> "Elisabeth Carvalho" wrote: > > Don't listen to all this nonsense about polling for > opinions. > > Sometimes you have to take a stand and convince > people that what you are saying is in their > interest. That is how revolutions and revolutionary > ideas come about. > --- Floriano Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Elizabeth, > > That is a real shot in the arm for GSRP > Thank you indeed for that. > > On the contrary, I would like to encourage people > (like Mario, Vivek and others) to pose their > questions and their ideas and get the answere from > GSRP on those issue. We at GSRP could always learn > better and more this way. The only stand we do not > maintain is the "all knowing" stand. > Mario responds: > Excuse me for suggesting how to go beyond the "all knowing" stance suggested by earlier comments, in order to find out why the Goan electorate has not rallied to the Goa Suraj banner so far. > The real shot in the arm will come when Elisabeth leaves her distant pulpit in the boondocks of rural America to come home and take charge of the "revolution", Fidel-style, and banish Rane and all those pesky non-Goan migrants from Goa, or at least run for School Superindent so that Goan school girls will have the free "choice" of wearing everything from bikinis to burqas to school:-)) > Presumably, because Elisabeth, who clearly has leadership qualities, already knows what's good for everyone else, better than they do [:-))] she will want to run under the Goa Suraj banner. > She is already honing her mass communication skills on us on Goanet with subtle appeals to our hearts, if not our minds, based on being "ashamed", "afraid", "terrified", and testing powerful labels like "Talibanization" which will make the opposition cower in fear:-)) > So, Floriano, please include Elisabeth in your future political plans, but you may want to check on the schedule, because America has a way of changing people's minds when they begin to contemplate returning home, especially once the kids grow up and demand to know if their parents have lost their marbles for entertaining such ridiculous thoughts :-)) > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
