Santosh Helekar: Since Mr. R. L. Francis is now on Goanet, perhaps, he would like to respond to the defamatory allegations made against him some time back in this public forum. Here is the relevant quote and link:"R L Francis is an old disgruntled hand. He has no credibility and no following. He sole claim to fame is being propped up by the sangh parivar to embarrass the Church from time to time.".....Marshall Mendonzahttp://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg45930.html
Response: 1. R L Francis is not NEW to Goanet. He has been regularly posting on Goanet as he has been doing on other internet forums. Please refer following links for more recent postings: http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2009-April/author&post_id=176323 http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2009-March/author&post_id=175764 http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2009-March/author&post_id=175099 http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2009-May/author&post_id=177535 You can also refer to hindutva websites and forums like www.Hinduunity.org<http://www.hinduunity.org/>, www.Sanghparivar.org <http://www.sanghparivar.org/>, where many more of his press releases are littered http://www.sanghparivar.org/blog/rkm/poor-christian-liberation-movement-slams-church-organisations 2. Pl refer below posting which was made on Goanet and which has perhaps escaped your attention. Posted by: "Fr Dominic Emmanuel" MangaloreanCatholics at gmail.com<http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org>Fri May 8, 2009 1:26 am (PDT) This is absolutely right that R. L. Francis keeps honobbing with Murli Manohar Joshi, Balbir Punj and came once to my office with his brohter to bargain with me that if he got more than what he was getting from the RSS, he would stop attacking the Church. His economic condition has grown by leaps and bounds after he took over the "Poor Christian Liberation Movement". He keeps changing his cars and flats. He has no job. His wife works for the government. He is certainly a nuisance value. Archbishop Vincent M. Concessao of New Delhi and I have told him several times to please birng the names and addresses of those Dalits, tribal or poor children who did not get admission in our schools and we will sort outthe matter. He has never done it, does not want to do it. For if he does it, his lie will be exposed and he would not be able to go on with his lies. I am sorry to say but he has no conscience and there are one or two disgruntled priests from one or two dioceses, who do not want to put in any work but want to get plump posts and benefits in the name of being dalits who he has managed to rope in. We do not react to him very much because his purpose is to get us excited and react so that he would be in the news. We are just ignoring him. In one of his recent press-releases, he called a few of us, who know about his deeds as Christian Taliban. We ignored him again. But maybe someone needs to expose him. I have told him that I am helping even non-Christian dalit children from the slums of Delhi so please bring any dalit child who is not in school and I would take care of him/her but to no avail. Unquote http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2009-May/author&post_id=177556 3. I suggest that the poster upgrade his understanding and knowledge of law relating to defamation lest he continue to embarass himself on public forums. 4. Regards, Marshall
