Roderick, you state: “I was brought up with inner traits and values that allow me to relate and interact with everyone.”

That’s fine, but there are boundaries. It is one thing talking to someone known to have used violence against another person; it is something completely different celebrating at his party.

Had I received an invitation to the party, I would have felt offended.

Daphne is absolutely right in criticising those who attended the party, including the Leader of the Opposition.

Even if the “distinguished guests” will deny it, by attending they have implicity condoned the violent actions.

Hello Matt!
Thank you for your feedback.
To my understanding, I did not state my opinion on whether I approve or not the attendance of certain people at such events.
I was simply replying to Daphne’s comments re the ‘starved’ for entertainment guests as my wife and I were amongst the invitees. Didn’t sound fair to put everyone in the same basket.
Will not go into the remit of the case between SC and VF, nonetheless I am of the understanding that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Re associating myself with better people, thankfully, I was brought up with inner traits and values that allow me to relate and interact with everyone. On a different note, I disassociate myself from those people whom due to their nature and character have the tendency to look down at others.
I am all for constructive disagreement and open dialogue. Re the ‘young enough’, I am not that young.

Regards,
Roderick

[Daphne – Looking down on others has nothing to do with it, Roderick. This is not a class issue but a crime and behaviour issue. Nor has ‘innocent until proven guilty’ have anything to do with it. The fact remains that your host actually did knock down a union leader (and elderly man) in his office and beat him. He was caught in the act by the union leader’s colleagues who burst in and had to pull your host off him. Let me posit a different scenario: had your host been caught savagely beating a woman in that way, would you have gone to his party? Or is it OK because it was Vince Farrugia?

I find it interesting that you and your wife seem to be more offended at the idea that I think of you as desperate for a party to go to than at the accusation that you must be of dubious integrity to have gone. Being invited to parties is apparently the new chav definition of success, and yet another reason I feel compelled to stay away.]

Roderick, why are you “distinguished”?

Surprise party? LOL

Your friend Sandro Chetcuti is accused of murder and is on trial. Witnesses saw him beating Farrugia when they responded to his cries for help and burst into his office.

And you do not see anything wrong with the leader of the Opposition helping him celebrate his birthday and accepting his invitations?

Any sensible person wouldn’t even want to be seen with him, let alone the leader of the Opposition.

Do you think Joseph Muscat would have attended this party if the victim was Toni Zarb?

Sandro is very lucky not to be held on remand. The only reason he could have a party is because he’s out on bail – and has the very poor taste to throw a party while in that situation.

Mr. Cutajar, don’t you want to associate with people who are better than you? You are young enough to change your attitude.

@Roderick Cutajar

And as the Maltese saying goes, “Ma’ min rajtek, xebbahtek” So sorry, Rod…and oh my, at the Garden of what? Come on, are you serious?

No wonder why Malta, a country so small in nearly all things, has so often had such small Labour Party leaders.

Joseph Muscat is perhaps the smallest of them all.

This man, with his mediocre intelligence, abysmal ignorance, confused communications skills, and constant yielding to the temptation of nonsense, has presented himself to Malta in the grotesque pose of Jesus Christ (”Jiena inhobbkom – Ejja nhobbu lil xulxin”) who has inherited the Labour Party and mistaken it for a Church.

We don’t know what he really thinks. We don’t even know if he does think. We don’t know whether he might not just be a robot badly programmed by Dr Alfred Sant, which constantly confuses and switches around the messages it carries inside it.

But to give the ginger politician some credit for once in his life, there is one program that works to perfection: the fact that he doesn’t appear to know why he shouldn’t do stupid things.

He does not know he’s doing stupid things, and will carry on doing them even when he has the most objective reality and truth right there before his eyes – and, believe me, he will keep on doing stupid things even after he’s elected prime minister.

With the ginger politician, the stupid things come from very deep down; they are in his blood. An idiot emeritus, he is the high priest of all the other Labour Party idiots who have surrounded him, applauded him, and served him over the past few years.

Maltese history will hold the Labourites who, one day, will elect him to account.

I have made some enemies here.

Thankfully, they are all people that, were they to think highly of me, I would be very worried.

With reference to your comments regarding Sandro’s birthday party, I note with sadness your stereotyping of all invitees as a pool of starved people for entertainment. This is very unpolite and certainly unethical. I was one of those distinguished guests and according to my own humble judgement, no one seemed to suffer from any of the aforementioned defined ‘cordial’ attributes. For the record, it is also pertinent to point out that this was a surprise birthday party triggered by Sandro’s beloved wife whom for all intents and purposes did whatever in her capabilities to organise such a successful event. In your articles, I notice your tendancy to attack people personally without due care and diligence.

[Daphne – Dear distinguished guest who is not starved of entertainment, you appear to feel honoured to have been invited to celebrate the birthday of a man currently being prosecuted for attempted murder and GBH on a union leader with whom he had a disagreement. I would have been insulted. But there you go. Each to his own and never mind the difference. I don’t give a monkey’s whether you went and why. You are not the leader of the Opposition or an MP – I hope.]