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Life must be pretty bad if this is the stuff your dreams are made of.
In their urgency to be accepted as ‘one of us’ by the Johnnies down at Labour HQ, Joseph Muscat’s fresh scalps are slumming it by choosing their terminology carefully: “the EFA government”; “the Gonzipn and its apologists”.
Here’s Kenneth Zammit Tabona, posting a comment beneath I M Beck’s Saturday column in The Times. I M Beck had the temerity to remark that if something is important to a few individuals, like the roof on a theatre, then they think that it’s of national importance and sufficient reason to bring down a government.
www.timesofmalta.com Kenneth Zammit Tabona
This is all very interesting isn’t it?
Never heard of champagne being ‘distilled’ before now. Is this something else I do not know about ? While, self-absorbed and totally oblivious to the fact that the PN gave me the right to contemplate my navel, I have the effrontery to criticsise it! My my, in other words now nobody is allowed to utter a word of objection. Ergo that means we have second thoughts about freedom of expression, freedom of thought, freedom of speech and all the other freedoms that the EFA governent had obtained afterhaving being muzzled for decades by the MLP and for centuries before that by our colonial masters. Now the Gonzipn and its apologists think that this new found freedom it is NOT such a good idea anymore and ‘personally’ criticise anyone who dares write a word against the PN. I have never attacked anyone personally (if I have it was totally inadvertent and I apologise) and hopefully never will. It is not my style. When things get to that stage it means that the situation in hand is far more than untenable thatn one thinks and the position absolutley indefensible…………..
Come off it, Kenneth. You embarrass yourself and nobody else. The time for teenage rebellion and shocking the elders is long, long past. The elders are not shocked. They’re just cringing. If you’re going to be a Labour voter, for God’s sake at least be a sophisticated one, hard though it might be given that ‘sophisticated Labour voter’ is an oxymoron.
In a comment you posted beneath your own letter in the same newspaper, you wrote “My mother always told me that it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool rather than open it and remove all doubt.” She’s right, and you should have taken her advice.
“The EFA government”, “the Gonzipn and its apologists” – dear God in heaven, what self-abjection. Worse still, Kenneth, you appear to believe that criticising somebody ‘personally’ (is there any other way?) is unacceptable and your not doing it puts you above the rest. But being a political masochist and licking the butt of the very person who tried his damnedest to deny you an EU passport just six short years ago is…..intelligent and sophisticated.
What is this I see about me: a race to the finish in the Most Gullible and Credulous competition?
Take it from me, Kenneth: supporting Labour is not cool. It is the opposite of cool. I could be really rude and say that you’re the proof of that, but there are limits and I won’t.
The Gonzipn! The EFA government! Unbelievable. No dignity.
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If you want to be cool Kenneth, join the anarchist movement. Nothing formal of course. Just grab a black flag and grow a proper beard.
The author needn’t doubt that his right to criticism is no longer a good idea or that it is being restricted by Gonzi PN apologists – so much so that he himself is criticising them. It is when his criticism is subjective that he will find opposition. I still believe he is innocent in what he says and hasn’t got any hidden agenda.
[Daphne – Yes, that’s the problem. And that’s why I wrote earlier that Muscat is a good judge of character, who pinpoints people’s Achilles’ heel and goes for it.]
Not, strictly speaking, about Kenneth Zammit Tabona, but a geography lesson from one of the comments to his letter:
“The countries having national theatres include: Senegal, (Dakar);Haiti;Papua New Guinea;Adis Abbaba,Ethopia;Lagos, Niger;Accra, Ghana.”
Who else but the lady with the same initials as me? She should take heed of Kenneth’s mother.
[Daphne – Yes, Astrid Vella, of course. I read that, but decided against passing any remarks lest they be considered too cutting. You know how it is, ‘girls’ are allowed to be as stupid as they please (because for ‘girls’ to be stupid and silly is natural), but God help anyone who laughs at their stupidity because they are ‘ungentlemanly’ or ‘nasty bitches’. I imagine Mrs Vella knows nothing about geography and even less about politics, democracy, GDP and human rights, or she would have noticed the common link among those names she mentions – and it’s not a national theatre.]