A little reminder why large chunks of Malta do not essentially understand democracy
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June 2, 2012 at 11:13am
We have too much in common with our neighbours – and no, that it isn’t a good thing.
If you wish to see the contingent from Malta, go to 7.26 minutes.
If Franco Debono lived then, guess where he would be. But then he’s pretty much said so already: that he loves the Italian way.
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I listened to that speech, and I was amazed that Mussolini still harboured hate for Eden on account of the sanctions imposed during the war in Abyssinia – a decision based on hate can never produce positive results.
Franco’s cowardly and despicable attack on Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici being a case in point.
A true man hates no one.
Napoleon Buonaparte.
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I don’t think this is good PR from the Nationalist Party, it opens the door for ridicule. Carm Mifsud Bonnici is an adult and can handle the situation, I suppose.
Where can Franco’s admirers write their postcards?
What is appalling to me is the masses cheering their own destruction and impending doom.
Within five or six years Mussolini was killed and hung upside-down with his companion.
Europe was left for dead after yet another encounter with blood thirsty tyrants. Millions of Italians, Germans, French, Brits, Americans, Australians, Candians, Maltese, Japanese, Chinese lay dead.
The Union has its severe drawbacks but we’ve lived peacefully for 75 years since the atrocities. The ‘No’ movement wanted to deny this peace as our rightful heritage. A host of Mintoffian diehards want to remove the George Cross from our flag – to them it is a symbol of imperialist oppression rather than a sign of the bravery of our grandparents (ironic, isn’t it?).
Now Joseph Muscat wants to deny our right to free speech, movement and work. And his supporters don’t see beyond the colour of their placards, the remarks of one person, which they take literally, the immature chants of a little boy who didn’t get his way, and the ignorant manipulative hearsay.
On inhale, they say that you incite hatred; on exhale they exude the most horrible of racial slurs and anti-humanitarian sentiment (sadly this is not just the Labourites).
I am all for progressive change, improvement and removing the fat but terms and conditions ‘do’ apply.
Daphne, I join other readers in thanking you for your courage in being a “thorn”. If anything you have reminded a number of people what Labour is all about. You’re always spot on with your political analysis.
It is ironical that the nearest we ever came to having our own Duce in Malta was during the Mintoff regime.
It’s even more ironical that, when this happened, it was the Nationalists, under Fenech Adami, who took on the role of antifascists.
The placard saying Malta was one of a set depicting the ‘regioni irredenti’ or better, those which Mussolini claimed to be Italian soil.
He abused history by forgetting that Malta had been crucial in the unification of Italy, serving as a refuge for revolutionaries from the south exiled by the Bourbons, who were alongside the French, at war with the Britain. Crispi spent nearly two years in Tarxien, once visited by Garibaldi himself.
A liberal democrat in the early years, he became a controversial figure once elected prime minister. Crispi’s considered by detractors as Mussolini’s inspiration, Irredentismo being his idea.
History can be uncanny at times.
The whole truth of the matter lies in the comment that the Rai3 commentator makes before the midget from Predappio begins his famous speech.
“Mussolini ha paura del Fuehrer”.
He was only trying to save his country and himself by riding on the back of the tiger in the hope that they would be the last to get eaten.
Neville Chamberlain had tried the same tactic exactly two years previously.
It was only thanks to the indomitable British spirit led by the Spirit of Chartwell (what an apt name for the jubilee royal barge) that the world was saved.
Never in the field of human conflict…….
Mussolini is more of a man than any Franco Debono.
The Maltese present there were looking for a way of freeing Malta from British occupation. It was the fault of Britain that we were dragged into the war and were so heavily bombarded. If we were under Italy we would not have got a single bomb. But history will always be written by the victors.
[Daphne – Don’t come in here and talk such bollocks. I find it deeply offensive and insulting. I would rather contend with 900 Mintoffiani than with one person who says this sort of pig-ignorant thing. ]
Thank you, Daphne.
If we were under Italy we would have been firstly taken over by Nazi Germany and subsequently blown out of the Med by Eisenhower.
Bob, you would not even be around to write such nonsense.
And, luckily, I would not be here to read it.
If we were under Italy, Malta would have been the target of American B17 bombers based in Northwest Africa.
Capable of flying to target in major formations, protected by long range fighters, the bombing would have been incessant. This would have led to the Germans taking over with Grand Harbour suffering the same fate as Cassino or even worse Dresden.
And we’d have been part of the Vichy regime anyway.
It’s arguable whether or not we’d have had bombs falling on us and to what extent, had we been under the Italians.
But I suspect large numbers of us might have ended up in Auschwitz, along with the other so-called untermensch. So, notwithstanding my dislike for the Constitutional Party, no thank you, Bob.
That doesn’t mean that the British and even worse the local Pharisees didn’t behave horribly towards their Maltese brothers, whose only guilt, for the most part, was to want independence.
But on balance it takes a fool to deny that of all the outcomes, other than the rise of Mintoff, we probably came away with the least destructive of WWII options. Ruling out a global outburst of brotherly love, of course.
In terms of 20th century disasters for Malta, I’m still not sure which was the worst of the Spanish influenza, WWII and Mintoff. I’d rule out the flu but I’m not sure about which of the others to pick.
We’ll see. Although WWII’s effect is now limited to the Royal Opera House memorial, the Mintoff effect is still in action, as seen in parliament this week.
[Daphne – Without 160 years of British rule, we’d have been a version of Sicily, Never Again, and good luck with that. It’s bad enough as it is already, despite those 160 years of British rule and British structures and systems. Imagine if it had never happened. Even the idea of this blog would be alien, and what language would it have been in – Italian? Maltese? Really useful on the internet.]