Dear Mr Rodrigues,
I am at the fag-end of the if "Goa to be Ruled by Goans " debate that
is now taking place on the Internet, but being a complete "green horn"
to the Politics of our Goan Diaspora, I simply fail to understand for
the life of me, why we have to have that constant Crab like Mentality of
taking a Snipe at Each other, especially when we have had some very
constructive and excellent suggestions made by Tony Louis and Carmen
Miranda, so please, try your best not to "pull " them down with your
sniping just like the the tarred Crabs of Goa that now abound in Goa due
to the Great Tar balls on it's beaches, from who nows where ?
What puzzles me as a Goan even more is why, we Goans who consider
ourselves more intellect than the present motley Crowd of Members of the
Goa State Assembly who, due to the history of our fate are so
unrepresentative of Goa are able to hood wink their way to the Migrant
Vote Bank and Commercial Bank with so little intellect academic
qualifications, and with, so much as a little tiff between themselves,
unlike some of us who simply revel in Sniping ?
Dear Mr Rodrigues and fellow Goenkars who are following this debate in
Earnest, please try to Refrain from SNIPING at EACH other as this only
Exasperates the likelihood of US ever being able to want to Guide OR
rule OURSELVES. Why cannot we take a Cue from this Year's Wold Goa Day
in UK, where the Theme was Ami Soglim Aik Ixttaghots OR United we Stand
& Divided in Our Thoughts or DEEDS We FALL , like the ruins of CABO de
RAMA !!.
Therefore, my personal plea is, Be REAL and be MAN and WOMAN enough to
realise that having a GO at each other like Spoilt Brats only makes the
Day of our YEARNING or DAWNING to be our own Masters that much difficult
and it might take another 48 years OR Longer. Do we really want to wait
that LONG, because by then, most of us here on the Internet will all be
well-fried, not fired up and 6 feet under, so who will be the flag
bearer of our Gold Orange Azure flag for Amchem Goem if we continue in
this vane ?
By actin as we do, GIVES the 40MLA's a breather that we cannot even
agree on simple things like constructive Suggestions in the usual Goan
Crab like mentality way, with due respect to the poor crustacean which
is a Creation of God to be a Crab with it's own mission in life, to
serve us on a platter !!Do we need to be like Crabs therefore to Serve
our New Masters 48years forever on end ?
Finally, please Be Real Ladies and Gentlemen if that's what you really
want to achieve in the very long march yet again, after Annexation of
not being the MASTERS of OUR own GOAN DESTINY, Are we forever to be led
led hand & foot by the so-called High Command in Delhi? If you count to
TEN, you can visualise what our Liberators and the Freedom Fighters had
it in for US and I don't make any bone about it, to be in chains in the
guise of Liberation. Today, we Goans represented by the 40 or So MLA's
are still Jumping and Dancing like puppets to their TUNE, not our Own
Goenkarponn Kan-tar, because the strings are still being pulled by our
Liberators and the long gone Freedom Fighters, who are but, only
resting(in their grave) on their Laurels.
So we should ask ourselves this very telling question, was Annexation of
GOA worth it's weight in Thought, Soul, Deed OR am-chem Goan Soil ?
How SAD really, but perhaps we have made our Bed with the Liberators and
we should lie in (with them) it for Better or for Worse not for Richer
or Poorer as we are ouch more the Poorer for having been Liberated by
our new Masters at the Centre ? This is my way of looking at things as
they stand in Goa and I am Cock Sure, some of you will disagree with me
and have your own thought on this,.but please before you do, No Sniping
Please,We are Goans and not Crabs !!
Regards
Fag-end Joe
From: Mario Andrew Rodrigues
Just one word ' WOW ' Floriano! I think TRUE Goans understands what
Floriano says.
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