I think quite a lot of the old (and not so old) guard in the PL/MLP must have fallen into a catatonic state unable to picture their own little world without Muammar pulling their strings in the background.

Luciano Busuttil is still digging himself into a deeper hole by the way he is replying to posts on timesofmalta.com.

That was to prevent some Nationalist nut case from shooting Gaddafi.

Remember when Labour Party thugs invaded the Nationalist Party HQ under the pretext that they were storing arms?

No matter how hard the LP tries to rewrite history and omit the nasty parts, what is written is written and backed by vivid memories, photographs and video clips which nobody can contradict.

Besides, if the Labour Party omits all the nasty parts of its history, what would be left?

The ‘reception class’ proposal?

The letting immigrants drown once the ‘quota’ is reached?

The ‘trust us, elect us and then we will show you what we have in mind’?

AST has yet to understand that the freedoms that really matter to people are those freedoms which are provided in a democracy – the freedom of expression, the freedom of association, the freedom of movement, the freedom of being yourself without fear of arrest or reprisal.

The Libyan revolt amply showed which types of freedom really matter to the Libyans. The Libyan revolt shows how anachronistic AST’s thinking is.

Just two years ago, AST wrote about the “GOLDEN AGE” of Malta Libya relations with a nostalgia which shows him, and possibly also the PL, to be out of touch with what really matters to people.

Moreover, this article reminds me why I lose all respect for an individual once I learn that he (or she) votes Labour. Thank you, Daphne, for reminding people (I have never forgotten), what the Labour Party’s made of.

Rai interviewed the Libyan Ambassador to Italy yesterday. He was very specific about why Gaddafi threatened to flood the Mediterranean with boatloads of immigrants:

‘Gaddafi was confident it would provoke xenophobic sentiment in one of the parties in the Italian government, thus destabilising it, a sort of political pincer attack’

I wonder what Labour has to say to that.

Remember when Joseph Muscat came out with his memorable ‘sewwa ghamlu it-Taljani’ speech?

They could be the ones running this country in a few months.

Gotta love Labour.

I remember reading somewhere that Moslem is an offensive way of spelling Muslim (?)