Hands off Daphne. She is a fearless, brillant journalist. I suppose you use the spell check to get what you write correct. J.B.

It would have been very pleasing for me if Daphne was available for her comments. I have always admired Ms. Caruana Galizia. She seems to take on difficult situations irrespective of the consequences that might follow.

She is a fearless, brillant journalist of the highest calibre. I can see why Daphne dislikes the programme. It would be interesting if someone had to make a survey about the audiance of Xarabank, especially the average I.Q. J.B.

sure , as opposed to model priests like Father Anthony Mercieca who molested young boys, and the other Gozitan priest who attempted to pervert the course of justice in the case of the raped underage girl, or maybe the Archbishop of Malta who uses the media to incite hatred against whom he calls “infidels”.
Get your priorities right, Jomar.

You also forget that the Commissioner has no obligation nor the time to accompany the Police constables to every police matter and give the order to shoot or not to shoot. The police officers have that discretion if the situation warrants it.

Whether in the Qormi incident they acted correctly or not is not for you to decide and an inquiry should clear the air. It may take a bit longer than you deem convenient to satisfy your curiosity.

Why don’t you ask yourself a simple question: How would you have reacted faced with the same situation, being confronted by an erratic individual whose next move is unknown to you?

Have you read, or bothered to, in multiple cases when several similar individuals acting like the Qormi man, had been tasered and later died as a result? Are the police officers responsible for the demise of the victims?

These incidents did not happen in Malta and the Police Commissioner is advised to take a second look at the safety of these tasers since their safety depends on the state of health of the individual it is used on. Using the taser on an unknown individual whose health is below par could very well bring similar disastrous results.

London Area should also remember that the Qormi situation is totally different than the orchestrated frame up of both Anthony Mifsud and Pietru Pawl by the then Commissioner and his yes men with the full support of the government of the day.

With regards to Fr Mark’s behaviour, I like many others express my utter disgust and a few years ago I would have added that h dishonours the cloth he wears, but since he wears no distinctive marks to identify him as a priest, his behaviour brings to doubt whether he is a good one at all.

The police commissioner often hides under the protection of these “ongoing” inquiries, yet we never hear of their outcomes. The devil is in the detail and these inquiries can never hold water unless they are EXTERNAL inquiries, controlled by a foreign institution such as an international police obudusman who would not be influenced by local currents and who would go into these cases using forensic obsession to detail.

You forgot to mention another recent case…the murder of the mentally-unstable man from Qormi a couple of years ago. Was there an enquiry on this case?

Are you for real? In Malta 2008, the Police commissioner appears on national television and openly discusses sensitive issues like those discussed last Friday. You found he was ” intimiditating” to Montebello did you?

Times have truly changed it seems! In Malta of the 70’s and 80’s,the police commissioner was considered “intimidating” if he first beat the living daylights out of you in the depot,and then got one of his henchmen to dump your dead body over a bridge. Alternatively,depending on what was on offer on the Depot’s menu, you could be tortured,have your head stuck into a loo, or if you got lucky like P.P Busuttil framed for a murder you didn’t commit. How’s that for the “compassionate and approachable” commissioner you’re looking for? And by the way, you sure as hell didn’t see any police commissioners discussing allegations of abuse of power on prime-time television in the 80’s! Perestroika wasn’t part of the government’s credo at the time!

Like your hero Montebello, you don’t make one fundamental distinction. What happened in the days of Pullicino was a systematic way of operation, carried out intentionally for years on end.There are dozens, if not hundreds of episodes of people who were, shall we say “intimidated” at the depot. Any episodes that may occur today, wrong as they obviously are, are at best, an abuse by an official individually, and are investigated, not hiden under a carpet…….or thrown over a bridge!

So for goodness sake , please don’t come giving me lectures about “compassionate and approachable” police commissioners, because you’ll be as credibile as Fr. Robin Hood. If he’s supposedly leading people “mid-dlam ghad-dawl”, I hope for their sake they have a good torch, because if his warped logic and shameful performance on TV last Friday was anything to go by, I doubt he’s providing very much light! Just as well, he’d probably complain about the surcharge then.

Have the media ever reported the names of the five men who savagely beat Anthony Mifsud? Have the media ever pasted their faces on the newspapers and on television screens? Have any of their faces ever been circulated in leaflets at least by anonymous private citizens? When PN came to power under the stewardship of Dr.Adami 1987 did the attorney-general or a special prosecutor at that time at least ever pursue and interrogate these beasts? If yes, what has come out? Do we know who gave the orders to these beasts? I find it hard to believe that not one squealed. Why hasn’t the media ever pursued vigorously the killer of Raymond Caruana? If Dr.Adami knows, why haven’t the media demanded answers? Where are the serious fearless journalists in Malta? Protecting democratic values and exposing tyrants are more important in the long run than having journalists reporting on the electricity tariffs.

Why hasn’t a serious Maltese citizen with deep pockets funded a documentary TV series of the dark Labour days in Malta while people involved are still alive? I am willing to make my donation for this project, and I am sure many people will join in.

Daphne I commend your courageous work for you are a true journalist. You are constantly in pursuit of justice. Sadly Labour supporters do not understand that.

[Daphne – More sex and violence….]