Comments on: If Joseph Muscat is given what he wants, he won't release more damaging information

By: Sybil

Sybil — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:38:21 +0000

Tony Pace Thursday, 4 December 2225hrs
“@Alf. Cassar & Sybil
come off it guys. Do you seriously believe that Joseph Muscat won’t make political capital out of this issue, if he gets the chance. For the good of Malta! Yeah right, and pigs can fly !!
If anybody committed a ”crime”, he has to pay for it, whoever he is.”

what would you do if you were in Joe Muscat’s position?

By: Tony Pace

Tony Pace — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:25:41 +0000

@Alf. Cassar & Sybil
come off it guys. Do you seriously believe that Joseph Muscat won’t make political capital out of this issue, if he gets the chance. For the good of Malta! Yeah right, and pigs can fly !!
If anybody committed a ”crime”, he has to pay for it, whoever he is.

By: Alf..Cassar

Alf..Cassar — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:27:33 +0000

I find myself speechless in reading that requesting the present government to do its duty is nowaydays BLACKMAIL.

Protection of our PRIVACY is a fundamental RIGHT in our Democracy.

I understand that P.L. Leader certainly believes that if he makes public ALL INFO might do the country a great deal of harm.

By: Sybil

Sybil — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:20:54 +0000

Tony Pace Wednesday, 3 December 2314hrs
Espionage is a crime. If Dr Joseph is withholding information about such a crime, he becomes party to that crime. Punto e basta !

And what happens if the goverment that may be withholding information as well?

By: Tony Pace

Tony Pace — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:14:09 +0000

Espionage is a crime. If Dr Joseph is withholding information about such a crime, he becomes party to that crime. Punto e basta !

By: Terry Vella

Terry Vella — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:47:03 +0000

@ Corinne. You are right. Still the proper channel to go through is the Data Protection Commission. If this is not functioning as it should be, then the information ought to be released asap.

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:30:37 +0000

Terry Vella: The presence or absence of a data protection commissioner has no bearing on whether releasing information is

1. in the public interest;
2. illegal.

The latter may be in conflict with the former. This does not seem to be the situation in the case mentioned by Dr Muscat, so what justification is there for witholding the information?

By: Terry Vella

Terry Vella — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:19:15 +0000

@ Andrea

Not quite. It makes sense that if there is no Data Protection Commissioner to whom Muscat may give the information, it is in the interest of all of us, for him to go public. Pretty straight forward to me and not a question of ‘trick or treat’. I don’t think politics should be brought into such a serious matter which affects our personal security.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:23:53 +0000

Terry Vella,

I guess we got the point–
still Mr Muscat’s infantile “trick or treat” fuss is everything but serious political behaviour.

By: Terry Vella

Terry Vella — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:21:50 +0000

@Daphne. “Baby I’m all agog”. True it is hard to understand Mr Brincat as he seems to find it very hard to write English which we can understand. But from what I can gather, I think the point he wants to make is that Dr Muscat will go public revealing information which he has unless the Data Commissioner is appointed and so he would be able to give the information to him or her, thus “if the government does not take steps to appoint a new Data Protection Commissioner in the coming days, he would have to give more information about the “web of espionage”.