Is that a gun in his pocket, or is he just pleased to see me?
Published: April 30, 2009 at 4:19pm
My mum went to Maltastar and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
I got an email out of the blue from that Mark Anthony Sammut, in-nutar tal-patt mal-poplu li kien ghamel Sant fil-bolrum tal-Phoenicia qabel l-elezzjoni tas-sena 2003. Well, it wasn’t really out of the blue, because he rang my husband at work this morning and demanded that he order me to leave him alone and stop harassing him.
Sigh.
Some people think they can take to the stage in the final days of a do-or-die election that will see us in or out of Europe, acting as notary in a public charade involving Alfred Sant and a piece of Pirate Island parchment called Patt Mal-Poplu, write articles about politics for the newspapers, get caught at the airport carrying a gun, and nobody will ever say the slightest word.
His excuse is that notaries may not refuse requests for their professional service. Sammut is either genuinely uninformed or seeks to deceive. Notaries, like lawyers, can refuse any work they wish. The only requests that notaries may not refuse are requests from dying persons for wills to be made.
What can I say? It takes all sorts to make a world.
Here’s the exchange of correspondence.
From Mark Anthony Sammut
Sinjura Caruana Galizia
Se niktiblek bil-Malti, biex inkunu cari li qed inkellmek bl-akbar serjeta u li issa wasalt fit-tarf tal-pacenzja tieghi.
Se nitolbok ghall-ahhar darba biex ma tibqax taghtini fastidju (fit-tifsira legali tat-terminu) u ma tibqax timmalafamani la fil-blog tieghek daphnecaruanagalizia.com u lanqas imkien iehor (l-ahhar attakk kien fuq http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/04/05/gensna-in-concert-first-north-korea-now-the-inspiration-spreads-to-china/#comment-45035).
Ngharrfek li qieghed niehu l-attakk ingustifikat fuqi bl-akbar serjeta.
Inti konxja li gejt ikkundannata mill-Qrati tal-Magistrati talli ghedt hwejjeg fuqi li ma kinux veri, liema kundanna giet ikkonfermata mill-Qorti tal-Appell. Fil-blog tieghek qed tirrepeti l-istess gideb li l-Qrati sabuk hatja taghhom.
Konxja wkoll li dak li qed tghid fuqi jikkostitwixxi kemm fastidju kif ukoll malafama.
Jien nifhem li ghandu mnejn li int ghandek hbieb imlahhqin ecc fil-Gvern prezenti. Nifhem ukoll li jista’ jkollok antipatija lejn nies assocjati mal-Oppozizzjoni. Pero dan ma jaghtik l-ebda dritt taqbad ma’ cittadini privati u ripetutament tipprova tfarrak socjalment lil dawn l-istess cittadini.
Jekk tostina ruhek li ma tridx tifhem bis-sewwa, ikolli nghaddi ghad-dnewwa.
Diga gharraft lill-avukati tieghi biex mal-ewwel nofs ta’ kelma li tikteb dwari u li ma tkunx tirrifletti l-verita, niehu passi kontra tieghek ta’ natura civili u anki kriminali.
Nistiednek ghall-ahhar darba tiddezisti mill-imgiba tieghek u, anki jekk ma taqbilx mieghi fl-ideat politici, taghraf li n-nies jistghu jikkoezistu wkoll jekk ma jaqblux. Ma tistax tattakkani b’mod tali li taghmel “assassinju tal-personalita”. Jekk ma tifhimx dan il-principju essenzjali tad-demokrazija, allura ghandek problemi kbar ta’ adegwament ghas-socjeta demokratika.
Inwissik li qieghed niehu bl-akbar serjeta l-fastidju u l-malafama li qieghda taghmel fil-konfronti tieghi.
Dr. Mark A. Sammut
To Mark Anthony Sammut
Wasalt ghall-konkluzjoni li int speci ta’ mignun, u ghalhekk se nghid lill-pulizija b’dan id-theddid kontinwu li gej min-naha tieghek, biex is-sitwazzjoni tkun iddokumnetata jekk jerga jkolli xi bomb-threat, jew xi hruq, jew xi telefonati anonimi, jew xi haga ohra bhal dawn. Inhoss li ghandi navza l-pulizija bl-imgieba tieghek specjalment ghaliex inti stess ghidt lill-pulizija, meta sabu arma tan-nar fuqek fl-ajruport, li inti zzomm l-istess arma tan-nar biex tipprotegi lilek innifsek.
Sammut,
If you had to make yourself clear in Maltese because you cannot do so in English, please employ assistance in interpreting my words below.
If you persist in posting threatening comments on my blog and telephoning my husband, either because you haven’t the guts to telephone me yourself or because you think that husbands can order their wives around in the 21st century, then I shall report you to the police myself. I think this is particularly important lest there be another bomb-threat or arson attack on my home, anonymous telephone calls or other nuisance, and more so in view of the fact that by your own admission, when caught at the airport with a gun on your person, you told the police that you carry it to defend yourself.
I consider it even more imperative to report your behaviour to the police given that some months ago I was called to the Mosta station to be informed by the sergeant on duty, in front of a witness, that you had filed a report out of the blue in which you stated that if anything happens to me, you are not to blame, and that I am harassing you.
The sergeant advised me that for my own sake I was to steer well clear of you, and he didn’t say it because he thought that I was harassing you. In the most unlikely event that I would wish to harass a man, I think I would opt for somebody attractive and intelligent.
You have made it quite clear in the threatening comments posted www.daphnecaruanagalizia.com that you resented the fact that I had police protection – against my wishes and without my request – for three weeks during the last general election campaign. Your resentment appears to be due to the fact that, when you had asked for police protection, you didn’t get it.
You appear to believe that police protection was provided to me as a special favour and for a frivolous reason. It wasn’t. It was provided because a serious and planned attempt was made two years earlier to destroy my home and all who slept in it, evidence which the police commissioner saw with his own eyes, and because I tend to attract rather too much attention from disturbed and obsessive individuals, for reasons that remain mysterious to me.
When and if you do go to the police, bear in mind that you will achieve nothing but to ensure that your name is recorded as the latest on a list of these.
Now find something else with which to amuse yourself, and remember that we are no longer living in the anti-democratic autocracy of your beloved Labour Party, where people like you think themselves above criticism and employ outrageous means to make sure that they are not criticised or mocked. Perhaps your new leader has some patt mal-poplu he would like you to witness in the Hotel Phoenicia ballroom, just as you did for his predecessor before his electoral catastrophe on 2003.
You really know how to pick them.
What can I say? Take a pill.
Daphne Caruana Galizia
From Mark Anthony Sammut
Ghall-informazzjoni tieghek, jien gharraft lill-pulizija b’din l-email, u bl-attakki kontinwi tieghek fuqi.
Ma nifhimx ghaliex ghandek kontinwament tibqa’ tinsisti li tattakkani qisni (i) ghamiltek xi haga personali jew (ii) jien xi persuna pubblika.
Jien m’iniex nheddek. Qed nghidlek biss li jekk ma tiddezistix, se niehu l-passi kontra tieghek li taghtini l-ligi. Din mhix theddida. Ir-ragel tieghek, bhala avukat, jista’ jaghtik id-definizzjoni t-tajba ta’ “theddid”.
Jien lilek qatt ma cempiltlek anonimament – anzi QATT ma cempiltlek! – , qatt ma ghamiltlek jew heddidtek li se naghmillek bombi, qatt ma hraqtlek xejn. Issa jekk qed tipprova tinsinwa xi haga, kun cara. Halli mbaghad niltaqghu l-Qorti zgur.
Jekk joghgbok hallini bi kwieti. Int semmejtni ma nafx kemm-il darba fil-blog tieghek. Jidhirli li ma kellek l-ebda raguni valida ghalfejn taghmel dan, u ghaldaqstant jidhirli li l-imgiba tieghek tista’ tigi ggudikata bhala li tammonta ghal fastidju. Ghal darb’ ohra se nghidlek: ieqaf.
Fl-ahhar nett, fil-kaz tal-airport ma ghedtx li ngorr arma tan-nar biex nipprotegi ruhi, imma li kont mhedded u kelli bzonn id-difiza personali. Oqghod attenta xi tghid, ghax nerga’ nfittxek ghal malafama. U nerga’ nghidlek, JEKK JOGHGBOK HALLINI BI KWIETI.
U haga ohra. Li tghidli mignun ghax (i) ma naqbilx mieghek jew (ii) li qed nghidlek ma jdoqqx ghal widnejk, hija jew arroganza sfaccata jew mod kif tipprova ddawwar l-affarijiet favur tieghek. Mill-gdid, IEQAF. M’ghandix mohhok. Tibqax issemmini fil-blog tieghek. U nieqfu hemm.
Grazzi.
To Mark Anthony Sammut
Sammut,
Fil-fatt, se nerga nnsemmik billi naghmel upload ta’ din il-korrispondenza.
Inti figura pubblika daqs kemm jiena figura pubblika – anzi hafna izjed ghaliex jiena qatt ma zzuffettjajt f’xenati bhal dawk tal-patt mal-poplu. Jekk ma tridx min jikkritikak, zomm denbek taht il-blata u ikteb u ghid xejn fil-gazzetti. Immagina li kieku kelli nagixxi b’dan il-mod isteriku kull meta xi hadd jaqbad mieghi jew jikkritikani.
Kif ghidtlek, take a pill.
Daphne Caruana Galizia
From Mark Anthony Sammut
Dear Mrs Caruana Galizia
I have NEVER posted threatening comments on your blog.
I have NEVER resented you being granted protection. That is your right at law, and I have nothing against that.
BUT, your email is full of untruths, which amount to defamation.
A few years ago I instituted a libel case against you, which I won (Court of Magistrates and Court of Appeal). Every so often, you use your blog to repeat those same lies for which you were found guilty of libel.
I am therefore asking you to refrain from repeating lies about me.
Otherwise, you will leave me no other option but to take you to Court.
Now if that is a threat, then whenever someone threatens legal action, he is “threatening” in the sense you are imposing on the word.
Mrs Caruana Galizia: you are NOT above the law. Nobody is.
There is a law which states that you cannot harass people. There is another law which states that you cannot lie about people.
Using your blog to lie about me could be understood as amounting to harassment, as well as defamation.
My request to you is: stop publishing lies about me, or I will take you to Court. Period.
Involving other people in this exercise (I am referring to the long list of people to whom you copied your email) could very well be understood as an invitation to these other people to be your accomplices in what can be perceived as harassment and defamation.
Dr. Mark A. Sammut LL.D., M.Jur., M.A
From Mark Anthony Sammut again
Ghaziza Sinjura Caruana Galizia
Jiena m’iniex persuna pubblika.
Dr. Mark A. Sammut
To Mark Anthony Sammut
Allura kif nafek? M’hemm xejn differenti bejnek u jien, u jekk il-fatt li nikteb fil-gazzetti taghmilni persuna pubblika, allura l-istess jghodd ghalik.
Meta tirtira u tieqaf tikteb, avzani.
AND, OH MY GOD, NOW HE’S CONVINCED HIMSELF HE’S A PRIVATE CITIZEN
From Mark Anthony Sammut
Fil-prezent M’INIEX persuna pubblika.
Inti donnok id-distinzjonijiet ma tafx taghmilhom.
Fl-1996 u fl-1998, jien hrigt ghall-elezzjoni.
Fl-1999, irtirajt minn kandidat.
Ili GHAXAR SNIN barra mix-xena politika.
Dan ga ghedtlek bih darb’ ohra, fil-blog tieghek. Imma donnok ma tridx taghti kas.
L-ebda gurnalist u l-ebda hadd ma ghandu dritt jaqbad ma’ persuna privata, sakemm ma jkunx hemm ragunijiet skont il-ligi.
Inti bhala gurnalista ghandek id-dritt tal-espressjoni. Dak hu dritt sagrosant li nemmen fih bis-shih. Pero, dak id-dritt igib mieghu l-obbligu li ma tabbuzax minnu. Int ma tistax tuza d-dritt tieghek tal-espressjoni biex tattakka, minghajr raguni valida, lil persuni privati.
Fil-kategorija ta’ persuni privati jidhlu anki dawk li ma ghadhomx fil-hajja pubblika.
Inti, bhala gurnalista, tista’ tikkritikani fuq dak li ghamilt bejn l-1996 u l-1999 (is-snin li kont kandidat). F’dawk is-snin, iva, kont fil-hajja pubblika. Wara l-1999, ma bqajtx, u allura trid toqghod ferm attenta fil-kritika li taghmel.
Naturalment, dan kollu huwa dejjem soggett ghal dak li tghid il-ligi dwar il-malafama.
Fl-2003, il-Partit Laburista talabni nassistih PROFESSJONALMENT fil-”Patt mal-Poplu.” Dakinhar kont qed nagixxi bhala Nutar mhux bhala Kandidat. U dan peress li ma kontx ghadni kandidat.
Nutar ma jistax jirrifjuta s-servizzi tieghu. Jigifieri, jien obbligat bil-ligi li naghti s-servizzi tieghi lil min jitlobhomli.
Fl-ahhar nett. Meta nikteb fil-gazzetti, ma niktibx bhala gurnalista, kif tikteb int. Imma nikteb bhala cittadin li, f’demokrazija, ghandu d-dritt jesprimi l-opinjoni tieghu.
Ghaldaqstant isegwi li jien u int m’ahniex fl-istess kategorija. Inti gurnalista, u jien cittadin privat.
Nittama li issa fhimt.
Fl-ahhar nett, nittama li niccaraw darba ghal dejjem li jien qatt ma ghamiltlek xejn minn dak li insinwajt f’email precedenti tieghek. Barra minhekk, ma ghandi l-ebda intenzjoni naghmillek xejn. Mhux fl-istil tieghi. Ghandi fiducja fil-protezzjoni tal-Qrati.
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Daphne, you should not take it out on Mr Sammut. After all, his brother Jean-Pierre Sammut is the secretary general of Alleanza Liberali Demokratika Malta. With you being a Liberal and a big fan of the party’s leader, Dr John Zammit, you are political allies. Here is Dr Zammit’s website to help you refine your Liberal politics: http://www.john-zammit.eu (mind the flaming fire).
And here is Jean-Pierre Sammut on Youtube. It is in just 11 parts of around 10 mins. each – so it won’t take too much of your precious time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fF72AR1r68
[Daphne - Isn't Jean Pierre also instrumental in the running of the Malta-North Korea Friendship Society, or whatever it's called? Tal-biza.]
I just love the gif animation at the bottom with his name in flaming letters.
You’d think he’s a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
I don’t get the message. Why is his name burning? Maybe a cabalistic oracle? The ‘letters of fire’?
What are they really about? Tried getting a hint of their politics from their website, but all I could really find out was that they want to liberalise the media (ok, good idea there), put photos on election ballots and that they have some friendship with the European Liberal Democratic Reform Party, most likely a descendant of the People’s Front of Judea… or was it the Judean People’s Front?
Seriously though… what are their politics like?
They also want a nudist camp on Comino.
Pat – This site should give you an inkling of John Zammit’s “politics” – Or should I say “mentality”?
http://www.freewebs.com/dommintoff/index.htm
@Amanda Mallia
That site is some treasure chest. I love the ‘greatest leader of all’ bit.
Qatt ma smajt b’Jean-Pierre Sammut imma ghalfejn qed jaghmel intervista go kamra bla ghamara u bil-hadida tal-moghdija warajh?
Tal-biza, my foot. The ALDE group in the European Parliament, of which ALDM is an affiliate, are big fans of North Korea. ALDE group president Graham Whatsit and Kim Young are buddies… now, that is.
It’s Kim Sung Il . I don’t really get the North Korea friendship thing. They really and truly are weird people stuck in the 1950s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ixGYzbLz0&feature=PlayList&p=F5BEFE1AFB1DAFD1&index=0&playnext=1
Kim Sung Il is dead and his son Kim Jong-il is currently running the country. Saying that, you are technically right, as Kim Sung Il is still the president of the country (eternal president).
Kev needn’t be afraid of North Korea. Wasn’t Kim il Sung best buddies with Mintoff (Mrs Kev’s hero) when Kev was a cop? Would be interesting to know if he and his colleagues were trained by the North Koreans, apart from the Soviets that is.
Huge error. I sent you the link to Part 11 – you need to view all 10 parts first, so here’s Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6qbAhcEB0
Fil-kategorija ta’ persuni privati jidhlu anki dawk li ma ghadhomx fil-hajja pubblika.
So, by Mark Anthony Sammut’s reasoning, we are not to “talk” about Mintoff, for example, (unless in flowery terms, presumably) since he is no longer in the public eye. (Well, not in the way he was in the past at least.)
X’ragunament bazwi!
Haqq it-Torok, Daph, fejn issibhom dawn l-imgienen?
I have no idea who he is. Maybe he can feel a bit better about life now.
“Wasalt ghall-konkluzjoni li int speci ta’ mignun” – diamond!
Daphne, I don’t know if you ever touched on the subject in your newspaper articles or this blog, however I think the Maltese in general take themselves way too seriously and cannot stand criticism.
Politicians from all sides do not take kindly to criticism and political satire is all but nonexistent.
Another case in point is someone like Eileen Montesin who monopolises all forms of media and as soon as some kids try to poke some fun at her she threatens to sue. This situation has happened with many other public figures. It should be understood that public scrutiny and public ridicule come with the territory of being a public figure.
[Daphne - Yes, this is another case in point. In our culture, this is heightened by the fact that certain types of men just cannot tolerate being criticised by a woman - in public. It goes right against the grain. Look at the mentality of this man, for instance. He doesn't know my husband from Adam. They're not the same age, they don't work in the same field, they move in totally different circles. But he calls him at his office on the grounds that he is a 'kollega' in the law and asks him to TELL his wife to stop writing about him. You can read a few things into this: that Mark Anthony Sammut believes another man should automatically 'side' with him because he is (1) a man and (2) a lawyer/notary and that in his world, husbands order their wives around and interfere in what they do.]
Our libel laws have no place in a free society and are nothing more than a tool for the intimidation and silencing of those who wish to express an opinion about someone else. But the real issue is why do so many people feel the need to sue someone for defamation? Two possible answers come to mind.
First, in our small, over-populated country where “ghal kull ghadma hawn mitt kelb”, reputation (“fama”) still matters a lot. Hence the degree to which people seem willing to use the courts not only to “clear” their name but also to “dirty” someone’s else’s name as well.
Second, what people think of you – especially if you are a man in this male-dominated society – seems to be more important than your personal abilities. It is quite possible to practically bluff your way into a successful career and to build your reputation on little more than hot air. Italy is just as bad as Malta. I lived there for a year and the similarities with Malta were striking. It seemed like socially, economically and politically that entire country is one big “old boys” club. Virtually nothing gets done unless you know someone who knows someone.
Pardon the ramblings…
Not really on the subject however, I remember a while back when I was studying in the The Netherlands, McDonalds therewere advertising a promotion in which customers could win tickets to the European Cup finals.
Towards the end of the advert actors dressed in Malta kits were shown queueing at McDonalds; the not-so-subtle message was that that was the only chance the Maltese players stood of getting to the final. It was also a way for the Dutch to get back at us for conceding 12 goals in a very dubious game against Spain and in the process denying the Dutch a place in the World Cup finals years earlier.
I found it absolutely hilarious, in Malta there was an uproar.
Actually, I have a Dutch friend who was eight years old when that match was played. It was 3-1 at half time so his mother packed him off to bed on the grounds that it was getting late and there was no way the Spanish were going to manage to score the nine more goals they needed to qualify in one half.
He went to his bed happy and secure in the knowledge that his country`s team was almost certainly on its way to Euro 84. He awoke the next morning to a sadder, less innocent world.
The Dutch never forgave us. In December 1990 they came to Ta’ Qali to play Malta in a qualifier for Euro 1992 and hammered us 8-0 (van Basten got 5).
Vote for nudist camps on Comino. He can’t say this one isn’t a figura pubblika:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67xjHWoJ2Ng&feature=channel
Is that guy Mark Anthony Sammut?
[Daphne - No, it's his equally odd brother jean Pierre. Frans Sammut produced a couple of prize heifers there.]
Oh right, it’s Jean-Pierre Sammut.
Our world-famous author must be so proud of the fruit of his loins!
How did they come up with the two million figure? Did they carry out a survey in Cap d’Agde?
He must be some kind of perve.
This one hasn’t see the light … yet. Some weeks ago there was a post showing someone (can’t remember the name and can’t be bothered) in a restaurant making an introductory speech before presenting Norman Lowell. On the other side of the political divide perhaps but so much in common.
Is this guy for real?
What an odd lot, espousing free market capitalism while worshipping the world’s most repressive regime.Where did they get that idea that what Malta needs most is a 200-million strong nudist colony? Not from North Korea, I’d imagine.
Sammut,
Since you obviously read this blog allow me to ask you a couple of questions – I doubt you are man enough to reply but anyway:
1: In your opinion just how stupid must someone be to try boarding a plane with a gun when even somebody with nail scissors is stopped?
2: You say you HAD to do that ‘Patt mal-Poplu’ comedy – Now we all know that’s a load of cow droppings but are you implying that if you thought you could decline you would have?
3: What is your opinion on a nudist colony on Comino?
Tubbigieg,
I wouldn’t butt in among adults, especially if it’s a heated argument (and it’s not about nudist camps, either).
Here’s something for you to watch. See how peaceful it is. Listen to the water gushing from the fountain. Note how relaxed the ducks are. The bells. The statue…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d3WCH8M2pM
[Daphne - Oh, I much prefer this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD2uwh4OkHk&feature=related ]
Paperissima stuff!
Very Tarantinoesque. This JP Sammut should be up there with the greats…..Cameron, Scorsese, Widler. His camera technique is masterly, his direction faultless. Pity no one has discovered him yet. He might just be the one to film the remake of The Battleship Potemkin.
Madoffi santa! Did he really think that the camerman was taking the video seriously? (Or WAS he really taking the video seriously? – I can’t figure out.)
I loved the “tislifa” with the side parting and greasy hair. I wouldn’t like to imagine him on a nudist beach or in a brothel, though. ( http://www.timesofmalta.com/mepelections/blogs/john-zammit/20090428/moving-ahead-with-times )
This one is much better though (and listen out for the “imxi, imxi, John” from the excited commentator; ditto the “daq umbaghad edittja” (sic)) – and it’s “part 1 of 12″, too:
http://worldtv.com/alleanza_liberali_malta
The link I provided above is a bit complicated to access. Luckily, I’ve found it on YouTube. Click here for a laugh, and listen carefully to the “asides” which are not really aside … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d3WCH8M2pM&feature=related
And here’s one for Mario Debono …
http://www.timesofmalta.com/mepelections/candidates/vince-farrugia
Why is he trying oh-so-hard to look young, with an open-necked shirt and toupee (and a dark one at that, when most men his age, if they have any hair left on their head, would be greying)?
Ah, yes, Daphne. I had missed this one. You Maltese Liberals certainly have the knack of doing it differently.
Maybe he imports binoculars
Amanda, Vince’s energy puts a lot of people to shame. As for the open-necked shirt, why don’t you ask him ? I’m sure I can fix you up with an appointment .
“Fix me up with an appointment”, Mario? I don’t need a date, thanks, and certainly not one with a toupee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1JzrDWt8dE
Viewing that’s more entertaining than the prospect of two million nudists on Comino.
Super!
That one is dedicated to our ‘son of the gun’(who is apparently afraid of women), sung by Shirley Temple:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OfP9kHkaAQ&feature=related
Considering that one canton in Switzerland has recently abolished nude hiking (by German tourists), we should take the opportunity and open up this niche along the other niches we operate in. Comino is ideal for that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8019766.stm
Maybe the Sammut brothers are not a total disgrace after all :)
Do you really want to get naked with the Germans?
Think hard:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,415516,00.html
Most naked MALTESERS aren’t that exciting either.
But then nobody’s perfect !
@Tony
Naked exciting Maltesers?
That reminds me on an amusing report I saw on German television last week. Two 14-year-old German boys went to Malta for an English course. Their host, a pretend secretary (as registered with the MTA), slept all day, disappeared at night and left a ‘lunch box’ for the boys in the fridge: half a bottle of water and a dry roll each, for the day. The ‘host’ also charged them for extra water. When the boys opened the wardrobe in their room, another surprise: they found handcuffs (pink-plush covered), kinky leather underwear and suspenders.
A reporter from a German TV station followed the story up, but he couldn’t exactly figure out whether the lady was a stripper or a prostitute. Guess the boys weren’t too ‘excited’ either.
“Guess the boys weren’t too ‘excited’ either.”
I bet you they were.
I wonder how long it will be before Sammut senior weighs in with some tedious disquisition on dramatic irony or some such tripe.
He’s colossal and the most revered activist in Malta:
http://www.metal-archives.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=33396&highlight=&sid=350c9e8f9004e598652c9e9b221eb633
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg2eQZEYBos
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=jean+pierre+sammut+off+you+go&aq=f
I thought this guy was acting eccentric to be like Norman Lowell & get a few votes, but that horror-gore metal argument on that forum speaks volumes that his autobiography simply cannot.
I mean how self-centred, delusional and narcissistic do you have to be to write an auto-biography, when you are essentially nothing more than average Joe (in his case a little less), have the attention span of a goldfish & spout off “Irridu il-Kannabis” randomly….
P.S, you guys have got to see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4rIZcvFlHU
If anything, this guy Jean Pierre Sammut is more of a prize kampjun than his brother. What a sad git. I particularly liked the close up of the rusted stepladder…….. and the wide-open eyes of the zealot in him. What a mixed-up man. He is liberal, yet he likes North Korea, which is anything BUT liberal, Cuba (ditto) and Moviment Graffiti, which is a throwback to the Lenin years, if anything.
Ridiculous – a site administrator says ‘read the rules’ and he picks an argument instead. It all reads like the embarrassing exchange on Wikipedia. Thankfully, that’s disappeared, along with those toe-curling ‘off you go’ videos on YouTube.
Daphne – Oh, I much prefer this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD2uwh4OkHk&feature=related ]
Hahahaha….so the video man is heard saying that he will put some background music so I guess he didn’t manage to find the right tunes to go with the film. I wonder what he had in mind.
A picture is worth a thousand words…and less is more, sometimes.
TC 00:45 ‘The Myth of Having it All’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v5yFvQvmQY
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/ms09dart.asp?a=1527
Oh Mulej, ghal min issallabt !
Bloody hell.
To that person who wrote about me having the intention to board a plane with a gun. I had no such intention. It was an accident. This has been proven in Court.
[Daphne - Oh my god! Is that a gun? When I put it in my pocket I thought it was a hairbrush. The Labour Party sure knows how to pick them.]
With regard to a nudist colony on Comino. This David Buttigieg (who is certainly endowed with an IQ of 160) seems to be in favour of such a colony. I personally would say no, there should not be a nudist colony on Comino. There are many practical reasons for being against such an idea. But, of course, others, including David Buttigieg, may have different ideas. This is a democracy, after all.
[Daphne - Thank god for that. I don't think anyone wants to see you naked, sugar....or your brother and John Zammit, for that matter.]
So you “accidentally” carry a concealed weapon?
I wouldn’t dare board a plane with a nail file accidentally, let alone with something potentially far more lethal.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me. Is it actually legal for certain people to carry a concealed weapon in Malta? If so, then Maltese gun laws might be among the laxest in Europe.
“Oh my god! Is that a gun? When I put it in my pocket I thought it was a hairbrush.” – Maybe he was trying to look “happy” to see the air-hostesses.
As a matter of interest, was that gun licensed and, if so, for what purpose?
Oh hello Sammut,
Sorry, just noticed your reply:)
OK, if I may rephrase, just how dumb, in your opinion of course, must someone be to “accidentally” take a gun on board a plane? (Hint: Even a person with an IQ of 2 wouldn’t do that!)
As to the nudist colony, I was asking your opinion since you share the same genes as your brother and world famous literary genius of a Father so I was curious as to your opinion!
Also, can you answer my third question?
Nope, didn’t think so!
Dear Graham Cocker,
Re: The “Irridu il-Kannabis” quotation.
Did iIever avow that phrase?
When?
Where?
Well, never mind. Go on wasting your time posting crap on silly blogs. Enjoy it!
Not so silly that you don’t read it, it seems.
“Well, never mind. Go on wasting your time posting crap on silly blogs. Enjoy it!”
It was a great hit with your father, apparently. We’re missing his wonderful comments here as much as we’re missing Laiviera’s.
telluro says:
“Il-filmati kollha li m’għadhomx jidhru huma hekk għar-raġuni li JPS riedhom jiġu mħassra minħabba nuqqas ta’ ftehim bejnu u bejn Sandro.
In-nuqqas ta’ ftehim seħħ minħabba li JPS ried li jinqatgħu partijiet sħaħ mill-intervisti, tipo Part Two jew Part Four, li ma tagħmilx sens. Ir-raġuni tiegħu kienet li xi youtubes fejn jidher hu ġew impustati fuq il-blogg ta’ Daphne. Sandro offrielu li jeditjahomlu forsi jiġu aħjar u għamillu transfer tal-videos miċ-channel tiegħu għal ta’ JPS u ddeċieda li xorta jħassar il-partijiet sħaħ. Għaldaqstant il-youtubes fejn jidher JPS li kienu fuq iċ-channel ta’ Sandro huma presentament imħassrin kompletament.
Mhux għax tinteressa lil ħafna, imma għal min jistaqsi, ir-risposta qegħda hawn.”
source: http://www.il-pjazza.com/forum/index.php?topic=5317.msg394015#msg394015
The Public Speech of Jean-Pierre Sammut at Ta’ Soldi Bar and Restaurant in Mgarr is still online here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSWT45QBuwc&feature=PlayList&p=BB2504A646623E9E&index=0&playnext=1
You cannot miss it.
Please….
Stop poo-pooing Jean Pierre Sammut…he’s the best thing on Youtube…now that I’ve found a comedian like him I don’t want to go looking for others.
John Zammit of Alleanza Liberali feels like he’s in heaven in certain countries, or so he says in his blog on The Times. (See extract below.) Could it be because of nudist camps, or possibly because of legalised brothels?
“I have visited these very progressive countries and I can say that when I am in these countries I feel free like I am in heaven. But when I return to Malta I feel like I am in a cloistered convent, in a fundamentalist Catholic country or a Taliban country. Are we going to remain like this when we are living in the 21st century.
That is why the Alleanza Liberali was founded by me and other progressive persons to bring progressive laws such as divorce, decriminalisation of abortion, nudist beaches, gay marriages and rights, legal brothels, total removal of censorship, euthanasia and everything that one can imagine.” (Extracted from http://www.timesofmalta.com/mepelections/blogs/john-zammit/20090428/moving-ahead-with-times )
Does he have a sordid private life, or what?
That’s why I love living in a ‘progressive country’: sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, all day!
… he is just pleased to see you
From the party website: “Drinking champaign early for the new year…”.
I think I’ll stand for election under the Correct Spelling Party.
What about the gun case of Mr. Mark Sammut…is it over yet? Apparently now he is working for the European Commission in Luxembourg. I wonder how such people can get away with everything.