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Dear John Eric Gomes, Sir,
You have just described the chain reaction the people, nay, Goans, nay the
people of
Goa have been following since 1961.
Starting from December 19, 1961, the WHIP of almost 450 years that made people
conscious of their duties and responsibilities was waylaid, removed and
effectively
destroyed for the exchange of a no-WHIP system called 'DEMOCRACY'.
The Whip that made you see that your out-door pig-toilet did not have
collection of
stagnant water giving rise to mosquitoes disappeared over-night. Development
came to
us by way of septic tanks and flush toilets giving rise to clouds of mosquitoes
that
reign our blood-sucked lives 365 days x 24 hours instead of just 90 days during
monsoon seasons.
The house hold garbage that was taken care-of by the house-hold pig, cat, dog,
chicken and garden plants and vegetables had no place to go with the
extermination
of the pig et al due to the development called the 'flats' system and which
found a
new caretaker in a plastic bag which became useful to pack the house-hold
garbage
and dump in into rivers from bridges, on road-sides, into neighbouring
compounds and
unused plots, thanks to the NO-Whip new style of governance - the DEMOCRACY - a
System to do things without the fear of the whip landing on one's back.
A simple thing such as capping of the airing pipes of the million septic tanks
we
have grown over the 45 year period with a simple but effective perforated pvc
end
cap has become too much of a trouble for our Health Wizards to engage in and
make
mandatory allowing zillion mosquitoes to escape into free air. Mosquitoes too
must
enjoy our esteemed full-fledged DEMOCRACY ! No?!.
Our effective governing bodies called COMUNIDADES were thrown into the gutters
because they had the Portuguese smell or flavour and replaced with the
DEMOCRATIC
Panchayat System which allows a Sarpanch to be ousted every three months or
earlier.
And we are clamouring for more powers to the Panchayats vide 73rd. amendment to
the
Constitution. Whow ! Democracy galore ! Whow!
We pride ourselves that we have thrown-out the erstwhile Portuguese regime and
sent
the Bad Portuguese home packing. But we still manufacture their mining leases to
kill our environment, our agriculture nursed by our comunidades, our forests,
our
hills and mountains thereby our water resources, our wild-life; to destroy and
denude our God given beautiful Goa and kill us through dust induced TB. Whow!
what a
DEMOCRACY ! Whow!
And we can purchase every vote for a thousand rupees and set-up vote-banks in
unregulated and unhygienic slums to win every election. Whow! DEMOCRACY WE WILL
NEVER BE ABLE TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU! Whow!
And after all these goodies, dearest John Eric Gomes, that you should ask if we
WANT/DESERVE any change, makes me indignant to stamp my foot into the ground to
say.
Don't even think of IT, for I WANT/NEED this DEMOCRACY, the wonderfullest thing
that has happened to my Goa and which has taken away the DREADED WHIP which
scaled
the skin off my back at every point I wanted to be free. I want to be freer by
the
day to do anything and everything.
And the day is not too far that will give me the ultimate freedom to be free to
pull back my pants and in the COURT-ROOMS- in full view of our JUSTICES,
should I feel the movement of my bowels. Whow! This will be my most cherished
dream
come true - the ultimate DEMOCRACY - that will make my heart soar into the sky
with joy. Whow!
India - Give me more.
floriano
goasuraj
