The following news clip appeared on GOACOM.COM dated 23rd October, reproduced from the Gomantak Times: Do away with Portuguese institutes: Freedom fighters: The Goa Freedom Fighters Association today demanded a probe and even stopping activities of Portuguese institutions in Goa like Fundacao Oriente and also changing 28 names of roads in Panjim city, which are named after the Portuguese rulers. During the press briefing, freedom fighter Naguesh Karmali stated, "These institutes like Fundacao Oriente and Portuguese Consulate continue to bring in Portuguese culture, which are detrimental to our secular and nationalist values. It brings in discrimination as they praise Portugal that is shameful." [GT] These so called Goa Freedom Fighters are a pampered lot. They only seem to want to remain in the news, lest everyone forgets them. How many actual freedom fighters are there and how many pseudo ones are in this Association? The Government has provided them with benefits including monetary for generations to come, as though they are a “backward class”. What Freedom have they attained for Goa? The freedom to commit crimes, rapes, thefts, atrocities; and also to expel your body fluids and solids anywhere and everywhere in Goa?? Why are they not using their mouths to bring forth the hardships the common man is facing ever since their so called “Freedom” was attained? All they seem to be obsessed is anything to do with Portugal. They are only exposing their ignorance & delusionary mentality by saying it is shameful to praise another nation. Can they cite one example of Portuguese culture that is detrimental to our secular and nationalist value? On the contrary, this very statement of theirs go to show how communal this press briefing was. Do they want to connect this issue to the recent desecrating of temples?? What is detrimental to our secular fabric is people with paranoid ideas. We Goans are not ready to listen to their bogus sentiments. We need to preserve our unique culture. If anyone of them is uncomfortable in Goa, our boundaries are open. They could migrate to Bihar or Orissa where they would be comfortable and not discriminated, as I don’t think any of these leftovers will be keen to marry a Portuguese and migrate to Portugal like some of their predecessors.
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