Reading that immediately brought to mind Matthew 8:28-34 – the bit about the pigs.

“What do you want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”

Some distance from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

He said to them, “Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water. Those tending the pigs ran off, went into the town and reported all this, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men. Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw Him, they pleaded with Him to leave their region.

This passage always makes me smile and think of the Labour Party.

Today I received one too. Funny how the unsubscribe link points to josephmuscat.net, not the PL site.

I believe that as long as they include an unsubscribe link – even if the mail was unsolicited and your email address was clearly harvested – they can’t be accused of spamming.

I’m not familiar with/ aware of any equivalent Maltese legislation to this effect, but that’s the way things are in the US: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/ecommerce/bus61.shtm Not saying it’s ethically right, but the law is the law, for good or for bad.

It would also be interesting to look into birthday greetings and other letters sent out of the blue by MPs in brown envelopes carrying the House of Parliament stamp and presumably paid from our taxes.

I have received such correspondence from both sides of the House in the past. How is that different? And I never saw any unsubscribe mechanism explained in those letters, either.

I received mine on my university email address. These addresses are hidden accept from university employees and one has to log in to access them.

So I believe that as usual with the PL, they have found some good friend within the university (and I might know who this person is) who has downloaded all the university’s list and given it to the PL.

The good thing is that one can blacklist the MLP email addresses and all goes down straight to spam and from there directly to trash.

Yes, Lydia, inspiring words indeed – but then Paul Boffa was a man who inspired the people and whose good leadership qualities stood out during the difficulties and sufferings of WWII and, when Paul Boffa uttered those words the ‘torch’ was in HIS hands.

Lydia, you ignore what then happened when Mintoff grabbed the torch and ran off with it; using its guiding light to lead his followers back into the depths of medieval darkness and ignorance from which, three generations on, they are still unable to break out.

Thanks to Mintoff and to the entire circus act in the red glass house that succeeded him, the MLP/PL torch emblem now symbolises nothing other than fear, injustice, abuse of power, inept government, and maladministration. It is a badge of shame.

And, Lydia, when all is said and done, a torch is useless when its bearer has no clue as to where he should be going – Joseph Muscat’s stewardship as torch bearer amply demonstrates that truth.

Is the PL so lacking in leadership that they can’t even decide what emblem it wants?

As for the claim that the torch ‘represents progress, a guiding light, education and love’ I couldn’t disagree more and I think iIm not alone in thinking so. that might have been a good question to ask the public for feedback about.

I cannot understand why the SMS vote rip-off isn’t given more prominence on the PN media.