Comments on: Why. Are. We. Waiting?

By: Moggy

Moggy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:43:45 +0000

[Sybil – Sometimes I truly believe that in some instances, the more we think we change, the more we remain the same.]

True. And who would have thought that a Police Commissioner would ever have sat there, saying that he feels that the police force he is running would be less successful in making convictions if suspects are given what is theirs by right almost everywhere else in the civilised world? Is our police force suffering from some kind of institutional inferiority complex?

By: Sybil

Sybil — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:27:45 +0000

“Moggy Sunday, 2 November 2108hrs – you wrote:
Why are we waiting? God knows. I thought I had heard wrong when the Commissioner of Police came up with his excuse, on Xarabank last Friday, for keeping the status quo on the matter.”

Sometimes I truly believe that in some instances, the more we think we change, the more we remain the same.

By: Moggy

Moggy — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:08:34 +0000

Why are we waiting?

God knows.

I thought I had heard wrong when the Commissioner of Police came up with his excuse, on Xarabank last Friday, for keeping the status quo on the matter.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:57:19 +0000

Marku is spot on. The most surprising thing about all this is that there is such little public pressure for such the institution of such rights.

And what about road blocks manned by the Military. Here in Malta we seem to take accept them as normal. A South American friend of mine once commented that such scenes remind him of his own country when it was ruled by a military Junta.

By: Tonio Farrugia

Tonio Farrugia — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:08:16 +0000

Isn’t it worrying that the present Commissioner of Police declared during this week’s Xarabank that he was against the adoption of this right in Malta? His justification was that this would significantly lower the rate of crime case closures!

Surely, I would sooner see two guilty persons go free rather than even one single innocent person wrongly convicted!

By: Marku

Marku — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:46:37 +0000

That there seems to be little public pressure on our legislators to make this part of the laws of Malta is, in my view, a poor reflection of our awareness of civil rights in this country.