Hi Geoffrey, True. True your article was not about E Indians vis-a-vis Goans. I have seen too many of our own making very poor analogies. But more on the construct of criticism, critiquing some other time; perhaps in June-July. ________________________________________________________
Just so A FEW more of our folks know about what happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970 (40 years ago) two of the four students where going to class when they got felled. There are book out there which are harder to find outside the US, but here from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings The shootings killed four students and wounded nine. Two of the four students killed, Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, had participated in the protest, and the other two, Sandra Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder, had been walking from one class to the next at the time of their deaths. Schroeder was also a member of the campus ROTC chapter. Of those wounded, none was closer than 71 feet to the guardsmen. Of those killed, the nearest (Miller) was 265 feet away, and their average distance from the guardsmen was 345 feet. This bit should draw parallels with out Dickheads labeling people a Naxalite, Maoist, etc. Karnow further documented that at 4:15 a.m. on May 9, 1970, the president met about 30 student dissidents conducting a vigil at the Lincoln Memorial, whereupon Nixon "treated them to a clumsy and condescending monologue, which he made public in an awkward attempt to display his benevolence." Nixon had been trailed by White House Deputy for Domestic Affairs Egil Krogh, who saw it differently than Karnow, saying, "I thought it was a very significant and major effort to reach out."[8] In any regard, neither side could convince the other and after meeting with the students, Nixon expressed that those in the anti-war movement were the pawns of foreign communists.[8] After the student protests, Nixon asked H. R. Haldeman to consider the Huston Plan, which would have used illegal procedures to gather information on the leaders of the anti-war movement. Only the resistance of J. Edgar Hoover stopped the plan.[8] venantius: But other politicians do not stand their ground, however shallow our Christianity. ROTC means Reserve Officer Training Corps. Some students were also bayoneted. In case and usual if any of our own question--the commitment of the dead students to their studies---they were all good students in good standing. That is not meant lightly. venantius j pinto > From: Godfrey Pereira <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Goanet] A Brief Comment From Godfrey Pereira > > This is in response to the news brief: Mining companies in Goa to pay > compensation for crop loss. (DEL) > I recently wrote an article Titled ?Letter to The Bleddy Goans from An > East Indian Bugger? The article was meant to awaken some Goans from > their stupor. > > There is a Song by Singer Songwriter Neil Young titled ?Ohio?. The > song?s lyrics cry about The Four students who were shot at Kent State > University. They were protesting the escalation of The Vietnam War. > There is one line that all you Goan losers who have turned their backs > on Goa should know about. > > The Line screams: HOW CAN YOU RUN, WHEN YOU KNOW?
