Comments on: Frankly, some people just don’t give a damn

By: P Zahra

P Zahra — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:01:06 +0000

Thank you Daphne.
How on earth do people forget these things? True, we have had many years of peace but the nightmarish memories are there to stay. Unless the MLP accept that these things really happened and guarantee that there will not be a repetition, they can waffle on about ‘modes of thought’ till the cows come home. I, for one, will not trust them again. Ever.
The MLP seems unable to understand that what people feel is that, for them, winning an election is payback time. Our experience with them in government was that the Prime Minister and his ministers literally waged a personal war on the man in the street who dared to disagree.

By: P Zahra

P Zahra — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:37:42 +0000

Harry, are you serious? Is it possible that these thugs can attack civilians, as they used to do in the past, and the EU will just stand by?
I suspect that I am coming across as somewhat hysterical, but when I was a child the two sons of our neighbours were left alone at home. They filled a couple of balloons with water and decided to lob them across the road at a poster of an MLP politician. It was target practice pure and simple, they were too young to have any ulterior motives. Anyway, some Labour supporter (I suppose) happened to notice them and called our local branch of the MLP who turned up en masse with a truck laden with empty soft drink bottles and proceeded to wreck the facade of the house. Not a window was left unbroken. Then they threw the front door in and went in to get them. Luckily the boys escaped over the roofs and were taken in by a neighbour whose roof door, thank God, was a stout sheet of iron. A lot of attention is paid to the attack on Eddie’s house and to the attacks on the Curia, the law courts and the Times’ offices but I have seen and heard them (and the noise is nightmarish) attack children. I was nine or ten at the time, the same age as those two boys. I cannot forget the hysterical screams of the women trying to stop those madmen, pleading with them that they were only children. My own mother weeping and saying ‘Madonna se joqtluhom’ over and over again.

And if this happens again will no one step in?

[Daphne – I confirm your story. I remember it too.]

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:36:15 +0000

In reply to P Zahra. There are no 'organs' in the EU that will 'screw' with the thugs.

By: P Zahra

P Zahra — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:37:47 +0000

Tim Ripard and Rover, isn’t there any EU organ that would step in if (when) an MLP government unleashes them on us again?
Or will I have to point them out to my son and say ‘see honey, this is what I was talking about’? Like a sort of ultimate Show and Tell.
I wonder sometimes whether Joseph Muscat, being so young, even knows they exist, or whether he thinks they’re a figment of the imagination of the Nasty Nats. I wonder also whether he can rein them in. I fear that they answer only to their old masters. My friends, who were more in the know than I, used to say that the thugs were actually different gangs and each answered to a different master. For instance, they immediately knew who had sent the bunch to the University to beat us up. Poor Joseph Muscat, I can’t help but picture him as a chubby, cherry-cheeked Little Red Riding Hood, utterly unaware of the slavering wolves prowling behind him.

By: Antoine

Antoine — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:35:29 +0000

You’ve often commented on Joseph Muscat’s facial hair – here’s another take on the subject: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article7002189.ece

Perhaps his power plays are an early mid-life crisis?

By: Rover

Rover — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:34:21 +0000

Yes Tim they will be out again in 2013. I saw a few of the “celebrations” after the European parliament elections and I have no doubt in my mind the thugs will vent their hatred again.

By: Tim Ripard

Tim Ripard — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:09:12 +0000

In reply to P Zahra. P Zahra, the thugs on trucks are almost guaranteed come 2013, since the MLP/PL still clearly have il-Qahbu and his ilk close to their hearts. That PN clubs will be smashed up is more than likely. Hopefully it'll result in another 20 years of peace after 2018.

By: P Zahra

P Zahra — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:20:46 +0000

‘Muscat, or so the report in The Malta Independent told me, is going to adopt these new ways of portraying thought because he believes that lots of people do not feel they belong to any political party and are not interested in politics because there are “no personal benefits”.’

What an odd conclusion of Muscat’s. There must be others like me who keep their ears to the ground, observe dispassionately and reach their own conclusions as to who has done a better job of running the country. It doesn’t follow that I ‘belong’ to either party.

As for personal benefits, I can only speak for myself (although again, l don’t believe I’m the only one), but what drives me to vote one way and not the other is fear. Fear of intimidation, fear of the university courses shrivelling back down into 7 or 8 degrees, fear of trucks bearing pipe and chain wielding thugs, fear of bulk buying, fear of wage freezes, fear of strikes, fear of class hatred actively incited. . .

If the MLP can guarantee that these horrors will not repeat themselves that will be enough ‘personal benefit’ for me.
I have a question to which I’d like an informed answer. Should the MLP win power and the thugs-on-trucks show up again, will our EU membership protect us in any way?

By: Joe Zammit-Lucia

Joe Zammit-Lucia — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:42:32 +0000

This reminds me of a wonderful line in The Simpsons where Bart is complaining to his Dad that he doesn’t understand. Homer’s response was “It’s not that I don’t understand. It’s just that I don’t care”

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:32:48 +0000

New ways of portraying thought? In their case it sounds like transforming hot air into a windbag.