Dears, I hold no brief for Kevin and Lisette but it would be interesting to know what Eugene Correia, Roland Francis and others have to say to what Dr. Jose Colaco has placed on record.
Making allegations on goanet is easy, organising an event ...even an entirely local event ... is not. I see many technical advisors on goanet telling the GBA how to run its campaign, but few are willing to risk their life and limb to protect the interests of Goa's future generations. Roland has gone to the ectent of congratulating a rather stupid girl who slapped a resident doctor at GMC. Agreed that she was agrieved by the death of her 60 year old mother who was suffering form a chronic illness BUT there was no cause for her to assault the doctor who was on duty at that particular point of time. If Roland has found justification for what he wrote, he should write it on Goanet, too. And I am in full agreement with Dr. Jose Colaco's assessment of Goanet Moderators' sense of "Fair Play". I have experienced it when Floriano Lobo was slandering my sister at the turn of the Millenium [It was, in fact, the reason why I subscribed to Goanet]or when Rajan Parrikar was abusing the GBA. The US Marines say, "In hindsight vision is 20/20." That is not exactly the case of some compulsively myopic folks! ;-) Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:48:30 -0400 From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] the possible libel case of Saldanha v Correia Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eugene Correia <gene_correia@ yahoo.com> posted on GoaNet >From a recent judgement in Canada....." We live in a free country where people ave as much right to express outrageous and ridiculous opinions as moderate ones." Mr. Justice Ian Binnie, WIC Radio Ltd. v. Simpson, 2008 SCC 40 ........." and added that The above items are posted just to show how "fair comment" is interpreted by the court in the light of some goanetters saying they are considering "legal options" for comments made in the debate over the recent Goan Convention. == jc's response to Mr. Correia: In WIC Radio Ltd. v. Simpson, the case was about an OPINION, In Saldanha v Correia, the case would be about an ALLEGATION. Mitigating circumstance (say, of being drunk) cannot be used as Mr. Correia has already challenged any potential assertion that he may have been drunk at the time he wrote his "Convention" posts. (please see REFERENCE 1) Mr. Eugene Correia has made an ALLEGATION of "free accomodation" .(please see REFERENCE 2) Mrs. Lisette Saldanha has called this allegation a LIE (please see REFERENCE 3) jc REFERENCE 1: http://lists. goanet.org/ pipermail/ goanet-goanet. org/2008- August/079090. html Dear George, you mean to tell goanetters that I was drunk and then went home and wrote the piece. REFERENCE 2: http://lists. goanet.org/ pipermail/ goanet-goanet. org/2008- July/078065. html REFERENCE 3: http://lists. goanet.org/ pipermail/ goanet-goanet. org/2008- August/079133. html There are outright lies in your report, a quick phone call to us would have confirmed the allegation that our trip to Portugal last year was not paid by Casa de Goa, Virginia Gomes of Casa de Goa, wrote in her posts on Goanet that we took care of our own expenses..., however there is no retraction of your statement to date. REFERENCE 4: http://lists. goanet.org/ pipermail/ goanet-goanet. org/2008- August/078851. html THE CANADIAN CASE: >From Lexis Nexis Canada http://lexisnexis. ca/documents/ 2008scc40. pdf Share files, take polls, and make new friends - all under one roof. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/