To Goanet -
"Satyawan Govekar" won't reveal anything, dear Soter, for, mirabile dictu, he has been found out. Warm regards, r ***** Who Speaks About Goan Unity? Why blame only the politicians? Are our activitsts any better? Who has given anyone the license to make unsubstantiated allegations and baseless accusations about the intentions of other groups/organisations and initiatives in the state of Goa? Who are these hypocrites who are now talking about Goan Unity in this State only after one activist gets branded a naxalite? Are they really interested in the well being of Seby and this State or are they trying to use this opportunity to further some other agenda? Below is some slander and fraudulent comments being circulated on the goa-net just 6 days ago by none other than some of those very shameless persons appealing for unity and solidarity with Seby. One Satyawan Govekar wrote: (This Satyawan Govekar may please reveal his/her contact if genuine): >"Norma Alvares and her husband Cloud are making >money and name out of >Goa's problems. Just look at only two big failures done >purposefully >are Tata Housing and Aldeia de Goa. Everyone is openly >saying that Goa >Foundation are blackmailers.........." >".......Mathany Saldanha the politician is not same Mathany >Saldanha of the Ramponkar and other movements. He is >doing a big natak like Hema who >is simply trying to be on headlines. She said that she has >enough of >attending meetings. Then Bai why did you come here? because >of camera >and reporters, no?................................................... One Miguel Braganza wrote: >"One often wonders why almost all simple villagers and their >GRAM SABHAS across Goa have been able to SUCCESSFULLY stop Mega >Projects and SEZs and Mines in their tracks ....but big players like >the PMCA and Goa Foundation are stuck in the High Court with just >the ALDEIA DE GOA?..................." >".........The resultant GPA was never within his >CONTROL. It was a manipulation that got exposed when >Rajan Parrikar in a bit of enthusiasm jumped the gun >and issued the notice on Goanet >BEFORE the "Centre for Panchayati Raj" of which Soter is the >Director could even print out its Press Note to announce it......." . >Elsy da Costa, Adophine Thamm, Rocazinha, Joao >Marquis and some other INNOCENTS ABROAD must have come >because Soter has been associated with the Council for Social Justice >& Peace [CSJP].........." The Reality The Benaulim People are now in tears when one mega-housing project has already comenced work. Can these activists who mock at others explain what went wrong? Why are they silent about their criminal negligence in not guiding the people appropriately? This was because some activists only tried to bask in the glory of the people's achievements on the i-net without putting for them the required safeguards in place. Genuine activists who have been battling against projects in courts know the reality and the pain of it all and will definitely not pass such irresponsible moral judgements against Claude and Norma or any other activist/group for not meeting with success against 2 mega-projects. Common people have been toiling day and night to save their villages even at the sacrifice of their daily bread whereas some activists appear and dissapppear like helicopters and are only there for the cameras and to prevent these people from building a larger support network to attain a faster reolution to their problems. Politicians are possesive about their control on constituencies, similarly these criminal activists have also started cultivating such constituencies to use them as their project laboratories. I said it and say it again, that the people of Goa need to be more careful about white collared social activists who masquerade as the sole possessors of the Eternal Truth and Eternal Wisdom. They only keep the unsuspecting people of Goa in cocoons so that they can be made guinea pigs for their research projects. Before defaming others these activists should come in the open about their association with the mining or building industry. -Soter D'Souza **************
