the kind of life they
had
before and how they are living now, who they were before and who really
they
are now. Goans started comparing the kind of fearless life they use to
live
before and how they suffer in the present living with fear and uncertainty
of next day. Under these circumstances Goans started thinking what was
best
for them to live comfortable then and now. I dont think Goans would blame
India and complain it even as invasion over Goa if India's corrupt culture
has not spoilt Goa totally, there is no law and order in present Goa. Look
at Police Dept how deeply it is rotten, politically Goa is finished like.
There are scams everywhere. There is fear and insecurity at every life
root
level. There is no one secure now a days even after Goans have imprisoned
and barricaded themselves under grilled windows, grilled top roofs and
even
grilled doors? Under such circumstances Goans started comparing the life
under Portugues Regime and Indian regime and expressed their
disappointment.
And if is trying to save us Goans with better life, why should
Goans not vote for such a party when they promised to weed out the
corruption and clean Goa of many evils! Why should not Goans try their
luck
when BJP as well as Congress and all other national and local parties have
totally failed to rule Goa appropriately? Today Goans have fear of
survival
and since Goans know now that there is not a single party worth ruling Goa
appropriately, it is worth trying our luck now by voting as we
tried voting all other parties and terribly failed.
No cheers.
Elvino Rodrigues
