--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa
http://goanvoice.org.uk/miningpetition.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is strange. Here is a guy who, out of the blue, posted a provocative political letter from a man named Justice Saldanha in a public forum. One would have thought that at a minimum he would recognize that the burden of substantiating the facts in his own post ought to rest on him, and no one else. Instead, he attacks the sincerity and seriousness of someone like me who is skeptical of those facts, and shifts his own burden on to me. Moreover, he claims great trust and faith in the integrity of the writer of the letter who has expressed no trust in the Karnataka state government, and then turns around and asks me to approach the same untrustworthy government for answers. Reading the political letter and the news item on the interim report of the Justice Somsekhara judicial commission of inquiry, both of which were posted or linked by the same guy on Goanet, one notices several contradictions which raise doubts about his great trust and faith in question. The letter itself is a diatribe against the government of Karnataka, involving such extraneous things as traffic problems in Bangalore and wild claims such as the home department and the police being more responsible for the church attacks than alleged criminals. Regarding contradictions between the letter and the interim report please note the following for example: QUOTE Not only that, false allegations that Christians here are resorting to conversions are made. UNQUOTE ….Justice Saldanha’s political letter Contrast the above with the following from the judicial inquiry: QUOTE Commission’s findings ….. * Persons involved in conversions getting funds from foreign countries and misusing them for mass conversions UNQUOTE …..Justice Somsekhara commission interim report Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 4/4/10, Marshall Mendonza <mmendonz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My response is as under: > I lay great trust and faith in people of unquestionable > integrity unless I > have strong reasons to believe otherwise. I take such > people on their word. > And in my personal experience I have rarely been let down. > Justice Saldanha as an ordinary, law abiding citizen has > brought to the > attention of the CM and HM of Karnataka over 1000 incidents > of atrocities > against christians living there. This is a law and order > issue and not a > civil dispute. It is the duty, nay responsibility, of the > state to look into > these complaints and investigate its authencity and > prosecute the guilty. > The onus of verifying the incidents lies on the state. > If Santosh doubts the veracity or authencity of any of the > incidents, all he > needs to do is approach the government and request it to > either order a > judicial inquiry or CBI investigation.He can also use the > RTI act to good > effect.The onus of confirming the facts or refuting them as > false lies on > him as a sceptic. > > Now is the time to test his sincerity and seriousness. Let > us watch and see > if he is willing to walk the talk. > > Regards, > > Marshall >