Well, the poor sod has really cracked, hasn’t he
Christmas menu 2012: Hasi l-forn
Now the Hasi ta’ Hal Ghaxaq has filed three more breach of privilege complaints in parliament, against (draw a giant breath here) three ordinary folk who posted comments on timesofmalta.com’s board.
Mur mal-Labour, Franco, ghax hemm postok. Tlift il-boxxla wahda sew. Man on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: coming soon to a parliament near you.
On timesofmalta.com, this evening
DEBONO RAISES PRIVILEGE COMPLAINTS AGAINST COMMENTERS
Franco Debono this evening raised breach of privilege complaints against three commenters on timesofmalta.com.
He said the website had faithfully reported his remarks in parliament yesterday – including the fact that somebody had made a death threat to him and that he had forgiven the culprit after the police identified him.
He was, however, complaining about comments made by Manuel Camilleri, Philip Hili and Michael Borg.
He said that Mr Camilleri had described him as a blackmailer when, Dr Debono insisted, he had only acted in the way he had a right and a duty to do in parliament and outside.
Philip Hili had said that as a first class village lawyer, he (Dr Debono) should know that even though he had forgiven the culprit, the police were duty bound to investigate and if the culprit was found guilty, he had to face the consequences, even though he had forgiven him.
His forgiveness served only to have a lesser punishment and did not exclude the culprit from what he deserved, if found guilty. Otherwise, he would be accusing, judging and even handing the sentence to the culprit, something an honest village lawyer knew could not happen in a democratic country where the rule of law prevailed.
Michael Borg had asked whether his forgiveness was only a setup aimed at making him look a saint.
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“First class village lawyer” – I LOVE IT. No wonder he freaked. Dak top criminal lawyer, hej, tafux.
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He has officially lost it.
So sad to see hundreds of so-called Christians egging him on on his blog. The man seriously needs help.
To make matters worse there might be some very recent developments in his love life (and I’m not referring to your impending “marriage”!). Your network spies should have told you already.
[Daphne – Indeed? A new Rhode Island hen, perhaps?]
Or a Texas rooster? Called Long Horns down there. Tough birds. Should straighten him up.
I know that these will not ‘egg him on’.
”Hasi fil-forn”
Not a bad idea for the front page of the Christmas Edition of Taste magazine.
Why those three in particular? Half the population of Malta has expressed their thoughts about him, and few comments have been complimentary in essence. Does he intend to haul half the population to answer in Parliament for their comments?
We really need to rethink our whole parliamentary system. It relies too much on the representatives behaving like gentlemen. With none from the Labour camp being able to claim such a quality and a few from the PN likewise, Parliament has been reduced to a bizarre freak-show of a circus.
It started with Mintoff and his acolytes who ran roughshod over everyone and everything, doing as they damned well pleased and now it’s a couple of clowns from the government side calling the shots and playing havoc with our future.
And the insanity will continue to infect us for the next several years at least.
M’hemx nejk mad-Dottore.
Dak tifel biezel hafna ta.
You’re an asshole, Franco. Now com’n get me.
There’s only one dignified way the Speaker of the House could respond to this: “Franco, grow up and stop acting like a complete jerk”.
Using more diplomatic language, of course, as befits the dignity of parrliament.
Dan spicca jitkellem fil-parlament dwar xi kummenti li kien hemm fuq it-times apparti li dak li qalu kemm Hili kif ukoll Borg ma jiena nara xejn ta barra minn hawn ahseb u ara kemm kellhom jittiehu il-qorti jew jissemmghu fil-parlamnet. Dan m’ghandhux x’jghamel jew. HALLINA HA NGHIXU. hela ta hin.
Would have thought you would be on top of his hit list.
Should the moderator on timesofmalta.com comments board have been included in breach of privilege complaint ?
He’s a disgrace. The PN cannot continue to keep him in its ranks as one of its representatives.
It’s ludicrous when journalists are going to be dragged to parliament or in front of the courts, turning onto private individuals however, is something else.
The PN cannot allow this to happen, let alone leave him to it as one of its MP’s.
Looking at the picture of Franco Debono one thing comes to mind – remember that TV campaign to get drivers to respect the rules of the road?
The cartoon kid sitting at the back shouting ha noghqod quddiem! Ha noghqod quddiem! Wahhhhhhhh wahhhhhhh wahhhhhhh.
My name was mentioned in Parliament by the Dottore himself. I consider this to be a privilege.
What I can’t understand is that while he has forgiven the person who sent him a message with a death-threat on his mobile phone, at the same time he objected to the “unspoken-noun” I used in criticising him.
He should, confused as he is, raise a breach of privilege complaint against himself for the way he writes about Gonzi calling him “Lawrence DCG Gonzi” or “Gambler Gonzi” and this whithout me going into the merits for the adjectives he used to describe Austin Gatt, Carm Mifsud Bonnici and the bad light he tried to shed on the late Prof. Guido Demarco and about some assertions he made about the above gentlemen.
No, ma tarx, he objected to my use of an “unspoken-noun”.
It seems that it got to him. Funny that he never raised any complaint about those who leave messages on his blog and who really “jaqalghulu kull ma ghandu”. How crazy can you get?
Sorry DCG, but I prefer FD’s blog :-)
Can a member of parliament ask the house of having another member’s mental state tested ? if it is seen that his/her mental condition is not in a condition to take right decisions.
Hi Daphne, can you enlighten me as to what a ‘breach of privilege complaint’ is, I was under the impression that you can only breach parliamentary privilege if you are actually within the building itself whilst parliament is in session.
[Daphne – It’s an archaic system by which any MP can launch a complaint of offence taken against anyone OUTSIDE the house, and that person is brought before parliament for ‘trial’. This last happened to Charles Demicoli, who edited an anti-Labour-government newspaper in the 1980s. The breach of privilege complaint was brought against him by Joe Debono Grech, still a Labour MP today. He was tried and sentenced by parliament. He took his case to the European Court of Human Rights after 1987 and won. This system should have been scrapped immediately then.]