The Elve-Hunting Project Begins
Three and a half years ago, just before the general election, I and lots of others began to notice that there was a running theme to letters published in The Times and signed by ‘newbies’ to the correspondence columns, who appeared to have names carefully crafted to seem ordinary.
I voted PN but now I would vote Labour because the Nationalists are intollerant.
The same theme was picked up on the internet comments-boards by people with interestingly creative names.
aLL mY liFe i beeN votinNg NazzzJonalizt but now i vote MLP cos GonzI is intollerent.
Given that language is my particular sport (you can do it sitting down), I took an interest in these letters and comments and began to track them and parse them. It soon became obvious that they were all written by the same few individuals under different names, a couple of whom found the spelling of ‘intolerant’ particularly problematic and always gave it two Ls, straight from Maltese.
Another common factor is that the writers seemed to be rather young, and the tone and style they used was in conflict with expressed sentiments such as ‘I am a Sliema housewife and I am going to vote Labour because of the price of electricity and because Gonzi is so intollerant.’
And then, serendipity!
An email message from one person in this organised group, sent to Nikita Zammit Alamango (a woman, despite the name) and other people who I now know to have been budding recruits of Forum Zaghzagh Laburisti, went astray.
Somebody at the newspaper for which I work found himself inadvertently included in the round-robin email list and got it. The email included suggestions on the theme for the next letter-assault.
So I wrote a column and called it The Elves in Sant’s Grotto, detailing all this, and the name ‘elves’ stuck. The singular, because that is how some of the elves themselves spelled it, became ‘elve’.
And now I have noticed that the elves are back. Anyone who spends as much time on the internet as I do cannot but see a pattern emerge. Others have noticed it too.
At first it was a trickle but now it’s a deluge. And this time the elves, God bless them, are not Sliema housewives worried about the electricity bill and Gonzi’s ‘intollerence’.
This time the elves are gay liberals who are going to vote for Muscat because he listens and because even though he has said categorically that he is against same-sex marriage, he has asked them to convince him and change his mind – a challenge they appear unable to resist, and exactly the sort of flirtatious overture, I might add, that straight men routinely issue to straight women (which is how we recognise it for what it is).
And god bless them, all of them are men, because there are no lesbians in Malta. Or – a safer bet, this – because in the Labour elves’ grotto they’re still thinking in terms of ‘pufti’.
Yes, there are real gay men writing in with real names and real views in real sentences and with proper arguments, but the elves are out there in force doing them a gross disservice in the name of Labour.
Thank heavens they can use ‘gay’ instead of ‘homosexual’ because just imagine what they could do with that.
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The elves also repeat lies and twist facts. A case in point is their argument that there is nothing wrong with downloading porn, when the charge does not refer to downloading porn but to distributing, by email, pornographic pictures of his ex boyfriend as an act of revenge.
“a woman, despite the name”
The name “Nikita” is unisex.
La Femme Nikita – great flick.
Nikita, by Elton John – terrible song.
Nikita Kruschev, former Russian foreign minister – “Mr. Kruschev said he will bury you, I don’t subscribe to this point of view”, Sting.
Nikita has a blog on, where else, timesofmalta.com. I once sent in a post asking whether she had been named after Nikita Kruschev but I no got no reply or comment.
By the way, is she the same Nikita in the pic you once had on one of your blogs having her, ahem, behind groped by an elf?
[Daphne – Exactly that.]
He was a colourfull Soviet president and was ‘asked’ to leave and retire. He was the one who banged his shoe on the table in a UN assembly speech.
I liken Hugo Chavez to him.
Nikita is the boyfriend of Elton John, in the song.
Cyrus on timesofmalta.com: “They want to destroy my reputation.”
Which one?
What reputation?
Did he actually say that or did timesofmalta.com translate it from Maltese?
He’s doing a fine job of it by himself.
Real gays are beside themselves with anger at Cyrus Engerer who, after the end of his relationship with Marvic Camilleri, anonimously sent Marvic’s compromising pics to Marvic’s friends and work colleagues. That’s Marvic’s report to the police.
That’s what real gays are talking about.
And Nationalist politicians cannot believe how Cyrus Engerer kept the charges against him hidden from his PN colleagues while addressing the PN general council and telling all Malta that the PN team is by far better than Muscat’s.
[Daphne – Well, Libertas. Now we know what Jeffrey and Cyrus have in common, and why Jeffrey is lionising Cyrus on his Facebook wall.]
He then gets questioned by the police on the 23rd June and on the 9th July, Gay Pride day, insists with the police to get on with his case so he can have his day in court.
Then all of a sudden on the 15th July, Cyrus Engerer phones up the press to tell them to come and film him and interview him about his resignation from the Nationalist Party supposedly because of the PM’s vote on divorce.
And they lap it all up, with The Times leading the beatification proceedings while real people in real streets see how the press have been duped by Cyrus Engerer, who is also in the process of duping Joseph Muscat whom Cyrus didn’t tell about his Marvic case.
[Daphne – Oh worse than that, Libertas. Think harder. It’s difficult for Joseph Muscat not to have known about it, not to have known that Cyrus emailed out those photographs. His ex boyfriend’s lawyers are Vince Micallef – part of the tight-knit Consuelo/Robert/Jeffrey/Muscat circle – and Andy Ellul, hu Sharon. You can see the thinking there: back then Marvic picked Vince Micallef (a Muscat man and heavily involved with Labour) because Cyrus was a PN politician. How Vince must have salivated. Not long afterwards, stories about Cyrus – “we know something about him and that the police are after him but we’ll let you know when the moment is right” – began to appear on the Labour website tasteyourownmedicine, which was actively promoted at start-up by members of Forum Zaghzagh Laburisti. My own view is that Muscat (mis)calculated that he stood to gain more by detaching Cyrus from the PN and burning him (double whammy) than he stood to gain by burning him in situ. But it’s backfired badly.]
Imma the elves are now all gay men who used to vote Nationalist but who will now vote for Joseph Muscat because he does NOT want to introduce same-sex marriage and has repeatedly said so.
You’re right, Daphne.
May I add my penny’s worth?
Why did Cyrus reply “No Comment” to The Times reporter when asked wether he approved of Joseph Muscat’s call for resignation of Mr Galea Curmi?
Because he wants to damage a family friend, too.
According to the search function on the website tasteyourownmedicine on July 2010 the was a write-up titled Cyrus Cirillu. However when one tries to open that write-up it seems that it has been deleted. Was this the write-up when they started hinting that they knewsomething about Cyrus?
“Gonzi never complimented me on my shoes or my six-pack. So now I vote Labour.”
Strangely I saw a glimpse of an admiring glance at my footwear.
How about this for a good reason to be Labour:
“I used to vote PN but now I will vote Labour because the Nationalists are intolerant.
I am now Labour. I cannot tolerate the Nationalists, the Church, and heterosechxuals any more.”
An elve-speak competition! An elve-off!
“GonziPN is such intollerant of diversive views. Mintoff gave freedom to the Maltese and Gozitans and permitted vote for women and liberalized homosexuality. Youths will vote for Dr. Muscat because he is the wind of change.”
Elve-speak on Maltastar:
GonziPN wants to destroy my reputation. They are intoleranting me after I could not tolLerate them. They leaked my charges to ta Times. This leaves me like a reed shaking in the wind…in the wind of change…Joseph Muscat is the wind of change. Youths will vote for Dr. Muscat because he is the wind of change.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/09/15/chaos-theory-a-reed-shakes-in-the-wind-and-joseph-muscat-ends-up-with-a-medical-condition/
PL is the party of young future people. Doctor Joseph tollers and speaks with everyone even if he is gay. Not like GonziPN they send spectors after your house. All promises of GonziPN have flied in the wind. In the wind of change…Joseph Muscat is the wind of change. Youths will vote for Dr. Muscat because he is the wind of change.
Faking grassroots outrage with letter-writing is called astroturfing.
AstroTurf is a brand of plastic grass for football fields.
Football fields are arenas where illiterate louts lacking any inkling of sportsmanship do battle for the delectation of zillions of pea-brained hooligans.
hallelujah – right on
Yes, you’re absolutely right.
Actually, I’ve been noticing it on Facebook. Facebook is agog with all this anti-Gonzi speak: he is not liberal, he is not progressive, he is not in tune and intollerant. There is a tsunami (not merely waves) of contempt against Gonzi.
I noticed it in the run-up to the divorce referendum because the arguments brought forward by these individuals were not pro-divorce arguments but, rather, anti-Gonzi hence pro-divorce comments.
However, they were camouflaged and were not out in full force.
Now, somehow, there is this false “support-for-gays” movement which frankly I do not give two hoots about.
As you say Daphne, gays shouldn’t be ghettoised and a person shouldn’t be made to stand out because of his or her sexuality. I always relate to a person’s sexuality as I relate to a person’s pair of shoes (unless they’re Italian and a masterpiece that is) – totally irrelevant to my relationship with the person.
After all, whoever the person hugs at night is neither my own business nor my interest. However, now I am noticing that the elves are back with a vengeance, and are annoying to no end.
There’s a ‘Polly Bonello’ who has appeared out of nowhere concurrently on this site and timesofmalta.com, and s/he’s a typical example.
One can trace these people.
Surprised “Gay girl in Syria” hasn’t relocated to Malta by now
Hmmm. I’m sure Joseph Muscat is against gay (same sex) marriage because if we introduce the legislation, all European and African gays will come to Malta to marry and to live here.