tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441593467864724337.post3833804348511284645..comments2024-03-28T20:00:44.639+11:00Comments on East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin: Ramos Horta savages Timor's donors as "intellectual midgets"Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14359692951995091025noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441593467864724337.post-27979844314199920762010-03-10T13:42:11.679+11:002010-03-10T13:42:11.679+11:00Mr Ramos-Horta is right. Donors and do-gooders ar...Mr Ramos-Horta is right. Donors and do-gooders are a menace. They cause more damage than good. Timor Leste is a new country and as such many jump on the bandwagon armed with their own well-used one-size-fits-all paradigm and pretend to teach people who have fought and survived for several years how to achieve peace through seminars and how to serve at tables and make jams through their training centers. However, before engaging in mud slinging Mr Horta should also look at the other end of the equation; the intellectual midgets entrenched in the top TL hierarchy ready to throw the doors wide open to large interests in exchange for palatial buildings to satisfy their midget egos and without giving a second thought to the hidden agenda of these concerns who will deplete the country of its natural resources and take all the profits abroad, leaving the Timorese once again as faithful spectators while those who should defend their interests scuffle around to enrich themselves by kowtowing to the new colonizers. Mr Horta should look around himself and identify the local intellectual midgets who, without a shred of vision or compassion for the suffering of the TL people over several years, are selling the country every day for their own selfish interest or just through sheer stupidity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com