That’s because we’re spineless – it’s not only the opposition that sits on the fence, Daph.

[Daphne – Yes, read my column tomorrow. It’s about this.]

I respectfully disagree.

He is a radio show host with an audience. There’s room for prayer and there’s even more need for condemnation. He might have earned a bit more respect from people who are not members of his usual audience and that usual audience might have learned that there is something other than self-interest.

I had read you loud and clear when you first mentioned the ‘valletta’ sarcastic intentional pun in another post. And this comes from a country whose leader seems to know a lot about ‘vallette’. Or so their law courts say anyway.

This expression was used by the Italian ventriloquist Jose`Luis Moreno and his puppet Rockfeller. However, Daph, the use of the word Valletta does not mean whore under ny circumstance….it is used here to mean sidekick, servant or assistant, and that is because the valletta does the leader of the show’s bidding, as directed.

[Daphne – The English equivalent is whore in this context. Moreno would have probably said as much, had he not wanted to pun on Valletta.]

Isn’t he a priest? Apart from condemning, a prayer wouldn’t have been out of place, but a silly joke was.

The only way that Malta can shed the expression “Malta – la valletta di Gaddafi” is by emulating Peru andbreaking diplomatic relations with Tripoli. However, who in Malta has the “cojones” to suggest this action and act on it?

Said a PRAYER?

How about roundly condemning Gaddafi and his actions and reminding listeners that they are part of the wider world?

Gone are the days when we were a Libyan satellite. We’re in the EU now, and not thanks to people like you.

All European leaders, and even the US, had tried to move closer to Libya in the hope that Gaddafi would stop sponsoring terrorism.

[Daphne – Actually, Denis, what they did to stop him sponsoring terrorism was ostracise him, and not move closer to him. They even tried to kill him, remember, but our prime minister KMB warned him that US bombers were flying over Malta. And thanks to him, we got another 25 years of the maniac and nobody knows how many people suffered and died in Libya at his hands.]

Dr. Gonzi worked along these lines. After all, Libya is our closest neighbour and it in our interest that we have stability in this area of the world. To compare this with the 80s charade, when Libya dictated matters in Malta, is ludicrous.

[Daphne – Libya still dictates matters to Malta. Malta is still worried about taking a stand against Gaddafi even as he goes down. That’s how bad it is. It’s so bad that even our prime minister and foreign minister were in denial about what was going to happen in Libya, and visited Gaddafi on February 9, when trouble had begun already in Benghazi.]

[Daphne – All Maltese politicians’ visits to Gaddafi can be explained in the same way: attempts at keeping a monster on side. Full stop. Nothing is actually discussed at those meetings, despite the press releases afterwards, because you can’t have a discussion with a nutjob. I gather you have heard him speak occasionally? Why watch a good movie when you have Super One? You can learn so much. You never know, little green people from Saturn might be tapping Jason’s and Ronnie’s telephones in an attempt at finding out…..never mind.]