JPOS’s and his Labour cronies’ mask is melting

We should have seen the inevitable consequences of a Super One reporter being elected to lead the Labour Party

This morning JPOS finally decided to give us another bit of information as to why he wants Richard Cachia Caruana expelled from the PN.

But not, of course, before planning it out nicely with Labour MP and Sant’s former Ministru Bla Portafoll, Joe Mizzi, who scheduled an outing on Super One to provide the slanderous gist to JPOS’s mill.

But if this is the secret that JPOS has been gleefully keeping from us all these weeks, it is telling, very telling. And not about Richard Cachia Caruana, either, but about JPOS and his Labour cronies.

Yesterday, Joe Mizzi spoke about the matter on Super One TV and this morning JPOS promptly sent a YouTube video of an edited version to the PN executive, as “evidence” of RCC’s “crimes”.

I do not know what was edited out of the original footage and so I will stick to what JPOS wants to show us. We can safely assume that he included everything that in his warped mind constitutes “evidence”.

Let us start from the general level. If you watch the Joe Mizzi edited clip, then read JPOS’s interpretation of it, then watch the clip again, the two just do not tally.

What Joe Mizzi says does NOT substantiate JPOS’s accusations. Mizzi chose his words carefully, though not carefully enough to avoid the perhaps inevitable law suit. Throughout, he refers to this elusive third person who is supposed to have passed on information to him.

Even on this general level it is crystal clear what is happening here. Joseph Muscat and his sidekick Joe Mizzi are giving madman JPOS – whose manner, personality and behaviour are now so uncannily alike those of the disturbed Jo Said that we cannot ignore the comparson any longer – what to him looks like grist for his dirty mill but without getting their own hands dirty.

In this, Muscat and Mizzi are wrong, because the Labour Party has suffered heavy damage, in the eyes of those of goodwill whose votes it pursues, because of its very obvious collusion with a man on a personal and outrageous vendetta.

Now let’s get down to specifics – the three so-called allegations levelled by Joe Mizzi, and JPOS’s perverse take on them.

1. Joe Mizzi alleges that ‘pressure’ was put on him after he removed Cachia Caruana’s personal security. He does not say who put the pressure on. Even if it was Cachia Caruana himself who pleaded to keep his security, he would have done nothing wrong. He did not want his security for company.

Cachia Caruana’s personal security was as justified then as it is now. Someone tried to KILL prime minister Eddie Fenech Adami’s closest aide, plunging a nine-inch knife into his back, where the blade broke off and lodged itself.

Alfred Sant’s Labour Party in opposition did everything in its power to derail the legal process leading to the culprit. And they succeeded. Then, when Labour came to power, and WITH THE PERPETRATOR STILL AT LARGE, Joe Mizzi removes his security detail. That is Labour justice for you: personal spite before morality and justice.

JPOS’s take on the matter is typical of somebody without the slightest vestige of decency. He says that the security detail should have been removed because the murder attempt was “unrelated to his official position but was simply a case of personal vendetta”. This is a non sequitur on several levels. For one, the security detail was not provided because of the victim’s position in life, or because of the REASON for that attempt on his life, but because the person/s who commissioned the murder attempt are still around.

The man who uses two heavies like a New York drug-dealer to showboat around the PN headquarters, where he probably imagines he might be killed or flattened, now says that a man who was knifed by somebody who remains out and about should not have proper security detail.

2. Joe Mizzi alleged that Richard Cachia Caruana put pressure for the removal of the Head of Security Services in 1996-98, when Labour was in government. This claim is so incomphensible that it is not easy to feel mute and aghast. Let us start from the basics. But let’s try. For a start, this former cabinet minister talked about il-Head tas-Security, as if he were ic-cermen of Brixu Security, as opposed to the Head of the country’s Security Services. A former cabinet minister and he can’t even get the name right.

But more importantly, Joe Mizzi was at the time a minister (without portfolio) in the prime minister’s office, and yet Alfred Sant, his boss at the time, went on public record a few days ago to say that he knows nothing of all this and that nobody in the Labour Party has spoken to him about JPOS and his allegations. In any case, what in God’s name is Mizzi trying to say?

3. And finally we get to the Monty Python stuff. Joe Mizzi claims that there once was a boat and on this boat there were some important people and these important people were Cachia Caruana’s friends because of course, you can’t be important and not be a friend of Richard Cachia Caruana and possibly even part of his ‘click’.

These people were having a cociane party on the boat because all important people take cocaine, and if it’s on a yacht then it’s even better. Cabinet minister Joe Mizzi heard about this cocaine party and sent the police to nab them. But lo and behold, they raided the wrong boat while the party on the other cocaine-loaded boat presumably continued in full nose-ripping swing. And so it must have been Richard Cachia Caruana (with Labour in government, if you please, when he was working in the private sector, and when Mizzi’s office was responsible for the police) who got the police to raid the wrong boat.

Now go back to the video and hear what Joe Mizzi said. He does not say a single word about what Cachia Caruana is supposed to have done. In the time-honoured evil fashion of Super One, he implies it. The Pythonesque nudge nudge wink wink insinuation is that a man working in the private sector, but who used to be the PN PM’s personal assistant, called the police when Labour was in government and sent them on a wild goose chase to protect his cocaine-snorting friends out at sea.

Jeffrey’s excuse is that he’s on Earl Grey. So what, exactly, is Joe Mizzi’s? As for Joseph Muscat, he remains a Super One reporter who cannot see beyond the evening’s top story.