My dear Pacló de Goa,
Senhor Tom, very much a senhor, was born in Goa quite a bit before you were.
A year before I was.
About the Portuguese way-of-life in pre-1961 Goa there is not much you can
tell him.
His late Pappa, Dr. Carlos Elvino de Sousa was a member of the Legislative
Council of the Governo do Estado da India during multiple terms.
The governors and they were on mutual visiting times.
Coming down to retrieving Dabolim for covillian use, a struggle, such as
Churchill has launched, with an eventual Opinion Poll, it has to be
an-all-out
effort, but democratically fought; please pray hold you your missiles and
spare the windmills.
And pray, please do us a great favour and worthy and cherished spare our
Hindu friends your senseless, meaningless vitriol.
Let me assure you my dear Agnelo, without massive, selfless, indiscriminate
help from Goan Hindu-community, and to a large degree, by the strategy
mapped
out by them, our decisive victory in the anti-Maharashtra merger battle
would
have, at best, been stillborn.
And, you my very dear friend, who grew up, in Comba and environs, surrounded
and loved by your Hindu friends and peers, far more warmly than the nearby
Bahmons, should blush, if not ashamed, for your uncalled for tirades, lest
your bosom-friend, Inspector Rane phoenixes from his unrespected ashes.
Please accept this admonishment in the spirit it is imparted; at this stage,
if we
are to succeed in our endeavours you are most accutely needed, sans your
missiles, but certainly not without your million doubloons.
We will, both of us, go merrilly wind-mill hunting, in Hispaniola, after the
bog birds
are able, and allowed to freely roost in Dabolim.
Ever your friend,
Chacha Alfred
Subject: Re: Churchill, get us an OPINION POLL to liberate Dabolim
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:55:24 EDT
Good old Senhor Tom is out of touch of Goan realities. One cannot get
bird's
eye view from Hongkong, unless you're born and raised in Goa before 1961.
Tom talks about Independence to Goa. We got rid of one Conquistador and
replaced
with another Conquistador with the use of left over Indian British Army
with
one bullet rifle in hand. Nehru and Gandhi told in UN that they don't want
any Europeans live close to Indian boundary, India will liberate Goa and
offer
an Autonomy. Which we never got it. Entire Goa later after invasion was
annexed. Nehru told lies, hurt Goan intelligentsia and Goan Patriots in
Goa,
which is a rare commodity available in Goa in this day and age.
We have to liberate not only Dabolim but entire Goa. That average Goan
Hindu
or Catholic Bamon, Chardo, Sudhir ou mar chamar caste minded comrade is
most
untrustworthy element in our battle for freedom. They have no love for Goa
but for India.
India is not our problem, may be with few missiles we can make them to
surrunder unconditionally. But, the biggest challenge after winning war
with
India, will face how to administer Goa? Given that Hindu and Catholic
rivalry,
rivalry among caste minded people, corrupt minded Goans, I suppose a fat
chance.
Agnelo Gomes
Goan Patriot to drive India out of Goa.
Subject: Re: Churchill, get us an OPINION POLL to liberate Dabolim
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:55:24 EDT
Good old Senhor Tom is out of touch of Goan realities. One cannot get
bird's
eye view from Hongkong, unless you're born and raised in Goa before 1961.
Tom talks about Independence to Goa. We got rid of one Conquistador and
replaced
with another Conquistador with the use of left over Indian British Army
with
one bullet rifle in hand. Nehru and Gandhi told in UN that they don't want
any Europeans live close to Indian boundary, India will liberate Goa and
offer
an Autonomy. Which we never got it. Entire Goa later after invasion was
annexed. Nehru told lies, hurt Goan intelligentsia and Goan Patriots in
Goa,
which is a rare commodity available in Goa in this day and age.
We have to liberate not only Dabolim but entire Goa. That average Goan
Hindu
or Catholic Bamon, Chardo, Sudhir ou mar chamar caste minded comrade is
most
untrustworthy element in our battle for freedom. They have no love for Goa
but for India.
India is not our problem, may be with few missiles we can make them to
surrunder unconditionally. But, the biggest challenge after winning war
with
India, will face how to administer Goa? Given that Hindu and Catholic
rivalry,
rivalry among caste minded people, corrupt minded Goans, I suppose a fat
chance.
Agnelo Gomes
Goan Patriot to drive India out of Goa.
In a message dated 9/15/2005 7:31:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All that good old Tom recomends/proposes below, and even more,
can be achieved at Dabolim. But, only if the Indian Navy is bid adieu
as unceremoniously as were the Portuguese.
With the huge area, occupied by the navy, made available for due
expansion and upgrading of the Dabolim airport, all desirable
international status, requirements, quality are practically obtainable.
And the sooner the dreams of Mopa boom creating employment for
Goans are dissipated the better. It will create employment, but hardly
for Goans, who increasingly tend to shun mannual labour.
Who will benefit will be the incoming hordes of migarnt labour that will
easilly quadruple that existing politicians' pet population in Goa.
If the liberation of Dabolim --and, Agendiva -- is beyond the scope of the
perenially impotent farce that is called the Government of Goa, as well
as,
of the central government than we, Goans, should demand -- determinedly
agitate if necessary, with all and every means at our disposal -- for a
full-fledged Opinion Poll/referendrum to decide the issue and its result
considered unequivocably binding.
My dear Churchill please repeat the great achievement of Jack de Sequeira,
in Delhi, in 1964 and prove your mettle.
But, please, whilest negotiating the terms of the O.P., take care to
insist
that
Goans, living any place in the world, are guarrantteed a vote on the
issue,
to be
cast, in the nearest Indian mission.
You would need a panel of expert advisers: None better suited than the
excellently informed Phillip Thomas to help you set it up.
You don't have to worry about me. I shall not be pontificating from out
here.
I will be with you, in Goa, working as hard as I did to save Goa from the
voracious greed of Maharashtra.
We resolutely shunned them them. Let's not let them in now via the
back.door
of Mopa.
The stunning victory that, at least once united, Goans woncan, and will,
be repeated.
Alfred de Tavares,
Stockholm, 2005-09-15.
0046 8 759 6214
>From: Tom & Carolina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@goanet.org>
>To: goanet@goanet.org
>Subject: [Goanet] Re: Proposed Mopa Replacement Airport.
>Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:17:43 -0400
>
>Proposed Mopa Replacement Airport.
>
>Goa is moving forward as the central Government has proposed a new state
of
>the art airport at Mopa in Pernem.
>
>The present Dabolim airport built around 1953 was just a simple airstrip
>and
>its main purpose due to the economic blocade with India and Portugal.
>After
>independence it was upgraded to enable large capacity flights to land in
>Goa, but its status is nowhere near the international airports in other
>parts of South East Asia including Singapore, Kuala-Lumpur, Hong Kong,
>Manila, Taiwan and so forth.
>
>The terminal building in Hong Kong International airport is 1.27
kilometres
>long, and has international airline counters from A to Z, over 200
>immigration counters, 14 belt conveyors for luggage handling, 60 link
>bridges for the planes to land at the airport, a 5 star airport hotel,
>cargo
>handling, crew hotel, and two runways 3.8 kilometres long.
>
>International airlines also need maintenace and there are two large
>maintenace hangers, and the best restaurants and shopping arcades are in
>the
>terminal building.
>
>The total area of Hong Kong is 1068 sq. Kilometres.
>Judging from the above facts Mopa replacement airport can provide
>employment
>to a few thousand Goans during construction and when the airport comes
into
>service. The ground transportation including trains, buses etc are
>essential as passengers cannot be late for their flights. The boom for
>tourism will be excellent for Goa.
>
>There is always a political touch for most of these projects, but we are
in
>a world of free enterprise and healthy competion it will enable the
>consumer to get better value for their money and should only improve the
>service industry.
>
>Tom de Sousa in Hong Kong.
