Note to the police who are trying to serve me with Magistrate Consuelo's request for a protection order

Published: March 17, 2010 at 3:43pm
And here are more wheels - MEPA planning officer Omar Cucciardi with MEPA Watch Robert Musumeci and Magistrate Herrera at her birthday party

And here are more wheels - MEPA planning officer Omar Cucciardi with MEPA Watch Robert Musumeci and Magistrate Herrera at her birthday party

You will not find me at home or anywhere else unless the papers are delivered personally by Superintendent Dominic Micallef.

When the magistrate rings you yet again to put pressure on you to serve me with those papers (as I know she is doing because I know her so well), which is why you turned up at my gate at 9pm yesterday night to be told by my husband that I was not at home – please tell her this. She will understand exactly what I mean. And so will Superintendent Micallef.

Please also tell the magistrate that by using the police to harass me repeatedly and getting her friends and playmates to do the same, she is only digging her own grave.

And I mean that metaphorically, lest she still has problems with idiomatic English. Unlike some members of her family, I do not consort with thugs or use them as canvassers.

If Magistrate Herrera thinks she is going to use the police and her ‘kollegi’ in the law courts to bully me into silence because she is afraid of what I know about her and is trying to use any means at her disposal to gag me, then she has another think coming.

The methods that she and her Labour friends are used to deploying to put the frighteners on others don’t work with me. They never did, and they never will.

She must be totally out of her mind to think she can use a fellow magistrate (‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours, kollega’) to slap a gagging order on a journalist – using a protection order devised for violent stalkers – to stop that journalist writing FACTS about her, still less opinion based on fact.

If this is what she believes, then she knows little or nothing about the democratic principles which underpin freedom of expression, and yet she is one of the few magistrates whose job it is to hear and decide on libel suits.

As somebody remarked in a very pointed comment elsewhere on this site, her belief that she can ask for that protection order and get it to silence a journalist who is writing about her leads us to understand that if she were at the receiving end of such a request, then she would grant it.

And that’s shocking.




132 Comments Comment

  1. Twanny says:

    Another pathetic attempt to involve Labour. It’s not working and it won’t work.

    • David Ganado says:

      Daphne, I get this nagging feeling this Twanny chap is being paid to sit at his PC 24hrs a day replying to each post you make……otherwise, he must be another of those people who is permanently on sick leave (and getting paid for it) with nothing better to do.

      • Twanny says:

        Sadly no, David, no one is paying me. Perhaps you can find me a sponsor? (am I allowed one teeny weeny smiley here?)

        [Daphne – Do you know who you remind me of? Alan in Two and a Half Men. And you, too, need a girlfriend.]

      • Harry Purdie says:

        Think you insulted Alan, Daphne. I can picture Mr. Bean.

    • Isard du Pont says:

      Twanny, stop going down blind alleys and tell us what you think about the magistrate’s behaviour.

      • jomar says:

        And you have insulted Mr. Bean, Purdie.

        At least Mr. Bean can be funny at times – Twanny is a bore all the time.

    • Tim Ripard says:

      It works with me. Frankly, a year ago I was telling Daphne she was overdoing the mocking of Joseph Muscat. I believed that Labour had changed and that they might actually NOT be so unpleasant and corrupt. Sadly, and I mean this most sincerely, it saddens me immensely, I see that Daphne’s all too right in her assessment of the Labour party.

      • The Bus Conductor says:

        Not only of the Labour Party, Tim.

      • Twanny says:

        You are clearly being told what you wanted to hear in the firts place.

      • Sigra ta' Guda says:

        What is a “firts place”, Twanny?

      • One-aholic says:

        Oh yeah, Twahny, we wanted to hear this. We would have loved Super One and Maltastar (include also Malta Today if you wish) to tell us all this. You can tell us the rest – on Maltastar.

    • Sign of the Times says:

      Twanny, what makes you think it is not working and it won’t work?
      Besides, why are you worried Labour would be involved? Is there something wrong with what the magistrate is doing?

    • Mandy Mallia says:

      Twanny, the fact remains that these are what the Labour tactics were – and still are – like.

      • Twanny says:

        It may have slipped your notice, but after 25 years of PN rule, the police force is surely a totally PN product.

        [Daphne – But the magistrate we are dealing with is not.]

      • Sigra ta' Guda says:

        Twanny – Donnok ilek tinfoska dawn l-ahhar tlieta w ghoxrin sena’. Jahasra, miskin.

      • Nejxu says:

        Twanny, mela insejt 1996 – 1998: il-friza tal-applikazzjoni tal-UE, is-CET, il-konfuzjoni…

      • Twanny says:

        @ Siġra ta’ Ġuda

        I gave up those “yah boo, sucks to you” remarks when I left the primary schoolyard. Have you ever considered doing the same?

        [Daphne – What is that if not a ‘yah boo sucks to you’ remark, Twanny. If you have nothing worth saying, just don’t say it. This is a serious subject and not a comic one.]

      • attent01 says:

        “It may have slipped your notice, but after 25 years of PN rule, the police force is surely a totally PN product.” …….so according to Twanny in these 25 years no PL leaning Police were employed or promoted? Ridiculous. Come off it. What a far cry from the PL times in government! Do not try and change course to the core issue.

      • Alan says:

        @Nejxu

        I liked the cash registers dragged behind the cars best of all.

      • Allan Gatt says:

        ‘Tinfoska’ ma nistax insibha fid-dizzjunarju. Xi tfisser?

      • La Redoute says:

        Fittex fid-dizzjunarju ‘Britannica’ (sic). Tal-Maltastar ghandhom kopja.

      • Sigra ta' Guda says:

        Tinfoska – to get angry, become enraged

      • Sigra ta Guda says:

        Twanny, you’re squeaking up the wrong tree.

      • Antoine Vella says:

        Twanny,

        Twenty five years of PN government and Labour hasn’t changed. You are living proof of it.

      • Twanny says:

        @ Mr Antoine Vella

        Can you count from 1 to 6?

    • Silverbug says:

      Listen here Twanny, if justice goes awry, forget it whether it is Labour or PN, it goes awry for all and the worst hit are those who genuinely seek justice from the law courts. Justice is not blindfolded for nothing and in this case the blindfold has slipped, regardless of political colour.

      Better to recognise the slip and fix the problem rather than to negate and perpetuate the serious situation. No one, not even Labour, can build on such shaky foundations.

      • Twanny says:

        A sensible comment, silverbug, and I would be the first to support any genuine push for judicial rectitude and reform – as long as it is (as I said) genuine.

        When you can show how the fact that a magistrate “looks like the back end of a bus” is relevant to this end, I may reconsider my position.

        [Daphne – Oh, so you agree with me then.]

      • Mandy Mallia says:

        Well said, Silverbug.

      • Harry Purdie says:

        What position is that, Twanny? Can your head reach all the way up there?

      • Aristocrat says:

        Twanny, do a favour to yourself – whoever you are.

        Go and waste your time somewhere else, can you?

        “When you can show how THE FACT that a magistrate “looks like the back end of a bus” is relevant to this end, I may reconsider my position.”

        You are either an idiot, or, if you’re pretending to be one, you’re doing an excellent job.

        Do you understand that you are saying that the magistrate looks like the back end of a bus?

        You’re making a fool of yourself.

        —-

        Sorry Daphne, but someone HAD to spell it out to him.

    • La Redoute says:

      Bore on, Twanny. Here you are again, missing the point. You can fall victim to whatever Scerri Herrera gets up to – and from what we’ve seen that rather a lot.

    • freefalling says:

      Twanny – yes, labour is involved. All you have to do is have a look at what is said on Super One news.

      Yes it works, believe me it does as it is a lifeline to what justice should be all about.

    • Stefan Vella says:

      Labour got involved the minute they buried their heads in the sand on multiple breaches of the judicial code of ethics.

  2. Joe says:

    Tibzax, Daphne! Is-sewwa jirbah zgur. Kif il-poplu Malti ma baqghalux protezzjoni vera! Il-ministru tal-gustizzja ser jibqa´ gallarija ma’ dawn l-oxxenitajiet li qed nisimghu li qed isiru mill-membri li suppost qeghdin hemm biex jaraw li issir gustizzja? U x´qed jaghmel il-prim imhallef?

    • Twanny says:

      Għall-Lema “oxxenitajiet” partikolari qed tirreferi?

      • Nejxu says:

        Twanny, forsi din Joe qed jirreferi ghal xi wahda partikolari bhal “F’gh???xxx Gonzi taghkom” kif qal l-Onorevoli Jose Herrera fil-Parlament?
        Jekk qed nifhem sew, il-Magistrata Consuelo Pilar Herrera qeghda twaqqa wicc il-Qorti ghac-cajt, u d-Deputat Herrera qed iwaqqa wicc il-Parlament ghac-cajt…

    • jomar says:

      Il-ministru tal Gustizzja ma jista jaghmel xejn. L-ewwel il-Kummissjoni mbaghad il-Parlament. Imma l-Lejber tahseb li ser jivvota biex inehhi l-Consuelo minn magistrat?

  3. Maroons says:

    ”know about her and is trying to use any means at her disposal to gag me, then she has another think coming”

    Did I manage to find a mistake?? Did you mean another thing coming?

    [Daphne – No. The expression is ‘another think coming’. Google it if you doubt me.]

    • baffled says:

      Your blog is educational too! I had no idea haha! Good work, Daphne!

    • Frank says:

      Meaning

      To have ‘another think coming’ is to be greatly mistaken. The phrase is usually spoken by an antagonist as ‘you have another think coming’; the implication being that one will shortly be obliged to adopt a different viewpoint, either by the presentation of indisputable evidence, or by force.

      I sincerely hope you shall stick to evidence and not even contemplate force!

      • La Redoute says:

        Another literal thinker. Have you ever heard of metaphorical expression?

        The one using force here is Magistrate Herrera. Her considerable weight (that’s a metaphorical expression, lest she misunderstands that to be a personal insult) has already caused the police to break the law – perversely in a supposed attempt to uphold it.

  4. Maroons says:

    I never doubt you….that’s why I was surprised!

  5. Sigra ta' Guda says:

    Consuelo’s determination for you to be served with a gagging order also leads the general public to believe that she has got more to hide.

    If she can’t see this, then she is certainly in denial or has built her own bubble of reality around her.

    If she has nothing to hide then she has nothing to fear. It is beyond shocking for her – a magistrate there to ensure that freedom of expression is protected and upheld – to try to restrict it herself to protect her own interests.

    • Aristocrat says:

      I think the point has already been made on this blog that the Herreras feed on intimidation.

      The tough guys who help Jose’ with his electoral campaigns (and beyond?).

      The building permits in the 80s.

      Consuelo’s strategy vis-à-vis Daphne.

      Let’s focus on this last one.

      Consuelo could have done either of two things:

      1. Ask for the protection of the Chief Justice – and using his communications office to issue crystal-clear denials of Daphne’s allegations.

      2. Take legal action.

      3. Resign.

      In the circumstances, perception-wise, had she nothing to hide she would have resorted to 1.

      Instead she opted for 2.

      Which will – and here I disagree with Daphne – lead to 3.

      Why do I disagree? Because Daphne thinks it will not happen. I think it will happen sooner or later. (The sooner, the better… but that’s another point.)

      It will happen because people will start complaining about having their cases decided by Consuelo.

      Government cannot tolerate such a situation. Ultimately, VOX POPULI is VOX DEI.

      [Daphne – Oh boy, how little you know her. She can’t be impeached and she can’t be made to resign. The chief justice can take the extreme measure of relieving her of her duties, but she will stay on, taking her salary and then her pension. She will even try to keep her perks – the car, the driver and the telephones – just as Depasquale did before her, kicking up a scene when Austin Gatt -well done, sir – relieved him of them on the grounds that a judge who doesn’t go to work doesn’t need them. Then it’s a matter of waiting it out until Labour are elected in three years’ time and she’ll take it from there. Her entire edifice, identity, way of life, sense of self are tied up in being a magistrate. Without that perceived power, authority and status, the life she has built around it – the parties, the socialising, the twisting of arms, the bit of this and bit of that – comes crumbling down. And she’s not going to let that happen, even if she ends up as a magistrate with no cases to decide.]

      • Aristocrat says:

        I really hope the scenario you have depicted does not come true.

        Twisting of arms: oh my, oh my! How right you are on that!

      • La Redoute says:

        Hope all you like. The signs are that that is what will happen – and that’s just the best case scenario.

      • The Bus Conductor says:

        Many people need to be educated on the roles of magistrates, the behavior of magistrates, how they become magistrates in the first place and how they can be removed as magistrates.

        The magistrate in question knows she will not be removed or be made to resign and that is the problem.

      • kev says:

        @ Aristocrat – You missed the fourth option: ignore.

        There could be thousands reading a story on a blog, yet unless the mainstream media finds reason to report on it, it will remain in the ‘theoretical’ domain. It’s as if the allegations never happened – because their existence was not officially recognised. The moment officialdom enters the scene – police action, court cases, statements – the story gets to be reported and it becomes existential: the allegations really happened (in this case, complete with overkill, flippancy, daggers, arrows, mockery, applause, imitators, flatterers, useful idiots, snobbery, tpacpic fil-vojt, krudelta, ghira, the lot – it’s all there).

        It’s a reality-soap on a tabloid blog.

        To take the higher moral ground and call this onslaught a justified cause in the name of freedom of expression and an ethical judiciary is to disregard the passion with which the lacerations were made to rip the heart off and tear it to bits of bloody pieces until there is hardly a trace of it left.

        As for the police being forced to take action, I think that too is being misrepresented. The police have sharp antennae when it comes to what is public knowledge. And they hate to be told they were not swift and efficient enough in the execution of their duties. So, like Daphne, they make an overkill when more rational action would have sufficed.

      • ciccio2010 says:

        “…overkill, flippancy, daggers, arrows, mockery, applause, imitators, flatterers, useful idiots, snobbery, tpacpic fil-vojt, krudelta, ghira, the lot . .”
        Which category are you in Kev?

      • ciccio2010 says:

        Kev refers to the absence of the magistrate’s story from the “mainstream media.” I have my doubts that Malta has a mainstream media. I have my own strong belief that our media is like a dog held on a leash, controlled by its master.
        On the contrary, there is some truth in Kev’s argument that as long as the issue remains on this blog, it is going to remain “theoretical.” That said, all Malta is talking about, and interested in, this issue, including people like Kev (who I understand is overseas?), Twanny, Whoa There etc. I suspect even Astrid Vella is following, with a highlighter of course.
        In fact, I am starting to believe that the campaign should be ridirected to address the weaknesses in the available democratic machinery, not just the individual case any more. In other words, the criticism must be levelled towards the Commission for the Administration of Justice and the Constitution which determines that a post in the judiciary is for life. Elements of the Code of Ethics may now need to be codified into the law itself. These elements should all be put under the close scrutiny of the media, and held to be accountable to the people.

      • Nostradamus formerly Avatar says:

        @ciccio

        I agree 100%.

        Only snag: The President of the Commission seems to have been the one to sponsor the Magistrate’s appointment.

        Unless and until he declares he has a conflict of interest, and abstains, the farce will keep going on.

      • ciccio2010 says:

        I feel honored to write to Nostradamus, formerly Avatar. I agree with you also. Then the President should stand up and declare his conflict of interest in the matter, but this does not exhonerate him from performing his job of chairman of the Commission and demand that the Commission, in his absence, carries out with its job of investigating the allegations against the Magistrate and take the necessary actions.

        However, even if the President had sponsored the Magistrate when she was appointed (I have not checked that fact), I do not believe, but I stand to be corrected, that this necessarily means that he has an institutional conflict of interest.

        The appointment took place many years ago, in a different context. The President is now in a different role altogether and I would think he can still take a different view now. Of course, on a personal, rather than institutional basis, I would have no difficulty if he abstains anyway.

      • Nostradamus formerly Avatar says:

        @ciccio

        The honour is reciprocated.

        Let us consider an analogy.

        A judge is presiding a case in which one of the parties had been a client of his before he became judge.

        Would there be a conflict of interest?

      • ciccio2010 says:

        @Nostradamus
        Good question. I cannot claim that I have the correct answer. But, yes, prima facie, there appears to be a conflict in the analogy that you draw here. One can say that there is a perceived conflict of interest.

        However, that word “before” may, in some cases, make a difference. So, for instance, one may need to consider how long before. Also the subject on which one may have advised a client as a legal adviser may make a difference. Sometimes, codes or rules of conduct may define those terms. The rules of conflict of interest are not always very clear cut, so when in doubt, it is probably safer to err on the side of caution.

  6. maryanne says:

    What happened to the Astrid Vella Libel Fund?

  7. Alan says:

    As far as I know, and I stand to be corrected, any request that is made in court has to be advised to the other party.

    Again standing to be corrected, I think it is a court “marixxal” whose duty it is to deliver a copy of the request.

    [Daphne – No, in this sort of thing it is the police. It is a criminal case, and not a civil suit.]

  8. pippo says:

    Isma………….dawn tal-kummisjoni, inkluz il president tar-republica u il prim imhallef, possibli ghadhom jiehdu in-noti? Ma jahsbux li issa wasal il-waqt illi niccaqalqu ghax issa iddardarna nisimghaw il-hmerijiet?

    Possibli li l-imhallfin u il-magistrati serji l-ohra li hemm mhux qed jitkellmu ghax bezghajn jew jigu jitmejjlu li qed jigu ridikolati wkoll basta jiehdu il paga?

    Kont nahseb illi fadal ftit serjeta fuq l-ghola istittuzzjoni tal-pajjiz imma nahseb illi mort smerc.

    Nahseb li wasalna f istat illi “ghalaq halqek u hokkli dari ghax inkella ma nhokklokx tieghek”. Nispera f’ alla li sejjer hazin.

    • Ta' Ninu says:

      pippo, I’m afraid you’re not ”sejjer hazin”.
      And by not re-acting they could be accused of condoning it. They should be ashamed of themselves.

  9. interested bystander says:

    I am put in mind of the advice given to Peter Ustinov when he asked how he should play Nero.

  10. Michael says:

    Daphne, maybe I’m being a bit naive here. Aren’t all these antics about trying to stop or intimidate a journalist from reporting perceived or real conflict of interest by public figures against a democratic right of free speech?

    [Daphne – Yes.]

    If so shouldn’t the local body representing journalists jump up and protect fellow journalists? And if this local body is not performing its duty, shouldn’t this be escalated and brought to the attention to some European body of journalists (to which I assume this local organisation is associated)?

    [Daphne- The Institute of Maltese Journalists? Please. You have to put a handbag in front of a Super One camera for them to issue a statement.]

    • attent01 says:

      I agree 100% on this with Daphne. The IMJ closes both eyes and ears to certain issues/complaints but then speaks out on petty issues like the handbag. Not all journalists in Malta enjoy the same and equal treatment and level playing field.

    • The Bus Conductor says:

      Mr Naudi, your comments please, unless you are in Geneva that is!

      • La Redoute says:

        He’s not in Geneva. He said as much in a letter to The Malta Independent last Sunday.

    • Corinne Vella says:

      Getting the IGM to issue statements when it should is like pulling teeth. They took five days to issue a statement condemning the MUT President’s savage criticism of an opinion writer, and even then the words stuck in their throat.

      The ‘physical and verbal intimidation’ of a Super One crew, on the other hand, was condemned within hours. That statement was untrue but it has never been retracted or corrected.

      • Hmmm says:

        Maybe that’s because Julia Farrugia issued the statement and she presents a TV programme with her chairman.

      • Adela says:

        And all this under a PN government. As soon as Labour are elected to government Julia Farrugia and her ilk will have a free hand to do whatever they like. Journalistic ethos my foot. They have been waiting in the shadows for too long and they’re itching to be back in action. You just have to hear them talking to know.

    • ciccio2010 says:

      If Maltese journalists do not have an independent professional institute to represent them, one that is above partisan politics, then this goes to show the poor state Maltese journalism is in. Which is what this blog has been revealing all along.
      In Malta, journalists are serving mainly and mostly the political parties.

  11. freefalling says:

    It is sad, to say the very least, to see people harrassed in this manner.

    Issues apart, why do the police feel the need to serve papers late in the evening.

    Yes Daphne does pose a threat to those who persist to err albeit public condemnation.

    • La Redoute says:

      What would you do if you had a magistrate breathing down your neck and her hands very firmly clutching your short and curlies?

      Incidentally, why has nobody noticed that the police were breaking the law by trying to serve a court summons at 9pm?

      • ciccio2010 says:

        La Redoute, pardon my ignorance, but why were the police breaking the law serving a court summons at 9.00pm?

        [Daphne – Because it’s against the law to serve papers on a person at his/her home between sunset and sunrise. In exceptional circumstances, and exceptional circumstances only, they may do so by order of the court.]

      • ciccio2010 says:

        Thanks, I now see this is covered in the next blog entry!

  12. vaux says:

    Your last comment to Aristocrat, really made me sad, really sad. However I still have faith that when a person is intrinsically in the wrong his position won’t survive, it might perhaps for some time, but not forever.

    “Out, damned spot! out, I say!–One: two: why,
    then, ’tis time to do’t.–Hell is murky!–Fie, my
    lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
    fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
    account”

    Lady Macbeth….

  13. Reborn says:

    I admire your strength and especially lack of fear, to deal with all they are trying to throw at you.

    Keep it up we are all behind you!

  14. Alan says:

    It is clear to all and sundry that Daphne has a big set of what Charlon Gouder lacks.

    Magistrate Scerri Herrera’s squeals are proportionate to the gravity of the truths she is trying to cover up.

  15. SDS says:

    What exactly does a “request for a protection order”
    Would they be asking or telling you to stop?

    [Daphne – Magistrate Herrera asked the magistrate hearing her defamation suit to issue an order to stop me writing about her. The magistrate refused. Magistrate Herrera asked again. The magistrate refused. These two requests were made in court, one during the first hearing, the other during the second hearing. The next hearing is on 12 April, so in the interim she has filed another request. Because it wasn’t done in my presence in court, the police have to notify me. So far I haven’t been notified. I have suggested to the police, on this blog, that they will find me more quickly if the papers are served by Superintendent Dominic Micallef. When I am served, I have X number of days to file a response. Then the magistrate has to decide.]

    • SDS says:

      Thank you for explaining. How many requests are allowed?
      Shouldn’t magistrate Herrera respect the magistrate’s ruling? (He/She refused the previous two requests).

      • La Redoute says:

        Her Magisterial Grace appears to believe that the system is on her side or should be. She fails to understand that, in terms of the law, she is not above anyone else.

      • Alan says:

        She probably twisted the original requests in other words to raise the sense of urgency …. f’mohha.

        There has been NOTHING in these blog-posts since the first sitting that is anything but reporting facts and fair comment.

        Freedom of speech, expression and fair comment cannot be stopped, no matter how much Scerri Herrera stamps her feet.

      • The Bus Conductor says:

        Magistrate Tonio Micallef Trigona was clear about his ruling.
        Magistrate Herrera qed tipprova tidhol mit-tieqa issa.

      • Alan says:

        Will she fit ?

      • Hmmm says:

        One – or several – of her policemen friends might give her a leg up.

        They’re already trying to do that by bossing their minions into breaking the law.

  16. Riya says:

    Dominic Micallef is not in the photo.

    • La Redoute says:

      You appear to know him. Do you have a picture of what he looks like or is this just bzar fl-ghajnejn?

  17. Allan Gatt says:

    U Twanny ma deherx iktar.

    • Twanny says:

      I had to go out. Sorry to deprive you of my much appreciated (it seems) company. (Uff – this ban on smileys is killing me.)

      • Nejxu says:

        Twanny, Don’t know what you should be smiling about. According to a post by Ronnie Pellegrini on Robert Musumeci’s wall, all Malta is suffering from depression due to the water and electricity bills. Does somebody else pay your bills?

      • Grezz says:

        No, but Twanny doesn’t seem bothered by the fact that he’s financially supporting the court cases instituted by Consuelo; neither does he seem bothered by the amount of police time wasted because of such cases.

  18. Riya says:

    Yes I know him. But sorry I do not have a picture. To me he is a good police officer and very intelligent as well.

  19. Riya says:

    Lill-Twanny xi tridu l-hawn biex joqghod minghalih ibaqbaq lil-Daphne u jahlilha il-hin.

    • Nejxu says:

      Riya, Daphne tiehu gost titbaqbaq ma Twanny. Wara kollox minn taghna. L-uniku difett li ghandu hu li meta issemmilu il-Labour jintilef.

  20. tony says:

    After 22years of dictatorship under this ruthless PN we have one PN headquarters in PIETA and the other is the POLICE HEADQUARTERS.
    You are doing this for only one reason, it happens that Magistrate HEREERA comes from a LABOUR family and you hate all that is labour baby daphe.
    For sure that a person in high position is making sure that you are untouchable and i wounder who this person is see you bag of hate.

    • Grezz says:

      Tony, go and make yourself a nice cup of camomile tea. It should calm you down somewhat.

    • Nostradamus formerly Avatar says:

      Good Lord!

      Tony: if Magistrate HEREERA [sic] comes from a Labour family, does that exonerate her in your eyes from the responsibility she should shoulder for her unacceptable behaviour?

      Is Jose’ Herrera – a Labour MP – to be forgiven being surrounded by the creme de la creme of the Valletta riff-raff JUST BECAUSE HE IS LABOUR?

      If everything that is Labour is pardonable – you are a disgrace to your party, and to Malta.

    • Twanny says:

      I have a feeling this is a “put up job”. Not for real.

      Nice try, whoever it is.

      [Daphne – Oh, he’s real all right. You don’t believe me when I tell you that this is the sort of comment I delete, but it is. tony’s I keep, because he’s become an attractive feature.]

      • Twanny says:

        Nah – I don’t believe it. Tony is “a put up job”. Sort of “Let’s talk nasty and let those dirty reds take the blame”.

        I wasn’t born yesterday – far from it.

    • Rover says:

      Bless him, Tony has the hots for magistrate HEREERA. She won’t be too impressed spelling her name like that Tony, nor bringing up her rear in the mix again. Trot along to bed now, sweet dreams.

    • La Redoute says:

      Ta’ min jibghatek isaqqi l-hass, Tony. Ara kif ser tinqela f’xahmitek.

      Il-magistrata HEREERA vera li tigi minn familja Laburista. Ma tridx tghid b’hekk illi trid tkun Laburista biex iggib ruhek b’mod oxxen, ghal li jista jkun?

      Ma tantx hi ‘untouchable’ Daphne la hawn magistrata taghmel il-kwereli mall-pulizjia biex jalqula halqa halli ma nisimghux izjed bil-bawxati li jsiru barra u gewwa l-Qorti.

      Ara, hallina, Tony, trid? Ghad tasallek tieghek meta tehel fuq xi haga ghax hadet ghaliha xi magistrata.

    • Tony Pace says:

      Tony, eff off you sicko ! You’re very welcome to ”HEREERA and her Labour family”

  21. lino says:

    Let me think, tony.
    So the PN at the police HQ are harassing Daphne, but the PN at the PN HQ are making sure she’s untouchable. That is what I call a very wild conspiracy theory. Keep it up, tony or should I say, wrap it up.

    • La Redoute says:

      Hallih bi kwietu ‘l Tony, miskin. Daqxejn mtektek ghax wahda min tagghom ghada ma xebatx taqa fil-baxx bl-ingieba skandaluz taghha.

  22. Denis Catania says:

    Get a life Daphne.

  23. TROY says:

    Daphne, Twanny is more like Rose in Two and a Half Men, you know a bit cuckoo.

  24. TROY says:

    twanny are you still thinking of getting a newer car? see what happens meta tpatpat zejjed ma shabek.

  25. Samantha says:

    tony ,
    Ma nahsiebx li ghax Laburista qed tidi kritikata ghax naf żewg magistrati li huma Laburisti ukoll imma dejjem kienu dehen tal-gudikatura.

  26. vaux says:

    Just a passing thought. How I miss your Presidency, Your Excellency Dr Edward Fenech Adami. You really deserve to wear the ‘Legion d’honneur’ with pride

  27. red-nose says:

    Whether Labour, Nationalist, Communist, or Alternattiva, a sitting judicial person should behave and not place the judiciary in a VERY bad light

  28. red-nose says:

    Someone far up in this blog asked for a comment from Malcom Naudi of the Institute of Journalists.- Message to the one who asked: “Iddahhaqx! Ma tarax! ” Where there is no spine, you cannot expect anything positive.

  29. red-nose says:

    A little advice for “Twanny” – isma minni, siehbi; aqra sew u ipprova ifhem dak li tghidlek Daphne, ghax tista tibda issir nies!

  30. Joe Fenech says:

    It is scary to see the magistrate partying with MEPA officials. Conflict of interest, n’est ce pas?

  31. Guys I live abroad and just came in here to see what is going on after some friends pointed out the issue between DCG and the Mag.
    I would only like to point out that in a disciplined democracy such behaviour would require the immediate resignation of the magistrate. In my opinion this photo would be enough to have her out of her post.
    Thank you and happy weekend to all.

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