Comments on: Comment of the night

By: me

me — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:39:32 +0000

In reply to Me. *You* have no idea what you are writing about.

By: Me

Me — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:10:25 +0000

well, we might have different views on all of the above =)

By: I was there too

I was there too — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:49:22 +0000

In reply to Mark Vella. Malta's prime minister in 1984 was Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Mintoff's glove puppet. Same difference.

By: Me

Me — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:05:14 +0000

YOU of all people are talking about ‘ wanting more’ !!!!!!!!!!! well, at least, I am ready to pay tax for someone who made sure :
1. I got the right to vote
2. I got Children Allowances and social benefits
3. I have a free country to live in
4. free education for myself and my daughter
and much much more.

So, I wouldn’t mind paying tax for him as long as in one way or another he made sure I will be getting it back.

[Daphne – 1. Your right to vote is inalienable. No one can give it to you. What you get is the vote, not the right to vote. And in any case, Mintoff had nothing to do with that in 1947 and you’re quite ridiculous in suggesting that if it were not for Mintoff we women would still not be allowed to vote in 2012.

2. He ‘gave’ you children’s allowance using other people’s money: taxes and funds from Gaddafi. He should have given you work opportunities with good pay instead: it’s called the rod to fish with instead of the fish.

3. Mintoff did not set Malta free. He turned it into a hellish, undemocratic prison in which people were afraid to speak, write or assemble. Freedom came after 1987. If you are talking about March 1979, that is when Britain’s lease on Malta as a military base came to a close – the British financial year ends on 31 March – and they refused to renew it no matter how much Mintoff begged them. Because you are so bloody stupid, he sold his catastrophic failure as success and you swallowed it. The country was left with a dockyard it didn’t need and couldn’t afford and hundreds of millions of liri were spent on it over the years. Also, because he foolishly – because he was such a bad negotiator – lost that income from Britain, Mintoff hooked us up to Gaddafi, and the rest is history.

4. Free education, my eye. Schools and university were free long before Mintoff became prime minister. Mintoff actually CLOSED DOWN faculties at the university. Did anybody tell you that? Clearly not.]

By: M.

M. — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:35:26 +0000

In reply to Calipha. That much is obvious. There are too many uneducated people around.

By: Calipha

Calipha — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:45:30 +0000

So he’s admitting that Joseph will come to power…interesting…
:-)

By: OK

OK — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:31:19 +0000

Daphne, I was surprised that no one has commented about two facts mentioned by Jurgen Balzan in an article on Malta Today of Wednesday 22 August 2012 entitled “The Dark side of Mintoff”.

1. Mintoff appointed lawyer KMB (future PM) as controller to take over the bank (BICAL) and its associated companies’ assets. Pace was puzzled why the evident surplus of assets over liabilities threatened the closure of his bank.

Mintoff then sent his messengers including Minister Anton Buttigieg to ask Cecil Pace whether he would consider taking on Mintoff as a business partner.
Buttigieg suggested to Pace to transfer part of the bank that later closed down, to Mintoff’s nominees…

2. Albert Mizzi, who worked closely with Mintoff’s government: “I remember one time when someone mentioned something to him about corruption. He turned to me and said, is it true? I replied: That is what people are saying. His response was: What can I do if that person has helped me to build up the party? Can I take action against him? You see this is small Malta.

What a great thief? And what contrast with today’s government who fights corruption at all costs. Ghandhom ghalfejn jadurawh!

By: Ken il malti

Ken il malti — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:17:47 +0000

I’ll bet those rosary beads in his cold clammy hands have a Fabian Society emblem ( which depicts a wolf in sheep’s clothing) at the end instead of a crucifix as Dom Mintoff was a Fabian Society member.

Dom Mintoff was one leg of the antithesis versus thesis to produce synthesis, a situation so loved by the Jesuits in their colony of Malta and everywhere else.

Nothing is as it seems to be until you dig a little deeper.

By: Mark Vella

Mark Vella — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:43:31 +0000

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