Joseph's Technicolor Dream Bandwagon – imballat b'xeba freaks u weirdos
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March 25, 2010 at 12:53am
From a law report (timesofmalta.com) on compilation of evidence proceedings in the Vince Farrugia/Sandro Chetcuti GBH case
Evidence was also given this morning by the other council members. When one of them repeated how Mr Chetcuti had said ‘noqtlok noqtlok,’ Mr Chetcuti, who was in court, was heard to say ‘veru’ with a smile as he turned to his wife.
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If he gets what he deserves we can all sign out a football chant to him. ‘YOURE NOT LAUGHING ANYMORE’
He must think that he has plenty of reasons to smile. In three years time, he might become a demi-god, an MP, or even a minister.
Daphne: Let’s be honest on this matter. Both political parties tend to attract what you term as ‘weirdos’. It comes with the territory in as much as a fresh horse – ehm – ‘deposit’ would invariably attract flies.
[Daphne – Yes, you lot like to delude yourselves about that. The fact remains that while the Nationalist Party has the odd weirdo who is nothing but a supporter, the Labour Party integrates its weirdos into the party hierarchy and uses them as tools, if not courting them outright for the sake of that extra vote. This is not fiction but historical fact, at least from the years I remember. Now the Labour Party is doing it again. By opening its doors to all and lifting up its skirt – metaphorically, of course – to all-comers, it has created the ultimate bandwagon, literally full of freaks ranging from cabinet ministers from the pre-1987 days to resentful, chippy people on the margins of society – who actually think they ARE society, and who have decided to turn against ‘Gonzi’ and towards ‘Joseph’ because they believe it’s an act of decisive political rebellion rather than pigeon-brained political stupidity.]
I personally hope that Mr. Chetcuti pays for his actions but one must also reflect on whether the action taken by the GRTU against him for an alleged mis-sent SMS was but an excuse to get rid of him.
[Daphne -Oh so what if it was? They were right to get rid of him. Somebody like that is a terrible liability, as Joseph Muscat has discovered to his cost.]
If this were the case – which again one should stress would not excuse at all Mr. Chetcuti’s actions – I wonder whether the same action would have been taken by Vince Farrugia if the SMS would have been perceived as being directed to a PN exponent.
[Daphne – Equate like with like, sir, and start off from the fact that the leader of the Nationalist Party does not need a ‘pimp’ – again, I use that word metaphorically – to introduce him to ‘clients’, because he knows most people already and did so before he became party leader. Nothing highlights the reality of just how far out on a social and business limb Joseph Muscat is than that he needs somebody to introduce him around, and the best person he could come up with was Sandro Chetcuti.Imagine that.]
I wish that one day we could all start looking beyond our individual political affiliations and the petty partisan squabbles because I firmly believe that there is a sizable group of people here in Malta which could make a positive difference in fixing the mess we’ve all contributed to push our country into.
[Daphne – I don’t see a mess, Whoa. I see an extraordinary success built on the back of the utter misery, deprivation and breakdown of law, order and democracy pre-1987. Somebody posted a link in an earlier post to a graph showing GDP levels over the past five decades. The increase has been incredibly steep since 1987 and steepest of all since we joined the European Union. If you call this a mess then you are well and truly blinkered. For a start, we have escaped practically unscathed the horrors that others in Europe and North America have just endured because of the recession. We talk of poverty, but who exactly has lost his home and is now living in his car or under a bridge? Which major businesses have shut down or gone bankrupt? And another thing, these are not petty partisan squabbles, but real concerns about tangible problems, the main one being how best to prevent the country falling into the hands of a not particularly clever chav in his 30s surrounded by a collection of really strange people, whose strangeness we have become inured to by constant exposure. And I use the word chav for a reason, because it encapsulates Joseph Muscat’s shallowness, personal ambition and lack of vision beyond ‘arriving’.]
Sure, whether we’re ‘blue’ or ‘red’ we could trump up real or imagined recriminations relating to our past but if one were to try to go beyond that and admit that everyone has had faults then we can start looking forward.
[Daphne – I’m sorry, Whoa, but this is what really gets me about you Labour supporters. ‘Everyone has faults’ – what are you doing here? Equating the mega-problems caused by Labour and the inherent, inbuilt weaknesses of its system and its people with the developments since 1987 and the way Nationalist governments have run things? I don’t think so. Are you all really such poor judges of character, so unable to process information and assess situations? Let’s say you run a business: you employ 10 people and they all screw you over, push you to the limit of bankruptcy, rob you, then for good measure break into your home and ransack it. You sack them and call the police. Then 25 years later….what? You decide that enough time has passed, that everyone has faults, and you employ them again. If you wouldn’t do this with your business, why would you do it with the running of the country?]
Wasting time and sidelining people is not the way we can ever hope to make our lives just that little bit more pleasant and full of expectation. The same expectation many of us – of whichever political belief – embraced, for example, upon Independence or, recently, upon EU membership.
I may be an idealist but my experience in government and other institutions – and not just in Malta – has led me to be convinced that partisan politics is just a ploy by very small groups to hold onto power and a ‘status quo’ which certain people benefit from regardless of who is in power provided they are in the back pulling strings.
[Daphne – No, Whoa. In my experience, partisan politics happen when a group of people terrified that the country will be led again by a bunch of no-hopers – Joseph, Toni and Anglu for God’s sake! – realise that there is strength in numbers and band together to keep them out. I don’t think you realise just how REAL people’s concerns are – intelligent people without chips or resentment, that is – about that lot of strange weirdos (because face it, that is what they are) getting to play prime minister and cabinet.]
You’re not an idealist “Whoa, there!”. You’re a Labourite trying to blur the line between the political parties so that their respective failures and achievements are placed in the same bowl, blended, and then distributed equally between the two.
Well, Antoine… Yes. I confess. I am guilty of the unforgivable sin of being a Labourite. The difference between me and you is simple: I am not afraid to call a spade a spade… Unfortunately, blinkered people like you just trudge in the intellectual quagmire of partisan politics delegating your free will and personal accountability to the mercy ‘your party’.
No wonder we have allowed this country to slowly but surely sink to the point where autocratic decisions have become the order of the day and abuses glossed over as if nothing.
We have small abuses which are allowed to go on on a daily basis: We have, for example, university lecturers of all sorts, sizes and affiliations who abuse by not attending Uni but instead going to chair local banks or other business interests when this is against their contract. Need names?
Others, still, are paid handsomely for consulting government departments, again, illegally. Need names? Better still, check out the various PQs relating to consulting fees paid by various ministries.
And then we have the petty lackeys at the bottom of the food chain who spend part of their working day misusing the Internet account which they are given for work pruposes and going on blogs and other online fora to make fools of themselves during working hours (and after hours, they still misuse the terms of use of their Uni account)… But you should know this!
[Daphne – The trouble with your arguments, Whoa, is that the judgement of a person who voted Labour in 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008 is by definition impaired.]
How convenient have we forgotten the days of Zeppi l hafi and presidential pardons to Queiroz a drug cartel. The list is much bigger, Pn are no different.
Here is one who, most likely, will not have to worry about paying high utility bills! One little lamp hanging in a 6 x 10 living space, paid by the taxpayer to boot, along with his meals, laundry and cable television will hardly make even a small dent in his bank account. With some 500 guests, he will have plenty to invite for lunch and an SMS on a mobile is not even necessary.
I bet he wasn’t at the two-day protest held by an impartial GWU who had invited guests like Joseph Muscat, Anglu and Toni and let’s not forget John Bencini who appears to be still suffering from a bout of indigestion ever since that Monday night.
Oh, but the excitement even got to Toni Zarb. Such was his enthusiasm that at times he was almost breathless, probably with so much emotion. After all, he was defending the poor helpless people of Malta who within a couple of days found it in their heart to part with 50 million euros investing the money in two bonds which sold out within minutes. Those are the poor Toni was crying about.
Joseph was so grateful for the invitation, he arranged for free buses from every town to bring his party’s intellectuals to Valletta in order to coin some new phrases so that they could well and properly insult Parliament and the Prime Minister.
It is worth noting, however, that Joseph was not late for the grand parade.
Dazgur li jitbissem jekk jaf li ghandu l-hbieb fis-suq u li se jehlisha hafif. That’s what being in the ‘in group’ is all about. Hasn’t Daphne said it over and over again: a self-serving crowd of wannabees in key positions all networking madly, doing each other favours, pulling strings and behaving as though they are above the law.
More. According to this morning’s edition of The Times: “At this point, Mr Chetcuti, seated in the dock, turned to his family sitting behind him and told them: ‘Veru’ (it is true). He then turned to the press and repeated: ‘Veru’.”
Hence, Mr Chetcuti repeated to the press what he had told his family, just in case the press had not heard him.
If that is not sheer unadulterated arrogance, I don’t know what is. I wonder what cards he has up his sleeve.
Do I see a fledgling Lorry Sant in the making?
You’re not the first one to say that.
Does it make it any less true?
“For a start, we have escaped practically unscathed the horrors that others in Europe and North America have just endured because of the recession. We talk of poverty, but who exactly has lost his home and is now living in his car or under a bridge? Which major businesses have shut down or gone bankrupt?”
Sometimes I wish that recession hit us harder so that some people would realise how lucky we are. All of sudden it has become cool to talk of poverty. I do not want to diminish any hardships some families may be experiencing but to talk of poverty as if it has become our way of life in Malta is not correct either. (Super One programmes show people queuing for a meal – of course, not in Malta.)
I have a suggestion for those organisations which deal with families who have economic problems. Apart from blaming the government and demanding that it coughs up money, they should tackle the problem at source and help these people get their priorities right. Most of them need help with their coping skills and no amount of money can solve their problems.
People had better be careful and study things hard for the elections in three years’ time. Time flies and people tend to forget. Just imagine people like Chetcuti given a ministry. No surpirise, of course, we have seen such antics before.
All are therefore of the same mind! Mr. Chetcuti will have ample time to repent at Corradino!
I thoiught I posted a comment here. Deleted in error, perhaps?
[Daphne – Which one? You’re here so often I’ve lost track.]
Insomma, your pathetic attempts to link this nutcase with Labour are simply not working – outside the claustrophobic ambience of this blog.
Maybe the fact that, just before the incident, he had gone into partnership with a prominent PN stalwart and apologist had something to do with it.
[Daphne – It’s you who operates in a claustrophobic ambience, Twanny. And that’s why you think nobody’s noticed that Sandro was – right up until he was arrested – organising ‘meet Joseph’ dinners for…..Joseph Muscat.]
” And that’s why you think nobody’s noticed that Sandro was – right up until he was arrested – organising ‘meet Joseph’ dinners for…..Joseph Muscat.”
Not to mention passed on confidential information to him!
He was also seting up a business partnership with a leading PN stalwart and apologist – sauce for the goose?
[Daphne – No. Michael Falzon has retired from politics. Joseph Muscat is leader of the opposition.]
Right. That’s why the text messages meant for Joseph Muscat don’t feature at all in the evidence against Sandro Chetcuti.
Twanny er Victor Laiviera of the hard left anarchist movement?
If we are in a mess now can someone please suggest a word that faithfully describes what we were in, in 1987?
I thought of Armageddon. But it sounds too mild.
Will you be at the hotel in Mellieha this Sunday morning, Sandro, now that you’re out on bail? Shall I reserve a space for your Ferrari just outside the entrance, or are you coming incognito?
marc c…………..ghall inqas taw il mahfra lil zeppi il hafi u lil queiros, mela lil dawn xaghmlu? il qahbu, it toto, il fusellu il klikka ta zejtun, nibqaw insemmu ma nieqfu qatt, ara dqwn lanqas marru il habs biex jiehdu il mahfra jew xi darba ghaddew xi kumpilazzjoni