Walking round the perimeter fence
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March 25, 2009 at 9:15pm
You’d riot too if you were locked up for 18 months with nothing to do and no privacy even for five minutes.
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I do understand Malta’s international obligations in terms of not allowing free movement to people without proper identification etc. But when I hear these desperate stories of people willing to improve their life but not allowed by circumstances, I wonder if it is humanly just that air/port authorities close an eye when people without the proper papers try to leave this desolate rock!
This article: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090325/local/o comes to mind.
Congrats on your new site.
Is this a MTA production under the Brand Malta banner?
Does that give all inmates at Corradino the right to run riot then? The first thing I’d do is that I don’t do anything which gets me locked up for 18 months.
[Daphne – The inmates at Corradino are serving a prison sentence, after due process in the courts. Some are being held on remand, pending trial. The two situations are different. I have great difficulty with the notion of locking people up without trial. In addition, prisoners have a structured routine designed to avoid these problems.]
There is no such thing as the right to riot, but there is such a thing called poor internal security management that allows frustration and pressure to reach explosive proportions.
why not enroll int he army. Maybe with a bit of help from martin or from others you make make the grade and show one and all how to manage this cesspit of internal security. Maybe you may even be the comodore of one of the newest fine patrol boats the EU is going to give us. Who knows maybe we may appouint you Brigadier. Words are easy to splatter, but when it comes to the core of the problem, I’ll hear you sing a different tune. Btw, where were you when all of these niggers escaped from detention and marched all the way to Luqa wanting even to go to Castille. Right in the middle of them? I never saw your face except at the cushy university.
[Daphne – And here you have an illustration of why I sometimes don’t tidy up comments or delete them.]
You can have them as your guests in your house if you like but then you have to guarantee for their behaviour. What do you know about them? zilch. A blindperson leading other blind persons to the hole.
[Daphne – Sandro is beck.]
your reasoning is super stupid. What do you know about foreigners who enter Malta illegally and without any bit of identification papers and you want such people to be free to roam our streets without any controls? Do you know if any one of them is wanted for rapes, murders, and what not? Do you know their families. You want to enrol on a personal crusade in favour of these illegal immigrants? You’re naive to think so. Yet you have enough venom reserved for the catholic church. Whjat do you think willbe your fate if ever you were to go and enter other countries without papers and without your true name?
[Daphne – Sugar, I live next to one convicted murderer, one man facing trial for conspiracy to murder a soldier in a busted cocaine-smuggling exercise, another man whose brother has been jailed for life for shooting a police officer, and yet another man whose brother is serving a sentence for shooting somebody and trying to kill him. And that’s just in the immediate vicinity.]
One sympathises with the plight of these people, but what are the options? Allowing them to roam, homeless, penniless and unfed on the streets? In my opinion, detention is unfortunate but necessary, until processing takes place. One hopes that every effort is being made to make their stay in detention as short as possible. As far as my understanding of the situation goes, they are removed from detention when they obtain refugee or humanitarian status, and are detained for up to 18 months when they are not eligible to such a status and are awaiting repatriation. Maybe Malta should become more efficient in the repatriation of people who should not, in the first place, be here, once they are not refugees and not eligible to humanitarian status.
Right, and some Maltese people think they are the victims themselves in all this.
off course you were not the one on the receiving end. Who knows what you would have done if acid powder or shit and horse dung or boiling water was thrown into your face. You’re just armchair critics. And lazybones at that. you might ruin your carnagione if you were to mix with these illegal oafs.
[Daphne – Now where would somebody in a detention camp get hold of horse-dung? That calls for a pink thinking-hat.]
Sandro, funny you call us armchair critics, when you’re the one with the vivid imagination. I didn’t see you running to Safi dressed as a Kavallier either. And if you did what did you do to help, make ugly faces?