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	Comments on: Let&#8217;s face it: we hold Labour and the Nationalist Party to completely different standards, don&#8217;t we	</title>
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		By: Walter Cronkite		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Cronkite]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-358606&quot;&gt;Macky&lt;/a&gt;.

Macky, my brother had to leave Malta because of that nasty shit Mintoff, so even if I was the same kind of shit he was it would be rather difficult for me to do that.

Still it feels good to say &quot;the kind of shit he WAS&quot;.

WAS. Mintoff WAS not IS.

Ghall-erwieh!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-358606">Macky</a>.</p>
<p>Macky, my brother had to leave Malta because of that nasty shit Mintoff, so even if I was the same kind of shit he was it would be rather difficult for me to do that.</p>
<p>Still it feels good to say &#8220;the kind of shit he WAS&#8221;.</p>
<p>WAS. Mintoff WAS not IS.</p>
<p>Ghall-erwieh!</p>
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		By: Monte bello		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Monte bello]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-358796&quot;&gt;Eldarion&lt;/a&gt;.

Your family were almost deported in the 80s - and you&#039;re still not convinced who the better evil is?

Phew - you&#039;re 6&#039;2 of idiot!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-358796">Eldarion</a>.</p>
<p>Your family were almost deported in the 80s &#8211; and you&#8217;re still not convinced who the better evil is?</p>
<p>Phew &#8211; you&#8217;re 6&#8217;2 of idiot!</p>
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		By: no shame no gain		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[no shame no gain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-358038&quot;&gt;Freud&lt;/a&gt;.

its a pity he forgot to mention l-interdett u id dnub mejjet. no mention at all of the mortal sin if you vote labour.
no mention at all that the priest asked you who you voted for after your reconciliation, and if you said labour he did not give you a blessing. 
no mention at all of how priest in malta, preached that if you vote labour you go to hell.
no mention at all of how people had to be buried in the &quot;mizbla&quot;
This priest is another one who should be ashamed of himself, as he is just twisting the facts and ommitting facts.
The church in Malta those times, preached that labour was bad and evil, so it could continue to make people live in the fear of God. And you all believed it and still cannot see that Mintoff was not fighting God, but he was fighting priests like this one who invented lies and distorted the facts, even inventing a mortal sin!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-358038">Freud</a>.</p>
<p>its a pity he forgot to mention l-interdett u id dnub mejjet. no mention at all of the mortal sin if you vote labour.<br />
no mention at all that the priest asked you who you voted for after your reconciliation, and if you said labour he did not give you a blessing.<br />
no mention at all of how priest in malta, preached that if you vote labour you go to hell.<br />
no mention at all of how people had to be buried in the &#8220;mizbla&#8221;<br />
This priest is another one who should be ashamed of himself, as he is just twisting the facts and ommitting facts.<br />
The church in Malta those times, preached that labour was bad and evil, so it could continue to make people live in the fear of God. And you all believed it and still cannot see that Mintoff was not fighting God, but he was fighting priests like this one who invented lies and distorted the facts, even inventing a mortal sin!</p>
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		By: no shame no gain		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[no shame no gain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357804&quot;&gt;steve&lt;/a&gt;.

@ steve
why is it so hard for you people to just say you are maltese ?! why do you think that being &quot;truly european&quot; sounds better than saying you are maltese? 

&lt;strong&gt;[Daphne - &#039;Truly European&#039; is a reference to culture, and nothing else. Maltese culture is not truly European. The sentiments expressed here, even by people who are supposedly from a privileged background, are yet more evidence of this. Imagine people in Britain protesting with a newspaper columnist that she should stop writing what she&#039;s writing, because she might get beaten up and then it would be her fault. It&#039;s the reason why so many people in Malta, including politicians, couldn&#039;t understand why that Danish newspaper didn&#039;t just avoid all that trouble and stay away from Mohammed cartoons, failing which the Danish government should have intervened with the newspaper and stopped it.]&lt;/strong&gt;

Afterall, according to you lot, after 25 years of PN government, Malta has flourished, no one is suffering, economy is booming, everyone is so happy and everything is running smoothly. So why do you still feel the need to say you are european? why dont you just say you are truly maltese? why are you ashamed of saying it?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357804">steve</a>.</p>
<p>@ steve<br />
why is it so hard for you people to just say you are maltese ?! why do you think that being &#8220;truly european&#8221; sounds better than saying you are maltese? </p>
<p><strong>[Daphne &#8211; &#8216;Truly European&#8217; is a reference to culture, and nothing else. Maltese culture is not truly European. The sentiments expressed here, even by people who are supposedly from a privileged background, are yet more evidence of this. Imagine people in Britain protesting with a newspaper columnist that she should stop writing what she&#8217;s writing, because she might get beaten up and then it would be her fault. It&#8217;s the reason why so many people in Malta, including politicians, couldn&#8217;t understand why that Danish newspaper didn&#8217;t just avoid all that trouble and stay away from Mohammed cartoons, failing which the Danish government should have intervened with the newspaper and stopped it.]</strong></p>
<p>Afterall, according to you lot, after 25 years of PN government, Malta has flourished, no one is suffering, economy is booming, everyone is so happy and everything is running smoothly. So why do you still feel the need to say you are european? why dont you just say you are truly maltese? why are you ashamed of saying it?</p>
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		By: elephant		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[elephant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think the whole thing about Mintoff (reading all the comments) is that he had really and truly managed to divide the Maltese and he has managed to create a hate-barrier which is very hard to bring down.  

It all reminds me of the French revolution, when the ignorany hordes  not knowing why shouted hate towards the nobles and those who were better off then them.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the whole thing about Mintoff (reading all the comments) is that he had really and truly managed to divide the Maltese and he has managed to create a hate-barrier which is very hard to bring down.  </p>
<p>It all reminds me of the French revolution, when the ignorany hordes  not knowing why shouted hate towards the nobles and those who were better off then them.</p>
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		By: anna caruana		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[anna caruana]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357906&quot;&gt;lord lucan&lt;/a&gt;.

WHO EXACTLY DID HE KILL WHEN YOU SAY A FEW. 

THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT SERVED  UNDER MINTOFF WERE GIVEN PROMOTIONS WHEN PN WERE ELECTED .

.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357906">lord lucan</a>.</p>
<p>WHO EXACTLY DID HE KILL WHEN YOU SAY A FEW. </p>
<p>THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT SERVED  UNDER MINTOFF WERE GIVEN PROMOTIONS WHEN PN WERE ELECTED .</p>
<p>.</p>
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		By: anna caruana		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[anna caruana]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357771&quot;&gt;Walter Cronkite&lt;/a&gt;.

AND YOU SAY IL LABURISTI HODOR U HAMALLI.

YOU DISGUSTING ASSHOLE]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357771">Walter Cronkite</a>.</p>
<p>AND YOU SAY IL LABURISTI HODOR U HAMALLI.</p>
<p>YOU DISGUSTING ASSHOLE</p>
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		By: Raphael Dingli		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael Dingli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357889&quot;&gt;Eldarion&lt;/a&gt;.

hear hear]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357889">Eldarion</a>.</p>
<p>hear hear</p>
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		By: Raphael Dingli		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael Dingli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357860&quot;&gt;Adrian&lt;/a&gt;.

but the priests who also detested him will also attend.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/08/lets-face-it-we-hold-labour-and-the-nationalist-party-to-completely-different-standards-dont-we/#comment-357860">Adrian</a>.</p>
<p>but the priests who also detested him will also attend.</p>
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		By: Eldarion		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eldarion]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the replies (See I can be nice). As for &quot;Maltese Population&quot; I&#039;m of Scottish descent, so logic is quite a strong suit I can assure you. Have a good night Daphne and when you have a Pimm&#039;s No.1, G&#038;T or a good old Johnnie Walker (black or blue) send them my regards.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the replies (See I can be nice). As for &#8220;Maltese Population&#8221; I&#8217;m of Scottish descent, so logic is quite a strong suit I can assure you. Have a good night Daphne and when you have a Pimm&#8217;s No.1, G&amp;T or a good old Johnnie Walker (black or blue) send them my regards.</p>
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