JPO seems to be desperate, vindictive and extremely vulnerable, and this might explain his irrationality and the easiness of him being manipulated.

I don’t know enough political history to be sure but, somehow, my impression is that the founders of the Labour Party would not have approved the anti-immigrant rhetoric we’re hearing these days.

We can’t turn them back to Libya (contrary to what many think, we can and we will be in breach of no laws), because we will be breaking other obligations, or worse we will face retaliation from Libya. This is really good. My neighbour dumps people on my roof, and if I put them back on his, he will retaliate. I will put them there anyhow. And how will Libya retaliate? Apparently, we can do nothing.
Tell me how can ever one accept this sort of bullying? For one, I will never accept it. When no one comes to your rescue, international illegality has to be fought with same. If not south, they shall move north.

S. Calascione (2 hours, 26 minutes ago)
I get the impression that many people here are blissfully unaware that the real danger facing Malta and Europe is the global financial crisis, which is slowly but surely undermining confidence in the European project. Further breakdown in cohesion may well be accompanied by a dramatic increase in far right sentiment, the real danger lurking on the horizon.

There is nothing “fresh” in the measures being proposed by Dr. Pullicino Orlando. It is precisely the National Socialist position of the 1930s.

Where has it all gone wrong?

and by the way, who are the UN and what powers do they have? Where were the UN when USA attacked Iran in breach of UN Scurity Council? Where were the UN when no-one wanted to intervene in the Baltics crisis? Where were the UN when no one wanted to intervene in Rwanda? What stand did the UN take over Australia (a UN Member like Malta) which is still refusing illegal immigrants!

And what does the UN Charter for Human Rights say? Who is this Neil Falzon (by the way, he is paid by the UN )…who is incorrectly quoting the Charter? The charter specifies the country of origing of illegal immigrants……the ones coming here are coming from Libya….which definately is not their country of origin!!!!!!

WAKE UP MALTESE PEOPLE!!!! We need to act in the love of our Nation and our children!!

Just take the bull by its horns!.. First things first… If needs be we could always withdraw Malta from the UNHCR. We should FIRST DIVERT the problem and ONLY THEN spend our time chatting about it… Not the other way round.

If for nothing else this will cause a good stir on an international level and perhaps (just perhaps) other countries will begin to wake up to the problem!!!
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090225/local/were-full-up-pullicino-orlando

Sitting on our ass pontificating is not going to solve it. EVER! And don’t talk about humanitarian issues… We currently offer ONE CRAP OF A SERVICE!

So like JPO rightly said, If we can’t offer an acceptable humanitarian service then suspend the service altogether until the issue falls within our capacity. If for nothing else it will save much international indignation on mistreating immigrants on our turf.