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Remember this - I am your ray of hope
The inevitable floating voter who always voted PN (some floater, that) but will now vote for Joseph Muscat wrote on timesofmalta.com’s comments-board that the Tunisian protests were 100% effective but yesterday’s was not.
The confused man is unable to distinguish between real protests, which are by their very nature spontaneous and communicate a real and dangerous message to the oppressor, and an organised rally.
But somebody else pointed this out:
Bob Cauchi
The people of Tunisia did not have the commodity or time to get Nexos to spend the day setting up speakers and lights across republic street. This was a show, the stage was set, the actors turned up and so did their audience, success all round for the puppeteer.
That about sums it up.
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madoff, inti taghzilomna ukoll ir-ritratti!
I think the confused man knows what he means by saying that the protest held yesterday was not effective.
For me it was like a passigata man-nisa. Can you tell me how this rally may have an effect or pressure on government to turn back all the measures already taken?
In the past, such protests or rallies were just a waste of time because everything remained as it was.
In Tunisia, the protests turned violent because they were instigated by police and soldiers. But the Tunisians won the war after sacrificing their blood. If their protest were similar to the LP protest then be assured that Ben Ali would be still in power laughing at the crowd.
Are you suggesting that yesterday’s passigata (you’re right there) should have been violent, for effect? I remember the days when such a protest would well have turned violent – the participants would have been pelted with stones, pipes and razor-blades embedded in potatoes from the roofs of buildings lining Republic Street.
And the police and riot police would beat and arrest victims as they ran away from the deluge. I wonder if Joseph Muscat, The Pampered Leader, would have strutted so nonchalantly down Republic Street then.
I asked a Labour friend if he’s going to the organised protest and he said ‘heqq mela’, but when I asked him what the protest was all about he had no clue.
‘Remember this – I am your ray of hope’……Well, then I’d rather be blind.
The sales of mqaret and pastizzi in Valletta rose by more than 1000% last Friday evening, rubbishing the 5.5% jump in Maltese retail sales reported by the BBC on 6 January. Now why are you saying the protest was not a major success?