To Goanet - Selma Cardoso wrote: >I am alone on this forum atleast in my opposing views. >I've lost cyber friends nurtured over the past two years >in my stance. It would be so easy to cave in to the >vox populi in this case, to gain some browny points >and to be cheered by all and sundry in a chorus of taleos. . . >Yes, it is true that I've not spent one honest moment >marching in Goan streets fighting for Goa. But I rarely >spend a moment not thinking of Goa.
I see. Once again, allow me to separate the wheat from the chaff and encapsulate the essence of your latest evacuation: You, Selma Cardoso, sitting 5000 miles away, someone who has admittedly "not spent one honest moment...fighting for Goa" should be awarded the "Dissenter Extraordinaire Medal" on Goanet. But Soter D'Souza, who has spent over 15 years working in the field with the common folk, who is a member of the core team of GBA, someone who has sacrificed a good deal of personal and emotional reserves for the sake of Goa, someone who seeks neither nominations nor awards nor pelf - he, according to you, displays "poor form" when he dissents about the goings-on within GBA. It must take tremendous courage, intelligence and skill doing what you do, pecking away at the keyboard, dissenting bravely, instead of those timorous, bad form-displaying activists who roll up their sleeves everyday and do real work. How fortunate Goanet is to have someone as singular as you to hold our feet to the fire and keep us accountable to your noble Jeanne d'Arc-ian fantasies. Warm regards, r