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**** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
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Annual Goanetters Meet - December 28, 2015 - 11:00 am
Fundacao Oriente, Mala, Altinho, Panjim, Goa
http://bit.ly/FundacaoOrienteGoa
The Fundao Oriente carries out cultural and artistic activities
in India with, for historical and cultural reasons,
special emphasis on the State of Goa.
Looking forward to seeing you there
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Goa's Politicians: Divine Right Of Kingship?
The behavior of Goa's politicians seem to me to be in the mode of
seventeenth century Europe's Divine Right of Kingship. Are our politicians
ready for democracy?
How do we mortals and sadly mistaken voters tell them differently? How do
we tell them what they are doing is wrong? Can they understand?
In a democracy, politicians no doubt are elected to do the will of the
people. For this reason a political party presents its manifesto, and
persuades and promises to accomplish what is written down in black and
white. The voter then votes or does not vote based on the assurance of the
Party's manifesto.
If a political party gets elected and does not do what it has promised to
do, then the voter is unlikely to be fooled again, the majority, that is.
Masochists and please-hit-me-again types may vote again, gleefully. But it
is dangerous to rely on this type of voter as they are in a minority even
when the society has come down with a serious virus attack which can make
everyone lose their sense of direction, a fate worse than getting drunk on
our local coconut or cashew fenny.
Do our politicians suffer from Alzheimer's disease after the election? If
they do then they should take some miracle medicine invented during the
Vedic period. And if some history books are correct about the Golden Age
of Indian civilization then we have to believe this disease did not exist!
And there was no need to invent a medicine for it. Other history books
however teach us differently: politicians at the time were simply labelled
Liars!
In the Divine Right of Kingship approach to democracy, it is a sin to
criticize the government as politicians have been given a God-given right
to govern the people. Expert committees and their expert opinions are
sidelined and people who lack expertise or even a proper education veto
everything which they don't like for reasons best known to themselves. They
will not listen to the voters or the experts even though they have not kept
to their promise, what they have written in black and white in their
manifestos. They now have the power, and are drunk on it, after being
elected and the voter is more a nuisance and shadow of a human being who
really deserves no time at all. Who needs the experts when I, the
politician, am here! I will decide! Who are you to voice your opinion? The
voters constitutional rights are buried until the next election.
A good formula, no doubt, for disaster is the sowing of a mine field of
multiple wrong decisions waiting for future generations to reap! At times,
experts' reports are replaced by new reports by other expert committees
which are slanted and often a cut-and-paste job to suit the politician's
goal along with convenient insertions and omissions. Always, there is a
need to look at the fine print as our politicians have a genius for
hoodwinking the public. All form no content, with a lot of back door
entries and exits.
And then there is the final straw to break the back of the voter: You
unnecessarily want to stop all development! No, sir, not all development
the Goan voters tell their elected government and representatives again and
again. Only development which is harmful to us and the unborn generations
should be stopped! Otherwise future generations will have to pay not only
the price of a low quality of life but maybe even with their lives.
The majority of the Top Twenty polluted cities in the world today are in
India. Is this development? And, is it any wonder people living in Delhi
and other polluted cities around the country want to settle down in Goa?
Politicians who belong to the school of thought of the Divine Right of
Kingship and who do not agree with what is written down are welcome to
correct the record.
On every contentious issue please agree to a public debate - pro and con -
with experts from the relevant field. Are you game?
