Luciano and the Labour Law of the Jungle
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August 26, 2011 at 11:12am
'I won't give you what's yours until you give me what I've decided is mine'- and this man is a lawyer, if you please.
Labour MP Luciano Busuttil is on Facebook this morning, expounding good old Mintoffian principles from the Golden Years (and in upper case, too):
377 MILLION EUROS OF LIBYAN FROZEN ASSETS IN OUR TERRITORY. SHOULD WE JUST HAND THEM BACK OR SHOULD WE THINK ABOUT THE MALTESE WHO LOST EVERYTHING? SHOULD WE, BEFORE HANDING THEM BACK, ASSURE OURSELVES THAT OUR OIL DRILLING RIGHTS WILL BE FINALLY RESPECTED BY THE NEW LIBYAN GOVERNMENT?
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He should ask how much of those Eur 377,000,000 are controlled by “Smokin'” Joe Sammut, before he shoots his mouth off.
That money was stolen from the people of Libya by Gaddafi, his family and his minions.
Maltese businessmen who amassed fortunes in Libya by kowtowing to the former power-brokers also have a lot to answer for.
It was explained that some 86 million of the 377 million are assets of the Gaddafi family. This amount is/was administered by ‘Smoking’ Joe Sammut.
Presumably, the interest (and maybe some principal) was bankrolling the Labour Party.
Now, the Labour Party has to look elsewhere, possibly the Mafia?
Reminds you of Joseph Cuschieri’s “Give me my seat or else we won’t help Greece”?
Has he ever written something to the tune of our oil-drilling rights being finally respected by the old Libyan government?
Perhaps that would have been too dangerous and self condemning, but now the coast is clear and it’s ripe time for looting.
Is this the way he intends to conduct law suits when Labour is in power? God help us.
No, really? You couldn’t make these things up.
and what’s this optimism about oil all of a sudden?!?!
you think that now that gaddafi is gone we can go and reclaim our own right to explore for oil in our own waters?!?!
GADDAFI WAS ONLY HALF OF THE PROBLEM!
Yes, and the other half is the Malta Labour Party.
Here’s the really interesting thing about Luciano Busuttil – he NEVER had anything to say about oil drilling rights. He and his beloved Labour Party would never bite the hand that fed them, so now they want to feed off Gaddafi’s replacement.
Typical Labour thinking – as in, he hasn’t thought this through at all. Exactly what leverage does Malta have, when less than USD100m of the quoted total is liquid and several billion are on the way to being unfrozen in other jurisdictions? What’s he suggesting, exactly? Holding the Corinthia Hotel hostage? Preventing Medavia planes from taking off? Cutting Medelec’s wiring? Storming the Vivaldi hotel?
Can you imagine this lot running a BBQ, let alone a country?
Disgusting. Another one into gangster politics.
Does Lucky Luciano Busuttil ignore the existence of international law?
No, he does not ignore international law. He merely fails to understand it.
Or, even worse, he MISunderstands it.
The son of the cobbler, turned lawyer, got his seat in parliament by sheer luck – being a Gavin Gulia associate and Gulia being a Sant blue-eyed boy – not thanks to his wits.
Luciano was always mediocre, and thus he will remain. Till the end of his political career.
When you think about it, Labour on the First District is pathetic: Luciano “No IQ” Busuttil, Jose “Ohti l-Magistrat u Jien Daqt il-Ministru” Herrera, and Alfred “Mintoff Traditur tal-Maltin” Sant.
I suspect, however, that the wind of change is blowing on this district with Deo Catania, Simon Micallef Stafrace, Manwel Mallia, and possibly Joseph Muscat himself, though Muscat might prefer other districts where he can annihilate certain people he doesn’t like.
[Daphne – Deo Catania? That half-wit conspiracy theorist in a flat cap?]
Deo Cassar is the half wit in the flat cap.
I’m thinking of the doctor – isn’t he Deo Catania? Is he some other Deo and I’m mixing up names?
Can anyone tell me what happened to the dispute re. Area 7?
There is a story on maltastar with the heading:
‘Gaddafi urges Libyan people to fight the rats in his third audio message’
Without the necessary quote-marks around ‘rats’, it implies that they’re called upon to be the Pied Piper – or that Malta Today agrees with his definition of people as rats.
Star or Today?
Ok, I get the point. No distinction really.
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On a slightly different note, why did PL Deputy Leader (I or II?) Toni Abela defend Julia Farrugia?
The closeness between Abela and the Media Today stable is worrying, to say the least.
Little is the comfort we can draw from the fact that it is a stable of donkeys and (pompous) asses.
The fact remains that Abela and Balzan (and his stooges) have a long-standing alliance, which might include Wenzu Mintoff and Manuel Cuschieri.
People who use their brains should ponder about the implications of such an unholy alliance. The repercussions on Maltese society should Labour win the coming elections would be far-reaching.
And without a comma after rats, that sentence means that the rats are in Gaddafi’s audio message.
Dearest Ms. Caruana Galizia,
Hope this finds you well. I am surprised but yet thankful for your mention. however, may I kindly point out that what you are referring to is not a statement but a question. You see that punctuation mark at the end of the sentence. It is called a question mark and usually we use it when we write a question. If I wanted to make a statement I would have used the exclamation mark, i.i. ‘!’.
Moreover, before commenting on my post, you should have tried to contact me to see whether that is my opinion or not. But that is a job accredited journalists usually do since they are professionals and are guided by ethics.
However, If you kindly allow me, I would like to answer my own question by a straight NO. We cannot hold any money or assets as ransom. First we are a civilized democratic country and to exort to such ways would make us tyrants and ruthless. Besides their own money, the people of Malta should also grant our neighbours all the humanitarian help needed and support the Civil Protection Department their mission to raise funds.
But, we should not wait anymore to deal with the new free Libya. We have investments there too. People lost everything in Libya and we should not forget our own countrymen and women. We should not forget that since 1985 we have rights to drill for oil exploration in Medina Bank, but because we were afraid of Ghaddafi’s patrol boats, to this very day all Governments (iva anki ta’ Gonzi) did not do anything to get what is ours or could be ours.
As ronpaul put it, we should not take it for granted that we can start drilling for oil just like that.
Thanks again for the mention and i apologise for taking so long in explaining to your kind self and your esteemed bloggers what was really my opinion to the question i put on my facebook page.
Regards
Dr. Luciano Busuttil
[Daphne – Question, indeed, Dr Busuttil. I saw the thing with my own eyes, and also the comments which followed. And if you will allow me to give you a bit of a tip, only really common people sign off a ‘personal’ missive as ‘DR John Borg’. Also, please do not address me as ‘dearest’. Thank you. And while we’re on the subject, God alone knows why the University of Malta bestows degrees – especially doctorates of law – on people who can’t write (or think) to save their lives. It’s a disgrace.]
Thank you for the tip. I humbly accept it. In face whenever I write to people I admire and respect I just sign off with my own simply and humble name, without titles, that, may ~I remind you, I worked hard for them, day and night.
Regards again.
Dr. Luciano Busuttil B.A., LL.D, M.P.
[Daphne – Doctor is not a title, Luciano. And its use is not tied to whether you respect and admire the recipient of your missive or not, but whether the missive is formal (a legal letter, for instance) or not. When your salutation is ‘Dearest Mrs Caruana Galizia’ and your sign-off is ‘regards’, you don’t call yourself Dr Luciano Busuttil. ‘Dr Luciano Busuttil’ is used with ‘Dear Sir/Madam’ and ‘Yours faithfully’ and the subject of the letter must be official or formal. The letters after your name are especially naff. If you had to work hard, day and night, to get them, then that’s because you’re not bright at all and are only partially literate. In any other country, you would have been at a redbrick college, but the University of Malta can’t be selective and so half-wits rub shoulders there with the scintillatingly intelligent. Too bad. Try reading, Luciano. It helps. But of course, no amount of reading is going to raise the intelligence quotient you were born with. Good day.]
Dottor Luciano, that blooming Facebook page is yours, not of some supernatural oracle.
Therefore the “?” is irrelevant. What you posted is the outcome of your “blackmail” logic.
Blackmail has driven your baseless party into the wall, divided a small nation (that must have been your hero’s greatest feat) and made Malta the most well-known prostitute the world’s dictators.
I am amazed that a Doctor of Law cannot get that far.
Bniedem jista’ “jilhaqq” sa’ l-istilel, pero’ il-mentalita’ dejjem tibqa hemm.
‘Good day’ – reminds me of JPO and his never ending barrage of farewell statements to his FB followers.
[Daphne – Not at all. This is ‘good day’ used correctly, and used for the express purpose of showing sub-literate cretins like Luciano Busuttil how it should be used, as a dismissal. I don’t give a rat’s ass whether he has a good day or not.]
(I’m replying to Dr Luciano Busuttil BA LLD MP in the style he favours, but without his grammatical errors and inaccurate vocabulary.)
If you would permit me, kind sir, I should like to point out to your good self that if one wishes to make a statement, the appropriate grammatical form is the declarative and not the interrogative. Furthermore, it is worthy of note by your good self that exclamation marks are unnecessary when one’s meaning is clear.
A gentleman always says what he means and means what he says.
As you are undoubtedly a gentleman, by pretention if not by birth, we are to understand that you really do mean Libyan assets in Malta are Malta’s, hence your suggestion that ‘the people of Malta should grant our neighbours’ what rightfully belongs to them already.
And the word is ‘resort’, though you’re thinking about extortion.
It is even more shocking that the University of Malta bestows degrees on people who have been caught cheating in exams, multiple times.
Was Luciano Busuttil caught cheating in exams? Multiple times?
If this is the case, this is very interesting news. Tell us more, Werner!
@ Dr Luciano Busuttil BA LLD MP
Up to the old MLP tricks aren’t you? Itfa gebla u ahbi idejk.
Another thing, it’s rude to ‘SHOUT’ on Facebook. Do you know that?
Dr Luciano Busuttil BA LLD MP types in upper case because it saves him having to work out which nouns should begin with capital letters and which shouldn’t.
It’s a Cunning Trick.
He’s a cunning linguist. Is he also a master debater?
Right, I’ve delivered my line and I’m out of here.
Good day,
Herr Doktor H.P. Baxxter M.M., V.C. and bar (lots), M.C., D.J. , Loveparade Diplomarbeit (Nordrhein-Westfalen Universität),
“may I kindly point out that what you are referring to is not a statement but a question”
Go and tell it to the marines!
“I would like to answer my own question by a straight NO. We cannot hold any money or assets as ransom.”
If you disagree with a question why ask it in the first place?
“But, we should not wait anymore to deal with the new free Libya. We have investments there too. ”
Not in “the new free Libya”. Investments were in Gaddafi’s regime.
“But that is a job accredited journalists usually do since they are professionals and are guided by ethics.”
Like Julia Farrugia and Charlon “youtube” Gouder?
“to exort to such ways would make us tyrants and ruthless”
A perfect description of the Labour party under Mintoff and KMB – and you mean ‘resort’, though you’re clearly thinking ‘extortion’.
Thank God Mintoff finally did something good for the country in 1998.
He doesn’t disagree with the question. Like so many others, he thinks the matter is actually up for debate.
The reason the money wasn’t released to the NTC sooner or automatically, is because it rightfully belongs to the Libyan people and can only be released to their rightful representatives, a fact that eludes the immoral and the amoral. They believe the money does not belong to anyone in particular and, from there, conclude that ‘we’ are free to use it as we wish.
Questions are sometimes asked to be then replied in the negative. It is the Talmudic method, Mr Buttigieg.
@Min Weber – the point is this: the question should never have been asked at all. The money does not belong to us.
@Min Weber
Agreed, however a politician and “European Affairs Spokesman” should not even ask certain questions, especially ‘questions’ including phrases like “OR think about the Maltese who lost everything” in Libya.” which is obviously to try and stir up popular sentiment to agree with his ‘question’
Luciano, as a lawyer you are familiar (I’m guessing) with the term “leading question”. Well, what you posted on your Facebook is just that: it invites the reader to answer with a resounding ‘yes’.
If you really wanted the answer to be ‘no’ you would have asked, for example, “Should we keep the Libyan millions even though to do so would be not only illegal but extremely stupid since nobody else would ever invest again in Malta and we would destroy forever any chance of commercial relations with Libya?”
After Daphne pointed out the Mintoffian outrageousness of your question you claimed that your answer was a ‘no’. This claim is, to put it bluntly, an outright lie.
What are the odds that Dr Luciano Busuttil BA LLD MP is flying a kite for Labour (“ask your Facebook friends what they think about holding back Libya’s money, and we’ll base our policy accordingly”) and has, because of the overwhelmingly negative response, been left out to dry by the party leader?
Read the story in The Times today.
When people like Luciano Busuttil make statements, as opposed to asking rhetorical questions, they make sure you know it through the use of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Exort”? Surely he meant “resort”?
Damn! Had I seen the advert earlier, I would have attended Dr Luciano Busuttil’s coffee morning at the Plaza Hotel in Sliema … and would have gone there with one of the “privates”. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=544431389&ref=ts#!/photo.php?fbid=10150113091786390&set=a.441245131389.225867.544431389&type=1&theater
Dr Luciano Busuttil, the proper punctuation mark at the end of a statement is a full-stop, not an exclamation mark.
Exclamation marks denote hysteria.
The proper use of an exclamation mark is at the end of an exclamation, and it has to be in quoted speech (i.e. direct speech between open/close quotation marks).
Exactly why should Daphne have contacted you to see whether this is your opinion, when you yourself have written it down on your Facebook wall beneath your name and face?
Next you are going to suggest that somebody hacked your Facebook account or spiked its drink like JPO’s friends.
This is truly kazin tal-banda politics, the kind discussed over tea and cheescakes.
The old Labour mindset of threats and generally bad behaviour is still festering within the ranks. Another cowboy Labour MP straight out of the Mintoffian era.
Luciano, I am surprised that of all people, you should be the one who raises the matter of ‘ethics in journalism’.
Nothing personal, of course, but you belong to an organisation which has given new meaning to sleaziness, whose media spews all kinds of mud, innuendos and untruths and where ‘ethic journalism’ has yet to be discovered.
“…to this very day all Governments (iva anki ta’ Gonzi) did not do anything to get what is ours or could be ours”.
This is YOUR quote taken from your reply to Daphne’s comments. You know very well that this is another untruth, since successive Nationalist governments had endless talks with your friend Gaddafi and as per usual the Colonel’s words were endless but positive action for his ‘friends’ in Malta was lacking.
In the meantime the Labour Party ALLEGEDLY continued to be well looked after by the Gaddafi family.
What was Gaddafi waiting for? The return of the Labour Party to government?
Some say that politics makes for strange bedfellows. In this case, there obviously is nothing strange.
Daphne,
maybe Luciano didn’t read this:
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/malta-libya-to-meet-over-continental-shelf-dispute-as-gonzi-meets-ghaddafi-in-tripoli
Maltatoday February 9th 2011.
Ghandi l-impressjoni li Dr. Busuttil bl-ahhar kumment tieghu ried jikkonferma li waqa ghan-nejk. Miskin, ma jafx x’hini retorika.
This wannabe politician is suggesting we kick off our country’s relationship with the new Libyan government by blackmailing it.
If this is not what he meant then he should have kept his big mouth shut in the first place.
He has certainly dropped a clanger.
Dr. Busuttil, this is how I see it.
Those Maltese who lost their business assets (illegal by democratic standards and immoral by any standards) have to lump it and learn their lesson.
Those who conducted clean business operations can be helped even by mutual cooperation with the NTC.
With regards to the oil drilling rights I suggest you institute a case at the International Court of Justice, go before the court holding an envelope containing $377m, and tell the the judge: “if your Honour does not deliver the sentence in our favour, the Libyans are not getting this back.”
Then see what happens.
This party is a big problem. I think that Labour hasn’t solved all its bad habits. The way they talk is really frightening. ARDITI DAWN IN-NIES.
Did you listen to Anglu Farrugia on Favourite Channel? “Issa mhux aktar it-third way imma il-fourth way.”
Il-Labour tal-UK lanqas wasal sat-third way u issa il-Labour ta’ Malta hareg bil-fourth way.
Hu ivvinta il-fourth way.
Behind Anthony Giddens’ third way there is deep sociological thinking by one of the world’s top sociologists. Does Anglu Farrugia really believe that he can come up with his own philosophy and better than that of Anthony Giddens?
Now you see Daphne, that’s called a question mark. I hope you have learned something new from witty Luciano today.
Lino, remember: Dr Luciano Busuttil BA LLD MP.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just so you know I made a statement there.
I also think that Super One should be put under strict serveillance for any breach of the law. At times they are urging their people to hit back at the Nationalists. They are dangerous. These are mad people verging on the illegal. Big problem, this party.
Need some bandages and a tube of Lasonil, Dr. Busuttil LLD, PHD, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH?
That was quite a beating you just took.
Lambs to the slaughter, jahasra.
Your humble servant,
Mr. Neil Dent, 9 O-levels, 2 A-levels, was going to college but couldn’t be bothered, blah blah blah
Mr Neil Dent, I humbly remark to your good self that you are most in luck.
The University of Malta it is giving degrees to people who they cannot write.
If you are most fortunate you can work hard day and night and become a Lawyer like Dr Luciano Busuttil BA LLD MP and Dr Angelo Farrugia LLD MP Summa Cum Laude.
It is most pleasing to you that you are now in Malta and much in luck.
Yours respectfully,
Mrs Tanya Zammit BA (Hons) MA DPhil Beaut Dipl (Nail Technician)
The thing is that One radio is full of MP/lawyers shooting from the hip rhetorical questions which their followers take as bold statements.
In lay terms, is Doctor Luciano here telling us that he was beating around the bush?
You said “hip”, “lay”, “beating” and “bush” in one post. Are you hitting on us?
Dirty minds, dirty thoughts!
I wonder why Dr Muscat promised reduction of electricity tariffs…is the reason gone now?
The Labour Party has distanced itself from Luciano Busuttil – maybe by the Saviour Balzan trick of making a 360 degree turn.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110827/local/Labour-MP-raises-questions-about-Libya-s-frozen-assets.381978
Luciano shoild get in touch – quickly – with Joe Sammut.
Who told you he is not already?!
Remember Luciano is Gulia’s SIDEKICK, and Smokin’ Joe knows whose backSIDE he has to LICK …