D. Muscat: “our institutions are strong enough so that racism will never be normalised”

I said normalised, not institutionalised, and so did you, though you seem to have confused the two terms. People feel no shame in publicly expressing racist sentiments and using racist terminology. That’s not an act of defiance. That’s a process of normalisation.

Jenny: You’re missing the point about burden sharing. It could well mean more, rather than fewer, arrivals.

You must really have never heard Simon Busuttil speak about the issue. Whenever he spoke on illegal migration Simon has always been careful with his words. If you are serious, and if your intention is not just to tarnish Simon’s integrity, quote to all of us, chapter and verse, anything Simon has ever written or said that smacks of racism.

[Daphne – I confirm that Noel is right. Whenever Simon has spoken or written about the matter of illegal immigration, I have been struck by the fact that he is the only politician, besides the prime minister, to come across as though he is discussing other people and not cargoes of animals.]

[Daphne – That’s a rule of procedure which the police and the law courts must follow. Everyone else is free to think otherwise and behave accordingly, within the law, of course.]

You’re wrong. Even if Labour wins the next general election, our institutions are strong enough so that racism will never be normalised … except perhaps on Youtube or VivaMalta.

Associating Lowell with Joseph Muscat is not encouraging racism. It is ridiculing racists. It is like associating divorce supporters with the eccentric Emy Bezzina. All you need to do is watch a Youtube clip about these chaps. Lowell is such an eccentric that anyone seemingly sharing his views will be scoffed at. But you’ll always find those few thousands who will vote for mad men.

Joseph Muscat’s electoral gimmick of adopting racist policies will backfire and precious votes will move from Labour to Imperium Europa. I’m 100% sure about that. The trend is already visible. Analysing vote transfers after Lowell’s elimination reveals that Labour inherited 1,100 votes and PN got 800.

Eventually Muscat will also have to back-track on the health services issue. He’ll have to admit – with hindsight – that they’re still free.

The future price of electricity supply is yet another one:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090614/local/muscat-says-he-cant-commit-on-future-electricity-prices

Oh, how pleased all those who voted Labour because of “Xokk! Il-kontijiet tad-dawl u ta’ l-ilma!” must be. Fools never learn, do they?

Of course we have been more than willing to take our share. We have been excepting immigrants for years. In fact we surpassed our share by hundreds of them by now. We needed to sound our alarm and we need the other EU countries to take up this problem seriously.

Actually it was Joseph Muscat.

I think so. He was also the one who ran the racist electoral campaign and is therefore responsible for that racist TV commercial, which bragged how the PN campaigned to keep immigrants in cages. He also spoke in favour of an 18 month detention period for immigrants, as well as voting against the right for an immigrant vote in local elections. I think both the LP and PN have blood on their hands, grappling ahead of each other in their quench for votes, oblivious to the risk they were posing to innocent immigrants, and are now washing their hands of any responsibility in the death of this poor Sudanese. Let’s see know if they have the audacity to march in Graffiti’s walk against racism and violence. What hypocrites if they do!