Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:00:22 +0400 From: Arwin Mesquita <[email protected]>
Mario: Why are you ignoring the simple fact that this treaty you have stated; was not passed by the Goan Majority? Mario responds: I am not ignoring anything. Treaties are not passed by citizens. Asking the "permission" of Goans to liberate Goa from invaders who had occupied it for 450 years would be like the police asking a kidnapped family's permission to rescue them. What you and JC are ignoring is that representative democracies are not run by referendum. Even if one had been held, I believe the majority of Goans would have opted for kicking out the Portuguese occupiers, though many Goan Catholics may have continued to opt for Portuguese bootlicking. Be thankful Goa was kept as one political entity, or Bardez may now be a part of Maharashtra and Salcette a part of Karnataka. Case closed. Time to move on.
