Comments on: Tell it to the marines with those strong hands of yours, old boy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:32:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14252 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:11:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14252 Ethel: I doubt that that type of comment increases readership of the Times’ news. It’s next to impossible to find a plausible, well constructed argument among the torrent of rubbish. What use would anyone who produces that have for a properly reported news story – other than as a grindstone for their collection of axes?

]]> By: Ethel https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14251 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:37:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14251 Admittedly some of the comments in The Times leave much to be desired. However are we not being a bit too hard on the Times or is it that these comments are increasing the Times’ readership ?

]]> By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14250 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:43:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14250 Holland: Those rubbish comments don’t illustrate “what the Maltese are all about”. They illustrate that many of the people who post those comments don’t think, have a poor grasp of the world around them, have no idea of what shape the world is (in political and economic terms, to them it is flat), and are as utterly devoid of compassion and sensitivity as it is possible to be. Their ‘comments’ are badly spelled, poorly structured and often incoherent and yet, their makers believe that those comments are opinions.

]]> By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14249 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:44:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14249 More words of wisdom from the unbelievable L. Galea:

L Galea (2 hours, 38 minutes ago)
@George Caruana
Agree with you 100%. Stories like this as reported in the media are hardening the Maltese population more against the illegal immigrants. We want nothing less than 100% repatriation or sending them on their way on suitable boats with enough food, water and fuel to reach mainland Europe.Or better and quicker still buy some old ships, put all the illegal immigrants on them and send them on their way with a warning never to come back to Malta. They must never be allowed to settle here.The majority of the Maltese population neither wants them to remain here nor to integrate with us. Period.Those who are acting otherwise are acting against the wishes of the majority of the Maltese population and will start getting their answers in the coming local councils and the EP elections. They are also to be held responsible for all the trouble that is going to occur if the illegal immigrants are allowed to stay in Malta. The UK, France, Italy and other countries are perfect examples that a multiculture society is only a very bad dream.

Extracted from:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080910/local/two-infants-in-hospital

When you consider that the comment in question was posted beneath the news item stating that two babies – both under a year old were amongst the immigrants – and that one of them is in intensive care (both of them having swallowed “a considerable amount of seawater”), it just goes to show what scum some fellow Maltese are.

]]> By: T https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14248 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:04:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14248 To those asking for context.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080830/local/unexplained-gaps-in-search-for-missing-migrants

]]> By: Holland https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14247 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:51:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14247 Not a fan of the delete button; it is a type of censorship. These boards should reflect society as a whole, not necessarily one sector that might be more educated or tolerant than the rest.

If nothing else, they serve the purpose of illustrating what the Maltese are all about.

First monitor, then measure than manage….

]]> By: Lino Cert https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14246 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:25:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14246 I don’t think the Times of Malta can wash their hands of these racist comments, just because they seem unmoderated.
They are hosting these comments on their server, and under their domain, and they are therefore accountable for such comments, even if they don’t agree with them.
Publish and be damned.

]]> By: Antoine Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14245 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:33:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14245 Some of those who comment on the Times website are elderly but most are youngish. Taken collectively, the postings of a dozen or so ‘regulars’ are a shocking denunciation of our education system.

It is depressing to realise that fifty years of compulsory schooling have had so little effect on so many people.

]]> By: Marku https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14244 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:20:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14244 There’s enough material in the Times’ comments boards for a sociology conference.

]]> By: my name is Leonard but my son calls me Joey https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/tell-it-to-the-marines-with-those-strong-hands-of-yours-old-boy/#comment-14243 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:43:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=599#comment-14243 Spell-check OK, Hi-ho Silver, away!

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