Letters published on our dailies by protagonists of “Cidade de Goa” endorsing
the move to checkmate the Supreme Court’s orders, exposes the degree of
uneducated literates we have. Their mentality seems to enunciate that if
someone has been pleasing to you, his scandals or illegitimate acts should be
overlooked or condoned. It does not matter if the rest of the world label Goans
as ‘Crooks & Criminals” and murderers of the Judiciary. For them, disciplining
illegitimate acts, “does not serve public purpose”. These individuals can rest
assured that their esteem in the eyes of every right thinking Goan has sunk. If
the literates have this mindset, what can you expect of the illiterates? Little
wonder the same bunch of crooks are being elected every time, as they have been
pleasing to their voters every 5 years by feeding them chicken, mutton, booze
and monetarily. And to some of their compadres, all the time; so that the Law
does not catch up with them.
A Chinese Proverb says : “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are
planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate
people.”
Sadly we Goans have neither rice, plants nor educated people. Just weeds.
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
Margão.
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