“I think Peppi Azzopardi and some others (as Fr Mark Montebello, and if I am not mistaken Tolstoy) advocate an ideal world where there are no prisons”.

True, but Utopians have one problem…they must be seen to be consistent, or else risk being labelled hypocrites.

So now Peppi is defending Arrigo who did not spend a single day in prison for his crime. But I failed to notice Peppi’s campaign against Arrigo for sending all those “nobodies” to prison.

I think Peppi Azzopardi and some others (as Fr Mark Montebello, and if I am not mistaken Tolstoy) advocate an ideal world where there are no prisons.

Once a foreigner who met a Maltese group, was impressed positively by the Maltese group and so asked them “Do you have a prison in Malta?” Naturally the reality is that crime and criminals exist everywhere and will probably always exist.

On the other hand Christianity distinguishes between sin and the sinner. Sin is always evil while the sinner has the possibility of redemption and of changing his ways.

Christianity applies only to people in authority only.

[Daphne – Actually, what Christianity teaches on the matter is quite different: I was in prison and you visited me. Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s. Commit a crime, pay the price, visit others who are serving time.]

On Noel Arrigo and general interdiction – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091127/local/what-does-general-interdiction-really-mean.283451

That is EXACTLY the whole point.

Well done.

When Malcolm Seychell starts making sense when compared to Robert the Toy Boy, that’s when the bottom of the barrel has been well and truly scraped.

As far as I know Arrigo has been interdicted by the courts for life.