Comments on: Has The Times forgotten that the original reports of the National Bank of Malta court case are in its archives?

By: Lomax

Lomax — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:08:40 +0000

Astrid Vella is commenting on the comments board of timesofmalta.com under Peter Dacoutros’ letter that an elderly lady had died of a cardiac arrest as a result of the stressful and distressing events of the policemen turning up late at night and forcing people to sign over their National Bank shares.

The mind boggles. So, she knows, personally apparently, what we’ve been through. She knows that what Daphne and all of us write here is not some work of fiction or a figment of our imagination but rather what most of us experienced first-hand, and yet she sets up shop on Super One and lambasts the government through that ghastly and self-serving FAA.

Frankly, it is people like Astrid Vella who gave all this power to Franco Debono, because had there not been the vote haemorrhage in places like Sliema, the PN would have got at least one more seat and Franco Debono would have become an insignificant jerk.

So, Astrid, it is useless now decrying what happened 30 and 40 years ago if your behaviour helps give us a Labour government and helped give us the Franco factor now. Believe me, you did more than your fair share to ensure that those people who did those horrible things to us be re-elected.

And if they are elected, you will have yourself and your spoilt chummy-buddies to blame.

[Daphne – I can’t say she’s worried about the thought of a Labour government. They’re bound to make her a token woman chair’person’.]

By: Grezz

Grezz — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:31 +0000

In reply to mandango70.

mandango70, life for many – though, apparently, not yourself – was hell on earth under Mintoff.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:58:15 +0000

Until 1994, Edgar Mizzi kept an office next to the staircase leading to the strangers’ gallery. It was considered off limits, and when the space was chosen to install a new substation, he refused to budge.

The joke was that he didn’t trust anyone with the amount of documents and dossiers that would have had to be transferred.

By: etil

etil — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:51:19 +0000

In reply to mandango70. There he goes again - using vulgar insulting words. Poor man, he cannot do any better.

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:10:23 +0000

In reply to mandango70. Ma tantx hemm cans ghax Mintoff ga sieq wahda fil-qabar u lestewlu siggu jahraq fl-infern.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:09:57 +0000

In reply to Jozef. In 2013, this will not be necessary. At the very top of every flow chart, there will be Joseph Muscat.

By: mandango70

mandango70 — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:00:32 +0000

In reply to La Redoute. Ara tmurx int l-infern qablu ja zibel!

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:50:45 +0000

And here’s another one who remembers threats being made:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120515/letters/Justice-over-National-Bank-1-.419856

Quite why we should believe the self-serving biography of yet another of Mintoff’s dirty rotten bastards is beyond me.

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:47:51 +0000

Edgar Mizzi’s account is of a meeting in which, conveniently, all others present are either dead or compromised.

Unfortunately for Mr Mizzi (may he rot in hell and welcome Dom Mintoff when he arrives) several survivors remember Mintoff’s threats only too well.

Why would Peter Dacoutros, starring on the Labour Party’s One TV, feel the urge to lie about such a matter?

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120505/letters/Black-night-in-bank-history-1-.418386

More to the point, why would Mrs Attard Montalto lie about the matter?

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120505/letters/Black-night-in-bank-history-2-.418387

By: Joe Micallef

Joe Micallef — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:20:55 +0000

Who certified her dead??

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120525/local/swedish-diver-dies-after-cardiac-arrest.421281