Comments on: The problem lies in fear and hatred, not detention

By: Judith Thomas

Judith Thomas — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:32:52 +0000

Have you got space on your desk for my head, Daphne? Today’s Uni students’ brains seem to have slid down a few feet! For heavens’ sake, is this what you are dreaming about during lectures? No wonder our level of education is falling

By: Steven Calascione

Steven Calascione — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:19:50 +0000

Good point, Daphne. The problem lies in fear and hatred, not detention.

While 84 per cent of us think immigration is a national problem, (so says a Malta Today survey), only 12 per cent think racism, as evidenced by ill treatment or negative attitudes towards immigrants in detention centres is prevalent, here in Malta.

Illegal immigration has proved a boon to politicians seeking to revive their flagging popularity and fortunes. The downside is that 340,000 of us (if the MT survey is to believed), are being led down a very slippery slope.

An improved detention policy, with more civilised conditions and amenities would certainly help; one would think that the Church would jump at the opportunity to work with people from other cultures.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:01:09 +0000

Who cares, for heaven’s sake? I rather suspect that no one does, but that those in charge are afraid of taking the decision just in case it is interpreted, in the year 2009, as some kind of big statement against the Catholic Church – not so much an encouragement to have sex outside marriage but a sanctioning of a piece of equipment that this church sees as a far greater evil than death through disease.

Spot on.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:06:40 +0000

In today’s Times on-line edition, someone signing off as “L. Attard Bezzina” posted this comment below a news item titled, “VAT fraud runs into millions.”

“Why not reintroduce capital punishment for serious crimes again in Malta?”