“In this picture we see Mintoff licking Gaddafi’s ass. What a sycophant, and Gaddafi kicked his poor ass.”

http://ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/cronaca/2012/09/18/libro-svela-segreti-sessuali-Gheddafi-_7493200.html

Took him some time to write. If Black Monday was the 15th you would imagine the letter should have been written on the 16th not the 18th.

Joseph Muscat invited the usual suspects back in. It’s almost like he was the mastermind of his own downfall.

Think of it in terms of a horror film where ghouls are seeking to possess normal people and turn them into some kind of slave to evil. However these ghouls cannot invade unless they are actually invited in.

Muscat must have thought he saw a possibility of regaining some disgruntled Mintoffians by embracing the policies and memory of the late Dom but to make it stick his sacrifice was to invite the past back.

In your opinion maybe. All Zanzi is doing is applying ‘Post-structuralism’ to Mintoff’s legacy. Perhaps Mintoff was the Lady Ga Ga of his time, effectively challenging the established order of things.

“Venditore di tappeti” according to Andreotti.

Those of you who are familiar with Italian idiom know exactly what this means.

Most of you cannot understand a thing.

This is what the top Italian politician of that era thought about “is-salvatur ta’ Malta”.

X’misthija.

Let’s not over-analise it, Zanzi: Mintoff was simply a cheap thug, who surrounded himself with more of his ilk (but without the grey matter) and, essentially, broke this country’s back, physically, morally, judicially, infrastructurally . . .

What about 1977 – 1981?

It is fair to say that he only failed an electoral test once (winning 5 on 6, plus Malta’s most major referendum ever) however, which is pretty impressive and unlikely to be repeated.

The outward language in his quotes is fascinating, but to be expected, because these were struggling situations. That is what justifies the brazen nature of his language especially that which relates to independence and sovereignty of the islands.

And let’s face it, the quote regarding the French and Germans workers is hilariously funny and relevant today.

When we analyse everyone who’s famous or infamous alike, from Lady GaGa to David Bowie, the connection between Dom and the above mentioned (and there really is one) is that he was just like his audience, that he could feel their pain, and that, above all, he knew how to get rid of that pain -the class divides in Malta, colonialism, the Church influence over state these needed to tackled.

Strickland, God bless him, would not have achieved this. The downside is that his above rhetoric inspired others to acts of violence and class war.

The point is a dose of Dom together with the achievements of his successors has made Malta the relatively good place it is today.

Yep, he also wanted us members of the AAPSO

http://www.osaarchivum.org/files/holdings/300/8/3/text/99-4-182.shtml