I always suspected that Franco Debono is actually not bright at all, that he might even be stupid
The real problem is that he is low intelligence, which accounts for his inaccurate assessment of his own worth and his catastrophically bad decisions.
On the several occasions that I had his monologues forced upon me, I felt it starkly obvious that Franco Debono was not just obsessively neurotic to the point where a person requires proper treatment, but more pertinently, I noticed that he is actually quite stupid.
This is one of the first things on which I assess a person. I tend not to notice the other things sometimes until it is too late. I shan’t go into the many clues which told me that he lacks intelligence and that what is commonly taken for his intelligence is in fact the bravado, bluster and self-confidence of those who have been told they are clever from birth by surrounding adults who are anything but.
At first I thought that the reason I found conversation or debate with him to be completely impossible was because of his acute neurosis which results, as it does in many neurotic people, in obsessive and repetitive monologues in which the listener serves the role of an audience rather than an interlocutor. Not before long, I realised that it is because he is, basically, really quite stupid.
If you think about it, it is his low intelligence that is the cause of his obsession with his good examination results in Form II. The truly intelligent obtain, at school, high marks without effort or studying. When they do not obtain high marks because the subject requires memorising plenty of facts and they haven’t bothered, they brush it off because the intelligent know they are intelligent and tend not to be bothered or preoccupied by examinations at school (they only bother later, when it counts).
Debono’s low intelligence would also be the reason he couldn’t hack it when he entered university at 17 and then dropped out, only to return two years later and struggle through the next six years, leading up to problems even with his final thesis.
There are many, many indications that Debono is of low intelligence. I really don’t feel like discussing what they are on this drab Sunday morning, and I would not even have brought up the subject had I not just read this on Malta Today’s site:
He sounded in combative mood when contacted by MaltaToday. “In Rome the taxi driver told me the roads were blocked, because students had been protesting on a weekly basis. It’s an everyday reality there, but in Malta students carry the prime minister on their shoulders instead of rebelling against the system,” the rebel backbencher said.
Only a person of defective intelligence would make a statement like that. Students do not protest merely because they are students. “I am a student, therefore I must protest.”
They protest when they have something to protest about, and students in Rome have so many things about which to be angry that I am surprised there aren’t full-blown riots rather than tepid demonstrations. There are around a quarter of a million students at Rome’s main university. Students turn up to lectures, find nowhere to sit, and leave. You take examinations when you please, and not according to a set schedule in a restricted timeframe, which is why so many Italians are eternal students in the Eternal City, dragging on for a decade with a degree that in Malta or Britain takes four years. Examinations are on a first come, first served basis: if you turn up and don’t find a desk, you leave and take the examination the following term or the following year.
And that’s if there are written examinations. Most examinations are oral, because there are far too many students and not enough lecturers to read and correct papers (and being Italian, many of them couldn’t be fagged to do it anyway). You don’t get proper lectures, you don’t get proper assessment, and you don’t get a proper schedule.
Oh, and you don’t get money, either. You don’t get paid to go to university in Italy, and getting a grant is for the special ones.
Students in Malta have none of these problems, and that is why they don’t protest and demonstrate. They live a trouble-free existence, free to concentrate on their university work while living at home with their parents and collecting a stipend from the state. Stresses are kept to a minimum.
They don’t have to struggle for a place at the university either, or apply to different universities in the hope of getting accepted. The University of Malta, because it is the country’s only one, cannot turn anyone away as long as they have the most basic requirements. It is not free to sort the best, the wheat from the chaff, to fill a restricted number of places. And it can’t do that, either, because there would be no alternative university for those not chosen.
Why do university students celebrate the prime minister in a way that so offends Debono? Because he has helped do away with the reasons why students are demonstrating right across Europe, the result of severe austerity measures.
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Do you really think we would believe you when you say, you tend not to notice the other things until it s to late,
Obviously this only happens with PN candidtes as PL candidtates come under fire immediately.
[Daphne – You will notice that my assessment of Labour candidates tends to be pretty much on the same lines.]
Anna, why try to explain the obvious – and spoil the fun?
PL candidates ‘come under fire immediately’ not because their IQ is low but more likely because they rely on lies and spins trying to further Labour’s (lack of) cause.
Reading your post (above) I have a nagging feeling that you failed to get good results in your exams because , once you knew you “were intelligent”, you ” tended not to be bothered or preoccupied by examinations at school ” am I correct ? Is this why you hadn’t accepted my request to publish your academic qualifications ?
[Daphne – That’s right, Mr Privitera, I never studied at school, rarely did my homework, and spent most lessons daydreaming or reading a book beneath my desk (easy when you’re always in the back row) and still I got 14 O-levels and left with the school prize.]
How were Franco’ monologues forced upon you? Were you subjected to some form of physical torture or what?
[Daphne – Basically, I was too kind to end the relentless telephone calls or get up and leave him there with his cup of coffee still full before him.]
Couldn’t have just not bothered to read or listen to his monologues, just as many others do with respect to your own monologues.
[Daphne – Ah, I see. You forget that I actually know these people in person.]
And if I recall correctly, it was you who had contacted Franco at the time he was defending Cyrus Engerer.
[Daphne – You recall entirely wrongly. It was the other way round.]
So if you “always” had a hunch that he was stupid, why the heck did you bother pick his brain as to how he reconciled being a PN MP and at the same time defending a PN “rebel”?
[Daphne – Bit slow, aren’t you? I wasn’t ‘picking his brain’ because he doesn’t have one to pick unless it’s by people of even lesser intelligence than his. I explained to him why the conflict of interests was irreconcilable and his behaviour was shockingly unacceptable, and his response was, because my argument was irrefutable: Jien irrid niekol. So I said, well, in that case we are going to have to agree to disagree, because basically, at that point I understood that not only was he stupid, but he also came from a culture of amoral pragmatism, so he would never understand.]
Drab Sundays do impact sometimes admittedly!
At least tomorrow we will get rid of him for good.
well, it takes two to tango ! GonziPN will be got rid of too, from the seat of power !
Eddy, if it is so, then we shall get rid of you as well, because I am pretty sure that if Labour is in power, God forbid, you will not give your views repeatedly since all will be perfect and there will be nothing for you to whine about.
Best wishes to all.
Let the people decide, not you, Eddy.
You are wrong, Daphne. University students protest here because they don’t find parking places for all their cars.
We have a mean government which does not provide a decent car park for the thousands of students.
Your analysis is spot on.
Franco Debono se jibqa f’mohh il-Maltin ta’ rieda tajba li minhabba skopijiet ghal avvanzi tieghu personal se jkun kagun li jcahhad lil Maltin kollha mill-gid kollu li fih il-Budget ghall-komunita’ Maltija kollha.
Prosit Dr. Franco Debono kemm int bniedem egoista’. Min ivvutalek vera ghandu biex jiftahar.
All that is missing is a multi storey car park to eliminate all forms of stress. It is the only thing that university students still complain about.
And that’s what we are going to do Franco, tomorrow near the Parliament Building, after the budget vote we will carry on our shoulders, the Prime Minister and all the members who are to vote in favor of the budget.
Ghax ma tiehduhomx fit-Tijatrin bla saqaf halli l-farsa tkun kompluta ?
I obviously agree that we’re a million times better off than the Italians and that we don’t have anything worth protesting about but there still are some problems worth talking about. There are some courses with a restricted number of places (like dentistry) and we don’t have certain courses. You simply cannot, for example, become a vet in Malta, you have to study abroad. Same goes for more specialised courses.
[Daphne – Oh, for crying out loud. You cannot be serious.]
….why wouldn’t I be? We’ve got a great system but its not perfect. Aren’t veterinarians and dentists valid jobs?
But remember, Matthew, that the party which pulled the rug from under Monti’s feet will be voting FOR Monti’s austerity Budget, ‘for the good of the country’!
The same altruism cannot be said of Joseph and his outdated gang.
Malta has a population of a large European town.
We only have a university because of an accident of history.
Sicily has an area onehundred times that of Malta and a population twentyfour times as large.
It has one faculty of veterinary surgery and that is in Messina.
Matthew, are you kidding?
Mr Vella, how do you propose that the numbers in dentistry are increased?
Do you understand that in certain courses you need practical exposure, unlike most courses in which one lecturer can teach up to 400 students?
How will you increase the number of patients? How will you make up for a falling tutor to student ratio? How will you improve on the number of faculty members?
I’m not a dental student or member of the faculty.
Matthew, studying abroad is one of the best things a Maltese student can do.
Studying a broad is even better.
Deal with it! LIKE THE REST OF US DID! You can also use Ryanair to visit your mummy!
Great article as usual, and bang on correct.
Written from the beach with 28C sunshine
Daphne, just for your information, some students actually go to work after university to make ends meet, especially when one comes to consider that nowadays some parents who get a minimum wage do not afford to maintain their children.
[Daphne – Well, my dear, I don’t really need your information because you happen to be speaking to somebody who was a full-time university student for five whole years, starting when my children were aged 4, 5 and 6, and besides looking after them, I also worked for money to pay the bills, while not receiving a stipend because in those days you were not allowed to have a stipend if you worked. Despite being a full-time mother and with a house and home to look after, with all the cleaning, cooking and so on that it involves, and working, while being a full, not part, time student, I still made the Dean’s List and graduated with honours. Oh, and I wasn’t ‘old’, either, because I started in my 20s and graduated in my early 30s. So forgive me if I have no time or patience for people only a few years younger than that who live with their mother who does everything for them, have no bills except their own personal ones for clothes and car and entertainment, and still make a fuss and demand pity, compassion and attention because they have to do some work to pay for those bills.]
Thus, their children have to go to work to afford a car, so that they will not be late since, arriva takes an hour and a half (… More time than it takes for one to go abroad from Malta to Tunisia by plane, yes it might be by plane but from H’Attard to Mater Dei I would expect to arrive in Twenty minutes and not an hour), to buy basic text books because sometimes the smartcard will not be enough.
[Daphne – My children worked to pay for their cars. They were expected to do so, and they would have been expected to do so whether their parents could afford to buy them one or not. Before they bought the cars they paid for, they walked for 20 minutes in all weathers to the nearest bus-stop, waited for ages for the bus, and then made their own way around. And this was in the pre Arriva years, when buses in the heat were absolute and utter hell. So again, please stop talking to me as though I am childless and have no experience of these things, because it is incredibly irritating and you would be surprised.]
STUDENTS DO NOT PROEST BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN MALTA. Look at the time when a student protested in fresher’s week and said something to Mr.Austin Gatt, she was told off by some officials at university. That is why students do not protest!
[Daphne – Please don’t be pathetic. Again, you are speaking to somebody who, at ‘student age’ but not a student because of the situation at the time, demonstrated practically every other week with others the same age, despite the physical violence and the real (in my case actual) threat of arrest and temporary incarceration. Afraid of what? Tal-ghageb, jahasra. They don’t protest because they have no reason to. You don’t protest because the bus to university is a problem, while everything you’ve got is free. That’s called brattishness.]
Oh my goodness! She was told off! Maaaaa x’bizgha!
At 17 I was chased by a bunch of thugs wielding chains and looking murderous. It was only because I was light and athletic that I managed to escape their clutches. I considered myself lucky, because a lot of students that day were not so lucky and they got a double whammy from the thugs AND the police.
Forgot to mention, we weren’t rioting. We were holding a silent march against sweeping ‘reforms’ at university which meant that most of us would we excluded from following any course there, apart from the fact that those few courses that were going to be retained would almost double in duration and you would have to find a paying sponsorship for your education.
What the heck do you expect? The government to buy you a car? So you don’t have to wait for the bus? Perhaps when the PL electoral manifesto is out, they will announce that each student will be chauffeured to university in a limo. And you lie about Arriva. My son and I both use public transport daily. I will not say that it can’t be improved, but it is nowhere being as bad as people would have us believe.
Some of you young brats make me sick with your first world problems. I wish I could pack you off in a time-machine so you can live a couple of years in the 70’s and 80’s. Get rid of your petty complaints and get some proper perspective.
“STUDENTS DO NOT PROEST BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN MALTA”
At least they are not afraid of being beaten up by government backed thugs.
They celebrate around the Prime Minister because they know who engineered their good fortune and guaranteed and delivered stipends.
They celebrate because with the stipend they can buy all the toys and gadgets which otherwise they cannot afford.
They celebrate because they can afford to buy and maintain their mobiles when three decades ago even a cordless phone was illegal.
They celebrate because many specialized courses can be taken right here and not have to worry about studying at some foreign university at great expense.
They celebrate because university (and MCAST) courses are available to them irrespective of their families’ means.
They celebrate because they do not have to tie themselves to railings to protest lack of resources and poor running of the university.
They celebrate because they do not need the ’20 points, parrinu and some minister’s signature to be admitted to university.
All the above are enough reason to rally around the Prime Minister,
During 18 (combined) years of Mintoff-KMB-Sant governments, can you recall even once when students carried any one of them on their shoulders?
Thank heaven that that student was only ‘told off’.
She would have been beaten to within an inch of her life by Mintoff’s heckmen back in the Golden 70s and 80s.
Is it possible that we can forget the students who chained themselves to Castille railings in protest? Ask any of them how they were ‘told off’.
Even a mild comment at a Panto elicited the wrath of Mintoff’s followers back then!
Students in Malta are pampered, as Professor Edward Scicluna stated many times.
The girl student who called Austin names was not a commuter; hers was a premeditated stunt.
Maybe, yes, she was told off, but in the golden years she would have ended up in the ITU if she dared speak to il-Lorry in that way.
As a colleague replied to another when the latter complained that the PN supporters ridicule Joseph: “Maybe PN supporters ridicule Joseph and stop there, but when Labour supporters are in government and feel offended one can only expect to be hit by a hard object”.
Ask the few students from the Golden Years about first hand experience.
This is one point I would agree with Labour on (I must be drunk) : removing stipends. Spoilt brats.
Oh God spare us the cant. Afraid of the socio-economic system?
In Malta we have it easy, mate – you will realise that if you ever go to study abroad.
Students the world over would kill to have the comfort that we have in Malta – living at home, washing and cleaning provided, 600 euro gift-card every year, 80 euro a month to cover petrol (or for messy nights in Paceville on the weekend).
Just try using your arguments on students anywhere else in the world and see if they take you seriously.
When there was a reason to protest, Maltese students went out in droves to Valletta to protest against a nasty socialist regime that was hell-bent on picking on them.
Qed ihossu mdejjaq ghax m’hawnx protesti… le le xejn sew ta’ vera.
Well, he’s likely to experience first hand some protests tomorrow, aimed in his direction, as a large crowd is expected to show up outside parliament.
It-tifla tieghi wiehed bhalu tghidlu “L-imberraq” jew “tal-Beraq”.
The prime minister has well and truly pulled the rug from under his wobbly legs when today he announced that there will be an election in early 2013 whatever the result of the budget vote.
What a twat.
What a puffed up little twerp. It seems that bloke never left his home moreover the island.
Franco, meta kien hemm bzonn l-istudenti ipprotestaw.
Taf meta fi zmien il-Lejber li taghhom int FORCINA.
Ma tistax tiftakar ghax dak iz-zmien kont se tibda l-iskola San Alwigi li kieku ma kienx ghal dawk li protestaw int u ohrajn ma kontux tgawdu minn dawn l-iskejjel.
Ommi ghamlet zmien taghlem fil-garaxx tad-dar ghax shabek tal-Lejber iddecidew li jaghlquhom. U l-vera trid tkun mohhok m’hux f’postu biex tghid li huwa privilegg li se tivvota kontra l-bagit.
J’Alla jiddispjacik ghal-ghomrok, pero nahseb li wisq probabli m’ghandek l’ebda rimors ghal azzjonijiet vendikativi tieghek.
At Milan’s polytechnic, students rarely ever get to listen to the professors delivering a lecture, that’s left to their assistants, usually on a temporary contract and a miserable salary. Usually top graduates, these then emigrate to the US, Germany or Britain.
I decided to enter a private university instead, gaining access to the same professors on quite an exclusive basis. Having saved all my money working in Malta following University.
The students at the polytechnic would look up to us as those who were privileged, those with whom the same faculty deans will gladly have a coffee with at the nearest bar, we were ‘the others’
When I tried to explain that in my case, I worked as a graduate engineer at 24, the answer would be where in Italy does a graduate ever gain access to a career that age.
It happened again when doing my stage, companies going for people used to deadlines and exams on a strict yearly basis, ‘all’inglese’.
Budget cuts have resulted in further registration costs and higher fees. Britain’s Cameron tripled same in some universities.
When a student in Malta calls a minister a fw simply because she won’t take a bus twenty minutes earlier, this place needs a reality check.
Unless she’s willing to wait at tables, playing bohemienne all her life ie.
With regards your title above I think that Franco Debono is not only stupid but also ridiculous. Can anyone imagine a lawyer and a MP showing his form 2 results to a journalist? If that is not stupidity what is?
Obviously Franco is too young to remember that, back in 1979, our students did protest at the conditions they – and the whole country – were in during the ‘golden years’ of Labour rule.
I remember seeing some of them – surrounded by uniformed stalwarts – in a pitiful state in front of the Police HQ in Floriana.
I do not know how they ended up once inside there – and in what state they were eventually let out.
Franco was about 5 years old at the time – but I, and thousands of others, had been suffering under Mintoff’s government for more than 8 years by then.
Do a little research into Malta’s history under Labour, dear Franco, before you even think of mouthing all the rubbish about students’ protests.
‘After reading Daphne’s column in The Malta Independent on Sunday, my view is that tomorrow, Franco votes against the budget, so he’ll be voting Labour.
Instantly, he becomes a switcher and therefore a Laburist.
My question to him is, ‘Have you got the balls to admit that you are now a Labour supporter? And please, don’t give me that, ghax anke jien irrid nghix, shit’.
RED or BLUE? You YELLOW piece of shit.
You forgot to mention that in Italy univeristy is not free.
It costs at least six to seven thousand euros a year in tuition fees.
Of course, if your son/daughter chooses a subject not taught at the local university or is not selected by the university close to home, then you need to pay accommodation too.
So yes, life is more difficult around here in Italy than it is there in Malta.
And then after years of study and sacrifice a great number of them are unable to find a job. Anywhere.
I have a number of Italian friends who are all in their thirties and have not managed to find a decent job, up till now. Not even outside Italy.
One friend in particular managed to find a full time job in another country only a couple of years ago and she is holding on to it even though she does not earn a lot.
Her partner is doing some odd jobs somewhere else, in a different country – they only meet once in a while, either when they both visit Italy to be with their families or when one of them can afford to buy a ticket for a flight to visit the other.
They cannot plan to buy a place of their own and to get married and start a family because the amount they earn between them is just enough to get by.
Imbaghad jigi is-sur Parnis, il-Ministru tas-sawt, kwazi bid-dmugh f’ghajnejh fuq il-programm ta’ John Bundy fuq One jghid li jaf lil xi hadd li kellu jmur jahdem bhala receptionist f’lukanda wara li iggradwa. Jahasra xi tragedja dik. Kif qeridna dan il-gvern.
Fejn jafu x’inhi is-sofferenza li jghaddu minnha l-istudenti, sahansitra anke wara li jiggradwaw, fl-Italja u f’pajjizi ohrajn, dawn il-qabda imfissdin u idjoti li xjiehu u baqghu imwahhlin mad-dublett tal-mami?
Franco Debono’s intelligence, or lack thereof, is immaterial. He is ill, and he needs psychiatric help.
Just as it is unacceptable to badger and ridicule a paraplegic for their inability to walk, so it is unacceptable to attack someone with mental health problems for their inability to act rationally.
His family, friends and colleagues need to intervene to prevent him causing irreparable harm to himself and the country.
Continuing these personal attacks against him is not only unethical but is also a distraction from the only salient issue; namely Debono’s illness and the urgent need for medical intervention.
[Daphne – Oh, please. Surely you don’t believe that his next of kin – his parents – are about to have him sectioned under the Mental Health Act, or whatever it’s called, any time soon. I don’t think they could anyway, even if they wanted to. He’s not exactly psychotic, about to kill himself or kill anyone else.]
The fact that Maltese students don’t feel the need to rebel against the system might mean that they are happy with the present system.
They are of course free to rebel and protest should they feel the need to do so, and we all know when that last happened.
For those who needed a refresher, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ttd18e4Tw
Miskin it-taxi driver ta’ Franco, kellu jehel bih got-traffic. Tehel got-traffic f’belt bhal kbira bhal Ruma mhix haga zghira. Malajr ikollok taghmel xi siegha tistenna.
Min jaf kif taqqablu mohhu Franco.
Nimmagina irrakkuntalu l-istorja kollha ta’ hajtu, mil-priedka tat-tifel fuq il-kaxxa meta kellu hames snin, sal-vot “Hu Go Fik Tonio” fuq il-budget li behsiebu jivvota ghada bi privilegg.
Nimmagina li wera ir-rizultat tal-form 2c lit-taxi driver, u spjegalu kif dejjem kien “top student”, “biezel”, u “habrieki.”
Nimmagina li spjegalu kif nizzel lil Carm Mifsud Bonnici minn Ministru. U kif qala ‘il barra mil-Parlament lil Louis Galea u lil Helen D’Amato. U kemm bata.
Nimmagina li kellmu dwar “l-oligarkija,” “ix-xibka tal-hazen,” ir-responsabbilta kollettiva vs responsabbilta personali.
Nassumi li spjegalu it-tezi tieghu dwar il-finanzjament tal-partiti, u li GRECO kellu ragun. Hawnhekk nispera li qaghad attent, ghax it-Taljan jaf jifhmu hazin jisimghu isemmi l-GRECO.
Nimmagina li spjegalu dwar Baggio …u l-Fiorentina…
If and only if (who knows?) Franco Debono votes against the budget and the PL MPs follow same line, Malta should start celebrating both Independence Day and Freedom Day together on same day: Monday, 10 December 2012, and we should start hositing the Maltese flag on that date exactly when Franco Debono casts his negative vote: that sacred moment will help all fellow citizens and the entire nation to get rid of an idiot, who has been taking the nation for a ride for far too long. Even the PL will sing ALLELUJAH! Franco, take note.
Franco
Ghadha t-Tnejn 10 ta’ Dicembru huwa vicin hafna.
Id-decizjoni ultima hija tieghek. Attent ghax issa kull ma jonqos li taghmel huwa li ssammar l-imsiemer madwarek u tindifen minn gon-nofs ghal-dejjem.
Kuragg u ahseb sewwa x’kundanna kbira ser tkun gibt fuqek.
Yes, for crying out loud. I missed out on university because I attended a private school and the Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici aka Kelb Minn Bormla penalized me with 20 punt oxxeni.
But the university generation of today complaining about Arriva buses wouldn’t know what I am talking about.
If only my problem in the eighties was a bus ride rather than being barred entry to University!
A generation lost their tertiary education thanks to Dom Mintoff and KMB.
In 1987 the university population was FIVE HUNDRED compared to 12,000 today, and Joe Muscat has the effrontery to claim that Labour made eduction free (BIG LIE) and brought education to the masses (EVEN BIGGER LIE).
What Labour did in the seventies and eighties was wreck state education, so that O-levels were a rarity among state school pupils and most of the students at the stage sixth form college came from church schools. But then those who went to church or private sixth form colleges were penalised by 20 points. One socialist mess. Such a tragedy when you fuck up with people’s education.
What are the chances of Franco Debono missing his flight from Italy and not being able to vote for or against the budget.
This way he can save face.
FADER Mark Montebello once wrote something similarly inane in The Times. If I remember correctly, he bemoaned the fact that young people in Malta do not take to the streets in protest as did those in other countries.
He wrote this at roughly the same time when young people in London were running amok in London streets destroying private property, public monuments and attacking members of the Royal family who happened to be travelling in their limo.
Dan ghandu xorti hemm in-Nazzjonalisti fil-Gvern ghax ghandu c-cans jistuidja u jithallas ukoll.
Fi zmien il-Labour kont taqla xi xeba lembuba ghax tistudja siehbi.
Kemm ma’ taf xejn habib.
Ghid li Eddy Privitera jispjegalek tal- 20 punt biex tidhol l’Univesita u bil-bazuzzli ghax inkella m’ghandekx cans tistudja jew trid tmur barra min Malta jekk il-genituri tieghek jaffordjaw.
Oltre minn hekk dak il-bravu Mintoff kien jghidilna li c-crtifikati tal-Universita’ m’huma xejn hlief karta tal-inciova.
Please put me in a ring with this clown, and I’ll sort him out in thirty seconds (with logic, not fists, lest he take this literally).
He’s been going on about The System this and The System that and rebelling against The System and The Noble Fight Against The System for the best part of two years.
He IS the goddamn system.
Franco, read my lips, if you can read: YOU ARE THE SYSTEM.
Top student at St Aolysius, then on to the University of Malta’s Law Faculty, then lawyer, with an office in Valletta, then PN candidate then PN member of parliament then parliamentary assistant.
System all the way. S.Y.S.T.E.M.
And wearing a standard-issue lawyer’s suit and haircut, to boot.
YOU ARE THE SYSTEM.
If you really wish to “rebel” against The System you could try topping yourself off, or resigning your sordid parliamentary seat, giving up your legal practice, giving up politics, and setting off for Nepal on a journey of self-discovery while smoking ganja and whirling a prayer-wheel.
Only someone, somewhere’s already done it, so it too is System.
Rebellion? Bollocks. System? Bollocks.
This one’s dedicated to Franco.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLYm9n5Nytk
It’s from the album “I know who I am now” by Clinton Paul.
One of your best posts Baxxter. So true.
Politics…makes the world go round apparently, your reasoning is absolutely pathetic – and then one wonders why there are so many spoilt brats on the island.
Coincidentally, earlier today I was speaking with a non Maltese friend, on the phone. Last week someone told her that Maltese students do not only not pay to go to university but also receive a stipend, so she called me specifically to ask me whether what she heard was true because she couldn’t believe it.
My friend felt utterly disgusted when I told her that, yes, what she had heard was indeed a fact but that there are people who still complain because they feel that what they get is not enough, and referred her to this blog. Needless to say, she was speechless.
Today is the last day we shall hear about Franco. From tomorrow: defunctus est. What a sigh of relief.
Of course Franco Debono is an idiot. I know hundreds of people with a degree and yet not one of them ever bragged about any of their academic results.
Only idiots brag about their school results. And the more Franco referred to his secondary school report, the more he confirmed how stupid he is.