CORRUPTION IN GOA? CELEBRATE! PRAY FOR MORE RAPES! By Lucio Mascarenhas

There is a veritable rash of crime in Goa today. Never before has Goa seen so much crime. Every day there are rapes and murders and so on. People are grumbling. Goa pols are grumbling.  But I ask, Why Whine? You ought to Celebrate!

In Pakistan, some years back, there had been a military coup which brought General Pervez Musarraf to power. Many people in Pakistan were genuinely happy — they celebrated the overthrow of the corrupt government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. There was a lot of grassroots, folk outpouring, emotionalist celebrations. One that I saw celebrated the fall of both the Bhutto khandaan — Madame Benazir Bhutto Zardari and her husband, Asif Ten Percent Zardari, and that of the Sharif khandaan, denouncing both families for their corruption and for robbing Pakistan blind.

When Sharif had learned of Musarraf's plot to seize the government, he had attempted to stop Musarraf from returning to Pakistan from a visit to Ceylon. For this, Musarraf alleged air-piracy against Sharif and tried him on that charge.

From my viewpoint, however: If the Bhuttos and Sharifs stole from Pakistan, they only stole from the country. Musarraf, however, stole THE COUNTRY. He reduced it to his personal jagir.

No matter how much corrupt the Bhuttos and Sharifs were, they were never as corrupt as Musarraf. He stole the entire country and he hijacked an entire country. That is the height of corruption. Such a man cannot be trusted at all. He is a man with no moral values and absolutely no scruples or compunctions.  In the case of Goa, we see a similar situation.

Goa is a part of Portugal. The Indian Union was cobbled together from disparate peoples by the British. United by a common ruler and by a common aversion to the common ruler, the peoples of British India united and fought for independence and were granted it. They thereafter joined themselves together into a Unitary State, the Republic of India. As such, India had no moral or legal — or for that matter, any other kind of claim — upon Goa. Goa was not taken by the Portuguese from India. Goa was not a part of India under Portuguese occupation. It is as legitimately a part of Portugal as the Algarve is of Portugal, and even more than Tamil Nadu is a "part" of India.

And yet, India has imposed itself upon Goa, and has invaded and occupied us and "annexed" us.  Now, this is, to any moral person, the highest form of corruption that he, as a Goan, can see in operation in Goa today.

But many Goans, and certainly all the Goa "pols" — such as the dearsome Floriano Lobo, self-styled crusader against corruption — consider the acts of daylight robbery and brigandage by India as being legitimate, that these acts truly constitute "liberation".

By these acts, Goa and Goans became India's prizes of war, war-booty, trophies of conquests. We never joined India. India never had any moral or legal claim over us. India has merely kidnapped us. But by recognizing India's kidnapping as "liberation", we grant India carte blanche — we acknowledge India as owner of Goa and Goans. The result of India's robbery is not the "liberation" of Goa, or of Goa acceding to India, but the true result is that we now have the relationship of Owners and the owned, of being chattels, of being conquests, of being booty of war.

Therefore, when we turn around us as see that we are contemned and treated as trophies of war, as conquests, why should we complain? Why should we whine? Why cavil at the minor and petty acts of corruption?

If we can swallow the greatest act of corruption, or immorality perpetrated against us; if we can swallow the Camel of Indianism, of the acts of brazen robbery and thuggery glorified under the lying euphemism of a "Liberation", why must we strain at the gnats?

When the Indians invaded Goa, the Indian soldiers specifically came looking around for "Portuguese" women to rape. In the process, many Goan women were raped — Vassalo e Silva having already evacuated the white Portuguese women. But to a moral Goan, it should not make any difference whether white Portuguese women or brown Goan women were raped — both are unacceptable. Indianist Goans implicitly justify the rapes as being specifically targetted against the Portuguese. From my viewpoint, we Goans are also Portuguese.

Today, there is a veritable feast of rapes in Goa. Every day brings news of rapes. Even minor girls are gangraped and murdered. What should we do? Should we sit down and cry? I don't think so.

The vast majority of Goans accept the "liberation". This is but a continuation of that "liberation". I would suggest to the Indianists, to Floriano Lobo and the Goa-SuRaj Party, to the Goa DESC and to other anti-Goan parties and groups and bodies, that they not make a hypocritical pretence of whining and mourning these atrocities but that they show their true loyalty and submissiveness to their masters, their owners and conquerors, by celebrating and by thanking the Indian robbers for condescending to rape and murder and rob Goa and Goans and lastly, by asking for more...

For the moral Goan, the resistance is a question, above all, of morality. The first priority must be always and only the Resistance, the armed and precipitate expulsion of the invaders and robbers and of the restoration of the status quo ante, and of securing a just package of reparation and restitution from the perpetrators of the Rape of Goa. Nothing else can have priority over this.

Moral Goans, however, are a small minority, mostly old and retired persons.

GOANS READ THE BELOW STATEMENT BY JINDAL ALUMINIUM

JINDAL Aluminium Limited, Jindal Nagar, Tumkur Road, BANGALORE 560

073. Lest one be lost in the verbiage, I would like to draw specific attention to this statement: These... are still considering Goa as their private and ancestral territory forgeting that it was liberated way back in 1961, being ancient soil of Bharat. What it says is that the Jindals were objecting to Goans acting as if Goa was theirs and theirs alone, and claimed instead that Goans had no right in Goa, because Goa was "liberated" "being ancient soil of Bharat" (sic!). Of course, by contrast, whether Goa is a part of India or not, Goa IS in fact, by natural law, the "private and ancetral territory" of the Goans exclusively, and that should not be ever remarkable. However, it becomes remarkable when a slave people claim rights that only belong to free peoples.

The Jindals were making an "innocuous" claim over Goa to be India's trophy by way of conquest, and objecting to the Goans agitating against the project instead of menially submitting to their masters and lords.