To Goanet - Santosh Helekar wrote: >On the issue of Goa, at first Dr. Parrikar appears to >be backtracking from his earlier stance by denying >that bhaile and ghanti are the root cause of Goa's >problems, even though decrying them has been the >centerpiece of his sabbatical campaign in Goa. But >then he clarifies that they are merely one major >problem.
There is not even a sliver of backtracking here. Dr. Helekar could have avoided this embarrassing boo-boo and spared us the spectacle of his being hoist by his own petard if only he had a modicum of respect for the rudiments of the scientific method he has been touting on this forum. A minor dig into the Goanet archives would have disabused him of his serious misperceptions. Reference #1: Sept 18, 2007 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2007-September/062284.html <quote> "The harebrained tourism policy, the real estate mafia, the builders, our political leaders, the curse of uncultured Dilliwallahs seeking an old Portuguese house, the ridiculously priced apartments targeted at bhailes, the Russian mafia, drug running along the coastal belt, rave parties, the ghati menace - all these are interlinked, symbiotic cancers currently eating away at Goa's soul. For purposes of discussion and strategy on how to combat the scourge, we have to break down the problem into smaller manageable portions. Here I have addressed the ghati menace but this is really a part of a bigger affliction." <unquote> Reference #2: Dec 14, 2007 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2007-December/066365.html <quote> "Outsiders are not the ONLY problem, but they are A problem, and a major one at that." <unquote> Reference #3: Jan 6, 2008 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-January/067465.html <quote> "It has never been anybody's case that the migrants are the ONLY major problem currently wracking Goa, as claimed by the Marxist gits. The alarming levels of migrant presence are A (as in "one") major problem." <unquote> Warm regards, r ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
