Patriots & Traitors
©Prakash J. Mascarenhas. 12th September 2003. This page is copyright. It may be copied and reproduced at any place and location on the Internet only if the url of the original page is provided and my authorship is credited.
I have been asked to define what I mean when I categorize certain persons as
"Anti-Goans".
The question can be better put in this way:
"Who is a Goan Patriot and who is a Traitor?" To know the answer to this, one must first set out the background facts.
Goa, or to give it its formal, legal name, the EIP (
"Estado da India Portuguesa") was a dependency of Portugal. As a polity or entity, it came into being in 1510 or so, being founded by Portuguese explorers, and has continued in existence uninterruped ever since.
In 1954, a part of Goa, the enclaves of Dadra and of Nagar-Avelim, were encroached upon by its large neighbour, the Indian Union, by a band of terrorists sponsored and reinforced by regular troops, and unilaterally "incorporated" into the Indian Union.
In 1961, the remainder of Goa was invaded and "incorporated" by the Indian Union.
In both cases, the Indian Union acted absolutely outside of International norms and laws, outside of any legal basis. The sole basis of the Indian Union's actions was that the EIP was small and defenseless and that the Indian Union had the power and the might to inflict itself upon Goa.
Pointedly, there was no plebiscite, not even a mock plebiscite, conducted, so that Goans could be afforded even the figleaf of a legal accession into the Indian Union, precisely because the Indian Union was absolutely aware that any such exercise would boomerang and that the Goans would certainly vote against it.
This failure to conduct a plebiscite is extra-ordinary, even by the standards of the Indian Union, for it conducted such staged plebiscites in the Kingdoms of Hyderabad, Junagadh, Manavadar and Mangrol, before its aggressions against Goa, that is, during 1947-1948, and again after this aggressions, in 1976, when it invaded, kidnapped the King, and annexed the Kingdom of Sikkim, and staged a "plebiscite" where the immigrant, non-Citizens from neighbouring Nepal were permitted to vote, and predictably voted for annexation to the Indian Union, their patron, against the Sikkimese King and other Sikkimese nationalists.
From the Goan viewpoint, this is an insufferable affront to ourselves as human beings and as a component and integral part of the community of man. No self respecting people can morally countenance such a humiliation, a robbery and deprivation of their very basic and fundamental rights as human beings, where they are seized and informed that they have become the prize, spoils and trophy of their "conquerors" without even the pretence of obtaining their consent.
Under such a condition, there is no meaning at all to even pretend that we Goans are or could be citizens or subjects of the Indian Union. We have nothing to do with the Indian Union except the one and only objective of forcing them out, ejecting them, and thereby reclaiming our national honour.
Logically, this is and can be the only or sole or most pressing priority of any people in such a situation.
But in Goa, we have a sizeable population of traitors, those who collaborate with the invaders and pretend that this situation is legitimate and just.
They have worked ceaselessly to compromise the Goans and to subvert and pervert them.
Goans have become the victim of the Invader's Systematic though Covert Program of Genocide. We are deliberately excluded from all positions of authority, humiliated, robbed of our land and the right to determine our own destiny, even under the spurious honour of the Indian Union's own constitution, so that we are reduced to a minority in our own land, to strangers sojourning in our own land.
In all of this, the Quislings, Collaborators, play a vital role.
But the story is incomplete without a in-depth investigation of the rationale of these traitors: What makes them tick, how do they justify themselves, make peace with themselves in their souls. We must, as it were, plumb the depths, do some deep-sea diving, into the depths of their souls, to know what makes and moves them.
The answer is
Indianitis. They have been brainwashed with the mindless enthusiasm and idolatry of all things Indian, and therefore look to the humiliation and Rape of Goa as being the normal, glorious and just cause of the Indian Union.
They suffer from an overpowering love for the Indian Union and all things associated with it: Hinduism, Hindu culture, yoga, etc., and a complementary depriciation and contempt and ridicule for all things that separate them from these Indian things — which, in this case, is all things Goan.
Goan, for us and them, for we are the common inheritors of the same patrimony, is Christianity, the Inquisition, St. Francis Xavier, Affonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, the Christian Goan Konkanni (as against the Hindu Konkkni), and so on and on.
These folks are awash with a overpowering mania for all things Indian and a overpowering hatred for all things Goan.
Or, to put things in sharp, very sharp, perspective, they are converts to Hinduism, to Indian paganism, although only in the internal forum and not in the external forum.
In the external forum, they are, or rather continue with the pretence of being or remaining Christian and Goan, though even here, this is merely nominal, and merely for the purpose of participating in the club of Goanness and being accepted and acknowledged as an accepted member of the Goan community, so that they can propagate their Goaphobia and Indiamania among the unsuspecting and leaderless flock of Goans.
Typically, such Wolves-in-Sheep's-Clothings advocate that Goans concentrate on and reduce themselves solely and exclusively into an eternal debating society, debating how to or not to achieve "developmental" progress, and leave all other "controversial" subjects well alone.
This is the most insidious form of treason, or subversion.
I do not mince my words. Frederico Noronha, Goanet, Goacom, etc. are some of the most famous and eminent proponents of this approach, this strategy of subversion and sabotaging the Goans from evolving their nationalist movement.
For them, any attempt to educate Goans on the facts of the Rape of Goa and the need to liberate Goa, is anathema and to be scotched as soon as is seemingly possible.
I am a man who calls a spade a spade and a traitor a traitor. I call these saboteurs of the Goan liberation movement, quislings and collaborators, for they are volunteers and agents for the Rape of Goa, in which they spiritually and willingly participate, and for which they are motivated, not by threats or incentives from the invaders, but solely and exclusively by their own enthusiasm for
Indianitis.
One is known by one's actions and by the company one keeps.
Is there still a doubt?
I make no excuse about myself and my beliefs. I make no compromises and I do not beg and beseech for alms, seek any dialogue or ask for any considerations from these "folks", whom I hold in the most supreme contempt. You know where you stand, and I know where I stand. That is enough.
©Prakash J. Mascarenhas. 12th September 2003.
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