Comments on: Ta' wara l-muntanji

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:00:39 +0000

As bad as the “Mela truxa?” expression, though normally said under different circumstances (usually on being left out or when given less of something than the rest in a particular group) is “Mela jien iswed?” Now that is another expression that really gets at me, more so when said by people who consider themselves to be quite holy.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:55:29 +0000

Somehow suiting article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/research/07fair.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

Even though I in general would object to people taking the law into their own hands, a certain degree of civil courage is needed, especially in cases like these.

By: D Fenech

D Fenech — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:33:48 +0000

Some people are afraid to speak up against bullies.

My disability is that I am hard of hearing. I do not hear people who speak in a low voice. When I ask them to repeat, I am often considered dumb. It hurts especially when they say ‘Mela truxa?’ as if they mean ‘Are you dumb or something?’
We often speak of people with a disability’s rights and you Daphne wrote ‘I can’t believe that ‘taunting the village idiot’ is still a popular pursuit in this country.’ but alas these things happens all the time to people with different types of disability.

By: DF

DF — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:45:13 +0000

Stanley’s got a point that the knee-jerk “What a shit place Malta is” reaction to several problems can be counter-productive. Fools – often violent – exist everywhere. On the other hand, I don’t know of many places in Europe where the other passengers on that bus would let these tossers get away with their sad game. I think that that’s the crucial point here.

[Daphne – Agreed.]

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:42 +0000

Zizzu: What difference does that make? And what’s the excuse of her tormentors?

By: J Grima

J Grima — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:17:24 +0000

And I make a lot of grammatical mistakes when I’m angry :/

By: J Grima

J Grima — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:16:25 +0000

Actually it probably is not Tourette’s Syndrome. Someone who suffers tourette’s syndrome is conscious of the problem, and might swear when is perfectly and completely calm

Censina probably suffers from a combination of conditions which affect her well being, cleanliness, social skills etc.

But may I hazardly add something to what you said about Immigrants – Immigrants are promptly helped when they reach our shores. I won’t go into the political matter. What concerns me is the fact that there are a number of entities who do their job and do make sure that the immigrants are helped. The Association with a long name which supposedly helps People with Disabilities limited themselves to make sure that the culprit who filmed the obscenity is punished.

They don’t seem to realise that it is just the surface of the problem. Scraping the tip of the iceberg. They should make sure that Censina is safe, is undergoing any therapy available and helping her returning to mental health which she once enjoyed. She lost her sanity when she lost her hand. Why wasn’t she given psychiatric help? I think that she did go to hospital when the horrific accident happened. I think they just waited for the flesh wound to heal and kicked her out of hospital.

Again. Catholic Malta my foot!

By: Zizzu

Zizzu — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:10:03 +0000

Compulsive swearing is not necessarily symptomatic of GTS (or Tourette’s Syndrome). You don’t even have to suffer of “coprolalia” (= compulsive swearing) to be diagnosed with Tourette’s.
The woman in question is probably suffering long term PTSD or something …

By: Kenneth Cassar

Kenneth Cassar — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:31:55 +0000

The problem is not that we have such scum in Malta, like those excuse for a human being who stalked and filmed this person. The problem is that a lot of people not only choose to look the other way and let such things happen (which is bad enough), but actually giggle as if its something funny.

Oh but yes, the immigrants will make us “lose our values”. What values?

By: Stanley Cassar Darien

Stanley Cassar Darien — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:27:45 +0000

There are idiots everywhere.There are a lot of bars in the UK where black people don’t feel welcome, or gays or other minorities for that matter. The main difference is that they have law on their side. If they feel that they do not get justice, they can report the booby and get justice that way. Try reporting a policeman in Malta. I see your point though about the size of Malta. In big cities one can choose to stick to his own if he really wants to. That is nearly impossible here.

We seem to be creating a really bad situation here. On one hand we are treating everybody who comes over from Africa like untermenchen and on the other both political parties seem to be creating this climate of fear that is scaring the crap out of people.There is a total lack of planning. Will they get a pension? How? What will happen when they cannot carry rubble anymore? They might be submissive now, history shows that the first generation always is, but their children won’t be.

I am sure that you know that it’s not only the working class in Malta that feels scared, the amount of fascist talk one hears around the Sliema cafes is out of this world.

We can’t even blame this one on Mintoff, apart from the fact that his bokkla is kind of blingy.The police force needs to be reformed, it has come a long way of course,and it can be done. After reading yesterday’s Maltatoday, seems a lot of them in parliament can’t run a bath, let alone a country.