[Goanet] Changing The System

[John Eric Gomes]

The deadline the Supreme Court gave the States for affidavit on Police 
Reforms is reported to be end December 2006. Many States including Goa have 
not yet replied.Those who did, disagreed by and large ,on the grounds that 
the Cabinet is responsible for Law and Order, and being elected 
representatives,they do not want the opposition or others to have a say in 
Police matters!

A Parallel could be seen in our Ministers attitude regarding Tree cutting in 
Mira Mar, Panaji, and  the way the Goa Regional Plan  2011 has been 
finalised? I understand Goa has not yet formed a representative Committee to 
discuss these much needed and vital Police reforms!
The ghastly crimes now headlined in every media about scores of missing 
children  long since reported to the Police in Uttar Pradesh, the culprit, 
well known and affluent , having been in their net  interviewed and let off 
twice, the soaring crimes not being tackled due politician criminal nexus, 
and the spine chilling fallout now being investigated,should  shock the 
establishment in every State, as it did the nation and hasten Police reforms 
on the guidelines explicitly given by the learned judges of our highest 
judicial forum.The public,Police, and the judicial establishment are 
desperately waiting , whilst the politicians keep fiddling and dilly 
dallying!

The two NRIs who walked out of their convention at the Kala Academy, the 
returning of delegate fee to advocate Aires Rodrigues and preventing him to 
attend, are symptoms of the malaise of our rotten system, still working in 
boxes. People who dare are few  and far between, and so far, easily cast 
off/eliminated by the System. But we require out of the box solutions, and 
the internet will galvanise people to throw out the  successful fossils who 
command/demand our respect and compliance. I think the time has come for 
less of lighting the traditional lamp, and bullshit , and more of 
listening/welcoming all views and criticisms, because those who want to keep 
the lid on boiling sentiments and public anger , specially of the suppressed 
poor and marginalised, will be blown to smithereens. Isn't the state of our 
present world and terrorism enough evidence?!