Sorry, I did not realise that the boy was joking and that he was not made to believe that the Maltese are Arabs.

You seem to confirm the boy’s opinion by saying that the reaction from the prime minister’s office (with which I clearly indicated that I disagree) puts us in the Arab camp.

Wrong impressions aren’t corrected by the sort of letter that Mario Cacciottolo wrote. An inability to take a joke, to see the funny side of things and to laugh at ourselves is an affliction we share with the countries from which we try to dissociate ourselves.

This reminds me of the occasion when TIME magazine featured an article on Malta which spoke of “the minarets” dominating the Maltese countryside. This was before the mosque near Corradino was built.

Such misrepresentation has a more significant meaning than a hilarious one.

It is for us, and our political leaders, to give the correct image of Malta to the outside word. Even a letter from a prime minister’s office to an American teenager could be couched in terms that enhance our image.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUktyBQ30mw

I am proud of my country and would be even if it was a goddamn pebble.

There might have been other efforts to get rid of persons such as Pietru Pawl Busuttil who was framend and then there were rumours that someone was trying to throw him out of a window at SDt.Luke’s hospital.

There might be others of course, but these will be remembered as episodes during the Golden Years, of which the Labour Party is so proud that it does not want to talk about.

Police trained in North Korea.

As long the killing done by the police is not on the streets and the killing on the streets is not done by the police then all is fine. Surely the government of the time should get an award of some sort for such an impeccable record.

Goes to show what we’re in for should dear Joseph gets his claws on Malta’s premier’s office.

Of course, no shame or regrets for the barbaric, horrific and violent ways during his chief’s tenure at Castille.

I just cannot understand why the KMB government got itself into a dither because a ‘Maltese’ boy was attired in Libyan garb.

They must have really been as mad as a box of frogs.