Jose Colaco wrote: > On Wednesday, 2nd February, 2005, Goa was liberated from the communal, despotic, dictatorial regime of Manohar Parrikar. > > Is "ALL what happened there in Goa ......DEMOCRACY? Have you researched HOW LIES are told to the populace, last minute gimmicks are engineered, some items of FAKE news are given prominence - ....Voters' registers are suddenly incomplete ....you name it. > > MONEY is spent just before the elections - Money is swiped after elections - Money is demanded in lieu of support - Money is demanded to defect - and Money is paid ( I hear the figure 4 crores - way up from the lakhs I knew about) > > Is this according to the Will of the People? Is this what you mean by Democracy or Liberation? > > But ... How will the people know the facts? IF the Press does not tell them the facts....and ALL the facts (not some of the facts).... so that the people can make a genuinely democratic decision? > Mario responds: YES! ALL of what happened in Goa is PRECISELY democracy in action, regardless of the LIES, the FAKE news, the crooked MONEY issues, and all the chicanery that you describe. WHY? Because NONE of it worked to keep Parrikar in power. > Someone once said that watching a democracy in action is like watching sausage being made. Churchill once said it was the worst system in the world, except for all the other systems out there. > You ask, "How will the people know the facts?" > Has it occurred to you that if you, living on a tropical island on the other side of the world, know all the most minute details about what is going on in Goa, then it may be conceivable that the people who actually live in Goa may know far more facts than you do? Are you saying that you are the only person with some special access to ALL the facts? > What you seem unwilling to concede is that in a democracy, all the crookedness that politicians in power are inclined to try eventually gets exposed by the competing interests of opposing politicians. Biased newspapers are eventually exposed by the competing interests of other newspapers. There is no such balance weight in a dictatorship. Just ask the Cubans or the Saudi citizens. > If Manohar Parrikar was a REAL dictator, such as Fidel Castro of Cuba or the Saudi Kings, then how come Parrikar was removed from power so easily, without any conflict or bloodshed? How many governments have come and gone in Goa, without any conflict or bloodshed? And you still se no difference between a democracy and a dictatorship? > REAL dictatorships have all the faults that you may see in a democracy, but in a dictatorship there is no competing opposition, no freedom of speech and assembly, and no recourse to an independent legal system.
Yet, you continue to see no difference?
