Ralph, It was not my intention to portray Churchill as The best politician but just a good side of this person. all have 2 or more sides. it was only the good side of this man known to many goans. I have never met him though nor got any personal favours. I did mention about Narvenkar too.. I felt the gratitude of the late carmo's family to the man who helped bring back the remains from distant land 'cayman islands'. could anyone else (politician) help ? can you imagine the sorrow of late carmo's mother at the death of this young lad, and not even having to see him for last time ? can you feel the gratitude of this woman to anyone who helped in this case ? from her point of view - thanks, my son lies in goan soil. god bless his soul. we can view it differently why a particular person helped someone cross the road. some may say it was just show off, others may view it as pure help, while still others will say it was long term political benefit... what options do people have at the time of voting ? even if good persons are voted, they get along the rotten mangoes and get same thing done to themselves. also i admit, no one person can be liked by all the people. even M. Gandhi the father of the nation could not escape the anger of few.
i remember a story, a man said if i had the power of god, i would change a whole lot of things. he said what is this god made a huge banyan/oak tree with small fruit and see the pumkin plant, just a lke a creeper with huge pumkins on it. he was sitting under this huge tree when suddenly a small nut fall on his head, he than realised what would have happened if a pumkin size fruit had fallen on his head from this big tree. he than said if i had gods power i would leave the world as it is, because god knows what is best. tell me what can i or you do ? write and inform people ? !! not vote ? join Laden ? I am also told a lot of bad things about churchill, like that he used the unemployed men to get his work done, that he smuggled goods, that he used the morchas for his political gains, that hotels in the south coastal belts were harassed, etc etc... we hear a lot..about all the politicians. did you not hear about narvenkar and cricket, did you not hear about rane and his son in EDC, did you not hear that parikar got most brahmins in top govt. posts, did you not hear monseratee and money lending, did you not hear about ravi naik and land conversions ? did you hear what luizin did for himself and not to othres ? did you not hear the Ambani used to get discarded things from gulf, western countries and sell to indian govt in the 1970s. ?? see what he achieved for reliance co.. who is good or goodest ? you and me and others around us or george bush or ahmednijad ? When we have to select between deep sea and devil, we have to and will choose in most cases the lesser evil and sometimes necessary evils too. my sympathies with those at the receiving end. and sorry i dont view him as catholic strongmen. he is just a normal chap, who rose to limelight with whatever good or not so good means he could get. from his brothers point of view , how many brothers do what churchil did for his brothers ? . from the goan public point of view, it is two sided. which side will weight more, i really dont know ? - if i or you were god, what things would i or you have changed ? or would we leave it as it is today ? I hope i have tried to clarify my position and not aggravate it. Regards, raul carneiro From: ralph rau I have never had the pleasure of meeting the larger than life Mr. Alemao. Being a lifetime politician from South Goa what he does not know in his neck of the woods, is usually not worth knowing. So I assume he may also know why the Taj Exotica has always had its road signage torn down and by whom. He may probably know who goes around the South Goa hotels like the Club Mahindra at Varca collecting hafta. And why the Dominoes Pizza man is afraid to enter the area for fear that his legs might be broken ? I ask Goans why they vote for people like Churchill and Monsaratte.The stock reply is "They may not be good people, but at least they are Catholic". Helloooooo... _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)
