The new liberalism: calling for the torture and murder of puppy-killers. Just fabulous.
The new liberalism: saying that you love dogs when you'd die rather than have one in your living-room
I don’t like all the comments streaming through the internet and calling for all kinds of suffering to be meted out to the perpetrator of that puppy-crucifixion.
How does that kind of thinking make these people any different from the person who did it?
It would make them worse, for wanting to do it to a human being as distinct from a dog.
You have no idea how many aggressive comments calling for him to be crucified, impaled, and whatever else I have deleted from this comments-board.
They are truly sickening. Do people actually stop to think before they pop things off?
Reading the comments beneath the story on timesofmalta.com makes you wonder whether the age of enlightenment passed Malta by completely, and that was some three centuries ago.
The comments – and I’m actually glad the moderator uploaded them, because I like to know what I’m dealing with in terms of Maltese society – are actually frightening and disturbing.
These are probably the same sort of people who would let boat-immigrants drown rather than waste resources rescuing them and dealing with them. They might even include some people who think calls to let immigrants drown are shocking, but then have no compunction about calling for help, as some woman did on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s Facebook wall – where else, now that he has all the subliterate savages – for help in pushing pins through the perpetrator’s testicles.
Because she knows already that the perpetrator has testicles.
I wrote in the previous post that the incident reveals the primitive underbelly of Maltese society and it isn’t pretty. What this person did, and what others are saying about him, are part of the same twisted picture.
And what’s all this sudden passion for animals, anyway? This is Malta we’re talking about, where people are killed cruelly and savagely and others say ‘Heqq’.
Now we’ve discovered overnight that we’re animal lovers. Yes, right – this in a country where most parents react to dogs with fear, pass that fear on to their children and tell them not to touch animals in case they get a disease or ‘germs’. Don’t make me laugh.
It’s my observation that the only animals most Maltese people like come in cages or chains. Or on a plate.
A couple of years ago, a 20-year-old kid was folded up and shoved into a plaster-kiln down the road from where I live, after having his head shot full of nails. And there weren’t a fraction of the comments we’re seeing now about this puppy.
Ara l-vera nies strambi, il-Maltin. No sense of proportion and priorities all in a twist.
By any chance, is expressing compassion for animals now a sign of being liberal? I’m beginning to think so. U imbaghad kullhadd jibza mil-klieb u jghid jaqq jien ma rridx annimali fid-dar.
Kullhadd sar Brigitte Bardot issa, Alla jbierek.
Lord, give me strength because it’s just run out.
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Amen.
100%. Not a word to add.
This ‘Liberal’ simplification offered by Joseph Muscat, in times of democratic (read ‘parliamentary’) weakness and uncertainty, can be used to direct public opinion and the ‘voice of the people’ in whichever direction he chooses. It will be a Socialist Pastiche 2.0.
Separation of powers was drawn to make sense of the many knots of public opinion; Joseph Muscat gives the impression he can cut the knot in two with a sword, a la VAT on registration tax, much like Solomon…or Mintoff or Berlusconi. Incidentally, Berlusconi reportedly dreamt of an assault on the presses of La Repubblica and a siege on the Courts of Milan. Sounds familiar?
We already had Joseph’s dearly beloved Dom trying to tie back together what he himself had cut. And we do not want a re-run. That is why we will keep on mentioning the eighties and the seventies until the MLP rids itself of everyone who participated in those years.
For the minions: Tridu n-Nazzjonalisti jieqfu jitkellmu fuq Tal-Barrani? Nehhu d-dinosawri li wassluna s’hemm, bhal Karmenu Vella u l-AST, u kull min jigglorifika dak iz-zmien. Umbghad taraw x’jigri…
We are reaping the sins of our fathers
I can understand the affection that the Maltese are expressing on the comment boards about dogs. The next PM is likely to be Alfred Sant’s poodle.
Although I do not agree that this is a new form of liberalism as you claim, I do agree wholeheartedly that it has become rather “trendy” to hate humanity and idolise animals. I would call it misanthropy rather than liberalism.
It’s amazing how many experts we have nowadays, and they seem to be experts in everything. And the comments left on Facebook regarding this news item are tragic, to say the least. Makes you wonder where the country is heading to when these people have the right to vote.
Labour’s liberalism means that we will evolve backwards from homo sapiens to homo erectus and replace the charter of human rights with the charter of animal freedoms.
Indeed.
Glad you brought up the case of the 20 year old who was murdered in Bugibba a few years ago.
I watched the programme called ‘Evidenza’ and the forensic experts on the panel seemed to come to a consensus that the killer(s) were probably not Maltese.
The six nails in the victim’s head were not shot but hammered in which reinforced the thought that some foreign criminals were involved since no such method was ever used in past macabre killings by Maltese criminals.
In other words, although the name was only used once, they believed a Mafia style killing was more descriptive of this case.
Howver, this is not to say that some Maltese hard core criminals are not capable of bizarre murders such as the Bugibba case.
Animals are defenceless and perhaps easier to kill, by any method thus adding the element of cowardice to the criminality of such acts.
Maltese are not a cut above anyone else therefore atrocity is not unique to Malta. Suffice it is to remember the patient brought to Malta for medical attention after she was scalded by one member of the Gaddafi family for not following the order to spank their own child for crying!
Cruelty to both humans and animals unfortunately has existed from day one (Cain-Abel) and will never end. When it ends, so will mother Earth.
[Daphne – I wasn’t talking about who killed what, Angus, but about the very different reactions to the deaths. Surely you are not saying that denizens of the Maltese internet sites were justified in expressing far less rage at the murder of that young man than at the “murder” of a puppy because the killers of the first were ‘foreigners’.]
I cannot possibly remember the public’s reaction to the Bugibba murder. Even as recently as three years ago the use of the internet was less than it is today, so comparison is impossible.
The ‘foreign’ connection was only in reference to the method used and the significance of the objects used in the commission of the crime, and was arrived at, as a probability, by forensic experts. Since the case remains unsolved, there can never be any assurance that the murderers were indeed foreign.
In any case, both incidents are reprehensible for obvious reasons and surely they are unanimously condemned.
It’s the same country that boasts an MEP who claims there are ‘unexplained deaths’ because 8,000 people are denied the ‘right’ to kill and trap birds: a practice, he adds, which is a way of life “they cannot do without”!
Birds are animals as much as dogs are.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111013/local/mep-speaks-of-unexplained-deaths.389029
P.S. Hunting is probably the most symbolic manifestation of conservatism. One cannot claim to be liberal and progressive, while championing the FKNK cause.
Dogs and cats are being euthanized at the San Frangisk Centre every day. Some of them are genuine humanitarian cases, but the rest are ‘killed’ just for the simple reason that their treatment exceeds 50 euros.
This is the amount that ‘Dr. T’ is allowed to bill Mr.G.
Or Stefania Sandrelli.
http//:www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAjp9YnATIU
The film dates back to 1964. It is an analysis of archaic codes of conduct and language. We seem to stop at caricature and farce.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAjp9YnATIU
Do people actually stop to think before they pop things off?
You should be asking why people (and in particular, journalists) ride every wave that comes along.
It’s the same problem the leader of the Labour Party suffers from.
The irony: an animal is killed, l-għaġeb kollu jinqala. A human being is killed, u qisu ma ġara xejn if the case is ever solved. Don’t get me wrong, I do not support these immoral and violent acts done on animals (especially pets), at all.
Having read some of the comments on the timesofmalta.com comments board, I realised how feeble-minded and ignorant some people are. I do respect other person’s opinions but how could one crucify this perpetrator or ‘push pins through his/her testicles’.
I do believe that this perpetrator should be punished for what he/she has committed, but by law and not in a violent manner.
Apparently, this inhumane act has become somewhat of a trend and the more they talk about it, the more popular it will become.
You may be expecting rational thought, but most people “reason” with emotion.
Hmany people who are completely against the legal and sustainable hunting of legitimately identified game birds, also shy away from consuming fish caught in the wild (that’s 90%+)? Fish caught by industrial methods that are capable of devastating populations (and the seabed in many cases) within a few short years, rather than birds taken by individuals, highly inefficiently pursuing their quarry and taking home a brace per season.
I would like to share this post which is really and truly a ‘comment’ made by A. Farrugia on my blog. I thought it was a comment worth giving prominence;
http://andrewazzopardi.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/about-vulnerable-dogs-and-defenseless-children/
[Daphne – All right, Andrew, now enough with directing traffic to your blog through this one, though I appreciate the fact that you do actually use your own name.]
Daphne, well said – I had never heard or read of him before.
Ha! This reminds me of that line in Blackadder Back and Forth where Shakespeare asks: “Who’s Kenneth Branagh?”
Maltese always comment safely, rarely going against the flow. Anything to make new friends and earn more Likes on Facebook.
I blame it all on the media. One local paper plastered the pic of the poor pup on front page. Animal-cruelty has been going on for years – I know because I see it only too often. If one had to know how Maltese farmers treat their animals, one would shudder.
People see these horrific pictures and say “ma x’ arukaza” and they stop there. If only a fraction of them would roll up their sleeves and really do something for our neglected and abandoned animals, our country would be a much better place to live in.
Daphne, true animal-lovers feel compassion for both unfortunate humans and non-humans alike I can assure you.
[Daphne – I know. That was my point – that most of those people braying on the internet are doing so just because it is the fashionable opinion, and not because they actually give a damn. Ghax issa saret moda nghidu what a shame.]
Violence whether on humans or animals should be condemned.
Qed nikteb dan il-kumment nof siegha biss minn xhin beda Inkontri. Ma, x’biza’ jekk jitla’ l-Labour. X’ragunar bazwi.
Lanqas bil-kitba ma tikkonvincihom. Kif jifmuha huma biss. U nies bhal Jeffrey jaghtuhom palata. Labour – qatt.
Well said janine.
If JPO is a PN candidate in the next general elections, I will for the first time, refrain from voting.
You are quite right about the comments screaming vendetta on the sick person who ‘crucified’ the puppy.
The fact that people openly contemplate such acts on a fellow human being (in this case a sick human being) makes me wonder if they are capable of carrying out the same acts that they condemn.
A comparison to other societies is useful. When the State of Israel captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, he was taken to Israel to stand trial for his hideous crimes that are far worse and numerous than the sick person’s hideous act of animal cruelty in Mosta.
Evidence was brought against Eichmann and he was sentenced to hang. No one tortured him in the process.
Yet our Maltese brethren flood the internet with descriptions of what hideous punishments they would mete out, even more cruel than the fate of the poor puppy. I think there is something perverse in all this.
It’s not even 30 years ago when massive crowds used to shout “Sallbu, Sallbu” at PN mass meetings, with all the encouragement coming from the stage.
We can’t be too one-sided Daphne or else we’re gonna start sounding stupid. If anything, neither side have moved forward an inch which of course makes you spot on re. the unchanged underbelly.
[Daphne – I was at all the Nationalist Party mass meetings 30 years ago and I never heard anything of the sort. Mass meetings weren’t jolly funfests in those days.]
“You know about a nation’s civilisation by the way it treats its animals ” – who said this?
You get exactly the same media/low-life reaction elsewhere, for example when a case of animal cruelty is published in The Sun.
How can people compare today’s reaction to the past, when news media only carried newsworthy items and getting an opinion across meant taking the trouble to type a letter, put it in an envelope, stick a stamp and trot off to the mail box?
Having said this, I doubt whether we would see anything comparable were someone to bump his wife off a cliff.
[Daphne – Typical reaction when man kills wife: “Ehhhh, ma tistax tghid. Forsi kienet teqridlu.”]
With old style barbarism long gone, some people try to vent their sadistic wishes and action by hiding behind what is generally seen as just causes.
This range from ‘Nirrah jaghmilhom lira is-sigaretti’, but then they had a problem when the price exceeded the threshold which seemed astronomical.
Then you have the football hooligans hiding behind the sport; The same applies to village feast trouble makers.
Some find subtle ways to express their violent fantasies without condemnation by targeting people in society not likely to get a lot of sympathy like child molestors and persons perpetrating animal cruelty, where even hardened prisoners feel a righteous obligation to use violence in a wierd sense of justice.
Have you watched Joe Grima’s Inkontri on One? JPO refers to you as one of the ” four stooges” .
The grand finale was guest Godfrey Grima throwing a tantrum and repeatedly slamming on the counter and yelling. Highly entertaining if not outright dangerous for a man his age to behave like that.
[Daphne – A bunch of crass loonies, stiff with hatred and frustration. And that Jeffrey should be followed around by an aide carrying a straitjacket.]
Ghadni kemm rajt ‘Inkontri’ pprezentat min dak il-bravu Joe Grima. Isma, Sur JPO, trid ikollok wiccek u sormok xorta, biex titfa t-tajn fuq dik ”il-blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia” ghax skont int qeghda taghmel id-deni lil Partit Nazzjonalista bil-kummenti taghha.
Vera m’ghandekx zejt f’wiccek.
I have no Maltese spell check so please excuse spelling Daphne, but JPO keeps digging his own grave. He is the absolute pits. Jaqq!
[Daphne – It was a horrible show. Total hamallagni. Jeffrey shouting like a madman, Godfrey yelling and banging his fist on the table, his brother Joe Grima INSULTING HIS OWN GUEST (nice manners and worse ethics), Gino Cauchi unable to speak my name lest the very word poison his tongue, And apparently I attacked Joseph Muscat’s children – me, attacking children. How did I attack them, pray tell? Go on, Jeffrey. If that’s the kind of fare we’re going to have on PBS in 16 months’ time – Criecer u Giddiebin Unlimited – give me Bondi+ and Xarabank anytime. And did I hear right? Did Godfrey say that he got his show Darek Mal-Hajt through a PBS tender? Bloody liar. He got it direct through Roland Flamini, his personal friend who was PBS chief at the time. I would know, because I was present at the supper where they talked it through. Tal-misthija.]
And Joey Grima ending the programme delighted it was such an ”interesting one”.
I tell you the man has never changed.
If these are the people that the other Joe has to work with (and they are) then will the last person to leave the island kindly switch the lights out.
It felt like a throwback to the Super One of the 90s. Did anyone else notice that the sound levels of Joe Azzopardi’s and Anton Attard’s mics were purposely kept low so they would be drowned out by Joe Grima’s and Gino Cauchi’s constant interruptions?
A truly appalling spectacle.
Seems like they threw Joe Azzopardi’s recommendations on ethics out the window.
What I found most shocking about the programme was the interview with Charles Flores, who claimed to have resigned his post because he disagreed with the ‘policy’ that Eddie’s name wouldn’t be mentioned on Xandir Malta (much like Sinn Fein/PIRA terrorist leader Gerry Adams on BBC).
The irony is that Flores claimed to have resigned in 1985 but that the ‘policy’ was reverted two to four days after it was implemented. He certainly took his time to ponder his decision!
And Frans Ghirxi longing for the Toni Pellegrini days while Gino Cauchi threatens Anton Attard with an evocative “nigi insibek”. So telling of things to come.
[Daphne – Gino Cauchi? A man whose suit can’t hide his myriad insecurities. And I am DIK IL-HABIBA TAL-BIZNIZZ PARTNER TIEGHI LI ATTAKKAT TFAL TA’ TLETT SNIN (said to Joe Azzopardi). Typical, typical slum-dweller: people have no names and are DIK and DAK. How quickly they metamorphose into the equivalent of somebody with a flick-knife and a broken beer bottle.]
I was shocked to hear Martin Sapiano on his early afternoon radio programme on Radio 101 calling out for the crucifixion of the perpetrator of this crime. The sick mind who was responsible for this atrocity is in urgent need of professional help, not torture and death.
That is my opinion anyway.
You’re right, Dee, but sick show anyway, in itself badly in need of ”professional help” .
Sapiano’s pidgin fake-accented English is a turn-off in itself.
I would have thought the producers objective is to ATTRACT new listeners to Radio 101, not put off existing ones.
Last week he condescendingly informed us that although he himself doesn’t really like animals, he is of the opinion that we must not be cruel. Oh really ? Thank you very much for that bit of illuminating advice, Sir.
He is so silly with it and a total switch-off.
Give me Noel Mallia or Eric Montfort anytime. They are by far 101’s real professionals.
I am sorry to hear that you don’t like the show ..Thanks for listening and anyway by the way ratings went up from Oct to Oct 2012 so kindly check before you comment thanking you gd day :)
Oh and by the way FACT new listeners daily on average 2 to 5 FACT :) SO we are attracting new listeners!
Fake accent oh k! You probably talk half English and half Maltese now that what I call Fake hmmm I LOVE THIS ITS FUN :)
Donald Arthur a highly respected voice over artist in USA and Germany for Simpsons and South park Author and actor , wrote –
I don’t think writing proper English (or any other language for that matter) is ever a waste of time, but I cannot believe the drivel whoever wrote this critique has to say about Martin Sapiano on the radio. As his ratings show, this is one of the most original, articulate and timely programmes on air anywhere – and I’ve listened to radio in a lot of countries! Clearly there is some kind of political issue here, which is still no reason to make stupid remarks about one of the most gifted radio presenters I have ever encountered. By the way “presenter” is the proper word – he is far more than a DJ, nor, to quote the critic does he “wannabe”.
Martin is a Presenter not a DJ. He translates most of his show so both Maltese & foreigners can understand & is loved & respected by thousands of listeners. Keep rocking Martin!
Yes SORRY IF i UPSET ANYONE
Daphne, God was so good to humanity that he created Malta small so there won’t be too many of us around :))
What that guy did to the dog is horrible and sick and wish they catch him. A fine, jail and i would also condemn him to work in animal rescue place like spca under supervision.
It sounds obvious that you were a child during the 60`s and 70`s and had your wires tangled by some fanatic constantly hammering your eardrums, it`s a pitty because you seem to be very smart. Ask the workers, male and female, ask the mothers, ask the pensioners and ask all perish priests of that time about the way their life changed for the better when Dom went to power in 1971. That is olso histoy that nobody can ever change. Do not criticize my english or spelling as i do not consider myself a master, but believe me i lived those years and so did you–[as a child], bye.
[Daphne – Nobody was a fanatic in my family, anthony. But they could write and spell and read, yes, even my grandmothers, and so were more likely to have a correct perception of events than yours, who were almost certainly illiterate, were. Mintoff didn’t have to wreck the country and poison society to give plots of land and cheap factory jobs to people like you. The fact remains that even you probably realise that the exponential betterment of your quality of life occurred after 1987. And if you can’t see that, well, what can I say…no wonder you think Mintoff did a great job. Keep thinking it if it makes you happy.]
I think your post does not apply to most of the comments in The Times. While everyone condemned the brutality of this act, some advocate vengeance or vindictiveness as this is their idea of justice. It is natural for some to vent their strong emotions.
Many mothers state to their young children when they are naughty “I will kill you” or “I will injure or maim you”. Naturally they do not carry out these threats.
[Daphne – Naturally…Oh, and it’s only certain kinds of mothers who say that.]
There seems to be a fashion as regards the severity of crimes. We had drug offenders which were condemned outrightly then child abuse offenders and now animal cruelty.
No mother should EVER say that to her child. It’s little wonder that children from certain backgrounds whose mothers threaten them with murder are raised to become violent thugs.
Overheard
“Jekk mhux se toqghod kwieta, l-Mater Dei nibaghtek”
A mother telling her child “I will kill you” should have the child taken away. Unfortunately for the child, if this were to actually happen, we would need a whole village to house all the children under proper care.
Overheard in Mosta – ‘Jekk ma tieqafx, niksirlek ix-xedaq u ntieghulek tieklu’
There are too many frustrated people on this rock and the internet gives them an opportunity to lash out at anyone and anything without consequences.
I don’t mean to sound like a selfish snot, but I find this especially disturbing because my family and I are seriously thinking of returning to Malta with our small kids after living abroad for several years.
[Daphne – DON’T DO IT. I mean it. Don’t do it. You will restrict your children’s lives. And they will have to leave anyway when they’re young adults if they want to grow, so you’ll end up stuck here in middle age while your children are all off somewhere else, like me. Unless you live somewhere really horrid and dull, I can’t see why you would want to do that.]
I want the children to grown up surrounded by loving family but I also wonder if it will be worth it in the end. I know this is Daphne’s blog not mine but I will be grateful for any comments from other readers.
Like Daphne says, don’t do it. DON’T DO IT. DON’T! Do you want your children to top themselves before they’re thirty? DON’T! If you love your children, don’t raise them in this shithole. Yes, Giov de Martino, Malta is a shithole.
You always get people thinking that their country is the pits. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s actually such people who are the pits, not the country.
This is just like many people who bang on about how travel broadens one’s horizons. The only places they visit when abroad are shopping centres, bars and night spots. And for a spot of culture they read a brochure on the way back.
Books count for nothing. Obviously.
Travel DOES broaden the mind, Reuben. The catch is, you need to be open to mind-broadening in the first place.
I agree that Malta is, in many respects, a shithole but it does have its good points too, Baxxter, especially for the natives (I don’t know if you are one or not, I suspect not).
Family and friends are always within easy reach. You’re never far from the sea and swimming, snorkelling, diving, sailing etc. etc (nor from anything else, for that matter) and there is still a greater sense of community than in most other places.
Look at the number of returned migrants, Lou Bondi among them. Canada has one of the highest standards of living in the world yet he chose to return to Malta.
Warts and all, it is home.
You have to learn how to deal with or avoid the unpleasant aspects, it’s true, and you have to be able to get away regularly but if you can manage those it’s not so bad.
Now that we’re in the EU our children are able to move out and expand their horizons so there’s not much chance of them topping themselves before they’re 30.
People of my generation (i.e. Daphne’s) didn’t do it – under circumstances a thousand times worse, and with no EU escape clause either. ‘Nuff said.
I corroborate what Daphne said about returning to Malta.
You will be doing your kids a disservice and you will be shocked at the primitive mentality and poor manners of many Maltese.
Just read a few comments on timesofmalta.com’s board and you will know what I mean. This is arguably the best Maltese news media, but look at the board.
I leave it to you to imagine what the others, and their readers, are like.
We returned to Malta a few years ago knowing that we will want to leave again. That time is now a few short months away, thank God.
My thoughts exactly on this one, Daphne. Why is it that when people are brutally murdered in Malta we say close to nothing, but these animal cruelty stories attract so much attention – and of such an equally violent nature?
Cruelty on human beings? Indifference. Cruelty on Arab/Muslim/black people? So much the better. Cruelty on animals? God forbid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpG-UlTgag4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
How intersting….joseph muscat jumped onto austin’s comment of the pn having the right policies to be in government for the next 20 years. If you listen to this clip, at the end you can hear joseph muscat endorsing charlie buhagiar for the next 20 years in politics 2007-2027…….the pot calling the kettle black
Was I correct in thinking that JPO was attempting a rather childish ”divide and conquer” tactic on Peppi and the absent Lou?
[Daphne – No, that was just Jeffrey overcome by hatred and losing control of himself in the process. I’ve seen it several times before. Nothing new. ]
Pretty pathetic I thought.
He must be quite a difficult person to live with I think. He is forever “”losing it” nowadays , no matter how often his faithful followers tell him to ” keep it up”.
I’m surprised he even has it
I am one of those people who would never allow any pets in my house, especially dogs. Not because I hate them. I would never hurt a fly, let alone a defenceless animal.
I consider people who commit these atrocities very very sick in the mind.
I don`t even have the heart to read all the details of the recent cruelty towards dogs, I get nausea if I do. I might even start crying too.
However, what`s all this crap regarding the perpetrator/s? Kemm sirna inhobbu l annimali f`daqqa wahda?
U b-liema ragunament bazwi tghid li trid thallas lil min haqar il kelb, bl-istess atrocita`? J`Alla jinqabad, u jiehu dak li haqqu. . habs, multi u x`naf jien….imma mhux inpatti krudelta` bi krudelta` aghar!
Imbasta irriduha ta` iktar qaddisien min Kristu.
Sewwa, mela bniedem li tefa` kelb fi skip jehel multa ta` eluf kbar ta` euros u habs, mentri hafna nies involuti direttament jew indirettament fit tqassim tad-droga, u Alla biss jaf kemm ikunu qatlu jew sehtu tfal, jehlu erbat ijiem u johorgu il-barra qishom mhux huma.
U ftit li xejn hadd jirvilla kif qed jaghmlu fuq Facebook. Mentalita` baxxa li bil-mod tinbidel, sfortunatament.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo1ucej4ub4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Just go to minute 9.39. Joseph muscat says…jien mhux interssat immexxi partit. Jien interessat immexxi pajjiz
If the perpetrator is caught, he/she should be subjected to incessant loud playing of this tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR2QXdBFhpQ
Much of the comments in The Times are truly sickening. They are just the expression of rage coming out of simplistic minds who cannot see the bigger picture.
This is the main reason why I oppose the jury system.
The same thought crossed my mind a couple of days ago, when news of the Libyan toddler who died at Mater Dei Hospital was reported on timesofmalta.com.
It hardly stirred the same reaction as the story you highlighted. There was one person complaining about Libyans being treated in hospital. We seriously need to put things into perspective and stop being hypocrites.
The animal circuses and the dolphin shows still attract the crowds. Isn’t that animal cruelty?
Yes, yes it is.
Don’t torture/impale/crucify/burn bla bla bla, you’re certainly correct on that account.
But do stick him in a cell with a 1×1 foot window for the rest of his days with just enough food/drink to ensure he survives.
[Daphne – Back to the days of lynching, are we.]
Deepest apologies, I should have added ‘don’t hang/shoot/get a mob to run after him/her’ to my list also..
@ Mark Seychell:
Are you by any chance a psychologist? And if your answer is in the affirmative, did you examine the perpetrator in question?
@ Mark Seychell:
The point is that you have already judged and sentenced the perpetrator without even knowing who it was, and his mental state when he did it (assuming it was actually a he).
Jekk Norman Lowell ma jighd xejn sew.. darba qal wahda tajba…. Igri indahlu il Burka Malta forsi nahbuk tahta Daphne…
Dejjem Kontra il-Massa int?
Sur Kurt, fi zmien il-kbir Dumink, il-kriminali kienu jinhbew taht id-dublett tal-SMU.
Kont taf?
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Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando I had the occasion to witness Ms. Agius’ professionalism in the journalistic sphere first hand during the referendum campaign and feel that she was treated unjustly by her superiors.
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