Comments on: Niccolo Machiavelli on the subject of neutrality https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/niccolo-machiavelli-on-the-subject-of-neutrality/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:43:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: red nose https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/niccolo-machiavelli-on-the-subject-of-neutrality/#comment-93797 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:43:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13139#comment-93797 The absence of judges and magistrates, is perhaps due to the fact of the shambles our courts are in. Perhaps they are ashamed to show their faces in public.

[Daphne – I am informed that they didn’t turn up in protest about their salaries. So demeaning.]

]]> By: Carmelo Micallef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/niccolo-machiavelli-on-the-subject-of-neutrality/#comment-93796 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:03:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13139#comment-93796 Malta has never been neutral as Gaddafi and his henchmen proved to Malta and the Maltese and anybody with a brain on numerous occassions.

This was and is a Malta Labour Party (PL) deceit.

]]> By: Kenneth Cassar https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/niccolo-machiavelli-on-the-subject-of-neutrality/#comment-93795 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:22:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13139#comment-93795 In reply to Ray Pace.

The best reply so far:

Mr Andrew Scicluna

Today, 09:37

Mr.Bonnici,

As a foreword may I state that I am neither a member of the judiciary nor do I have any relation to anyone that is.

I think what the country really needs is an explanation to the absence of MPs from Parliament, when they are duty bound (and entrusted by the electorate) to attend.

I think it would be incongruous if one were to compare absence from a festivity (albeit a very important day to Maltese history) to absence from everyday work that is crucial to the running of the country.

After all we all know that MPs are experts at attending these sort of events (I guess the right word in Maltese would be ‘jippoppaw’).

Andrew Scicluna,
Belgium

]]> By: Ray Pace https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/niccolo-machiavelli-on-the-subject-of-neutrality/#comment-93794 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:56:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13139#comment-93794 Out of subject but maybe worth noting.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110916/letters/Judiciary-clearly-absent-on-Victory-Day.384899

And we were happy that at last, after the divorce referendum result, we can distinguish between church and state. A young progressive MP now laments that judges did not attend mass on a state public holiday.

]]> By: Leonard https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/niccolo-machiavelli-on-the-subject-of-neutrality/#comment-93793 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:51:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13139#comment-93793 Not much about collective efforts in there.

]]> By: Joe Micallef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/niccolo-machiavelli-on-the-subject-of-neutrality/#comment-93792 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:10:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13139#comment-93792 And that is only about taking sides or staying neutral. In our case it is even worse – we PLAY neutral.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/niccolo-machiavelli-on-the-subject-of-neutrality/#comment-93791 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:49:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13139#comment-93791 Becomes tricky when your Commander in Chief is Walter the prince of softies.

]]> By: Delacroixet https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/niccolo-machiavelli-on-the-subject-of-neutrality/#comment-93790 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:46:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13139#comment-93790 “Never let any Government imagine that it can choose perfectly safe courses; […] prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.”

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