Comments on: The skewed logic of Miss Jason's friend, Mrs Scerri https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:28:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Milone https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62676 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:28:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62676 Did Consuelo Scerri-Herrera really use the word ‘respect’? Maybe she meant to say that people in a position of some authority should not be criticised? Isn’t that why she believes she should not be criticised?

]]> By: Grezz https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62675 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:57:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62675 There were other people who held positions which should be occupied by people “of integrity”. Lorry Sant, Noel Arrigo and Dom Mintoff are but a few.

]]> By: A Zammit https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62674 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:01:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62674 Sick….it simply makes me sick to read that being secretary-general to a political party earns one an automatic distinction.

If Magistrate Herrera honestly has such ideas, God forbid that oneshould appear before her for judgement. Pathetic, naive, stupid, partisan, childish and grossly unjust.

]]> By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62673 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:22:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62673 Look at the comment beneath this article: people found guilty of defaming Jason Micallef should be banned for life from writing political articles. Would they still be permitted to write cookery books, I wonder?

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=4230

]]> By: Chicken https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62672 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:45:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62672 So, using Consuelo’s own argument, given that Jason Micallef is no longer the Secretary General of a political party, then, we are entitled to question his integrity.
And notice how the magistrate said “l-poplu ghandu juri r-rispett lejn il-kariga tieghu” and not something like “rispett lejh bhala persuna li tokkupa dik il-kariga.”
It is precisely because people respect the post of secretary general of a political party that the people show contempt for the persons who occupy it without deserving to do so.

]]> By: Tim Ripard https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62671 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:44:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62671 Incredible, a magistrate commiting perjury in the course of sentencing!!!!! (Can’t have enough exclamation marks here)

]]> By: Mario Bean https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62670 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:09:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62670 Jason is a person of integrity? But then the magistrate who said those words thinks that she, too, is a person of integrity – simply because she is a magistrate.

The word to describe them is ‘vulgar’.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62669 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:57:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62669 “The plaintiff is segretary-general of a political party, therefore he is a person of integrity”

Following the same reasoning, “I am a magistrate and therefore I am a person of integrity and therefore I shall call in the police if you show I am nothing of the sort.”

]]> By: JP Bonello https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62668 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:35:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62668 Actually I am beginning to suspect that there is scope for a website dedicated to silly dicta couched in legalese.

It would be beneficial to this country having the judiciary on its toes.

]]> By: Vanni https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-skewed-logic-of-miss-jasons-friend-mrs-scerri/#comment-62667 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:17:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8271#comment-62667 “The plaintiff is segretary-general of a political party, therefore he is a person of integrity”

Therefore, using the same yardstick, Joseph Stalin, who was General Secretary of the Communist Party, was also a person of integrity.

Interesting.

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