Comments on: The mentality which raises the wrong people to power and keeps them there https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/10/the-mentality-which-raises-the-wrong-people-to-power-and-keeps-them-there/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:31:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anthony https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/10/the-mentality-which-raises-the-wrong-people-to-power-and-keeps-them-there/#comment-98029 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:31:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13918#comment-98029 I call this the “post mal-gvern u post tal-gvern” mentality.

It is still alive and kicking in Malta.

]]> By: ciccio2011 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/10/the-mentality-which-raises-the-wrong-people-to-power-and-keeps-them-there/#comment-98028 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:31:55 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13918#comment-98028 Daphne, why does this surprise you? This is not different from the “”use me as you think fit” as long as you make me a Cabinet Minister” mentality.

]]> By: ray https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/10/the-mentality-which-raises-the-wrong-people-to-power-and-keeps-them-there/#comment-98027 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:59:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13918#comment-98027 In reply to La Redoute.

As far as I remember, they were Bulgarian. Not that it makes much difference.

[Daphne – Those were the ones who were jailed.]

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/10/the-mentality-which-raises-the-wrong-people-to-power-and-keeps-them-there/#comment-98026 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:15:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13918#comment-98026 In reply to Stanley J A Clews.

They were sentenced to death by firing squad for allegedly infecting babies with HIV.

]]> By: silvio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/10/the-mentality-which-raises-the-wrong-people-to-power-and-keeps-them-there/#comment-98025 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:52:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13918#comment-98025 No man is pure evil. Everybody has at least a small part of him that is good. These nurses might be right. I can’t tell, but they seem to have met the good part.

[Daphne – No, Silvio, they met the sugar daddy part, not the good part. There’s a difference.]

Now that it seems to be all over,I am still baffled by unanswered questions.

We ‘ve been told repeatedly that these last 42 years have been hell for the Libyans.

You couldn’t move ahead and make progress, in all spheres of life. You couldn’t find good jobs, everything depended on whether you supported the regime or not.

We have heard Libyans living in Malta tell us that they had to leave their country because they opposed Gaddafi.

We now saw thousands and thousands of Libyans take up arms against the regime. They tell us that they come from all walks of life, manual workers, doctors, teachers, lawyers and what not. Now the question that baffles me is this.

If to study and go to university you had to support the regime, does the fact that they were allowed to study for their degrees mean that they were supporters of Gaddafi at that time.? How come they supported him knowing of the brutallities that they now talk about?

Were all the families living in all those high rise buildings in Sirte, Misurata, Tripoli, all his supporters? How come none of them knew of the atrocities that were being committed?
How come all of a sudden every Libyan seem to be anti- Gaddafi now?

[Daphne – They were always anti-Gaddafi, Silvio, but they were too terrified to make it public. Had you listened properly to what was said or not said between the lines, you’d have worked it out.]

The same thing happened in Italy after the war. There were 56 million Fascists during the war and the same number of anti-Facists after the war.

Anyway, good luck Libya.

]]> By: Stanley J A Clews https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/10/the-mentality-which-raises-the-wrong-people-to-power-and-keeps-them-there/#comment-98024 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:19:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13918#comment-98024 Didn’t he send a few to prison too, if I’m not mistaken?

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