Oh Gerald don’t worry. Nobody is putting your hetrosexuality in doubt, far from it. Don’t be paranoid. we know that you do not have a certain lifestyle.

It’s only your judgement which is questionable. In fact I am curious to know which biz paper he works for.

[Daphne – The Malta Economic Update.]

Acting on Mr Zammit’s indications the police arrested two men who go by the nicknames ‘Ghandi’ and ‘Ronny’ but it turned out they had nothing to do with the case. The police now think that the false nicknames were made up by the thieves so that Mr Zammit would hear them and derail the investigations.

Unfortunately the CCTV cameras were not useful either as the shots were too cloudy (must have been a foggy night at Zabbug).

Curiously, as far as I know, only L-Orizzont reported these updates in any detail.

http://www.l-orizzont.com/news.asp?newsitemid=46739
http://www.l-orizzont.com/news.asp?newsitemid=46974

[Daphne – Look, I’ll just call the police communications office on Monday.]

You are incurable. You see scandals everywhere where your ‘enemies’ are concerned. The mainstream media did not pick this story up because they were prudent and correct. You let your fertile imagination run wild and concocted a story based on assumptions and not facts just to have a shot at a Labour MP.

AS expected, you had a completely diferent attitude about the Gozo rape case where the brothers of a Nationalist junior minister are allegedly involved. If you read to-day’s Times you must know that this case is taking a pretty nasty curve. Waiting to hear from you on this one too.

[Daphne – I think you must mean incorrigible. And no, I don’t see scandals everywhere. I am, in fact, not even remotely interested in other people’s private lives. The point at issue is not what Anthony Zammit was doing in his bedroom, but how he handled the matter: calling the police, making a big fuss about having been burgled, and then giving a massive interview about the ‘drama’, with a great deal of detail except, one imagines, the most salient information of all. Had he not done that, I wouldn’t have cared less. But he went out of his way to draw attention to himself, and there is reason to believe that he may have lied to the police and to journalists. If his behaviour is all right by you, then it’s not all right by me. It is not because of ‘prudence and correctness’ that the ‘mainstream media’ failed to pick up the story. It is due to apathy and reluctance to prise open a very large can of worms. I think I know a bit more about the mainstream media than you do, given that it’s the field in which I have worked for the last two decades or so. I did not concoct a story based on assumptions: I based myself on the facts as reported in the mainstream media and as described by Zammit himself. You would have to be very naive indeed to draw any other conclusion. How odd, though, that you sound exactly like a man who is having an affair, telling his wife that she is crazy for thinking he is having an affair (“you let your fertile imagination run wild and concocted a story based on assumptions and not facts….etc etc etc”…I did NOT have sex with that woman).

Far from my having a different attitude to the Gozo rape case, this blog was the first, and for many days the only, form of published media to report that three of the rapists are brothers to parliamentary secretary Chris Said. Scroll back, and you’ll find it. The big mistake you make is in failing to distinguish between what a politician does, and what his siblings do. It wasn’t Chris Said who raped that girl, but it was Anthony Zammit who told us he had been tied up and ‘robbed’. At least we know that the ‘tied up’ bit was true, because that’s how they found him. You’re such a Labour apologist, it’s unbelievable what you’ll excuse.]

[Daphne – That’s what we’d all like to know…except for Ray Borg, who would like to know only if it involved a Nationalist minister and his bit on the side.]

For correctness’ sake, I did not rubbish the pianist and as you very well know, I paid dearly for that error. And if you think that these below the belt stabs will stop me from posting my opinion on this and other blogs then you are mistaken.

@ABC: Yes, the media should follow such a story up but i suppose it’s in the journalist’s interest to chase the story so if nothing has been published yet, I suppose that no one cared to follow it up.

Now wonder he likes Joseph Muscat? what does that actually mean?

[Daphne – Gerald, Maltese usage allows ‘zbal’ to be used for deliberate acts of wrong-doing, which reflects our mentality. You can’t do the same with English and use the word ‘mistake’ to describe an act in which you sat down and disparaged a concert you were asked to review, when you were elsewhere at the time. That’s not a mistake. Yes, I agree you have moved on and will probably never do something so damaging again. I’m not trying to stop you posting your opinion here. There’s a much simpler way for me to do that: deleting your comments. This is not a public service, but my own privately-owned thing. But I haven’t done that, have I? As for your last question, it was a reference to dubious judgement.]