To Goanet - Miguel Braganza wrote: >Coming to the point of GBA, can you put a NAME to any of the Core >Group members, who meet every month, who are supposed to be ones "who >have quit the GBA in disgust " [your words]. . . . >I will hold my peace, while you shout out the names of the >QUITTERS from the GBA. It is a deal you now cannot refuse!
Alright. Point your browser to this link - http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-February/069954.html Do you have a pathological condition that craves self-humiliation every single day? For the past several months you have been taking potshots at GMAS and Matanhy, all the while when you had this whopper sitting in your own front yard. Now, if you had any sense, you would pack your bat & ball, go home, make yourself a fresh lemonade, and take a long nap. But I know you won't. You will soldier on with your inanities. The sooner we accept the reality of the GBA, the better it will be. This bickering and discord does no good to Goa when the need of the hour is a strong front united in a common cause. However, it is imperative to confront the inconvenient truth head-on rather than live with a comfortable lie. Worship of false heroes is a road to disaster. There are still sincere workers within the GBA and I have cited some of them here in the past. But as a group, the GBA is badly tainted, its credibility severely injured. The Goan people who reposed so much faith in it have a right to know all the dirt. The GBA was fighting the policies of the Government of Goa, plans that would have lead to the obliteration of our rapidly deteriorating haven. As a self-professed apolitical unit, it was incumbent upon the GBA leaders to give a wide berth to every political party and every active politician. Which means, without exception, all the 40 MLAs should have been toxic to the GBA. Instead, some GBA leaders decided to play footsie with the Congress & Congresswallahs. The love affair was consummated recently when the GBA convener publicly composed bhajans in honour of Digambar Kamat. When some of us protested, he tried to wriggle his hand out of the cookie jar with the weaselly disclaimer that these were his personal views, not those of the GBA. Sorry, mate, that won't work. If you were writing on the topic of "The mating habits of the duckbilled platypus" that would not be a problem. But when your organization is fighting the very political establishment and the political culture that seeks to destroy Goa, and you hold a key position in its ranks, there can be NO demarcation between your public and private views on political matters and political personalities that are the direct targets of your campaign. The GBA leaders have broken trust. They have abused the goodwill and the visibility they had earned in order to further their own pet political agendas. Regards, r ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
