still point taken… you know your Geography :P

Either that, or else they used morse code and a vuvuzela.

[Daphne – The vuvuzela is South African. You might as well say that the Maltese communicate using Scottish bagpipes, on the grounds that both countries are in a continent called Europe.]

No, it’s not about the ‘legalise drugs’ argument at all. That’s just the stress test for those who call themselves ‘liberal’, but are unknowingly Statists. Understanding the drugs charade is only Level One of distinguishing reality from political illusion.

“The one thing on which we will never agree,” as you say?

Not really. There’s a mountain of truth that’s totally unknown to you and your smug applauders. And when you get sporadic glimpses you scream ‘conspiracy theory’ without knowing what it means and to what it alludes. It explains why you’re a neo-liberal, that is, a fake liberal.

This all ties into the argument above because you’re poking your nose into private matters – which is a very Statist attitude. It is now a private matter because the State is done with its investigations and found no evidence to justify crucifying the sole survivor of the tragedy. A tragedy with which you have no connection whatsoever.

[Daphne – Kevin, I’m too bored to take this further. Just one point: public interest is not justified on the grounds of personal connection with events.]

You’re off on a tangent now. I’m not trying to excuse or justify anything. I am saying that in a republican democracy you cannot just charge and convict a person on the basis of ‘expertise in human nature’. You need tangible evidence for that. Surely you understand thus far.

Your suspicions, no matter how sound they may be, remain conjecture (and believe me, circumstances could exist which you’d never expect). If they want to sue him privately, well and good, that’s their prerogative, but what’s Daphne doing in the midst of this private matter?

[Daphne – It’s not a private matter, Kevin, but a very public one. It was all over the news, people were asked to raise funds, and the survivor, I believe, even got a sum of money delivered personally by the minister responsible for fisheries. And after the initial emotion was over, people began to think – rather too late.]

Don’t whinge about ‘kemm naqbad mieghek’ and all that girly stuff, Daphne. You do your job and I do mine. I commend you for no longer deleting my comments, but you remain a walking contradiction… and, of course, one of the most influential lilliputians on the rock.

You think you’re a liberal, when in fact you’re what we call a ‘neo-liberal’ – which is just another blue-shaded Statist within the red-blue paradigm. True liberals haven’t existed for a number of years now (John Stuart Mill – now he was a liberal. Unlike you, for example, he immediately understood the falsity and disastrous consequences of criminally prohibiting substance use). Today, any true liberal would call himself a ‘libertarian’. I am sure you would not understand this – you’d not call yourself a ‘liberal’ if you did.

As for Sant, I think qed thallat il-hass mac-cass… no fishing in this area, Daphne – not today.

[Daphne – Girly stuff? Neo-liberal? And it’s back to your ‘legalise drugs’ arguments. The one thing on which we will never agree.]

Last year, I needed to board a ship from its car deck, aka garage, on foot, being a roro vessel, with my umbrella open, when it was raining cats and dogs.

Since the master happened to be a ‘Palermitano’, and a very superstitious one, as soon as I set my foot on the entrance he demanded, that, either I close my umbrella or get off althoughI I had another 12 metres or so, to get under cover.

Although I obeyed immediately, still he told me ”Questa e la mia casa”

I am alone it seems, but some of Dr Ann Fenech’s findings raised some questions in my mind.
Here are a few, although I stand to be corrected.

Page 41. Para 9.
a)Was the position of this mystery boat recorded by Italian fishing authorities?
b)Bugeja said he recognized the boat therefore why was its’ owner not located, and interviewed?
c)Bugeja also said he knew it was based in Lampedusa and not mainland Italy.

Page 41, Para12.
a)Were the three ships that left Freeport, as witness stated, identified? If not, Why?

Page 41 Para 11. The boat burned for 6 hours producing a huge black plume.
a) what distance would one expect such a plume to be visible from?
b) which boats were known to be within that radius?

Page 37 Para 30.
a) Was Borg Costanzi /Datatrak asked whether they had records as to how many cases of corrupt software were reported and rectified since the system was launched?
b) if so, was this confirmed?

Page 47 Para 3.
Simon was hopeful that he would be found because of the datatrak device and the EPIRB. In subsequent interviews, he was not asked how he could have been so confident about the EPIRB when he said time and again that he did not know how to use it.

Their only fan appears in the photograph.

Oh!

“Nowhere is there any indication that he tried to save those employees.”

So barring any such indication he remains a suspect.

Inspector Caruana Galizia would have clouseaued her way differently, of course. In the absence of witnesses, CCTV footage, or even an actual scene of crime, she would have interrogated him with kitla & klamar and charged him with manslaughter, assuring the magistrate that he’s guilty because she’s ‘an expert in human nature’.

Tridx ghandi ghalqa tintefa’ tahratha ghat-tadam u l-patata ghal zmien il-ghaks?

[Daphne – Kemm int antipatika, miskin, Kevin. What exactly are you trying to excuse and justify here – a boat-owner taking his son, father and employees out to sea without knowing how to use safety and emergency equipment? An unexplained explosion which, on the one hand, shattered the boat immediately but, on the other hand, gave the boat-owner enough time to knot together an improved flotation aid? You really have a problem, don’t you. If I say something, then you have to disagree and be disagreeable. Yes, I am pretty good at human nature, and I am astonished when what is blindingly obvious to me is not similarly obvious to others. Was I right from day one in my character assessment of Alfred Sant, or was I wrong, for instance? Have you any idea how many tedious gatherings I had to sit through, in which he was lauded and admired by those who can read people like they can read Chinese? I think that at least we can agree on that.]

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Is John Zammit grabbing Jean Pierre Sammut’s ass here?