Comments on: One to read

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:27:47 +0000

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12992585

http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=894664&story_id=13024576

By: me

me — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:04:03 +0000

A must read.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4961031/Illegal-immigrant-numbers-higher-than-official-estimates.html

By: Francis

Francis — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:20:44 +0000

At last a logical reasoned opinion on the immigration problem. I can just imagine what the usual “white supremacists” commented on the online version!

By: P

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:15:52 +0000

Now we eagerly await some political and practical solutions to the immigration issue offered by the Labour Party. It’s interesting to note that though their leader asked for an “emergency” debate in parliament some days ago, they had not held internal consultations. Otherwise, why would they hold a think-tank session on Saturday with the participation of Labour members of parliament, the Labour MEPs and some mayors? We’ll wait and see whether they would have had solutions had they been in government.

By: NGT

NGT — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:14:06 +0000

Mintoff’s legacy lives on…. one comment under Scicluna’s article.

MICHAEL SOUTHGATE (13 hours, 9 minutes ago)
… THE ANSWER IS EASY, YOU JUST CLOSE YOUR BORDERS …
THE EU WILL NOT RETALIATE, BECAUSE YOU TELL THEM THAT IF THEY DO, YOU WILL INVITE RUSSIA TO OPEN A BASE IN MALTA!

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:34:06 +0000

What’s wrong with simple honest-to-goodness christian charity? And the church in Malta has nothing to do with Christian charity, but everything to do with misguided bigotry. They blew the Nadur guy incdent out of proportion. Carnival is not carnival in Malta. It’s tasteless and mundane. In the 1930s making fun of the country’s sacred cows was carnival!

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:53:00 +0000

@ me: and you think that he was given a suspended jail term because “he wore sackcloth in Nadur.” The next thing I’ll hear is that the judge was a Taliban. Even if the guy didn’t look like Jesus with thorn-crown and all, he would have been handed a suspended sentence for indecency in public. You wouldn’t see that kind of behaviour in Venice or Valletta. Check your facts first.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:20:51 +0000

It might touch some of the extremists, and help them to become more reasonable about their ideas and comments.

By: me

me — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:20:35 +0000

You read these comments and remember that the church of Malta spoke and the Malta police dragged before the courts a youth because he wore sackcloth at Nadur. What a twisted sense of priorities.

By: cikki

cikki — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:23:38 +0000

As Leonard writes “What a breath of fresh air”. At last someone has written so much sense and again as Leonard says, what a reaction. Why can’t there be more Martin Sciclunas and fewer Denis Catanias, Louise Vellas and L. Galeas? Sadly, if one counts the number of sensible comments and then the racist ones, the ratio reflects the thinking of whole of Malta – does that make sense?