[Goanet] Church indicts Goa government for shielding drug traders

2010-07-22 Thread roger dsouza
  * The Goa Government and our politicians along with the Government
machinery continue to protect, promulgate  and promote the vested interests
of criminals, goons and all sorts of anti-social activity. The
police-politician-drug nexus is fully entrenched within Goa and our
politicians do not have the will nor the resolve to put an end to it
- obviously they want to benefit from the kick-backs, rewards and the money
power that they enjoy. This article is from sify news.
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Church indicts Goa government for shielding drug traders
*  **2010-07-21 13:20:00

After the opposition and the local media, the Goa Roman Catholic Church has
indicted the Congress-led government for failing to curb the drug trade and
for shielding the police-politician-drug mafia nexus.

The state police machinery was entangled with drug peddlers and the Digambar
Kamat-led government was 'not honest about probing the
(police-politician-drug mafia) nexus', Father Maverick Fernandes, executive
secretary of the Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP), a social arm
of the Roman Catholic church in Goa, told IANS.

'The press has covered enough of how the men in uniform are involved with
the drug peddlers. Law enforcement officers are themselves involved or
assisting in this trend,' said Maverick, a respected voice in the social and
religious sphere in the state.

'The government is not honest in probing the nexus. The intent of the
government is found lacking in probing the case,' he said.

The CSJP in a press note issued here recently on the International
Anti-Drugs Day June 26 had also lambasted the state police machinery for
abetting the drug trade in Goa.

'Goa has sunk into such a shameful situation that those entrusted with the
duty of upholding justice by enforcing the law, blatantly availed of
loopholes to acquit the accused,' Maverick said.

'Today citizens at large have lost their confidence in all arms of the
authority and are led to believe that there definitely exists a nexus
between the politicians, police and all rungs of traffickers,' he added.

The CSJP has also said that 'bars and taverns are focal points of relaxation
where soft drinks laced with narcotic substances and hard liquor flow freely
and other psychotropic substances are easily available'.

Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik's son Ro, has been linked by the Israeli media
to the Israeli drug mafia operating in the state. Seven police officers have
already been arrested for being a part of the drug nexus.

Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar had alleged in the Goa legislative
assembly Tuesday that Kamat was shielding people linked to the drug trade.

The local media, which has been consistently reporting the drug nexus issue
since it first came to the fore in March, has severely castigated the state
police and the ruling political leadership for covering up the nexus.
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Re: [Goanet] Church indicts Goa government for shielding drug traders

2010-07-22 Thread floriano
The Goa Su-Raj Party is indeed happy that the Goa's Roman Catholic Church 
has broken it's 'silence' over the  inefficiency, involvement with the 
drug-peddlers and traffickers and all sorts of other anti-social activities, 
reducing Goa to a pot of crime-world,  blessed by the democratically elected 
Government of the day led by a weak-kneed CEO Shri. Digamber Kamat as the 
State's Chief Minister.


It is, indeed,  in time,  that the Church of Goa, a powerful influence on 
the psyche of Goans, has poured out it's apprehensions about this ruthlessly 
corrupt government of the day. Otherwise, it would burst itself  from the 
inside, sooner than later.


Goa Su-Raj Party, it must be remembered, was the only one to have objected 
to the Church of Goa flirting with the corrupt and the communal governments 
of the day since long,  when it objected to the Church's  hosting of 
traditional 'Christmas Tea Parties' to entertain the who is who in Goa's 
politics at the very center of the Goa's Christian Center of Power, the 
POWER OVER ALL EVIL. In a letter to the Archbishop of Goa, Goa Su-Raj 
Party's incumbent President  had asked the question   of the Goa's Christian 
Church's powers that be , that by entertaining the corrupt and the unholy 
elected members of the government, irrespective of their religious beliefs, 
if it was not CONDONING their acts of commission and omission and sending a 
wrong signal to the world at large that all was well.  This Party is happy 
to say that the Church of Goa did take note of this communication and did 
act, to some extent. But this Party has always felt that it was not enough.


With this bold and cutting 'Press Statement', the Church of Goa has done 
well to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.. Only, the  most despicable,  brazen and 
shameless Government will want to still remain at the helm of power after is 
total exposure.


The Goa Su-Raj Party congratulates the Archbishop of Goa, as also Fr. 
Maverick Fernandes of CSJP,  for coming out strongly against the style of 
functioning of the 'public sponsored government' and does hope that the 
Church will take a stand of an alert and powerful 'watchdog',  always 
staying aloof, patting the government on it's  back when it does well by the 
people and castigating it, even to the extent of whipping it,  when it goes 
against the wishes and aspirations of the common man. But more importantly, 
the Church of Goa  will have to be more of a watchdog to see that it's own 
rank and file does not compromise it's stand by mixing freely  with the 
corrupt members of the government to the extent that it has to step in to 
fence for them.


Last but not the least, the Goodness of the Church of Goa must not be taken 
as it's WEAKNESS.


Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org  for scroll-up expanded Party Presentation on the home 
page.





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 * The Goa Government and our politicians along with the Government
machinery continue to protect, promulgate  and promote the vested 
interests

of criminals, goons and all sorts of anti-social activity. The
police-politician-drug nexus is fully entrenched within Goa and our
politicians do not have the will nor the resolve to put an end to it
- obviously they want to benefit from the kick-backs, rewards and the 
money

power that they enjoy. This article is from sify news.
*g

Church indicts Goa government for shielding drug traders
*  **2010-07-21 13:20:00

After the opposition and the local media, the Goa Roman Catholic Church 
has
indicted the Congress-led government for failing to curb the drug trade 
and

for shielding the police-politician-drug mafia nexus.



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