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		By: anna caruana		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/09/about-as-european-as-dog-stew/#comment-386858</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[anna caruana]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/09/about-as-european-as-dog-stew/#comment-385205&quot;&gt;Interested Bystander&lt;/a&gt;.

You should move back to one of those English Housing Estates
At least you ll be at home..



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/09/about-as-european-as-dog-stew/#comment-385205">Interested Bystander</a>.</p>
<p>You should move back to one of those English Housing Estates<br />
At least you ll be at home..</p>
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		By: miki		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[miki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/09/about-as-european-as-dog-stew/#comment-385061&quot;&gt;Harry Purdie&lt;/a&gt;.

We can&#039;t &quot;lay it on the line&quot;.  We have obligations towards our families and our employees.  I do not have to be responsible for having 30 families without an income; I do not want to put my family through more pain.

Of course, we want to scream and shout yet unless you are an activist, heavily aligned to one or the other party you have no security, no guarantee that there is another knock on the door from the ALE/police to pick you up, or to pull you over on your way home from work and harass you just because some MP wants to &quot;ha nghallmu&quot; just because i do not keel over and let them walk all over me.

I am afraid Mintoff the scumbag lives on in the form of those who make up the underbelly of the Maltese political system.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/09/about-as-european-as-dog-stew/#comment-385061">Harry Purdie</a>.</p>
<p>We can&#8217;t &#8220;lay it on the line&#8221;.  We have obligations towards our families and our employees.  I do not have to be responsible for having 30 families without an income; I do not want to put my family through more pain.</p>
<p>Of course, we want to scream and shout yet unless you are an activist, heavily aligned to one or the other party you have no security, no guarantee that there is another knock on the door from the ALE/police to pick you up, or to pull you over on your way home from work and harass you just because some MP wants to &#8220;ha nghallmu&#8221; just because i do not keel over and let them walk all over me.</p>
<p>I am afraid Mintoff the scumbag lives on in the form of those who make up the underbelly of the Maltese political system.</p>
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		By: gatt		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[gatt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prosit! One of your best articles. 

And we were naive enough to think that the violence which Labour thugs think is their sacrosanct right was a thing of the past. 

It had to be Mintoff&#039;s funeral which brought it to the surface much like barracudas lurking beneath the surface and ready to strike.  

At least Dr Sant had cleaned the party from these terrorists but Dr Muscat has brought them back.  

Imagine what is going to happen when they are in power because the spineless Nationalists are handing them the government of these islands on a silver platter.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Prosit! One of your best articles. </p>
<p>And we were naive enough to think that the violence which Labour thugs think is their sacrosanct right was a thing of the past. </p>
<p>It had to be Mintoff&#8217;s funeral which brought it to the surface much like barracudas lurking beneath the surface and ready to strike.  </p>
<p>At least Dr Sant had cleaned the party from these terrorists but Dr Muscat has brought them back.  </p>
<p>Imagine what is going to happen when they are in power because the spineless Nationalists are handing them the government of these islands on a silver platter.</p>
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		By: Interested Bystander		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Interested Bystander]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Malta is like a massive English council estate.

Once you are &#039;streetwise&#039;, it&#039;s a piece of piss to sort yourself out with what you want/need.

Keep your head down, be anonymous and duck and dive.

Sorry to say, it will be decades at least until Malta changes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Malta is like a massive English council estate.</p>
<p>Once you are &#8216;streetwise&#8217;, it&#8217;s a piece of piss to sort yourself out with what you want/need.</p>
<p>Keep your head down, be anonymous and duck and dive.</p>
<p>Sorry to say, it will be decades at least until Malta changes.</p>
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		By: Interested Bystander		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Interested Bystander]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You should see what The Guardian wrote about Oswald Mosley when he died.

Made me puke.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You should see what The Guardian wrote about Oswald Mosley when he died.</p>
<p>Made me puke.</p>
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		By: Harry Purdie		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry Purdie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of your very best ever pieces, Daphne. 

Reading various comments, it appears you have begun to instill some backbone into the locals. If only all commenters would stop hiding behind pseudonyms and lay it on the line.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of your very best ever pieces, Daphne. </p>
<p>Reading various comments, it appears you have begun to instill some backbone into the locals. If only all commenters would stop hiding behind pseudonyms and lay it on the line.</p>
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		By: The Engineer		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Engineer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You are definitely right but these people are very dangerous. 

One can understand why even prominent people talk as they talk because some are afraid. 

However I agree with you it&#039;s better not to say anything if you can&#039;t speak the facts. I totally agree with Fr Lucie Smith that Mintoff did untold harm to our country. 

He was an extremist within his party and he has left his mark until today on the Labour Party and also Malta. 

Labour is fooling our country and its supporters by saying that theirs is a new way of politics. This is old Mintoffian Labour style. 

The PN deserves to win because it has remained at the centre of the political spectrum despite Labour&#039;s persistent extremism. 

Mintoff and the Mintoffiani took hold of the party for the last 60 years and it is still under their spell. Labour is showing htred and not valid arguments and criticism. 

What is the difference between Franco Debono, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Robert Musumeci?

Their criticism is different and their style is different. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is known to be a mad horse although he boast himself od hving strong liberal values which the promotion the divorce referendum has shown and which one might condone. However his attitude and remarks towards the party were disrespectful and the party didn&#039;t deserve that. 

Robert Musumeci repeatedly showed his liberal values. I think he is the most reasonable of those who opposed slightly or striongly the PN. He never showed disrespect towards the party. 

Franco distinguishes himself from the previous two in no uncertain terms.. He repeatedly showed disrespect towards the party. He doesn&#039;t have any ideology driving his cause. He repeatedly showed that he is envious of his other colleagues. His arguments are futile, very shallow and in line with the labour parties propagand. He never had any misgivings or found it difficult to say that todays PBS is worse than the 80s. Something which no TRUE nationalist would have ever said. So I say that he is a LABOURITE and not a true PN supporter.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are definitely right but these people are very dangerous. </p>
<p>One can understand why even prominent people talk as they talk because some are afraid. </p>
<p>However I agree with you it&#8217;s better not to say anything if you can&#8217;t speak the facts. I totally agree with Fr Lucie Smith that Mintoff did untold harm to our country. </p>
<p>He was an extremist within his party and he has left his mark until today on the Labour Party and also Malta. </p>
<p>Labour is fooling our country and its supporters by saying that theirs is a new way of politics. This is old Mintoffian Labour style. </p>
<p>The PN deserves to win because it has remained at the centre of the political spectrum despite Labour&#8217;s persistent extremism. </p>
<p>Mintoff and the Mintoffiani took hold of the party for the last 60 years and it is still under their spell. Labour is showing htred and not valid arguments and criticism. </p>
<p>What is the difference between Franco Debono, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Robert Musumeci?</p>
<p>Their criticism is different and their style is different. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is known to be a mad horse although he boast himself od hving strong liberal values which the promotion the divorce referendum has shown and which one might condone. However his attitude and remarks towards the party were disrespectful and the party didn&#8217;t deserve that. </p>
<p>Robert Musumeci repeatedly showed his liberal values. I think he is the most reasonable of those who opposed slightly or striongly the PN. He never showed disrespect towards the party. </p>
<p>Franco distinguishes himself from the previous two in no uncertain terms.. He repeatedly showed disrespect towards the party. He doesn&#8217;t have any ideology driving his cause. He repeatedly showed that he is envious of his other colleagues. His arguments are futile, very shallow and in line with the labour parties propagand. He never had any misgivings or found it difficult to say that todays PBS is worse than the 80s. Something which no TRUE nationalist would have ever said. So I say that he is a LABOURITE and not a true PN supporter.</p>
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		By: miki		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[miki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Such a valuable piece when it comes to personal reflection. I could not agree more.

Yet things are not different now than they were then, really.  This you confirm by your appraisal of the country&#039;s leaders&#039; reaction to the asshole&#039;s death.

We still get arrested, taken to court, harassed and victimised by infamous MPs for saying the truth, standing up for what is right, for even attempting to dream that we live in a modern democracy.

Same old, same old.

The problem is that it hurts now more than it did then.  Then you expected the pain; now the pain catches you by surprise.

Serves us right, the free ones, to even dare to think that we live in a civilised, modern society.

Yet, I am lucky.  

Lucky to feel free even when I am stripped naked in the unlit cold cell in the basement of Floriana police headquarters for being arrested for not saying &quot;sorry&quot; for saying the truth.

The more they lock us up, the more free we feel.  The more they try to hurt us, the less pain we feel.

This is not a country.  This is a tribe with, as you said, a Sicilian style vindictive mindset that is now the norm.

We have no dignity, self respect, pride.

We think we do.

We have no shame.  Even political correctness has been transformed to some kind of veil of decency to make us say insipid, bland and innocuous words that have little value beyond rattle and hum.

No one deserves to be victimised, hurt, damaged, violated; in whatever shape or form.  

So, Muscat, if you want to move forward, stand up, acknowledge the bad of the past; ask for forgiveness for the bad things that the predecessors did; then we start to think of you as a possible successor. Until then you are nothing but a clanging noise in the desert.

Gonzi, you shamed us.  You have let the people around you do things that would make Lorry Sant proud.  You looked the other way, you pleaded ignorance, you broke bread with the enemy within.  you let this cancer grow and you did not shake the disease.  

You surrounded yourself with half witted low lives who have more or less the same values and MO as the opposition.

If it is yellow, slightly bent, looks like a banana, smells like a banana and tastes like a banana, probably, and i could be wrong here, probably it is a banana.
And now?

All those we told you so&#039;s might come back to haunt you.

We heard about those people who suffered so much under Mintoff when Mintoff&#039;s regime destroyed our lives.

what about us who have had our hell and nightmare relived under this impotent administration?

Where to for us?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Such a valuable piece when it comes to personal reflection. I could not agree more.</p>
<p>Yet things are not different now than they were then, really.  This you confirm by your appraisal of the country&#8217;s leaders&#8217; reaction to the asshole&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>We still get arrested, taken to court, harassed and victimised by infamous MPs for saying the truth, standing up for what is right, for even attempting to dream that we live in a modern democracy.</p>
<p>Same old, same old.</p>
<p>The problem is that it hurts now more than it did then.  Then you expected the pain; now the pain catches you by surprise.</p>
<p>Serves us right, the free ones, to even dare to think that we live in a civilised, modern society.</p>
<p>Yet, I am lucky.  </p>
<p>Lucky to feel free even when I am stripped naked in the unlit cold cell in the basement of Floriana police headquarters for being arrested for not saying &#8220;sorry&#8221; for saying the truth.</p>
<p>The more they lock us up, the more free we feel.  The more they try to hurt us, the less pain we feel.</p>
<p>This is not a country.  This is a tribe with, as you said, a Sicilian style vindictive mindset that is now the norm.</p>
<p>We have no dignity, self respect, pride.</p>
<p>We think we do.</p>
<p>We have no shame.  Even political correctness has been transformed to some kind of veil of decency to make us say insipid, bland and innocuous words that have little value beyond rattle and hum.</p>
<p>No one deserves to be victimised, hurt, damaged, violated; in whatever shape or form.  </p>
<p>So, Muscat, if you want to move forward, stand up, acknowledge the bad of the past; ask for forgiveness for the bad things that the predecessors did; then we start to think of you as a possible successor. Until then you are nothing but a clanging noise in the desert.</p>
<p>Gonzi, you shamed us.  You have let the people around you do things that would make Lorry Sant proud.  You looked the other way, you pleaded ignorance, you broke bread with the enemy within.  you let this cancer grow and you did not shake the disease.  </p>
<p>You surrounded yourself with half witted low lives who have more or less the same values and MO as the opposition.</p>
<p>If it is yellow, slightly bent, looks like a banana, smells like a banana and tastes like a banana, probably, and i could be wrong here, probably it is a banana.<br />
And now?</p>
<p>All those we told you so&#8217;s might come back to haunt you.</p>
<p>We heard about those people who suffered so much under Mintoff when Mintoff&#8217;s regime destroyed our lives.</p>
<p>what about us who have had our hell and nightmare relived under this impotent administration?</p>
<p>Where to for us?</p>
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		By: Paul Bonnici		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bonnici]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/09/about-as-european-as-dog-stew/#comment-384551&quot;&gt;Lomax&lt;/a&gt;.

It is a shame that despite the PN being in government for over 20 years, people are still scared to use their real name here.

I blame the PN for this, their &#039;reconciliation&#039; will haunt them for ever.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/09/about-as-european-as-dog-stew/#comment-384551">Lomax</a>.</p>
<p>It is a shame that despite the PN being in government for over 20 years, people are still scared to use their real name here.</p>
<p>I blame the PN for this, their &#8216;reconciliation&#8217; will haunt them for ever.</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Daphne puts us all to shame.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daphne puts us all to shame.</p>
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