To Goanet - The laughable gaggle that now hangs for dear life and goes by the name Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) is trying hard for a rewrite of history. Alas, for these hacktivists, accidental and otherwise, the internet has a memory that is impossible to erase.
GBA - 3 years of deceit (Part 1/2) - http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187272.html GBA - 3 years of deceit (Part 2/2) - http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-December/187386.html So where do we stand today? The future looks very bleak for Goa. The opening created by the Dec 18, 2006 rally at Azad Maidan was the one - and ONLY - opportunity Goans had to stanch the bleeding and arrest, perhaps even reverse, the decay. I recall how nervous the builders and the real estate mafia were at the time. But the poison had been pre-administered. Some of the GBA hacktivists were already compromised, and their plan was to make sure that the politicos, builders, and miners would eventually win the day. And so they did. Then Digu was installed as CM - that is when the order was placed for Goa's coffin. The hacktivists meanwhile continued to pretend they were fighting on behalf of Goans with the help of migrant ex-editors and others. The only conduit where you got to hear what these nefarious punters were up to was Goanet (and for that we must thank Bosco for allowing uncomfortable facts to get through without distortion). Now we have to live with the sorry place that Goa has become. Digu told Goans some months ago that he no longer needs Goan votes. That is the only time he has spoken the truth and nothing but the truth. For there are now enough ghatis and the Bantwal-Ghantwal types to override Goan votes (slight exaggeration, true, but not for long). As for how bad it will get, let me make this observation. There are no lower bounds to how stinky things can get in India. Eg. Mumbai, which if you think about it, is really a toilet in which n million (where n keeps growing by the month) draw breath. This is a statement of fact, not a put-down, for these are human beings all aspiring to a better life. Once a great city, now a pity. The next generations of Goans will grow up with a renormalized vision of Goa. What my generation today finds appalling about Panjim, for instance, will be the new normal for the generation that came in, Excrement, trash, malls & men will spend time cheek-by-jowl (like they do most everywhere in India) and no Goan born after 2000 will think the worse of it. He or she will not have seen anything better. We mucked up in 1961 by giving the fort away to the Indians with NOTHING in return. Now come the consequences. So - what is D. D'Cruz (the go-to-Goan-if-you-want-bozo-interviews) going to say the next time Burqa comes for her next media shagathon on a lamani-owned beach? Regards, r
