Drs Gonzi and Borg let you down – and (above) Tony Blair let the British down. Gonzi and Borg are ultra-conservative Catholics (Borg pandering to the Gift of Life fundamentalists) and Blair subsequently converted to Catholicism. Makes one wonder…

My great-grandparents and their children, including my grandmother, who was 15 at the time, were caught up in that. They escaped by the skin of their teeth – on a British battleship – but they were some of the very very few that managed.

Next Saturday, I will go to Valletta with my ten-year-old son to morally support the anti-Gaddafi Libyans.

Do not read beyond what I write. I did not suggest that Malta is pure, far from it. I see you’re interpreting my comment as a defence of how the Maltese are acting. Not at all. I think it is shameful.

But where do we look for the ideal role models?

Sweden is seeking him to make the US happy. Did you actually read the charges? They are not even a criminal offence in the UK. No one was ever brought to the attention of Interpol for those charges.

And condoning the US for being tough? Seriously?

Isn’t it hypocritical to claim to be a beacon of human rights and then break your own rules? Even from a pragmatic point of view that approach does not make sense. Torture is shown to yield bad intelligence and the risk of torturing innocents is also too great.

Spot on, Jo. In democracies the government can say it represents the people. I just want to tell this government that being cowardly selfish hypocrites on this matter you in no way represent me.

And I will not forget.

We’re not talking about money here, we’re talking about lives. I have a very good friend in Tripoli at the moment and I expect my government to make the right noises so he and all his people can get out of the nightmare they are in.

This has nothing to do with partisan politics. It’s about fellow human beings. Do the right thing morally, even if it maybe the wrong thing financially!

Surely we should empathise more with the Libyans fighting for their freedom? May they have the satisfaction of experiencing the happiness and sense of freedom we have enjoyed in1987. Good luck, Libya.

So what then, if no one is pure? Is Malta itself pure? But I think that Sweden and the US should never ever be mentioned in the same sentence with countries such as Iran, Libya, North Korea and China.

Far, far from it. I would even condone the US in being tough on suspected terrorists. And when I say ‘suspected’ it is because they are not far off the real thing. And I do not consider Assange’s spilling of official documents as representative of ‘the sanctity of free speech’.

Sweden is seeking him for altogether different motives, unless you can PROVE otherwise. But obviously you are entitled to harbour a different opinion to mine, even if facts remain facts. On the other hand, even dictators such as Mubarak and Ben Ali were benign when compared to the likes of Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad. So then, what does that make of us? We should keep up appearances and do business as usual?

Shall we be ashamed now or in the future?

A quick illustration of the point is Chamberlain’s “peace for our time” blunder just a year before the dawn of World War II. He “couldn’t have known”, despite that Hitler broke all his weaponry sanctions throughout the 30s.