Il-Qahbu is on the run
I'm looking for Il-Qahbu
If this didn’t bring back so many awful memories, I would be able to appreciate the comic aspect of it: Il-Qahbu on the run from the police in titchy Malta, after beating up an elderly agent of the Nationalist Party.
How times have changed: 23 years ago, the elderly agent of the Nationalist Party would have been arrested and charged in court with disturbing the peace and attacking il-Qahbu, while il-Qahbu sat behind the desk at the police station and drank beer.
Where’s he going to run to – Comino in a speed-boat? Anglu’s house in Modica?
Perhaps it is quite funny, after all. Now the Labour Party’s in a panic, and Maltastar has followed instructions to say that these thugs are ‘private persons’.
Really – private persons? So why do we know them, then?
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Meanwhile, il-kummisarju would have been placing weapons in the elderly agent’s residence.
Il-qahbu is on the run !!!!
Ommi ma x’biza !!!
He can’t be. He has to carry about 130kg.
good one!
Liebes xi par slippers?
a slipper
Why does my mind keep wandering to Tomy & Jerry?
I love your blog, very frank and to the point! Do you have a general RSS feed which I can subscribe to? I only found one for the comments of a particular article.
Thanks and keep up the great work!
[Daphne – Yes, and it’s here: http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/feed/ ]
I have been restraining myself and keeping my trap shut … BUT …
@ SR … had you been the one who got whacked, it would be “Ommi ma x’biza!!!” (erm, I’m new to this, but are you an elf? You know, exclamation marks, an’ all)
@ Leonard: That would be “liebes a slipper?”
About the whole issue, Il-Qahbu is on the “waddle” (judging by the images broadcast by Net News, probably lamely followed by an even podgier, out-of-breath police officer) and so much for New Labour. Same old, same old!
it’s colloquial ;
“The PL said the alleged incident involved a private person who was in no way representative of the PL.” http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090606/local/voting-in-the-european-parliament-local-elections-gets-underway
How convenient – yet whenDaphne’s son told the Super 1 TV crew to fuck off many Labour supporters saw that as an opportunity lighten the weight of their chips and call Nationalists hamalli.
And the fact that il-Qahbu is a well known Labour supporter and friend and canvasser of some MLP former ministers is, I suppose, merely coincidental. As is the fact that he (yet again) beat up someone who works for the Nationalist Party.
They’ve picked him up. The last time he was arrested for attacking people at the Zejtun polling station he was subsequently arraigned with a group of other people (including three Spiteris, one or more of which are presumably related to the current Il-Qattus). This was in 1987.
Before departing for the court sitting they met in Zejtun and took photos with ex-minister Wistin Abela. They were joined by a Labour mob with masked faces and wearing crash helmets.
When they got to Valletta they were also joined by ex-minister Lorry Sant, who had various altercations with the police, which later escalated to the mob pelting the police with various objects.
They were unloaded from the cars and carried shoulder high.
Then the whole thing degenerated even further and moved on to the smashing up of the law courts and the Valletta police station, the destruction of evidence/paperwork of their and other cases, the setting on fire of number of halls and the removal of a number of weapons held as evidence in other cases, (possibly including the Ray Caruana murder weapon, but I’m not sure about that).
At some point they changed into Labour teeshirts (but still private persons, no doubt).
Lorry Sant was also running about inside the law courts. Joe Debono Grech was in Republic Street.
Some of the witnesses were beaten up, inside the police station, no less.
And then to round it all off, the mob proceeded to carry on in the fine longstanding tradition of the MLP demonstration in Valletta, which traditionally culminated in the smashing of shop windows, and where possible, looting of goods.
At the next sitting they decided to attack Castille instead, but limited themselves to smashing a few windows and toppling over the cannon.
Just thought a reminder of whom and what we’re talking about was appropriate.
[Daphne – Yes. And it’s important to point out, too, that this was AFTER the Nationalist Party was elected to government and they just couldn’t accept it.]
And yet, people like Edward Fenech think that people like us have an axe to grind.
And the sad irony of it all is that the memory of Lorry Sant was enshrined for posterity with a public garden and a monument to boot, all paid with public funds under a Nationalist government. The inauguration took place on the feast of Saint Paul’s Shipwreck which makes me wonder whether this was some kind of Freudian slip. It is certainly in bad taste though and an insult to the living memory of those who suffered under the hands of this master thug and his cohorts.
http://www.paolalocalcouncil.com/default.asp?selMMSec=198&selMMCat=98
Spiting non-voters, enjoy the loving memories! the day’s too young yet; we may also have some more reminiscences of the happiest days in our history.
Soon after his election as party leader, Dr J Muscat paid a visit to Dom Mintoff, the nastiest man in Maltese political history.
Perhaps he should have also visited Kim Jong Il of North Korea.