Comments on: The wisdom of The People (11)

By: Tony Pace

Tony Pace — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:56:22 +0000

Guess who’s going to be riding on the band-wagon?

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:41:13 +0000

@ Tony Pace :The people spouting the above remarks are either plain stupid or are pulling our legs with their comments.
Repeating will not get you anywhere on this site.

By: Andrea Sammut

Andrea Sammut — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:35:49 +0000

@ Daphne
Well, they knew that parliament will be moving out when they started digging.

By: Andrea Sammut

Andrea Sammut — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:22:58 +0000

Bondin’s article seems to have worked.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090304/local/palace-square-car-park-plans-shelved

[Daphne – Oh, I don’t think it was his article. I think it was the fact that there’s not much point in having an underground car-park for parliamentarians when there are plans to move parliament out of the palace.]

By: Tony Pace

Tony Pace — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:35:08 +0000

@Corinne Vella
May I repeat myself for the benefit of some real ”monkeys”! The people spouting the above remarks are probably very good, church-going, holier-than-thou, rosary-reciting, and oh so,so,so generous people who will definitely go to heaven.

By: Fausto Majistral

Fausto Majistral — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:03:59 +0000

@Alex

It might contribute a “precious little” if only it did not employ its limited resources to its one and only obsessive concern when it comes to the EU debates on the Third World: making sure that there isn’t some oblique reference to abortion.

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:24:12 +0000

Marku: When you hear university educated, well travelled professionals spouting the sort of garbage best left to vivamalta acolytes, pathetic is not the right word. Here are a few opinions I heard today:

“Muslims don’t accept the culture in which we live.” (Try telling that to the decades-old Muslim community living here).

“The Muslims will want to impose their culture on us.” (Apparently she hasn’t noticed that many immigrants are not Muslim).

“They pray for at least four minutes before they make a presentation.” (But having an entire class of university students stand up and recite “Hail Mary” before class isn’t strange.)

“The EU should help us. It’s not our problem.” (Malta is part of the EU. That makes it Malta’s problem too. She hasn’t noticed that, either.)

“We’re feeding them, housing them, giving them water..” (and the alternative is….?)

What do you call someone who says this sort of thing as though she’s imparting deep wisdom? Pathetic? I don’t think so.

By: Marku

Marku — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:25:14 +0000

Corinne: It’s pathetic that there is all this hatred toward fellow human beings just because we have 5000-odd individuals temporarily living among us, some of whom are doing jobs that Maltese no longer want.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:05:37 +0000

“There are no solutions”.

Precisely. But all we get is waffle from mealy-mouthed politicians. Yet they know it and we know it. Why not state the truth and pull the carpet from under the racists’ (presumed or otherwise) feet?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:30:10 +0000

Oh I forgot to add that at the end of the day the only real solution to the immigration problem is that the dire situation in African countries is addressed, holistically, pragmatically and justly. And here, let’s face it, Malta has precious little it can contribute.