Whatever Mintoff achieved could have been brought about without the chaos, menace and insecurity on which he built his own myth.

He had no respect for private property, except his own; no regard for the rule of law, unless it served his own ends; and, worst of all, no real plan or lofty ambition for il-popolin other than half-baked utilitarian ideas about education as a means of grinding everyone down to the same level.

In the final years of the British empire, knighthoods were being handed out like smarties.

Gonzi’s knighthood was a political message from Westminster: we’d rather have him as the church’s head honcho in Malta than some rabid fascist Italophile.

As it happened, he fought tooth and nail against integration for very much the same reason that people are fighting against divorce legislation today – misguided religious claptrap.

Not that it would have made any difference. Integration was a typical Mintoffian “ask for the impossible, and then turn sour when you don’t get it” approach. We should have asked for dependency status, but, as DJs @ Work used to say back in the 90s, the past was yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvgfOkdwuEo

Get that German rave sound!

Suldat tal-Azzar, jien kont nahseb li dak il-Monument ta’ Hal-Luqa bnewh ghalih.

Insejt l-“Ixtri Malti”?

Le. Ghidilna iktar…

Duminku is now the Salvatur Emeritus.

I did, on multiple occasions, and in writing. But I’m among the slime on the seabed in the grand scheme of Maltese power, so I never made the headlines, and my criticism counts for nothing. Besides I’m neither in acadaemia nor in government, and neither am I one of Gonzi’s blue-eyed boys. So I’m not on anyone’s radar.

As for using my real name on this blog, I won’t. I haven’t the means to pay for a lawyer when I’m taken to court by our zealous upholders of criminal libel laws. And I still have to make my way in the world. I have more balls than Nike’s central depository, but I don’t want to jeopardise my employment opportunites even further.

Carmel, Duminku m’ ghadux Salvatur. Issa Joseph Muscat huwa s-Salvatur u Duminku huwa t-Traditur.