Comments on: Kullhadd ghal ghand il-manifestazzjoni ta' Joseph – ejjew l-ahwa!

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:23:09 +0000

Hey Ken, don’t give up The Times blogs…

I enjoy reading your posts and a certain Victoria Grech’s… funnily enough she hasn’t written either lately.

By: Kenneth Cassar

Kenneth Cassar — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:52:59 +0000

@ Daphne: Thanks for the compliment. Of course, you probably already know I won’t give up. It’s not in my nature ;)

By: Kenneth Cassar

Kenneth Cassar — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:26:53 +0000

@ Amanda Mallia:

Finally, after posting the same comment three times (and other comments several other times – these were never published), my two-word comment has been published. Of course other comments and replies to them were published before mine.

I’m thinking of giving up on The Times blogs altogether.

[Daphne – Don’t do that. It’s crucial that sensible people who think rationally don’t butt out and leave the field wide open to sub-literate racists, bigots and Mintoffjani.]

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:33:38 +0000

Kenneth Cassar – “So my advice is the following: Be careful when posting on the Times blogs…you might not be allowed the right of reply.”

That much is pretty obvious, considering that the moderator there is pretty lax when it comes to posting some harsh comments, and yet does not put the relevant replies online. A case in point is several replies posted by myself and others to comments on this link ( http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081026/local/kmb-picks-up-gaddafi-prize-for-mintoff ), which were never put online.

By: david farrugia

david farrugia — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:10:31 +0000

in the ‘mamifestation of the people’ jowsef will not wear a suit (like the workers), will not wear brown shoes, have his goatie trimmed and “din” will be smartly dressed amid the crowd chanting viva lejbor. they will be hushed down and reminded that this is not a political manifestation but a peaceful show of force

By: david farrugia

david farrugia — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:49:50 +0000

pity they could not park buses in front of the dockyard exits anymore so that the workers have to go to the demonstration by force

By: jomar

jomar — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:12:29 +0000

@ Amanda Mallia

Times do change but The Times has changed for the worse. I suspect that it is not a simple case of incompetence, but rather a case where some infiltration has taken place upsetting the balance which that paper had been renowned for. Pity.

@ Kenneth Cassar

I know exactly the instance you quoted and read your comments. However be aware that the moderator has a habit of altering text, thus completely changing the essence of one’s argument. Leaving a paragraph out is not so rare.

I have had replies to individuals who named me but could not defend myself since my comments never made it to the blog. I wrote to the Editor to complain on October 6, but to-date I have not had the courtesy of at least, an acknowledgment.

By: Emanuel Muscat

Emanuel Muscat — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:30:52 +0000

It is about time that the water and electricity bills reflect the real costs of water production and electricity generation:the matter should not be subject to hot-headed protest marches copying Veltroni in Italy who,by the way, left Rome heavily in debt after his departure as mayor!
We should ask questions like:
1)Is Enemalta charging too much with the new rates in comparison to other countries were oil-fired power stations are used?I made some research and the answer is NO.
2) Is Enemalta inefficient?In the generation and distribution of the energy,NO,and whoever says yes should give some backing facts and figures.One can argue that it has too many employees but so is Air Malta and we should blame both parties(but mostly the MLP since we know what used to happen before an election in the distant labour years):should we therefore now throw out hundreds of workers from these two big essential employers?The answer is also NO. Air Malta has already stiff competition and Enemalta is on the way to.
So we should all stop our grumbling,pay up for what we use,and face the recession that sure as hell is coming to the world!

By: tony pace

tony pace — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:33:13 +0000

How pathetic ?
And this is the ”alternative” leader we can count on? Not on his nelly……. U halluna !!

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:31:45 +0000

I’m trying to wrap my mind around Joseph Muscat’s declaration that his project is not a political act “but a manifestation of the people”. If a street protest is not a political act, then what is it? Entertainment for the masses?

What we have here is a street protest that Joseph Muscat says is not political because it involves the people (as opposed to politicians, one assumes), only it’s organised by the Leader of the Opposition who is acting with a sense of responsibility in organising a non-political protest, from which remark we can infer he thinks political acts by professional politicians are by definition irresponsible.

The really interesting bit is that he feels the need to explain that public protest is “a practice that is common in all democratic countries”. It seems he needs reminding that it was even more common in undemocratic Malta when street protests really were by “the people”.

But maybe the most important thing that he needs to learn is that street protests were more common in undemocratic Malta