Whenever I want to “send a message” I do it by putting pen to paper. The Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Investment, Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs, Parliamentary Secretary of Tourism and the Police Commissioner – they all know by means of my signed letters and emails, the injustice I have been going through for the past seven months. By refusing to take action they are “sending me a message” that they don’t care. I hope that you are now convinced that I do not have to depend on voting day in order to “send my massage”.

M. Attard

I missed seeing your last post and found it by chance. My comments were in relation to your refusing to vote in order to “send a message” to government, and not on the particular merits of your case. That is the essence of the concluding sentence which you appear to have misunderstood.

John, nifhem xi trid tfisser meta tghid li f’ settur li tahdem fih qed thossu il-problema ….. pero mhux wahdek u ghandek ragun tgorr u tilmenta, jghid xi jghid hadd iehor, l-aktar jekk ghandu hobzu mahbuz. Bilfors irrid ikun xi hadd hekk biex jghajjar lil minn ikun imwegga opportunist u jghidlu biex jekk xebgha jitlaq. Dik insensitivitta bhalma wera Gonzi meta qal li jivota bil-qalb favur it-tariffi, lanqas ghal shabkom stess ma ghandkom moghdrija, ahseb u ara ghal haddiehor li ghandu opinjoni differenti minn taghkhom, u li ghandu kull dritt ghaliha. Kif tohorgu ghalih, l-arroganza, l-ipokresija u l-egoizmi huwa il-motto ta’ dan it-tip ta’ nies.

Naccetta it-tbezbiza li tajtuni. Chris naf x’qed jigri madwar id-dinja, biss naccertak li Malta qed inhossu l-problemi diga. Jien ma nafx xogholok x’inhu, imma fis-settur li nahdem fih jien diga qed inhossuh hafna.

Ms. Corinne, I don’t know who you are, but be sure that I never had in mind of using you or this blog in order to deliver my message. I have no problem with showing myself when fighting injustice. I did it when democracy in this country was under threat.
I cannot take your advice as regards the voting documents as we didn’t even bother to collect them.

On the other hand, I filed my previous correspondence and mail, and last February at the end of a meeting with Mr. Joe Sultana at the Office of the Prime Minister, I forwarded him the respective documents. During the meeting I explained to him how I was framed with my dismissal in mind. I showed him an email (included in the files) which says that disciplinary action will be taken against me and this because I wanted to do my duty. Although Mr. Sultana was disgusted with what was happening to me at my place of work, the days that followed he chose to ignore my phone calls. Now I have reason to believe that the injustice I am experiencing has the blessing of the minister concerned.

My family and I are very hurt by the very same party we voted for in the last general election. And your attitude is not helping us at all. At this moment in time we don’t care who will get the cushy and very well paid job in the European Parliament, when my job and only income in the family is threaten not by illegal emigrants but by Maltese. Maybe it was my mistake in the first place to contribute to this Running Commentary. But I could not resist the fact of being classified by Ms. Caruana Galizia as a coward.

[Daphne – I haven’t classified you as a coward, and I assure you that if you want your message read by the people you have in mind, this is the best place to post it. So no, you weren’t wrong to write here. You were right.]

If you or Ms. Caruana Galizia were to have a look at my files and go deep into them, I am certain that you will at least show some sympathy. I wouldn’t dare asking you to be my heroes and help me fight for my democratic rights. I know that you will not offer any help in my cause. There was no need to rub it in by your concluding sentence. Thanks just the same.

They may have a new face and a new name, but that party is still run by the same minds and still has the same mentality, as is evident by their seemingly bloodthirsty supporters. And one cannot even consider the small parties as capable of running this country.

Hawnhekk ‘jafuni’ naqa’ mhux hazin, inhalli ‘l min qed jaqra jizen kliemna. Halli nfisser ruhi sew : meta tkun membru ta’ ghaqda inti ghandek id-dmir li tigbed il-habel ma’ dik l-ghaqda dejjem.

Ma’ nafx kemm ghandek zmien imma milli ktibt tidher naqra immatur politikament, u ha nghidlek il-ghala:
1) tqabbel l-1981 ma’ llum hi oxxenita;
2) tirrakkomanda bojkotijiet, u strajkijiet bhal tat-tmeninijiet lil-partit avversarju hi gennata;
3) titlob ir-rizenja ta’ Gonzi li hu il-kap tal-partit li int tesserat mieghu fuq ragunijiet frivoli bhal ma’ ktibt, hi inaccettabbli.

Meta nara nies bhalek nifhem tajjeb kif wara l-ghajta tal-“Osanna” kien hemm l-ohra ta’ “Salbu” wara ftit zmien. Li jrazzan ilsien xi ministru u jsiblu post band’ohra naqbel mieghek, avolja jgib ir-rizultati. Biex naqlaghlek darsa mhassra m’hemmx ghalfejn inkaxkrek minn xagharek u nghajjat mieghek.

Bil-kelma t-tajba tohrog il-far mit-toqba, u bil-glied l-ghedewwa izzidhom. Ghidt li jien opportunist ‘x’hin nixbgha nitlaq’, iva imma wara li nkun ippruvajt immexxi jew nimxi wara xi hadd. L-inqas haga li jistenna min ikun qed imexxi hi li jkun hemm min minn naha tieghu jghamillu l-bsaten fir-roti. Biex infakkrek: il-famuzi ‘vlegeg’ ta’ Sant minn niesu stess.

Nahseb li kien haqqek it-tbezbiza li tajtek.

I am also originally from Rabat and used to live there between 1981 and 1987 and thus if you were the secretary of the MZPN in 1981, then you must know what happened in Rabat in 1987 – I was in the midst of it and know it well. Thus it is quite a surprise to hear you compare 2009 with 1981-1987 – a drop compared to the ocean.

I am also surprised that you seem not to remember the differences in the economy and the way of life between then and now – I am sure that we should agree that our standard of living is way ahead.

I am also surprised at your lack of knowledge of what is happening outside our shores a whole super hurricane – tens of millions unemployed (in this in bigger countries such as the US and the UK), countries that are bankrupt (Iceland) whilst here we seem to be just feeling a light sea breeze.

Though I also believe that the PN should move more on to the liberal right and not emulate its opponent the PL, I still think that it is a better party to govern Malta then the PL with its policy of “learning on the job” – sorry this might hurt us and hurt us badly.

Kif qed tikteb int, tidher li int opportunist, fejn jinbuttak ir-rih timxi. X’hin tixba titlaq.