Silvio Zammit: the show must go on (as they say)
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October 27, 2012 at 11:41am
Why let a little investigation about a request for a bribe of EUR60 million, and catastrophic embarrassment caused to your country, get in the way of your circus?
It wouldn’t be professional.
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He should invite Dalli to a spot of mud-wrestling in one of the animal cages. Now, that would be a star attraction.
It is sad – very sad that we have become Europe’s laughing stock.
We are not Europe’s laughing stock; Dalli stated that he is worried about his and his family’s future ONLY.
Going by OLAF’s public declarations, it is Dalli who breached the EU Commissioners’ code of ethics – not Malta.
Being Maltese is irrelevant; wrongdoing is not a monopoly in any country.
The Chinese premier is being accused of having ‘amassed’ 2.7B, this after having denounced corruption publicly and a witch hunt started.
Why blame Silvio Zammit? Without an “accessible” EU Commissioner there would have been no deal to offer.
When Dr Borg was commissioner for fisheries, and tuna fishing was severely restricted, there were no such problems because Dr Borg is not accessible and does not attract shady people or should I even suggest “look for” shady people.
Good point. Game Set and match.
The show must go on.
After all this I am serioulsy doubting Silvio’s Zammit promises that the animals in circuses are not being stressed by living in small cages 90% of the day and long travelling.
`How do you describe the mafia?` Judge Borsallino was asked.`You know…there is a contest for a magistrate. The first member is very competent, the second is so and so and the third one is a fesso (a fool). Who do you think wins the contest? The third one wins….that is the mafia.”
Both Borsellino and Falcone denounced the idea that the mafia thrives when the state is absent.
The state is absent when we expect it to be someone else.
When John Dalli tries to justify informality and denigrate public opinion with his one to one meetings as some form of consultation, we’re no better if we let his corrupt thinking pass. Most opposition derives from an acceptance of that resigned mentality.
John Dalli thinks the practice of corruption is the antidote to political hypocrisy, that public discourse is a load of untold truths anyway. So does an undiclosed number of people.
Elections will give a clearer picture.
When Labour tries to paint a picture of an executive separated from popular chat, and then align itself to the scandal, its limits are exposed. It is the same blame game gone wrong.
The fact that they think government is the state is the least of their deceit. No one in the press to date questioned why they should acknowledge nepotism and ignore ethics to score points. Or are we to assume Labour’s affinity for the commissioner was something we imagined?