StyleSpeak: Stockholm Syndrome

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:22:01 -0400
From: Wendell Rodricks <wendellrodricks@gmail.com>
Subject: [Goanet] StyleSpeak: Stockholm Syndrome

Wendell has very nicely knitted the past and the present, the way he does his finery for the fashion shows and without doubt he is a master craftsman, what he says in his post is mostly true. We have elected our politicians, hence they are public servants who have to be accountable to us and have to respect us as citizens of the state and not override us with their pathetic corrupt ideologies.

Our politicians sure do not care to improve their image by a change in attitude but on the contrary they do everything possible to justify themselves for the depravity that not just flows but gushes out of them. We may be surely suffering from what Wendell calls "Stockholm syndrome" as even after all the degeneracy and decadence that they have managed to burry us in, we still like to honour them to no ends, the "Stockholm syndrome" is definitely evident in some, if not most of our Goans in Goa and in Diaspora.  We just seem to be blind, dumb and deaf to their regressive and appalling behaviour and ideologies.

I do admire Wendell for his views on Goa, his outspokenness and his fondness for the Goa of old, we all know the nostalgic feeling when we look back at the good old days but there are a few things I do not agree with his line of thinking:

When Wendell say that he does keep the professional affliction of the politicians from their persona as fellow humans, is amazing but I would like to add that as an icon of modern Goa along with Remo and Hema, should by all means stand for what they believe and tell our politicians so, on the face, without malice, it is not enough to write or tell others what rascals our politicians have been, these monumental monuments of cacophony should be washed and humiliated at every opportunity to show the quantum of our disgust for these besmirched species.  

I also do not agree with Goans submission to the "Lima syndrome", because so far we have been the patients of both "Stockholm syndrome" and the "Lima syndrome" for too long a time and that's the reason, that we are where we are today, in no man's land caught between the conniving despoiled politicians and our dreams for a better future for Goa and Goans. What indeed Goa needs right now is the "Maoist syndrome". I am sure all will understand what I mean by "Maoist syndrome". If you look at history, it's only a popular uprising that has brought down Governments to their knees and change of ideologies. If we have to wait for Digu and his thirty nine thieves to be compassionate to the "Lima syndrome" of Goans, we may have to wait for eternity, victims of "phantasm syndrome".  What's that ?  This syndrome is a hallucination that makes people believe that the impossible will be possible.

Asking Digu to show us his heart is useless, I am sure all our politicians must have kept their tender hearts in some vaults in Switzerland and they would in no way let us have a glance at that and what they have in their chest and on person is not worth looking at because it's worse that Mahim sewer of Mumbai.

Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
Dubai - UAE

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Goan Politicians Should Get Gold Medals For Denying

"I did not call Goans squealing pigs, I said, even in case of "developmental" projects our NGO's squeal, like pigs do, even when they are taken for other than killing" was the clarification made by our esteemed PWD Minister, he further says that if any can prove that he called Goans squealing pigs he would resign. Damage control at it's best, has any Ministers actually resigned for their follies in Goa before, even after all the scams ? Some of them who did, were forced to resign. By the way which NGO's is he talking about, which NGO is opposing the Raheja's "developmental" project, if our esteemed Minister say so ? Raheja's "developmental" project is opposed by the very residents headed by Orlando who is infact fighting against the illegalities in the project, I sure hope our esteemed Minister knows the difference between opposing "developmental" project and fighting against illegalities in a project. Just because he, a Minister, scribbles a note on his letter pad does not make illegalities legal. He should know better or does he think that the Law starts and ends with him in Goa ?

In India we all know how very easily evidence can be cooked up as well as be destroyed, it's been more than three weeks for the incident and he asks for a proof now ? On second thoughts he most probably did not say that the Raheja's "developmental" projects would create employment opportunities for Goans as "watchmen" too, it was just his opponent from Navelim who is trying to defame him and put him down in the eyes of Goans. All the problems he has had with building of his bridges, his developmental mega housing projects, his widening of the NH and may be even the MOPA project must be the handiwork of his opponent from Navelim. Is Churchill suffering for "the Navelim opponent" phobia or is he scared of his very own shadow ?

When will Churchill and his thirty nine rotten collogues understand that the Goan people who had elected them are opposing not the "developmental" projects but those projects that are illegal and those that are detrimental to the progress of Goa and Goans. All these mega projects have made the lives of Goans even more difficult, with the woes of the common men ever increasing. Water in the taps is a rare phenomena, electricity more often than not does the disappearing act, garbage is still a monstrous issue, sewage has always been an overflowing glitch, in a situation like this what does our esteemed Minister expects Goans to do ? Sit back and get ourselves run over by the wealthy non-Goans and the migrants ?

There is a new flagship that the Minister has started to revive his drooping image, it's called the BPL carrier, the vote bank accumulation scheme, I do ask the esteemed Minister to give us the statistics of how many Goans and how many migrants from his Navelim constituency have benefited from this scheme ?

Our esteemed Minister also said that his and his family's sacrifices for Konkanni are unmatched and that people will remember his good deeds only after his death. Does it mean we will have to wait for his "Beatification" or his "canonization" ? In life while he has been portraying himself well, as the man of the masses, he has been the one back-stabbing us Goans, for his own personal gains, he has been a thorn in the side of Goans ever since the Konkanni movement. If he has so much love for our mother tongue why are we still fighting for Romi Konkanni to be given equal status ? If he has done so much to stop MOPA and save Dabolim, why is MOPA still going ahead ? Goans are certainly not fools enough to be fooled all the time. Your time is up Mr Churchill Almeao and please don't even think of getting a ticket for your daughter, right now we Goans would rather have pigs on our menu than Alemao's for the next election.

Freddy Agnelo Fernandes

Dubai - UAE

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