----- Original Message ----- From: "Elisabeth Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 4:22 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa Suraj -- The Booms of Idealism should not die,Floriano
Dear Vivek, With all due respect when did the blooms of idealism die in Goa and Goans? When did we become so disheartened as to believe that idealism is a dirty word? When did we stop being revolutionaries with fire in our bellies and dreams in our hearts? There's a great line in the movie Munich. There comes a time when every great civilisation must compromise with its own values. No doubt if Floriano is voted into power there will come a time when he'll have to wrestle with his own conscience and chose the lesser of two evils but until that time comes, here is a man who has a dream in his heart. He sees Goa not for what it has become but for what it has the potential to become. Nary a soldier went out to war believing he could lose, even if the odds were stacked against him. That is the hope that must sing loudly in the soul of every warrior. Floriano is one such warrior. Why must we beat him down with the our negativity. When the twilight years creep into his life, he for one can say proudly, Goa I loved you. I heard your call, I sang your name and I gave you my all. And if I can say the same, than I would have learnt something from this man, Floriano. Elisabeth PS: Dear Floriano, I am available for writing your acceptance speech :) [Floriano's response to Elizabeth] "Whow! Elizabeth. I see you stiching a 'Ghaddhi' (Indian suit) for me already. Please save your efforts and your precious time, most of which you are already spending on goanet. That ghaddi is going to get frayed on its hanger. Instead, do me a favour and accept my invite to write beautiful words of wisdom for Goa and Goans in a special page I am offering you (for as long as you want) ON GSRP's website to put fire into the bellies of Goans to rise up and join-in, in this 6 year old REVOLUTION, not to spill blood through guillotines, but to do the same through the ballot, starting from April-May 2007. It would give me no less a pleasure to compliment your very effective and emotional writings." *** ----- Original Message ----- rom: "Vivek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <goanet@goanet.org> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:26 PM Subject: [Goanet] goa suraj --more comments Dear Floriano: I am not even a novice in politics but i think that politics is the art of consensus and compromises without sacrificing some basic values of decency and personal integrity. Contrary to your assertions that all national parties are Chors there are many politicians in india who are doing a great job I am no fan of the leftists but the current bengal CM is a definitely not a chor.Same can be said about the Home minister of Maharstra RR PAtil as well ex kerala CM Antony as well as our ex CM Parrikar. Others like Narendra Modi are excellent administrators and it is a fact that his regime is not corrupt.In fact much of the internal factionalism in Gujarat BJP stems from the fact that the corrupt activities of the son in law of Keshubhai patel the ersthile CM of Gujarat were curtailed during Modis rule. I think having a set of very lofty principles is one thing but one must also realise that no political party an operate in a ideal situation. Mega promises as well as idealist roadmaps may earn you kudos on a mailing list but sadly unless you accept the ground realities these principles will remain only on paper. Like Fred said "no second term to mlas" is a good slogan especially when u don't have any. The point being you must invent ways to work the system that we already have and then make incremental changes to improve it. -vivek [Floriano's response to Vivek] Accepted that a few like RR Patil, CM of W. Bengal, Anthony of Kerala, Parrikar, Modi are role models for some. But let me tell you, Vivek, and as you have yourself said, if a politician has to maneuver diplomatically and take the path of 'lesser evil' to do some good, it is because of compulsions that thse men have to adjust to because they themselves are responsible for, having been a part of the system. Here, we at GSRP have designed a new system and positively do not have to rely compromising existing systems. And, in this new system, there are no previous compulsions and tolerances which has to be apeased. We can afford to go straight for the jugular and not pussy-foot with round-abouts. Besides, the few you have named are perhaps some good apples in the basket of wholly rotten ones. And you know very well what the overall aroma of this basket will be. I have said this before. Morarjee Desai was the vocferous advocate of prohibition of liquor whereas his own son was operating a distillery. Modi, Parrikar may be the best administrators. But not only they are in the rotten basket, they have a special flavour of being the nation's worst killers on the basis of religion, communality and castes. And they have been exposed. One must remember that GSRP has been born to right the wrongs. When I say that, I mean just that. There is no scope for righting some wrongs and looking the other way with others which might jeopardise the future prospects as a Party. Our sentiment is that "If we have to cut corners to flourish as a political force, that flourishing political force will be the same as we see in others. GSRP positively does not want to tread that road. Better, if we remain unnoticed and non-descript. At least the few founders of this party (who are still with it) can sleep well the moment they hit their pillows. A special point I would like to make here in this context. I am presently engaged in charting the "PERT CPM" route for my next building project in Moira. Here, I have been tabulating the minutest of details that will have to be looked at, to complete the project on the specified date from its commencement. Likewise, the PERT CPM ( the critical path) has been charted for the GSRP with a life-time of efforts, keeping our eyes and ears open. And that critical path, we believe, is the shortest and the most effective route to take-over Goa from the rascals who have been taking lucrative short-cuts since 1961 and have messed up the delivery of the "Goa of our Dreams". And, frankly speaking, we are more than satisfied by the 'critical path' we have chosen, even if it takes a life-time to accomplish, with the sight focused on the end result "THE GOA OF EVERY GOAN'S DREAMS" (More rhetorics ! you would say. And why the hell not?) 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