Freddy Agnelo Fernandes said: Except on two occasions and may be a third one, we Goans have failed to fight on a united front. Except for the Opinion poll, Konkanni movement and may be for the SEZ and RP 2011, Goans have not come out to fight for the Goan causes until and unless they have found stones hurled on their valuable houses. The large gathering at the rally for MOI has proved it beyond any doubt that we are a shellfish lot. ........................................... ........................................ If our children are dear to us, Goa's issues too should be dear to us, if Goa becomes a banana republic, if there is no law and order, if our environment and our ecology is totally destroyed, if we do not have water in future, if our rivers are silted and the waters get diverted into villages, towns and cities, if Goans become a total minority in Goa, if our health and other policies do not benefit us, if our police and politicians themselves become criminals and support criminal activity and even murder people at will, when there will be no more land for Goans in Goa, will it not affect our children ?
If we parents manage to get what we want for our children, what will be the use if they cannot themselves survive in Goa ? What if we all cannot survive in Goa ? What good will MOI do ? I do not want to say the parents are wrong in fighting for a better future for their children, what I want to say is, future of Goa is also the future of our children. Let us all fight the axis of evil to protect and preserve Goa for our children and not just the MOI. The GRA is organizing a rally on the 8th of April in Margao hope and pray all Goans including parents will find it prudent to support the Goan cause with their presence. God bless Goans. Comments: Excellent Freddy, It was my thought but you expressed it! You have put it in a very excellent way. I too was wondering same thing that why not the Parents think that other Goan causes are also equally relating to the future of their/Goan children. If Goa does not survive for our children what our children will do then? It looks, it is as good as they will be orphans!!! However, I also have some of my own doubts that not all Parents came there out of their own free will but under pressure from School Managements where their children are learning, because I opine that it is not just Parents but more than Parents the Schools are going to be benefiting more from the Govt. grants if approved. Schools Authorities with English medium under their strict compulsion have pressurized the Parents to attend the rally at Panjim, otherwise there would not have been that much crowd given the way how Goans in general are. This is my experience after knowing the outcome of several calls given to all Goans to attend in large numbers for any/and many important Goan causes. It is not that easy to wake up Goans and bring them in the streets to support the Goan causes be those important or otherwise. Elvino
