[Daphne – If by your own admission you are unfamiliar with the case and with the issues here, then don’t comment at all. You have clearly not picked up on the fact that Robert Musumeci is a Nationalist politician, and not Labour.]

Is there nothing good with the LP? Why this venom? Why does not DCG get a life for herself and a real job?

[Daphne – Again, you know nothing all the way down under in Australia. I have not one ‘job’ but many. In fact, I run a thriving business. It’s just that, unlike people who come out of nowhere and who don’t come from a business background, I don’t call myself a ‘businesswoman’ because I have a clothes shop and then run the Labour Party’s business forum and tell captains of industry what to do on the basis of my experience selling skirts and baby equipment from a hole in the wall.]

Let me go on record to say that I, too, have attended some steamy parties! My only regret is that at age 62, I find them terribly boring.

[Daphne – You’re not a magistrate, Joseph, so nobody cares.]

(Regarding people in positions of authority in general ) Surely one’s private life should be such that it MAINTAINS the respect that one’s profession commands? One cannot simply draw a line between the two.

Imagine, for example (and the example I give is purely hypothetical) that a well-known criminal lawyer parties with well-known criminals, simply because she thinks that her professional life and her private life are two separate entities altogether. Things don’t work that way, Louise Anne. You can’t have your cake and eat it, you know.

[Daphne – She deserves more respect? You jest.]

I’m sure Daphne can take care of herself, God or no God.

@ A Zammit. “How can a magistrate with such serious accusations be allowed to still sit on the magistrate’s bench” I guess the same way politicians with multiple accusations of wrong-doing never end up being investigated.

There is also a good chance for Dr Micallef from Zebbug – he is a young doctor and as far as I know, with no hidden skeletons in the cupboard or agendas. Having a good private practice in Qormi, might see him through as opposed to Musumeci.

The biggest problem with Robert Musumeci is not that he is an adulterer, but that he is sleeping (literally) with the enemy.

The sopranos in Malta
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/resources/pdf/03_03.pdf
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/resources/pdf/24_02.pdf
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/23748460/report190502

However, in a ridiculous legal twist in May 1991, during the compilation of evidence, Magistrate Carol Peralta declared
that although in some of the cases there was enough evidence to issue the accused with a bill of indictment, none
of the cases could be prosecuted because they were proscribed by law.

I’m back, Daphne. I see the plot is thickening. And what would you be referring to, David?
Amazingly when I wrote up Consuelo this news item came up …a few Googles later the same item
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2002/0407/report070402.html
Any insight into this case, Daphne?

[Daphne – It was before my time. What can I say? She’s her father’s daughter, but at least he kept his pants on.]

[Daphne – Oh yes, definitely. You only live once.]