Dear Eddie, I understand very well the context that you have said what you have said. But when you are talking to Bernard Colaco, it is a different matter. Bernard Colaco and his ilk has always found fault with democracy. I too am of the same opinion that democracy is full of crap without people's participation.
Why I am saying this is explained here. The other day I went to the Industries and Mines Department to get myself a Provisional Registration for a SSI Unit. I am in construction, so I applied for MS works, Aluminium Works, Woodwork and Cement block making for own consumption etc. The officer in charge struck off 'woodwork" saying that Supreme Court has banned us from giving clearance for woodwork. That I must first get "Forest NOC". So I told the officer that I do not need to take Forest NOC because I am not going to cut the FOREST. All I am going to do is go to a sawmill and buy whatever wood I need, pay cash and come home. It is the FOREST DEPT'S job to see that the sawmill does not cut trees from the FOREST illegally and sell to me. Not my job. He liked the reasoning and said " Tell that to the GM". I said I will and went on to tell him that since the Department is discouraging people like me going legal, I shall make a complaint where it counts to stop all woodworking units throughout Goa which are illegal. They will shout on my name that I have rendered them jobless. A fine way for you to promote jobs in Goa, I told him. To that he said "we need people like you to make things happen, to open our eyes" And to that this is what I told him. "The 'Gorment' we ellect has leaded lids on its eyes. They are permanently closed shut. Therefore, the gorment of the day is permanently fast asleep. But the ordinary citizen cannot afford to even take twenty winks lest he be dragged and eaten up alive. Therefore, not only the ordinary citizen has to be wide awake all the time, he has to shore-up the 'Gorment's" eyelids so that it can see and let him live. And he must keep the eye-lids up and cannot afford to let go, for they will close again. In the bargain the citizen goes mad for lack of sleep and the 'gorment' gets fatter and prosperous. My mission, I told him, is to see that the 'gorment of the day not only does not sleep but has its eyelids permanently fixed so that they never close. Only then the citizen, who is expected to sleep well without a care everyday, 365 days of the year must sleep well and prosper. The 'gorment must go raving mad and linch everyone who does not fall in line, in this case, the FOREST DEPT. BTW, the erstwhile Portuguese 'gorment' did not have eyelids at all. And I am proud to say that because I have seen what was in its sight and which is abjectly missing now. And this is not to make Bernard and Agnelo happy. This is the truth and I have always maintained the same. I do hope I have answered your question. rgds floriano goasuraj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Verdes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goanet" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:15 PM Subject: [Goanet] Goan then and now! > Florian Bab, > In this case u mean to say that the gorment has to do everything...we as > people do not > have any responsibilities.....such that we cant do even small things which > help us in our > daily life, ...the uncultivated lands..keeping our surroundings clean..etc. > > Edward Verdes > > Wed Oct 5 18:48:27 PDT 2005 > Well said. > I wud like to second what you have stated. > Edward Verdes is very wrong. > > If people must do every thing themselves, then we do not need the gorment. > Period. > > Floriano > goasuraj > > > Eddie > > > >
