Well said Pablo, Daphne , you have taken this one too far !

Pablo, you paint some weird pictures. Thought you were dead.

I am glad to hear that you see nothing wrong in the sentence. Neither do I. Neither do the majority.

And I love the way you apply guilt by association with pure abandon. It’s really fun stuff. Problem with that yardstick is that it goes haywire sometimes and smacks us in the bum.

[Daphne – Actually I don’t provide that last service, but you could always ask Noel Arrigo for some telephone numbers.]

Mr Camilleri, do you have any idea what you are talking about? What good! i used to live in Siggiewi when he was ‘high and mighty’ and I have never seen such an arrogant human being in my life.

Apart from that, how in the hell do you know if any or all of the cases he judged were not a sham and paid for? We are talking about a person in whom our country placed its trust and who should not have been corruptible in any way. h

How do you know if there aren’t innocent people serving sentences just because people like Arrigo are bribed?

Thank God, the mealy mouthed majority of which I am only one, are ready to accept that justice has been done and according to law. The shame is you cannot do the same.

[Daphne – There are two separate issues here: justice and freedom of expression. Both of them are not just rights, but also duties. The result of people failing in their duty to speak up is the islands we live in, where the abnormal has come to be seen as normal. I see nothing wrong with the sentence: like you, my view is that the court has decided and that is it. You will notice, in fact, that this is precisely what I wrote after the judgement against Patrick Vella: that now everyone should just stop it and let him rebuild his life. But here’s the thing: there were none of these shenanigans with Vella during the court proceedings and he went to prison like a man, not to Mount Carmel like a coward, pretending to be mentally ill. You miss the point: Noel Arrigo invited ridicule with his defence in court. He invited further ridicule (and speculation) with the character testimony of a soap-smuggler’s brother who took him to Lourdes. And now he has provoked ire by working the system to escape prison and go to Mount Carmel instead. If you think people should not comment on that, that they don’t have a duty to raise awareness about it, then you and I come from completely different cultures – and I don’t mean the sort that grow in test-tubes, either.]

What justice is this? They should have given an example to all with his sentence so that this won’t happen again. He accepted the money from a drug pusher! He did it to say a big thank you to the police drug squad for fighting daily against drug pushers and abusers.

‘Pablo’ , because of people like you, people who try correct their ways and try reconcile for their wrong doings, end up getting the worst deal, while this fat old liar goes to Mount Carmel for nearly the same amount of time and gets preferential treatment.

“On the other hand, no man or woman should be persecuted”
Oh get over yourself, you bullshitter. I’d like to hear you say that if Noel Arrigo screwed you over because somebody bribed him.

[Daphne – Yes, I know: I tend to be quite perceptive about people and situations. Some people know how to paint, others know how to see. That’s all.]