The reply sent to Ritianne at KullHadd, the Labour Party's official newspaper (as distinct from its unofficial one, Malta Today)
I have obtained a copy of the reply sent out to Miss Ritianne Agius, ace reporter at KullHadd, who asked the prime minister, ministers, parliamentary secretaries and PN backbenchers whether they agree with il-moqzieza Defni and what she writes.
Sadly, this reply fails to let Miss Ritianne know that Guido De Marco and George Borg Olivier were not, as she seems to believe, ‘avversarji tal-PN’ or great Labour statesmen.
Grazzi ghal mistoqsijiet tieghek. Infakkrek li fil-gvern illum hemm il-Partit Nazzjonalista, mhux il-Partit Laburista.
Ghalhekk il-gvern ma jindahalx x’jiktbu n-nies fil-media. F’pajjiz demokratiku fejn hemm il-liberta ta’ l-istampa, il-gvern jindahal biss f’dak li jinkiteb mill-impjegati tieghu f’isem il-gvern.
Infakkrek ukoll li f’dan il-pajjiz jeizistu ligijiet li jaghtu drittijiet cari lil kwalunkwe individwu li jhoss ruhu ngurjat minn xi kitba fuqhom fil-media.
Dwar it-tieni u tielet mistoqsija tieghek, nheggek titlob risposta mill-Partit Nazzjonalista. Ukoll hawn hemm bzonn li tiftakar li meta l-Partit Nazzjonalista ikun fil-gvern ma jhawwadx il-gvern mal-partit; izomm iz-zewg entitajiet kompletaament separati.
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@ Daphne Caruana Galizia
Rajtu lil Lawrence Gonzi jaghti GIEH IR REPUBBLIKA, lid-DITATTUR EKS PRESIDENT TAT TUNEZIJA ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI. How about a write up on this historic event. Ex pn
“Ghalhekk il-gvern ma jindahalx x’jiktbu n-nies fil-media.”
Hasra li l-gvern, suppost liberali u demokratiku, jindahal f’dak li jittella’ fit-teatri . . .
c’hai proprio il chiodo fisso ….
I doubt Miss Agius can fully comprehend the idea of free press. I have a feeling the Labour news front is run like Pravda, including the measly wages.
As they say on the chat forums , “LOOOOL”.
You don’t realise that by obtaining this copy you have proved this Ritianne or whoever 100% right.
[Daphne – Around 50 people had a copy, chavs. What were the odds that I would get hold of it in the same way that I got hold of the questions? Ah, but that didn’t occur to you, did it.]
It didn’t occur to Saviour Balzan either. L-għaref l-ieħor.
Why did PL thugs burn the building of The Times? Because PL always wanted to keep the public in the dark of what went on during the Golden Days.
Why do PL want to stop Daphne’s intelligent pen? Because again, they don’t want the public, especially the young generation, to know what ministers used to do and also of the atrocities during the Golden Days.
These people never change. But now we have a democratic government. U f’wiccom se jibqa!
Ghax ghal tal-Labour il-verita hija moqzieza. Ghidilha lil Miss Ritianne Agius.
Miss Ritianne Agius got the reply she asked for.
I am in doubt whether there is the possibility that these answers will be fully understood by the one who asked the questions
Daphne, do you think that if Labour are elected (God help us) they would try and close this and any other website they are afraid of?
[Daphne – Their frustration is that they can’t. Even when they were in power in 1979 they couldn’t shut down newspapers. So they burnt them down or ransacked their office buildings instead. The law still protects freedom of expression, so Labour supporters (and governments) have to find a way around the law to achieve their aims. This usually involves violence and/or intimdation. I am constantly at the receiving end of this sort of thing.]
Then how can you be so sure it was the Far Right, and not Labourites, tried to burn down your house? I’ve always been curious about how you came to that conclusion. After all, you’ve always received far more violent threats from Labour than from any other party.
[Daphne – Because one assumes that the Labour Party had no interest in setting fire to Saviour Balzan’s front door, the Jesuits’ cars, and the Jesuit Refugee Service lawyer’s front door. And because just before all those arson attacks, slogans were painted in black on the approach road to our house, that included my name in conjunction with Africans.]
I wasn’t aware of the slogans. It certainly tips the balance.
But then again, issn’t the violent faction of the Far Right made up of Labour supporters?
I hope you can help me. I was a close friend of Sylvia King (and her family, Lawrence, Joey, Maria and Michael ) who was so horribly murdered some years ago.
I never got to meet her husband Paddy or her son Jonathon. I am planning to come to Malta in March to visit the memorial for Sylvia and would like to make contact with the family while I am there.
Is there any chance you could assist me in this? Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks.
Jill
I knew Sylvia from my bowling days, but not Paddy nor Jonathon. If I’m not mistaken Paddy owned a bar in Marsascala cala some years ago called the Lemon and Lime, but that’s just about all I know.
Yes, that’s your best bet: to go to Lemon and Lime and ask for them. I think her sister Maria and/or her husband are often to be seen there or at least used to be.
Their mum might possibly be in a care home.
Daphne, you make me shed tears of colour if (God forbid ) these people were to gain power.
Tiftakkru z-zmien meta f’Has-Serh (St.Vincent De Paule), l-anzjani kienu jittiehdu jivvutaw mil-partitarji Socjalisti u qrabat il-pazjenti ma kienux jithallew jidhlu? Il-Labour kien jiehu 99% tal-voti hemm gew.
This was published on 8th May 1987
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/08/world/in-malta-vote-a-main-issue-is-orientation.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm
Most controversial of all is the reorganization of Malta’s 300-year-old Jesuit university. The effort is intended, one minister said, to ”put the intelligentsia in the refrigerator.”
That’s you put in your place, Miss Ace Reporter.
An article in today’s Malta Today says the years 1971 to 1976 were Labour’s heyday, when Labour conveyed a project of reform.
Here’s a story from Labour’s heyday, as reported by the same newspaper.
http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2003/12/21/l4.html
National Bank Scandal • December 21 2003
Death in Parliament – the Mintoff law which killed the NBM
On the night of Monday, 10 December 1973, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff announced that the National Bank of Malta (NBM) management had offered government to take over the bank. Nothing could have been further away from the truth. Mintoff’s socialism had turned into the menacing streak of state capitalism with an iron fist.
Earlier on during that fateful day, throughout a heated meeting with NBM president Louis Vella and other directors, Mintoff had laid down the line, saying he wanted the bank by 5.30pm, and that he wanted all shareholders to transfer their shares to the government “naturally without compensation.”
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It seemed that Mintoff had planned his attack on the NBM well: when German bombers demolished the buildings of the Anglo-Maltese Bank and the Bank of Malta in 1941, Anthony Cassar Torregiani housed the two banks in his house for months until merging them into the National Bank of Malta in 1946. Mintoff had managed to destroy the spirit and heart of private banking within days.
Karmenu Vella would probably argue that he had nothing to do with this as he was too young to be involved.
http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2004/01/04/t3.html
In the single day following the announcement on television by then premier Dom Mintoff that the government would be taking over the National Bank of Malta, army soldiers and policemen were being sent round to shareholders’ houses to collect signatures for the share transfers.
Soldiers arrived as early as 2am and 3am to collect the signatures from the shareholders. The shareholders were scared: they had been warned by the National Bank directors that Mintoff intended to remove their limited liability and that he would make them personally liable for any deficit the bank would have incurred in the run.
Can someone please translate the reply into English. Thank you.
This is a very loose translation:
“Thank you for your questions. I would like to remind you that the party in government is the Nationalist Party and not the Labour Party. That is why the government does not interfere in what people write in the media.
In a democratic country where there is freedom of the press, the government only interferes in what its staff write in the name of the government.
I would also like to remind you that in this country there are laws which endow each and every individual with very clear rights should such individual feel slandered / offended by what has been written about them in the media.
With regards to your second and third questions, I encourage you to ask for a reply from the Nationalist Party. Here too, it is necessary for you to remember that when the Nationalist Party is in power, it does not mix up the government with the party; it keeps the two entities completely separate.”
Ritianne of Kullhadd is simply following a long tradition of expecting government to interfere in the workings of indepdendent institutions.
http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2003/12/21/l4.html
In conference with the NBM management that day, the Labour premier declared his intentions to seize the bank. He refused to have the Central Bank offer bridging finance after the NBM asked for ‘stand-by’ finance against a collateral of Lm22 million in loans, covered by hypothecs and insurance; he refused to have the bank obtain Lm3 million in finance from Midland Bank and National Westminster Bank.
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Mintoff said he would instruct all parastatal companies to withdraw their monies from the NBM, and have a long queue of their vans parade through Republic Street with some Lm4 million in parastatal holdings. He told bank president Louis Vella that if he (Mintoff) withdrew his money from the bank, everybody would follow suit, and that the bank would have to close down. “Jekk nigbed flusi jien, intkhom issubu ruhkom maghluqa fi zmien saghtejn” (If I withdraw my money, you will find yourselves closed within two hours).
The most notorious of threats was that he would abrogate shareholders’ limited liability so that the bank’s liabilities would have to be paid off from the personal wealth of the shareholders, “sa l-ahhar bicca kandelabru jigi konfiskat” (right down to the last piece of candlestick will be confiscated).
And here’s Labour’s hero Dom Mintoff on the independence of the judiciary and respect for the rule of law.
http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2003/12/21/l4.html
“I know this is against the Constitution, I don’t give a damn about the Constitution, was it not I that wrote it, I don’t give a damn about the judges and anybody.”
In fact Mintoff’s actual words were: Jien nitnejjek mil-Kostituzzjoni.
Yes, that was reported in the Malta Today article. The translation is much milder.
Ritianne. Where DO they find these names?
Looking at the KullHadd website (why did I bother), I realised that all the polls that they created were, naturally, anti-Government. Or more like anti-PN. But this one took the biscuit…
http://www.kullhadd.com/Poll-results/Fid-dawl-ta-dak-mistqarr-minn-Alex-Perici-Calascione-fl-opinjoni-tieghek-Eddie-Fenech-Adami-kien.html
Is it just me, or should a news portal never use words such as ‘jitnejjek’? So much for their professionalism.
Is that a true answer, or what you think it should be?
[Daphne – It’s the stock answer sent to Ms Ritianne Agius by those who received her questions.]
Whose reply was this, unless it’s a fictitious one?
[Daphne – The government’s reply. No, it’s not fictitious. This is not Malta Today or KullHadd. Incidentally, did Ritianne Agius publish it? I wasn’t looking.]
Better a political party with sound principles and the occasional error, than a political party with no principles and which can’t get anything right.
We simply adore this so called ‘moqzieza’ who goes by the name of Daphne. Daphne has no equal.
Risposta brillanti. Miss Agius, tawk lezzjoni gmielha hawn. Mhux int dahhalt lilhom fl-ixkora, imma huma lilek. Kemm ghad trid tiekol bajd u gobon biex tlahhaq ma’ mohh il-mexxejja tal-PN.
You occasionally get requests from younger people who missed out on the golden years asking what life was like then.
Imagine then that it is 1983 and you are 18 years old. Your second year at a church school sixth form has just ended. No matter how many A levels you have, or what grades you get, you’re not getting into university because entry depends on how many points your A levels are worth.
On paper the minimum entry requirements are 2 Cs and a D. However, those who attend the government sixth form are rewarded with an extra 20 points (the equivalent of 4 A levels at Grade A) on top of the points they earn from their A levels.
So, armed with 8 O levels and 4 A levels and determined to continue studying, you apply for the first thing that comes along – a three-year course for health inspectors. Not what you really want, but the alternative is to become a salesgirl and get paid the equivalent of 1 euro per hour.
The course requirements are 6 O levels so you’re over qualified and you sit back confident that you’ll be accepted. Instead you receive a curt note telling you that since you lack an O level in English you are not eligible for entry. This is odd because you have an A level in English.
You go back to the Health Department and ask for an explanation. The clerk fetches the envelope containing your application and pulls out the contents. Your certificates have been torn across with the edge of a ruler and mutilated with a biro so the results don’t show.
The course has started, decisions are final. Tucked in the envelope is a letter of acceptance that has been crossed out in red ink.
What next?
Applications for university are open so you apply for the B.Ed course anyway. You are not accepted. You do not have 20 points and the numerus clausus system means that this year they only have 84 places available.
Then your guardian angel steps in (the one above because you don’t have one below) and two people resign from the course and you are next on the waiting list. You’re in! Thank God! It’s like winning the National Lottery.
I am 45 years old now. I only ever attended church schools. I have never been a member of the Labour Party or the GWU. My parents are openly Nationalist. I slipped through the net.
Jekk kellu l-flus biex ihallaslek ghal skola privata missierek ghax ma kompliex ihallaslek ghal-universita?
Jien naf hafna tfal tal-haddiema li dahlu l-universita u saru nies.
Avolja dahluk xorta ma bqajtx grata mal-Labour ghal-universita.
Are you for real?
Can you really, in your wildest imagination compare the cost of church schools in Malta before KMB screwed them up to sending your children to an overseas university, considering that we were light years away from EU membership?
Do you think ‘rich’ people sent their children to church schools?
Most rich people in those days were in the Labour gangs, and the few who were not sent their children right out of the country, to boarding schools in England.
I still can’t figure out how Karmenu Vella could afford a yacht in those days on a minister’s salary unless he came from a well off family.
Most people who sent their children to church schools sacrificed everything for their children, as do so many today to send them to independent schools.
“Avolja dahluk xorta ma bqajtx grata mal-Labour ghal-universita.”
Dahluk? Why should ministers have a say in who gets into university?
Grateful to Labour for university – that’s like being grateful to the Nazis for peace in Europe.
It appears that either you are not fully conversant with English to fully understand what Pat Zahra has posted or have developed some form of selective reading or understanding.
So read her post once again very very slowly and try to understand what she is saying. But lead soldiers generally have leaden minds.
I can so relate to this comment. I too am 45 years old and in that same year I was also in the second year of sixth form, in my case the New Lyceum in Msida.
We were given the opportunity to apply for the post of bank employees by means of an exam. One of the questions we had to answer was what we thought of the last budget presented by the then Labour government (the one which was governing without a majority).
After having answered as I thought they wanted me to answer in the previous questions, I couldn’t take it anymore and told them exactly what I thought of the budget presented.
After a few days, I received a reply on an unsigned piece of paper informing me that my ‘attempt had been unsuccessful’. A few days after that my father, who is a staunch ‘laburist’ and a ‘tesserat’ came home angry at me because of how I answered that last question.
When I insisted on him telling me how he knew, he told me that my exam paper ended up in front of the committee of the Labour Party club of the village where I live.
Now what, Ritianne? What’s your next move? Or do we have to ask Saviour? What the hell were you numbnuts thinking when you thought up this brilliant tactic?
They quite obviously thought that they could resort to their old ways of bullying into submission. What people like that don’t realise is that the 40-something generation is stronger thanks to the old Labour tactics, having been brought up aware of them from a tender age, myself included.
As for the wishy-washy ones who can only be likened to a whore, flitting from party to party or going with the flow to appeal to whatever they are currently after? They sure are a sorry lot!
It seems the PL already wants to shut people’s mouths even while in opposition.
I wonder how they will be managing media and the freedom of speech in two years’ time when they are in goverment.
God forbid.
When they were in power, they managed freedom of speech by burning down The Times’ building whilst the staff were still inside, by attacking protesting teenage students with batons, shields, tear gas and the like, by restricting anyone who dared oppose them in all sorts of ways, by smashing the Law Courts and the Curia with KMB’s blessing … Need I go on?
Anyone who thinks that Labour has not changed its ways should think twice. With the same old faces having been resurrected, we are in for a bad time indeed. This Ritianne’s letter may be a drop in the ocean, but it sure is a taste of things to come, because their attitude and understanding of the way things should be done has not changed one iota from the dark 1970s and 1980s.
I wonder when they’re planning on pulling in Lino Spiteri.
Have you seen (I’m sure you have!) the history re-writing exercise announced on Maltastar?
Leading Maltese contemporary historians will discuss the history of the Labour Party in Malta during a book launch entitled HISTORY OF THE LABOUR PARTY by Mario Cutajar. Dr. Godfrey Pirotta, Dr. Reno Borg, Profs. Henry Frendo and Dr. Toni Abela will present their interpretation of Maltese contemporary history next Saturday 19 February at the CNL, Hamrun at 10.00hrs. Historian Mario Vella will chair this book launch.
Can you tell me how Reno Borg, Toni Abela and that turd (with all due respect to turds) Mario Vella qualify as ‘historians’. I can accept Godfrey Pirotta – even if he is as objective as I am Lejburist.
But the other three?
Il-vera wicchom u sormhom xorta – they have no qualms about distorting the truth and living the lie – because their values are so feeble.
My blood is boiling because today’s generation are so easily sucked in. It’s a little like our parents describing the war – we had no appreciation for what our parents really went through…….
[Daphne – With one major difference, rigu. We’d have sat up and listened had the Nazis and Mussolini stood for election to our government. We don’t listen to our parents’ stories about the war because it’s now irrelevant to the way we live our lives. It’s not quite the same thing as pointing to the television screen during the Labour annual general conference and describing what that man talking about the 2013 government did to screw up our lives in 1981.]
I don’t know why Henry Frendo puts himself in such an awkward situation. A propaganda session at the Labour HQ is hardly the kind of scholarly event he’s used to.
Maybe the man is just eccentric.
And what about budding medievalist Charles Dalli? I’ve always suspected he was a bit of a walt, but now he’s confirmed it.
Knowing the good Prof…it’s the rest of them that’ll feel awkward around him.
It is not mentioned anywhere in this that Professor Dr Mario Vella has any credentials in history.
http://www.iiip.ch/content/PeopleVella.html
I think we are missing a very important point here.
The LP want to silence all those who disagree with them. This when in opposition. What then when they are in government?
I feel that this is a clear indication of things to come with Labour in government.
“Grazzi ghal mistoqsijiet tieghek. Infakkrek li fil-gvern illum hemm il-Partit Nazzjonalista, mhux il-Partit Laburista”
This answer claims that the Labour Party does not allow freedom of speech.
Any reply from the Labour Party?
…or else you could ask Lou Bondi and Joe Azzopardi (stagename “Peppi”) on what station they were producing programmes between 1996 and 1998.
[Daphne – State television, because they don’t work for the political parties. Or are you suggesting that the political party in government ‘owns’ PBS? In any case, stage name Peppi was a Laburist in 1996. He helped vote Sant in, an error of judgement which I find hard to forgive, even though he rapidly changed his mind.]
So you accept that state television included persons, between 1996 and 1998, who did not work for political parties and at least one, Lou Bondi, was also active in the PN. So at least one myth, that state television in 1996-98 was controlled by the party in government. Good.
[Daphne – I don’t get your point, Albert. Labour are the ones always claiming that state television is controlled by the government, not me.]
The question originated from the Labour Party, so there you have your answer.
Sounds like PL will remove freedom of speech and expression as soon as they are in government. I expected them to say something about it and make it clear.
The answer CLAIMS? Where were you in the 1970s and 1980s?
That’s not the point. No matter what happened in the past, people would want to know about the present and the future.
http://www.kullhadd.com/201102052568/Ahbarijiet/kampanja-moqzieza-ta-daphne-caruana-galizia-fl-interess-tal-pn.html
Ma bezghetx minnek Ritianne.
[Daphne – That was last week’s story, before she sent out the questions. The choice of photo is interesting. When I uploaded one taken a couple of weeks ago, they said I was lying, and that it must have been taken 20 years ago. But they use a picture taken so long ago that I can’t even remember when I threw away that jacket – it must have been at least 10 years ago. This must be part of Jason Micallef’s campaign to convince the marmalja that the Bidnija witch uses botox.]
“Kienu l-eksmexxej Laburista Alfred Sant u warajh il-mexxej attwali Joseph Muscat li ddecidew li jinqalghu minn din il-mazzra ta’ Camillo u Don Peppone u bdew jaghtu qima lil Borg Olivier u Jum l-Indipendenza, kuntrarju ghaz-zeblieh li ghadhom jirrikorru ghalih in-Nazzjonalisti fejn jishtu Jum il-Helsien u l-Perit Mintoff.”
http://www.kullhadd.com/201102122594/Editorjal/l-istorja-li-ghad-trid-tinkiteb.html
Don Peppone? Dan min hu?
Qima lil Borg Olivier? Wara li ma nafx kemm ghajruh Barri u Chicken?
Even here, in Labour’s rewriting of history, they have changed the communist into the priest (Peppone) and the priest into the communist (Camillo). What next? Mintoff was the leader of the PN?
Dalwaqt nibdew nisimghu kemm hadmu minn wara l-kwinti (aqra ‘minn wara dahar Alfred Sant’) favur id-dhul ta’ Malta fl-Unjoni Ewropeja.
U kemm hadmu favur il-kunsilli lokali u l-istazzjonijiet tar-radju privati minn wara dahar Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, u kemm iggieldu ma’ Mintoff ghax ma’ razzanx il-vjolenza.
Naqra ohra u jghidulna li imn’Alla kien Silvio Parnis ghax li kieku is-swar ma’ gewx restawrati.
Jghaddi ftit zmien iehor u jghidulna li fuq il-progett ta’ Sant’Antnin opponew spalla ma spalla ma Joseph kontra r-rieha. U lil tal-Marsa jghidulhom li Mintoff kien li ghamlilhom il-faham mhux il-PL u li huma minn dejjem kienu kontra t-trab iswed.
Jghidulna li il-glieda ta’ l-iskejjel kienet ghax rieduhom b’xejn kif inhuma llum.
Imn’Alla jezistu l-videos u l-gazzetti on-line bhal-Malta Today arkivati.
“Din il-hatra hasdet u inkwetat lil Gonzi u shabu minhabba li l-Perit Vella huwa maghruf ghall-efficjenza tieghu u huwa mahbub minn kulhadd, irrispettivament mill-politika” –
Tarawx, Dr. Gonzi u shabu lanqas qed jorqdu bilejl bl-inkwiet. U halluna – ma tifilhux taqghu izjed ghac-cajt, ja qabda jokers.
Karmenu Vella rispettat minn kullhadd – din hija c-cajta tax-xahar.
Veru dawn tal-Labour ghandhom propaganda irhisa.
Joseph Muscat tant m’ghandu lil hadd fil-partit progressiv il-gdid tieghu, li kellu jaqa ghal dan il-perit u ex ministru tal-passat.
Fejnhom iz-zaghzagh u it-team il-gdid? Fejn hu Anglu Farrugia, l-espert ta’ kollox?
Mela issa l-ghazla se tkun bejn il-PN li se jwassalna ghall-futur u il-PL li se jehodna lura ghall-passat.
Daphne, was the president of the National Bank of Malta, Louis Vella, your grandfather? If I believe he is the same one I knew in the seventies. You must be extremely proud of this connection. He was a gentleman and he helped me after I came out of St. Luke’s Hospital after a nasty MVA and this during the doctors’ strike.
[Daphne – Yes, that’s my grandfather.]
To refresh Albert Farrugia’s and chavsRus’s memory, the National Bank of Malta is the bank which Prime Minister Mintoff stole from its private owners and renamed Bank of Valletta, keeping the same branches and head office and even the same employees.
Mintoff didn’t want to keep the same employees.
When asked what would become of them, his reply was “X’nitnejjek. Jidhlu fil-pijunieri.” Translation: What the f*ck do I care. They can join the pijunieri (a utilitarian project to provide ’employment’ without any real jobs, and which therefore had no utilitarian value at all).
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110213/local/accused-taken-ill-as-jury-returns-guilty-verdict
Mela dan mhux frame-up iehor minn taghkom? Sibtuh ghal snienkom lil Joseph Vella ghax l-unika htija l’ghandu hi li kien kandidat maghna.
Another conspiracy theory aficionado like our kev. So judge, jury, prosecution and, why not, defence team all conspired to find this accused guilty just because he was a PL/MLP candidate.
Daphne, I need to contact you through e-mail. Can you oblige please?
[Daphne – dcg@proximuspr.com]
This incident reminds me of the Pharisees trying to corner Jesus by asking him ‘trick’ questions.
For very obvious reasons I’m not comparing the PN to Jesus but Labour do, in fact, give quite a good imitation of the Pharisees in their whitened tomb mode.
Actually, that letter throws a blnding light on the mentality of the present Regime (the capital “R” is intentional). Arrogant and detached from reality.
It might have been written by one of Mubarak’s apparatchicks just nbefore his fall.
[Daphne – I see you posted the same comment under Saviour Balzan’s videoblog, on maltatoday.com.mt, where you use the nick Fellus ta Gahan: “Submitted on Mon, 02/14/2011 – 09:54. That letter throws a blinding light on the mentality of the present Regime (the capital “R” is intentional). It might have been written by one of Hosni Mubarak’s apparatchiks just before his fall.”
I’ve asked you this question before, but is stupidity a prerequisite for voting Labour?
Under the same videoblog, and using the same name ‘Fellus ta Gahan’, you also posted this comment: “But that does not mean we cannot say it as it is – that Daphne Caruana Galizia’s blog is a foul cesspit of hate and bile, run and written by a pathological, unbalanced individual who obviously delights in hurting others – to the delight of a set of similar souls who, lacking the literary gifts of their mistress, wraith breathlessly for her to tell them what they should be thinking and then trip over their little feet in the rush to be the first to tell her how right she is. Excuse me while I puke discreetly. I was already grown up in the 70s and the 80s – so I am free of the brainwashing that you seem to suffer from. Any assertion that there were restrictions of freedom of expression in those days are a foul lie.”
So, chavs, if I am a pathological and unbalanced woman, and if this blog is a vile cesspit, what exactly are you doing here? I see that in your ‘Fellus ta Gahan’ guise you are were grown up in the 1970s and 1980s, when it is pretty clear from what you say here that you weren’t even around. “Any assertion that there were restrictions of freedom of expression in those days are a foul lie” – I don’t know what’s worse, your grammar or your blind trust in the lies your Mintoffian parents fed you.]
During the Labour regime a friend coined the phrase “Jekk Alla jrid u Mintoff jippermetti”.
“Any assertion that there were restrictions of freedom of expression in those days are a foul lie”.
And so say all of us.
There could not have been any restrictions simply because freedom of expression was non-existent.
@ Rigu: Depends which Mario Vella, sur Rigu. Even I who live in the US know that the Mario Vella that chaired this conference is NOT the economist and sociologist Mario Vella that you are obviously referring to. There is in fact another Mario Vella (the one who chaired this conference) who teaches history in secondary schools. Do your homework, man!
Cicciobello, it’s not the same Mario Vella! See my reply to Rigu. Do your homework, man!