The most obvious explanation is most likely to be the true one
Sucking the archbishop's hand just won't cut it when your supporters are desecrating graves
Contrary to what happens in the world of thrillers and crime fiction, in real life the most obvious explanation is generally the true one.
So the people who are clutching at their conspiracy theories in the hope of warding off the point at which they will have to confront the primitive savagery of elements among Labour’s core vote are doing themselves and their party no favours at all.
The excuses being made by Labour apologists for the desecration of the prime minister’s mother’s grave remind me of the ones made by wives and mothers for the behaviour of their husbands and children. A series of employers is blamed for the fact that a lazy son/husband loses job after job, for example, because his mother/wife can’t face the fact that there’s something wrong with him. If she faces that fact, then she’ll have to deal with it.
So now we’re hearing that the grave was desecrated by angry hunters. Oh, really? Why now? Why would angry hunters wait until Joseph Muscat throws a hissy fit and leads his MPs out of parliament in the middle of a vote on the power station, to seek out and vandalise Mrs Gonzi’s grave?
And blaming it on hunters doesn’t shift the essence of the argument, anyway. What we’re talking about here is the propensity of core Labour electors to primitive thinking and ugly, twisted violence that is beyond the comprehension of everyone else. And those hunters who vandalise and destroy vote Labour. We know this because they tell us and urge us to vote Labour too so that they can continue to hunt.
We have also heard that this is the work of ‘agents provocateurs’ – you know, the same ones who burned down The Times building, assaulted demonstrators in anti-government protests pre 1987 and ransacked PN clubs so that Labour would get into trouble. Come on, you remember them – they were paid by the Nationalist Party using a secret fund set up for the purpose.
With the money left over from that secret fund that paid for bombs and weapons and thuggery, they bought the votes of drug-addicted Labour supporters in the 2008 general election. Go on, ask Inspector Gadget and he’ll tell you all about it.
But the silliest, and I mean the silliest, comment I have read so far is the one by a man who said that IT mUSt Be PN sUporTirs beCause Moira Mintoff’s grave was desecrated too, in the same way.
Bingo. The twit assembled the evidence and then read it backwards. Yes, Moira Mintoff’s grave was desecrated in exactly the same way – after her widower voted against Sant’s government in 1998 and brought it down, with the result that a general election was held and the Nationalists returned to power.
So unless you subscribe to the theory that hunters wait until a power station vote to wreak vengeance on a grave, or that it was the agents provocateurs wot did it, then you will have to conclude that the only way some Labour thugs have of expressing their frustration at having power wrested from their party’s grasp is by taking it out on the graves of those closest to the person they hold responsible.
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Nobody knows at this point in time who damaged the grave. Please refrain from making rabid accusations. There is just as much evidence pointing to a Nationalist criminal looking to damage reputations of opponents.
[Daphne – Yawn. And I set fire to my own house, for a spot of attention-seeking or to get the racists blamed.]
Conspiracy theories? Has anyone proposed a theory that people in power conspired to desecrate the grave and blame it on Labour thugs?
Clearly, you don’t know the meaning of ‘conspiracy theory’ because you haven’t explored the actions where such theories apply (at times proven beyond a doubt). Yet you use the phrase because it sounds good, even if it does not form part of your Pollyanna world where “the most obvious explanation is generally the true one.”
[Daphne – Oh, Kevin, I forgot. Conspiracy theories have to involve at least one American, possibly the CIA and at a push, the European Commission and a couple of Big Banks.]
As it turns out, Antoine (below) has solved the crime. It was the hunters conspiring against trappers, placing a gabjetta at the scene of the crime.
Kev, what are you talking about?
Kev is an expert on conspiracy theories. I think we have all come to understand this by now.
Kev, according to your theories, can you suggest who did this cowardly act at the Addolorata?
Baciamolemani…
I would suggest, ciccio2020, that whoever committed this crime is not worth the attention of even two lines on a spoof site.
“I agree with” Kev.
Hunters should remember this: for all its avowed sympathy towards them, Labour will readily use them as scapegoats.
In other countries, desecrating graves and cemeteries is a trademark of neo-Nazis, which puts the Labour thugs nicely in context.
Labour neo-Nazis, good one Antoine ,very convincing.
For the past two years, Joey has been hard at work putting up reprise after reprise of some of the worst scenes from the 1980s, and now he has brought the business of Parliament to an abrupt halt with a hissy fit over a trumped up allegation that Malta has been “robbed” of a satisfactory outcome to an unimportant vote on an opposition motion. ‘Terrimot’ indeed. Way to paint yourself into a corner, Joey boy.
There’s always been just a glint of Messianic mania in Joey’s eyes. Now, what with his rabble-rousing nonsense on Jum il-Haddiem and the ongoing attack on Parliamentery procedure, it seems clear to me that he covets the mantle of “Is-Salvatur ta’ Malta”. Thank you, Joey, for reminding us that a vote for Labour is a vote for the party of thugs and hooligans, with nothing but envy and hatred coursing through their veins. Can’t wait to see what further horrors lie in store once the heat of the Maltese summer kicks in, stirring up these rabid emotions even further.
what exactly is your argument Daphne ? Do you mean that the opposition should shut up and open it on election time ? Should we also shut up just because the nats are in power and they can do whatever they like during their 5 year reign ? Whichever way you look at this power station contract, it stinks from head to toes…and you know it. When we joined the EU (and i voted Yes) maybe I was naive enough to think that things would have changed for the better in Malta when in reality nothing’s changed. Same old parochial mentality, amatearism and contracts for the blue eyed boys. Look at the bloke in the vat scandal, if it was not for the opposition no one would have brought it up that he’s still winning government contracts.
Desecrating the prime minister’s mother’s grave is shameful and disgusting but I don’t think you should blame it all on Labour.
In life I learnt not to judge on circumstantial evidence. Mother’s Day happened to fall on the first Sunday after Labour’s degrading behavior in parliament. It doesn’t follow that the Labour Party is responsible for this savage act.
My gut feeling points to a disgruntled hunter acting on his own. But, who am I to judge without having indisputable evidence to substantiate my judgment?
Pointing fingers without having enough proof is just not fair, and can only make matters worse, even if you point them against a criminal.
(Come on, you remember them – they were paid by the Nationalist Party using a secret fund set up for the purpose). Don’t be surprised Daphne, you never know!
My, my Michael, secret funds! And I suppose you’re going to tell us next about the guy in charge of these secret funds.
Maybe this guy got the money for these secret funds from those suckers that paid him good money so that he can board them out.
You were never credible, Woody.
Troy, as usual you persit to involve my brother who by the way 3 years have passed and his has never ever been charged of any wrong doing.Ask Louis Galea or Charles Demicoli about any secret meetings.Time will tell.And why dont you say whom you are or are you afraid to show your face!
This story is the same as that when the mob burnt The Times building and ransacked the opposition leader’s home in October 1979. On that day Mintoff made a speech and announced to his followers that a person went to Castille and tried to shoot him. In the evening the mob gathered in Valletta and went on the rampage. Most probably the Labour Party blames PN agents provocateurs for doing these atrocities as well.
We all know pretty well where the scum amongst us is to be found. ” Malta zghira u n-nies maghrufa”. It is just that the ostriches find it hard to admit.
What a prima donna!
How about a disgruntled Labourite hunter, eh? Merges both schools of thought into one satisfying theory.
Mr/Mrs HP Baxxter,
you have every right to have and uphold your personal opinion regarding hunting. But by your same logic, has it yet crossed your mind that body orifices’ functions aren’t supposed to be interchangeable!
Regards
My dear Woody, it’s been over 60 years and Adolph Hitler was never charged! As for the other two persons you can face them yourself (but we know you won’t).
As for who I am, I belong to a secret society with secret funds.
@Michael Woods
‘Ask Louis Galea or Charles Demicoli about any secret meetings.’
X’ secret meetings huma, Mike? Ghax torganizza ikla u tigi mdawwar mill-pulizija gewwa Ta’ Qali biex jintimidawk?
X’ secret meeting huma, Mike biex jorganizzaw xi frame-up jew xi murder.
X’ secret meetings huma, Mike biex torganizza ix-xoghol fil-counting hall.
Ahna hdimna ghal-liberta’ bla flus, Mike. U jekk veru kont hemm int daqsi tafu dan. Anzi konna naqilghu xi xeba wkoll. Jien l-unika ghajnuna li sibt li meta kelli bzonn avukat ma hallastx flus u daqshekk. Ghax il-verita’ m’hawnx izbah minnha, Mike.
B’dawn l-affarijiet qed timlilu mohhu lil Joseph Muscat. Inti tahseb li dak mhux ga jaf li int qatt ma kont bnieden ta’ fiducja? Mela bniedem jikseb il-fiducja billi jmur jajjat viva l-Labour jew jiggagbina lil shabu biex jintogghob.
No wonder sirt Laburist ghax hekk jixraqlek. Hallina, Mike.
Ghidilna Mike ha nirrisponduk ghax ahna m’ghandniex min xix nisthu u nibzghu ghax ahna cittadini onesti konna ghadna u nibqghu.
@ Woody, I just read an article in the Canadian secret service monthly, about some insurance fraud, it said that the money went to some secret society. (food for thought)