I’m sorry – this joke was in very bad taste. But, still, all jokes, for me are in very bad taste if they somehow ridicule this tragic situation.

I may be a wet blanket, but that’s how I feel in such situations. I’m watching in horror and certainly do not feel like cracking jokes when I see people’s skulls being cracked open by their fellow-brethren-turned-snipers taking a shot at people gathered for funerals. I mean, how evil can one get??

Actually, first cousins. While referring to Libyan people, Mintoff once said ‘dawk nannithom, nannitna’, which roughly translates as ‘their grandmother and our grandmother are the same’ or better still ‘ we share the same grandmother’. I was in Libya at the time and my Libyan friends and collegues would not let me forget it. For weeks after this Mintoff gem all Libyans were calling me ‘gugin’.

Don’t insult pigeons.

Priest or not, his ‘joke’ was stupid and out of place under any circumstances let alone with all that happening in Libya.

Every time I enter a church to hear mass and I see him coming out to say the mass, I get up and walk out. To me, he is no priest and he is unbearable, at least, by my standards.

And the color of the police uniforms was green.