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Happy New Year Twenty-Ten --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Mesquita, I agree with you. Enough with the fence sitting pseudo-intellects who let pettiness get in the way of the common cause --- stopping the wholesale destruction of Goa. Goa, and the Goan causes benefit from individuals like him, you and others who care about our homeland, and act on their beliefs. best, I. Nunes --- On Thu, 1/7/10, Arwin Mesquita <arwinmesqu...@gmail.com> wrote: Mr. Rajan Parrikar scores high on my list of Goans who have made huge contribution towards the cause of Saving Goa & its identity: (1) By being an citizen of another country he could have chosen to Give up on Goa, do nothing and the cowardly criticise Goans working/speaking for Goa. (2) Yes I do have reservations on his choice of words and request him to review it; but bottom line I agree with his views on the crucial issues of Mega Projects, Migrant control; where his views are extremely logical. I rather tolerate his choice of words, then go along with sweet speaking Anti-Goans who are all out to destroy Goa!! (3) Besides cyber space communication he has actively worked on the ground to bring about awareness and also a launched PIL's to clean up Panjim (How many overseas goans have done similiar things????) (4) We have Indian Citizens like those in the Goa Govenment, Mining, the powerful builders lobby who are destroying Goa and its Identity and reaping huge illegitimate profits; surely Rajan as a citizen of another country scores significantly higher than these latter Indian Citizens!! (5) Goa needs all the help it can get so his effort for Goa (rare amongst overseas goans) must be appreciated; if only we see more overseas goans waking up!! Yes I appreciate that there are Geniune Goans in Goa who score higher as they have to face the difficult circumstances/conditions arising from political pressures etc but should we rank Goans overall, Rajans name should be very prominently very high on the list. We should put aside our personal differences and then judge if he has contributed to the Goan cause or not!! Arwin