Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-02-24 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Anthony and Nolette de Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, All! > > This is Martinho de Souza from Oz calling! > > Greetings from Down Under! > > While civilized foreign tourists and stayers are > welcome in Goa, Goa should be there for Goans - whether > resident there or overs

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-02-25 Thread floriano
uot;Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! > --- Anthony and Nolette de Souza > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, All! > > > > This is Martinho de Souza from Oz calling!

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-02-26 Thread Mario Goveia
--- floriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Goa has had 450 years of Portuguese rule sans > corruption, sans > manipulations, sans the race towards building vote > banks. > Goa's liberation saw the Indian so called democratic > rule aka > self-governance for the last 45 years. > This Indian/self-gov

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-02-27 Thread Bernado Colaco
the helm of Goa's > governance must be held in firm > hands of Goans, not by Goans dictated to by the > national parties like the > Congress, the BJP, the NCP or the Janata Party etc. > I am talking about > Goa's own regional party. > > The concept of Goa for Goans must be forgotten once > and

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-02-27 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Bernado Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nobody has asked the Portuguese to come back do not > get confused. There was no libertation in 61 only > failures. Big time corruption was bought by the > congress dudes to bolster their party funds. This > was > done in Goa with the collaboratio

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-02-27 Thread floriano
list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! > --- floriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Goa has had 450 years of Portuguese rule sans > > corruption, sans > > manipulations, sans the race towards

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-02-27 Thread Bernado Colaco
We have lotta culture now in Goa. Hypocrites in the US return the land to the Indians! BC > Mario asks: > > > Floriano, > Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Goa a COLONY of > a > third rate European country, acquired by force 450 > years ago, where there was no such thing as > democratic > rule,

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-02-27 Thread Bernado Colaco
Get your facts right about Goan history before making vile statements. What democracy are we talking about? BC > > > Mario observes: > > > Since Goa was a colony under the thumb of a third > rate > European colonial power that acquired the territory > by > force 450 years ago, and tried to han

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-03 Thread Mario Goveia
Bernardo, In addition to GOA FOR GOANS, it looks like you are now proposing AMERICA FOR INDIANS? Maybe it has escaped your attention that the US belongs to the world, just as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. > However, I'll make you a deal. We will return the US to the native Americans right af

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
Bernardo, My facts are far straighter than your facts, about Goa and anything connected with your curious "Goa for Goans" campaign while living safely in the UK. > The fact that you still do not know that Goa was a colony of a third rate European country and was liberated in 1961, 14 years after th

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-04 Thread Bernado Colaco
Isn't it fair to stop lotta culture to which you belong to coming to Goa? Are you greeting the latinos at the Mexico/US border? BC > However, I'll make you a deal. We will return the > US > to the native Americans right after you Indian > immigrants return the UK to the Brits. It is time >

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-05 Thread floriano
Honest candidates??? my bloody foot. 1. Honesty must be tested and tested right WITH A WRITTEN DOWN PROGRAMME. That translates into the candidate saying what he/she will do and what he/she will not do. 2. The prospective candidate must endorse the written down PROGRAMME. 3. He must not drive on t

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-05 Thread Bernado Colaco
--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernardo, > My facts are far straighter than your facts, about > Goa > and anything connected with your curious "Goa for > Goans" campaign while living safely in the UK. > > Mario, Are you saying that it is unsafe to live in Goa because of the recen

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-05 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Bernado Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't it fair to stop lotta culture to which you > belong to coming to Goa? > Mario responds: > Bernardo, In a democracy like Goa, I don't know how even the local Goans can stop any other Indian culture from coming to Goa. How do you plan to do i

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-06 Thread Bernado Colaco
> > > Mario replies: > > > There are two kinds of Latinos coming across the US > border, legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. I > gladly greet the legal immigrants because I am one > myself. I also welcome their culture, because it > makes the US a more wonderful place. > > Legal immigran

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-06 Thread Mario Goveia
I just returned from Goa - no sign of any communal riots. It is perfectly safe to live there, even with all those diabolical "Indians" who are pouring into Goa, while you Portuguese Goans live elsewhere and pretend to be interested in Goa. From Vagator to Palolem Goa was booming with economic act

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-07 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Bernado Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Legal immigrants when Goa is illegaly occupied? Goa > is almost free for all. > Mario observes: > Bernardo, I think you may agree that the Portuguese illegally came to Goa in 1510 WITHOUT ANY VISAS, and were finally DEPORTED in 1961, leaving a bi

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-08 Thread Bernado Colaco
You doing all the cleaning of the railway tracks in mumbai innit mate? Secular are getting at each others throats. Servants in the 21 century? Are you still lingering with colonialism? BC --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Bernado Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Bernardo, It looks like you have been associating with the Cockneys a little too much, "innit mate(?)". > As I recently advised some of the other Goan expatriates like Cornel, Valmiki and Gabriel, India and Goa are dangerous and hazardous places for those who have become overly fastidious and delic

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-09 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Bernado, Don't cause yourself an injury. Mario obviously does not know what he's writing about. He's writing about village life, when most towns in India were no better. Visas in 1510? A de A didn't require one (even if they were in the habit of issuing such) as he was invited by Timoja. Mess?

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-10 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote: > > Bernado, > > Don't cause yourself an injury. Mario obviously > does not know what he's writing about. He's writing > about village life, when most towns in India were no > better. > Mario observes: > The amusing revisionist nostalgia for colonial subservienc

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-13 Thread Bernado Colaco
> > > Gabriel is wrong about colonial Goa being like most > Indian towns. I grew up in a medium sized Indian > town > and know that most of Goa under the Portuguese was > more like an Indian village rather than any Indian > town, because the Brits had done a far superior job > in > India than the

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-11 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The amusing revisionist nostalgia for colonial > subservience continues unabated. It is not revisionist nostalgia - I lived there at the time, so did a lot of people still in Goa. Ask the 70 and 80-year-olds who graduated through Liceu and the Escol

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-11 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote: > > And on a converse issue, I was also told by > this person that the Brits really ill-treated the > Indian taxi drivers prior to 1947, something that > never even happened in Goa. > Mario observes: > Gabriel, of all your claims this one is really pathetic. Why

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-12 Thread floriano
t;Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final > --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The amusing revisionist nostalgia for colonial > > subservience continues unabated. >

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- floriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MINUS THE PORTUGUESE, GOA VERY BADLY NEEDS THE > ERSTWHILE PORTUGUESE RULE BACK IN PLACE. > > For that to happen in Goa, and for it to have a > cleansing effect on the political scene in the > COUNTRY, > Mario observes: > Floriano, I think you may agre

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-13 Thread floriano
ust like in Singapore. Have you?? rgds Floriano goasuraj check-out the Road Map for Goa at www.goasu-raj.org - Original Message - From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:51 A

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-14 Thread Mario Goveia
Floriano, My reference to Portugal as a third rate European country was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Let me assure you that I love Portugal and the Portuguese, whom I will defend as the least racist of all Europeans or any other people for that matter, and they have a "susegad" outlook on life that i

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-15 Thread floriano
quot; Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final > Floriano, > My reference to Portugal as a third rate European > country was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Let me assure > you that I love Portugal and the Portuguese, whom I > will defend

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-15 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 14/03/06, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Floriano, > My reference to Portugal as a third rate European > country was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Let me assure > you that I love Portugal and the Portuguese, whom I > will defend as the least racist of all Europeans or > any other people

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Floriano, You are a gentleman and a scholar. > Mario. --- floriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mario, > > Thank you for opening a larger view-window to life. > I am a trained ex-merchant marine officer where > discipline is grilled in > one's bones. And my view of the world is always > tin

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-16 Thread floriano
March 16, 2006 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final > Floriano, > You are a gentleman and a scholar. > > > Mario. > > --- floriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Mario, > > > > Thank you for opening a larger view-window to life.