Apart from answering questions with counter-questions, the doctor-cum-now-qualified-lawer that is JC is also known for raising irrelevant and diversionary issues, taking on his favourite targets (Goa journos including those who reported on or were anyway involved with the Siddi and Daman bridge stories, politicians, anyone even remotely critical of Portuguese colonialism and a few other 'favourites').
Just two comments on the following: (i) In what way are the comments made below any different from the bad-mouthing of people that we run into so often these days? Goa has now made a fine art of bad-mouthing people we do not like. We're now seeing Wendell being targetted by an "anonymous" mail, selectively copied to a few, on the grounds of his (hardly any secret) sexual preferences, just at a time when he speaks out on the problems Goa is facing and threatening to turn into an oppositional figure of sorts. Likewise, Dr Oscar was recently targeted at around the same time some voiced fears of him being built up into a "politician to contest the Panjim seat". Is this just a coincidence? Is Telo de Mascarenhas' "bigamy" also targeted selectedly, or are we uniform about what issues we take up? (ii) Telo de Mascarenhas' biography by Shashikar Kelekar (June 1984, "Builders of Modern India" series, sorry JC, I know this would cause an allergy, but that's what it's called) notes that Telo fell in love with a Portuguese girl with it "eventually maturing into marriage" and had two daughters, named Padmini and Lakshmi (p. 24). It mentions that their firstborn died of penumonia and "soon, Telo's marriage itself went on the rocks. Husband and wife found it difficult to stay together and they were divorced." On page 50, we're told that "married again in New Delhi" in February 1957, his wife being Elsa do Nascimento Mendonca, the daughter of Nascimento Mendonca (1884-1926), the Goan poet. Now, we all know that divorce wasn't permitted in Salazar-ruledl Portugal, in a country where Church and State ruled in close alliance, where Concordats gave priviledges to religion, and a nation which wasn't a modern "secular" European state but an unabashed theocracy. So is this a case of bring up issues just when we need to build some controversy about someone? Yeah, tax-raids have been conducted against critics of the government, and the Tehelka was found to be operating in a very questionable manner after its expose of the earlier government. Dr J F Martins was imprisoned by a post-Liberation government in Goa, and JC has been consistently opposed to anyone who questioned Portuguese colonialism in this part of the globe (though in a couched manner). So much for taking up issues! We're very selective about them... in whom we hero-worship and whom we won't forgive for the positions they've taken. FN 2008/6/19 J. Colaco < jc> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > JC's comments interspersed, > > Eugene Correia wrote: > > [1] Well, yes Telo was charged with bigamy. For that he got what 10 to > 12 years in jail? Historical data has shown how the Portuguese worked > against the nationalists. > > JC: So, Eugene, was the charge of bigamy trumped up - as you had > previously asserted? > > JC: You mean THE Flaviano Dias of the infamous BOGUS (manufactured > facts) VideoCD fame? Now, that makes some sense. In logic, the above would be called: Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man): attacking the person instead of attacking his argument. Regards, FN
