Joseph Muscat should ring Catherine Ashton and tell her to be 'prudent'
Commissioner Catherine Ashton has announced that the European Union is to set up an office in Benghazi, now the unofficial opposition capital of Libya.
This office, she said in Strasbourg, will “support the people” and the Transitional National Council. She also said that the EU will help with education, health care and border security.
Meanwhile, the increasingly awful and uninspiring Labour leader Joseph Muscat told reporters only last week that he will say nothing at all about Libya because “we should be prudent.”
And his predecessor said that we Maltese should go to Tripoli and seize the businesses abandoned by ‘foreigners’.
I won’t ask what we Maltese did to deserve this, caught between such rubbish in the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party’s shameless and shameful behaviour over divorce, cynically using a democratic tool – a referendum – to reinforce an undemocratic situation which it wishes to perpetuate.
We did everything to deserve it, because we made it happen, we allow it to continue happening, and many of us actually like it and think it is normal.
And all this while the finance minister talks to the Madonna and writes about it for the newspapers, and the chairman of the Stock Exchange and the head of the Malta Financial Services Authority campaign against divorce legislation and tell us that men shouldn’t be allowed to remarry because they can’t support two families.
And then there’s the bishop, who hurls fire and brimstone about as though he’s talking to 16th-century peasants: “There are brigands among us who will stop at nothing to lead the flock astray. They are going after marriage and then other things will follow….Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing, the wolf who now says he is Catholic.”
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Not so fast, bishop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDnE-5lD7w8
Ghalhekk ghandi nivvota LE
Going through all this I have my doubts whether we “deserve” independence and EU membership!
In for the long haul. A year of infighting would bring Libya to its knees and by then the much awaited ‘Arab Uprising’ should have started to usher in the prescribed Islamic Alliance.
Keep the proles in conflict and in fear. That’s the way of our globalist overlords. EU vs IA is a hell of a scenario, don’t you think? And with the China-enemy in their sleeve it should all serve as a good impetus towards ‘world peace’ through ‘world governance’.
But first, let there be war. For never forget, dear proles, that War is Peace and Slavery is Freedom.
Long Live the War in Libya – well, for at least a year.
It seems you are not all conversant with the gospels. In fact last sunday bishop Mario Grech was only quoting Jesus´ words in the day´s gospel: “Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10, 7-10
Catherine Ashton has followed the advice of KMB. What a humiliation for Joseph Muscat.
It looks like the Maltese financial services sector is built on the stability of the Maltese family.
” We allow it to continue happening” Now that’s a very strong statement. What do you expect us to do? Go down in the streets, like in the sixties?
[Daphne – How about voting Yes? That’s easier, and private.]
Mind you I fully agree with you, something has to be done, it has gone too far, but I, like many others, are lost as what we should do. Any suggestions?
Of course I will be voting Yes, but is it enough?
And no it is not private – with me, I will be encouraging everyone to do the same.
The 28th of May isn’t just about divorce legislation anymore is it? To me, it’s looking like a make-or-break situation for Malta – the modern country.
A Yes outcome will give hope for a truly secular country (led by politicians who do not allow their religious beliefs to cloud their policy making), whereas a No outcome I would interpret as a nation-wide endorsement of the quasi-theocratic status quo.
I’m making it a point to be in Malta and vote on the day, and I’m hoping not to leave the islands with a bad taste. What was that cliched slogan again – Vote Gonzi (and Fenech), Get Cremona (and Grech)?
I say enough of that already! I can’t believe we’re still stuck in this situation in 2011. It’s ridiculously unbelievable, especially if you look at it from outside the bubble.
Vote Fenech get the Madonna.
Vision 2015.
Where’s that gone, anyway?
“Do you agree with the introduction of the option of divorce in the case of a married couple who has been separated or has been living apart for at least four (4) years, and where there is no reasonable hope for reconciliation between the spouses, whilst adequate maintenance is guaranteed and the children are protected?”
It really is a bullshit question.
It deserves a NO.
Hobson’s choice is no fun, the pan or the fire, arrogant PN or inadequate PL leaves a bad taste after voting.
My best bet is to immerse myself into more work and give Maltese politics a one-finger salute and then step back, hoping that if Labour wins the next election they do not do too much damage whilst the PN find their soul again.
The only solution is for a federal Europe that has the strength to kick some common sense into our centre of the universe.
Having read all the Don Camillo books I can only wish that we bring a smile to Christ on the cross with our heavy dose of spring madness.
Il-kwistjoni tad-divorce ma tinvolvix biss lil min fallielu z-zwieg u jixtieq jibda hajja gdida imma il-familji kollha li jkunu mdawrin maghhom.
Ftit gimghat ilu kont fuq il-bus u mara qalet “binti qalghat il-blackeyes fiz-zwieg u jiena ser mmur nivvota kontra d-divorce?”
Jigifieri dawn huma kollha voti mitlufin ghall-Partit Nazzjonalista kemm il-darba ir-referendum ma jghaddix.