No, I did not crash into a car and drive off. I was assaulted by a man in a deserted car park, the day the Labour Party put my face on its billboard.
I have had it up to here with police abuse and political manoeuvring. I don’t suppose anybody has noticed that Muscat’s current spate of conciliatory messages is totally at odds with the vicious coverage on Super One, the persecution of the Labour Party’s critics by its media and fellow-travellers, and the way – to cite my own case and leave others out of it – he made a newspaper columnist and blogger (not a politician) a target for his animalistic supporters by plastering my face over billboards among politicians as the Evil Clique.
The day that billboard went up, and in the days that followed, I was accosted and insulted repeatedly in traffic by people who hitherto had no idea what I look like and so never recognised me (they don’t read the newspapers). So much for Malta Taghna Lkoll.
That same evening, I spent some time with my mother, who was at Mater Dei Hospital, staying beyond visiting hours because of the nature of the situation.
I went down to the carpark after leaving, and it was deserted at that hour. As I tried to reverse out of my parking-slot, I saw a car behind me, deliberately blocking my way and not allowing me to move my car out. I couldn’t understand what the driver was doing, until he got out of the car and began screaming abuse at me.
I immediately put up my windows and locked the door. He continued to yell the sort of abuse that told me immediately that he knew my identity, and that he doesn’t share my political sentiments.
I couldn’t get a clear view of his face because my car is low down and there was no way I was going to stick my head out of the window to get a good look at him, still less get out of the car, as he was challenging me to do, to get a look at his car number.
I managed to manoeuvre my car out of the space and drove off, and as I did so, I put down the window and called back ‘Kemm int baxx u hamallu.’
He got into his car and screeched after me. For a moment there, I was really scared, because the car-park is so complicated with all those arrows and I had to try to find my way out with the sound of his engine revving and his tyres screeching in pursuit.
I lost him and got home. Then the police began ringing. The man in question – I wasn’t even told his name, would you believe – had gone down to the Msida station to report me for crashing into his car and driving off.
Conveniently, there he found a hardcore Laburist, PS1575 Robert Fava (don’t ask me how I know) to take down the initial report. Fava’s Facebook page is plastered with Likes and information about the Labour Party, Labour candidates and Super One reporters like Brandon Pisani (formerly L-Orizzont’s star police reporter).
In no time at all, I found myself on the front page of L-Orizzont, with a story that made it sound as though I’d mown somebody down and escaped into the night (as though somebody like me could do that even if they wanted to).
The police rang me after 9pm that night and insisted I drive back down to Msida to show them my car so that they could check it for damage. I told them that I was in no fit state to drive, that I had not crashed into anyone, that the man in question had assaulted me, and that I did not know who he was so I could not file a report. And that I didn’t feel like filing a report anyway, because I have had it up to here with these things.
I pointed out that it was abusive to ring people up at night and drag them down to the station because somebody had popped in claiming that his car had been scratched, that it could wait until the next day, and that in situations like this it’s the police who should go and check the car and not insist that the person dislodge themselves in the middle of the night on the basis of a false accusation.
The police came – it must have been after 10pm – to check my car without first phoning to see whether I was there (a surprise visit to catch me in the act, but of what?). My car was there but we were in Mosta, at our usual quick-supper place. They rang, accusing me of not answering the doorbell. “I’m out,” I said. “But your car is here,” they replied. “That’s because I’m out with my husband,” I said, “in his car.”
On Sunday morning they came again, unannounced. Yes, Sunday morning. Again, my car was there and we were not. They began ringing. This time, I passed the phone to my husband, because I didn’t trust myself to speak. The policeman at the other end repeated the same argument: her car is here and she’s not opening the door. “That’s because we’re both on the Gozo ferry, heading to Gozo, and we’re in my car,” my husband said. The policeman demanded that we return home at once. My husband told him not to be so unreasonable.
By this stage, there was no way I was going to allow the police anywhere near me or my car without a witness, so we agreed that they would come the following morning, when there would be others in the house.
Two police officers arrived to be met with me holding a camera to record them. They checked the rear bumper of my car. Not only was there no (recent) damage, but the thick coating of dust was completely undisturbed. The police registered these two facts, before witnesses.
I told the police officers who called, in no uncertain terms, that it was absolutely shocking how that woman up the road from where I live, in Mgarr, who was found dead in a pool of blood in her home some months ago, had made repeated calls to the police and was known in the village as a victim of family violence, and it was a safe bet that the police didn’t react in the same way that they had reacted to an aggressive man who told them that Daphne Caruana Galizia had scratched his bumper.
I also told them that for months we had lived with a notorious drug-dealer and woman-trafficker as a neighbour (he has since gone missing), and couldn’t even leave the house alone because of the users and dealers and other weird characters swarming down the lane, yet not once did we see the police, who are supposed to monitor criminals like that.
Yet because somebody had claimed that I had damaged his car bumper to the tune of Eur243, a whole parade of policemen was glued to my gate.
Two months later, I received notice that I am to be prosecuted for crashing into that man’s car and driving off, and for resisting police orders, frightening the police, and God knows what else.
I received a telephone call from one of my police sources, telling me that the case is being pushed personally by Assistant Commissioner X, who is keen to please Labour with a view to replacing John Rizzo as Commissioner.
This morning, I did not go to court because I am in no fit state to leave the house. I haven’t been out since Tuesday. But SIX police officers turned up to testify against me: for a case concerning just Eur243 damage which that man claims I caused to his car.
That’s right, SIX police officers. Because, you know, it’s Daphne Caruana Galizia so we have to make an abusive meal of it at taxpayers’ expense.
The last time this happened to me was a couple of years ago, when I went to the Spinola police station to protest about a ticket abusively given to me beneath a sign which said clearly that I could park there at the given hour. I knew I had only been given the ticket, just outside the station, because one of the infamously Laburist policemen there had recognised my car.
The police officer was incredibly rude and offhand with me, and weeks later I received notice of prosecution for behaving abusively towards the police (the other way round…). The full complement at Spinola station turned up to testify against me, including several policemen and policewomen who were not even there at the time, and all of them lied.
One of them even turned to her superior and, while still on the witness stand, said: “Hux hekk ghidtli biex nghid?” The case was immediately thrown out of court.
The notice of prosecution for this current incident arrived in the run-up to Christmas and I didn’t want to do anything about it then. But please know that I will be lodging a formal protest with the Commissioner of Police.
There are two arguments here. If I am treated like this because of political hatred, then that is shocking abuse of one sort. But if this is the way the police behave generally, with everyone, and they think it legitimate and normal, then it is shocking abuse of another kind: because people like me can deal with it, and more vulnerable people cannot.
I have discovered that there is no equivalent to a Police Ombudsman, to whom we can take complaints about abuse, and must go straight to the Police Commissioner, who is hardly an independent party.
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Shocking , disgusting story and this happened when these Socialist thugs are in opposition. An eye-opener for the so called floaters/switchers who say they need a change of government.
Remember today it is Daphne and tomorrow it could easily be you.
[Daphne – Ah, Edgar, but they rest easy in the assumption that it won’t be them if they publicly say they’re voting Labour, which is why many of them are publicly ‘switching’.]
And today. little Joey apologizes for this kind of crap in the 80s. Anyone wanna bet if he does that for the present?
Was this in any news media?
Why is the man’s name being withheld?
[Daphne – There was a brief report in The Times but it was taken down. There wasn’t a court hearing this morning, and so my side of the story was not given.]
The Times are taking down one too many news articles recently. For a credible institution like they pretend to be, it’s just a teeny bit unprofessional.
[Daphne – Well, yes and no. It happens to me sometimes. I think the real problem is that some newspapers, not just The Times, are treating stories on the internet differently to stories in print. That’s wrong, because the same rules of reporting apply, and both are subject to the same press laws. The internet is quick and instant, so it’s tempting to just rush out with it – a newspaper site is not a blog. It’s a different kind of animal and can’t do that.]
The police have no qualms of giving false evidence under oath. Their skin is hard – very hard – ask Anglu Farrugia.
[Daphne – For a police officer to take a false oath is a very serious crime, and I am absolutely horrified at the way some magistrates take it in their stride, as though it is expected, and do not immediately order their arrest. The more they are allowed to get away with it, the more they will do it.]
For lawyers to take a false oath is also a serious crime.
I was flabbergasted during a traffic sitting when a traffic policeman did not take the oath when the case was called and I asked if he was testifying under oath.
I was told off in no uncertain terms that it was none of my business.
I was so sickened by the stream of perjury and the attitude of the court that I did not cross-examine so as not to provoke more perjury.
Thanks to the PN, another reason Carm Mifsud Bonnici was not fit for purpose.
I was involved in a case where clearly the police officer took a false oath, and the magistrate believed him against my sworn true version (which obviously implied that it was I that was committing perjury).
K.G.B. or Gestapo tactics? “Din l-arja trid tispicca” somebody said the other day.
[Daphne – Yes, that’s what it’s all about. Mohhom biex inehhuli l-arja li jahsbu li ghandi. I never thought I’d be 48, under a Nationalist government, and still not able to trust the bloody police. The trouble is that these disgusting Labour elements have given a rotten name to colleagues who are nothing like that. And shouldn’t the Police Commissioner instruct them to get off Facebook? There’s a policewoman on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s wall consistently posting abuse against me. Am I expected to have confidence in her, then, should I go to file a report and find that she’s the one who takes it?]
Ghidula lil dik ir-ruffjana li ghajret lil Tonio Fenech min huma l-veru Gestapo u KGB.
Anzi tajru huma stess wiehed minnhom, lil Anglu Farrugia.
More like Beria’s NKVD than KGB – Welcome back to true Socilaism Stalin style.
Utterly shocking.
Back to the 80s. God help us all.
And in other news… Oh how scandalous!
http://maltastar.com/dart/20130111-sex-scenes-filmed-in-gozo
That episode was aired a long time ago, and they are filming season three now.
Political harassment, and by the police. And this while the Nationalists are still in goverment.
But at least St. Joseph of Assisi keeps on bleating about ‘Malta taghna lkoll’.
It’s easy for me to say this, but you have my (and quite a few others I’m sure) support. Illegitimis nil carborundum.
I don’t think Daphne is one for grinding down.
The problem is that many people need five years of it for them to believe it themselves.
St. Joseph of Burmarrad, maybe?
Your two arguments towards the end of this post are not mutually exclusive and, unfortunately, I think that both apply.
Very well said, Daphne.
If the police abuse of their power when “their” party is not in governent, then this is only a taste of things to come. (Although it’s not like we don’t know what they were like when Labour was previously in power.)
Another stupid question but can you put someone’s picture on a billboard without their consent?
[Daphne – I’m looking into that. If you’re a politician, yes, but I’m not a politician.]
I don’t think you can. A photo can qualify as personal data. In other words that can be a breach of privacy. You may have a case here.
What if the photo itself is deemed to be public? (like from facebook or any other publicly available data)…just asking. thanks
[Daphne – Professional photographs are always copyright, because they’ve been commissioned.]
Daphne, you’re not a public figure, therefore you have a case. Go for it!
It will depend on how they got the photo. Obviously you didn’t give it to them and whether it was taken with your consent.
[Daphne – It is a copyright photograph which they used without consent, written or verbal.]
So they cannot use it, it will be the photographer’s responsibility to go after them. I hope she/he does. Unless you signed a ‘model release form’ where the small print says the photo can be used for PL propaganda…joking. Hope you’re migrane’s gone, they can be brutal.
But wouldn’t you be considered a public figure? As far as I know it’s acceptable (though not necessarily okay…) to use pictures of public figures.
[Daphne – No, it depends for what. Not in advertising, and not in a campaign.]
You’ve been part of the story itself so to speak and part of public discourse way too many times to just be considered a journalist.
Not asking to be argumentative, just actually curious.
[Daphne – The fact remains, Matthew, that I am ‘just a journalist’. The fact that I am good at my job as a columnist, or that my blog is widely read, does not make me anything else. A carpenter who sells lots of furniture and becomes well known for it is still a carpenter.]
A case of guilty until proven innocent. Even The Times has got on the bandwagon but it appears they have taken down the ‘news’ item.
There is the Police Board. It used to be (I’m not sure if it still is) chaired by Judge Depasquale, I think.
I would copy everything to the Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, Viviane Reding.
Don’t let the bastards get you down, Daphne.
This is an incredible story and calls for the Commissioner of Police to give a straight answer – which you can rest assured he won’t.
Daphne, the Minister for Justice should be asked to look into this and to ensure that such abuse of power is penalised.
Unfortunately, the Police Corps is still infested with Labour scum, who have no qualms with using the power given them by the uniform to intimidate and humiliate citizens just to score some points for the next promotion list after March.
I can assure you many of us have such stories to tell but are afraid to air them.
What is the Minister for the Police (PM) doing about these police scandals? Shame on the police force. Do we trust them? Of course not.
Let me guess. The Minister i/c the Police would cynically recommend that you report the matter to the Commissioner of Police and hope for the best. That is what happened when I complained about a MEPA injustice. I was cynically referred back to the cause of my complaint.
So after 25 years in government, GonziPN was not capable of creating a police force which can be trusted, is that what you are saying ???? The Police Force is chock- full of PN police officers ! In this case I believe the police and not Daphne, for sure . Any sane person will too !
A former minister for the police Carm Mifsud Bonnici was forced to resign because of his incompetence. Thanks to Dr Debono.
Eddy Privitera
If the police force is full of PN officers, the PN ones certainly carry out their duties without any political bias. I bet you, the PN ones keep their heads down in fear of repercussions in case of a PL victory.
The PL destroyed the police force, it is not that easy to reform it now, though it is not an impossible task.
Perhaps you would prefer a police force that only takes nationalists .? Would that make you happy? The rotten police should be sacked, good ones, labour or not , should keep there jobs.if thats alright with your lot.
Miskina Malta with this kind of policemen under a Socialist government (MLP/PL/Malta taghna lkoll/moviment/progressivi).
Joseph Muscat wants to give the impression that things will change if he comes to power, yet persons who hound supporters of opposing political parties in this manner show that the evil of the 80s is very much alive.
Alive and kicking in – they are already smelling VICTORY, and they are doing these atrocious things when they are still in Opposition. What will they do when they think theyhave have the people’s mandate to do it? Kill all opposition people?
All the more reason at making a special effort to ensure that traditionally Nationalist voters and their families are not given any valid excuse to deliberately stay at home on voting day or worse still, go voting Labour.
Evaris Saliba. As a former ambassador, I never expected you to be so naive as to believe Daphne on this case ! All circumstantial evidence shows why Daphne failed to go to court this morning !
[Daphne – What circumstantial evidence, Privitera?]
Hey Eddy. Where have you been? Just come out of your coma?
That is why Dr Muscat reinstated Mintoff into the party and visited him as soon as he was elected leader of the PL.
@ Eddy Privitera
I could have ignored your comment because it is so banal, but let me tell you that my experience when my then minister, Alex Sceberras Trigona, called me into his office to concoct the evidence that I was to give in court, in the presence of the lawyers of one of the interested parties, and the way that a senior officer of the police force perjured himself in court to shore up baseless charges against my brother, and the police failed to follow up an arson attempt on his office at the police headquarters and a bomb that exploded under his boat, can hardly show me as a naive person in assessing the merits of the case spelled out by Daphne Caruana Galizia.
It’s hard to feel pity for you after all the damage and hurt you’ve caused to so many innocent (and not so innocent) people. As bad as it sounds, if you were someone else, or maybe if you were a human being with a heart, we might feel pity for you and your obvious abuse. But we just can’t – you have turned yourself into a horrible, horrible villain, not for Labour, AD, or Nationalist supporters, but all humanity in general.
I can only hope you get fined/get prison time for the maximum you can be given. I sincerely hope the police continue to harass you – you deserve every single bit off it.
– A floater.
[Daphne – There, do you see what I mean? A woman who writes a blog and a newspaper column is systematically turned into a conflation of Myra Hindley and Dr Goebbels (except that these people wouldn’t know who they were) by the Labour Party machine, with the result that the more ignorant of its supporters, who probably haven’t ever read anything I’ve written (and wouldn’t be able to get it anyway), seriously and honestly believe that I should be tortured and burned at the stake, or the 21st-century equivalent.]
A floater? Isn’t that a euphemism for Labour voters who are ashamed to fly their flag?
A floater is a turd that can’t be flushed.
S: Perfect definition! Like !
An elve
Kemm hawn floaters dan l-ahhar. I hope that the Marsascala plant is keeping up.
Down to the depths they go.
Malta is not ready for free speech.
You should exit the EU and live in a middle-ages vacuum, sort of a human zoo.
Turn off the electric, dig up the runway, and wallow in the mire.
>Written by a floater (so, is not a Labour supporter[check definition of floater if need be])
>Regularly reads your blog
>Knows who both Myra Hindley and Dr Goebbels is without using wikipedia
>Did not even comment on anything political, but purely human feelings and the disaffect, hatred, vitriol and pain you have spread.
>Is called ignorant.
Oh, well…I tried.
[Daphne – Floaters are Labour supporters who are too embarrassed to admit it, even to themselves. By their (and probably your) definition of ‘floater’ I should be the ultimate one, having been raised in an extended maternal/paternal family that supported the defunct Constitutional Party (extremely anti-Nationalist, in other words). But as a grown woman with a brain, once I make up my mind I don’t suddenly fall out of bed and change it. So yes, I’m not a ‘floater’, but a Nationalist. The very suggestion that I might float to that mess called the Labour Party is insulting. Floater, my eye. Ma nafx kif ma jisthux. Imagine being my sort of age and publicly admitting to being unable to assess information and take a simple decision, which is pretty much what you saying when you say you’re a floater.]
Go on Mark, have another pop. Maybe someone will believe you if you try hard enough.
“I can only hope you get fined/get prison time for the maximum you can be given. I sincerely hope the police continue to harass you – you deserve every single bit off it.”
And you take exception to the word ‘ignorant’ being leveled at you? Floater indeed. Floater moderat u progressiv, maybe?
A perpetual floater is one who votes according to his perceived personal gain and never according to his beliefs or leanings.
Their vote is just a ticket that falls into their lap once every five years and that can be exchanged for favours, or sold to the highest bidder.
Mark, you are not a floater, you are an IGNORAMUS – and you are an ignoramus not because you claim you are a floater but because first and foremost you are confusing freedom of speech about known FACTS with hatred, damage and hurt.
Secondly, it is perfectly allright to be a floater or a switcher when you have better alternatives but one has to be a first class, I repeat, ignoramus, to even consider risking one’s country to be run by an incompetent leader and his team who I am practically sure will lead the country into a disaster.
>Never said you’re a floater (we all know you bleed blue ;) )
>Once again, never mentioned any politics, only human feelings and the many, many victims that have felt the bite of your impotent venom
>Never voted Labour in my life (if i did, I would not be embarrassed to admit it, as I am sure most people wouldn’t [those living in reality, at least, and not the twisted totalitarian conspiracy world you live in])
>As a floater, and I know this might sound insane, but I listen to all sides, that is, Nationalist, Labour, AD, and all independents there may be…and then (shock, horror!) I choose who I will support.
>Is called an ignoramus.
Oh well…I tried
[Daphne – If you’ve never voted Labour in your life, it’s almost certainly because you never had the vote before now. Your language kind of gives that away. Well, in that case you’ll be taking Owen Bonnici’s advice and making Labour your first time, which is a lot better than a quick fumble in a dark alley with Raceyanne tal-Gidi, I suppose.]
Ok Mark – I checked the definition of ‘floater’ – here goes:
– an undesirable person who hangs out in a particular area despite being discouraged not to.
– a piece of fecal matter that won’t go down the toilet when it is flushed.
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/floater
We need more floaters like you to come out of Joseph’s closet.
Care to bring along your Facebook friends with you?
Mak Gatt if you don’t like it don’t read it.
We usually associate police harassment with Labour….sorry, Labour disguised as floater.
‘damage and hurt you’ve caused to so many innocent…’ – as in who exactly? Damage and hurt with a blog with her name on top or a newspaper column, ditto?
Horrible villain?
Do you know what you are saying, Mark Gatt?
Does ‘freedom of expression’ ring a bell?
Do you want Malta to turn ONCE AGAIN into a Taliban state?
I’m so fed up of whiners using the media claiming they are ‘hurt’.
‘Ghax jien inhossni imwegga….’ F’Malta kullhadd imwegga, Alla jbierek.
And here goes freedom of speech thrown out of the window for 5 years.
With twats like you running the country, it’s your way or the “get fined/get prison time for the maximum you can be given” way. Mark, get a life.
Mark Gatt: I don’t agree with you when you said that the police should continue to harass Daphne. The police should not harass anyone. The police are just doing their job. But Daphne thinks that even the police have no right to take her to court. She is DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA – an untouchable !
[Daphne – Untouchable, right. I guess you miss the point, then.]
A venom so impotent and yet it justifies all this negative attention and abuse. The good gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.
An enemy of humanity.. Yawn. Hadn’t realized you were the reincarnation of Mahatma Gandhi.
Mark, who’s ‘we’? Is it the limp-wristed, faux liberal hipsters you sip your drinks with by any chance? What makes you think that anyone with a character needs a nonentity like you to feel pity for them?
Yes, you are an ignoramus and a boring one.
Only an ignoramus really insists on listening to everyone as if they were all equally competent and mentally sound and not taking sides.
Alas, you are clearly a top student of the ‘don’t judge’ school.
Careful what you wish for though; once the police start harassing individuals for ‘spreading venom’ there will be no telling where they will stop. Perhaps you might also end up on the receiving end.
Imma basta Malta tagħna llkol.. ‘Tagħna’ being open to interpretation.
God, you make me sick.
Minn dejjem hekk kienu dawn in-nies – ma tkunx ta’ l-istess fehma politika taghhom jaghmlulek hajtek mizerja (jew ghall-inqas jipprovaw) u mhux qed nirreferi ghall-kaz tieghek biss izda anke ghat-transfers li kienu jinghataw lil certi nies li ma kinux Laburisti fi zmien il-Labour.
Anke issa li mhux qedin fil-gvern tisma certu Laburisti injoranti jheddu bi transfers, anke lil kollegi taghhom stess. Qatt ma jinbidlu. Xi hdura.
Ma tantx hemm biex tidhak. Jekk ikunu fil-poter huma, dan it-tip ta abbuz u bullying ser jibqa jigi prattikat u miskin hu min jigi taht idejhom.
Illum nasal nghid li din hija kultura tal-PL.
Biss nghid, mela m’hemm hadd min jista jikkontrolla lil dawn it-tip ta’ pulizija?
Din mhux suppost kellha migraine?
[Daphne – Iva, qalbi, u jekk joghgbok tindahalx ghax literalment mhux affarik.]
Kuragg Daphne. I’m sure you won’t let this scum intimidate you.
This is truly horrible. Imagine what will happen when they’re in government – libera nos Domine. Mintoff’s golden years, all inclusive.
I hope that the authorities take appropriate action.
But be sure you have the support of many.
I am not at all surprised at this blatant abusive treatment by the police. I had my own experiences, and I have lost faith in the police, the commissioner and the entire establishment right up to the Ministers who were/are responsible politically for such a sorry state of things.
Having such a situation following 15 years of PN in government is more worrisome – and whilst I accept the point that it might get worse if Joe Muscat & Co are running the show, it is still a problem that the PN have not effectively addressed it (at best) or left it to degenerate (at worse).
The least one would expect now is that belatedly the political parties (especially the PN) declare outright that there will be an effective Ombudsman of undisputed integrity and commitment to thoroughly investigate and eradicate such abuses by those who are supposedly responsible and paid to safeguard our rights.
This country has such a long way to go.
The concept of democracy and free speech has barely made any inroads whatsoever into the general public way of thinking.
Even so, this sudden resurgence of the Mintoffian violent class hate mentality is frightening.
I knew that many Maltese still held a backwater world-view, but I never realised just how bad the situation is.
It is obvious that the Labour Party has not learned anything from its mistakes of the past. It is flirting once again with the savage beast in the hope that it will frighten its opponents into submission, forgetting that the beast has already turned back on its master and mauled him once before.
They have only barely just recovered from the aftermath of their flirtation with this dark menace and they are waking it up once more from its slumber. They will never recover from it this time round.
Daphne,
The Labour have plans to create a billboard with your face and a “thank you note” beneath if they win the election.
So beware.
[Daphne – Beware of what? Mela mhux Malta tieghi ukoll?]
Min ikollu migrane suppost joqghod fid dlam mhux jikteb artikli biex jithassruh. Kemm tidher mahruqa.hadt xi rih meta mort tisma l gonzi tas sliema hi? Toqghodx hafna mperca ta ghax tlaqqat cmajra.
[Daphne – Jaqaw rajtni fuq is-Super One, Guza, ghax xandruni fil-press box tal-meeting tal-PN tas-Sliema? Mamma mia, kemm intom hodor. Repeat after me, please: MALTA TAGHNA LKOLL.]
Jekk Daphne kapaci tibqa ghaddejja tahdem b’migraine jigifieri bniedma ta’ stamina liema bhala. Naf x’jigifieri migraine attack. (try Zomig Daphne, they work wonderfully on migraine attacks).
The very few times I had to go the police I was made to feel guilty before even stating what I needed.
The people manning the front desk are either complete morons in their own right or have attended module “How to act like morons to deter complainant from filing report” at the Police Academy.
Your story, Daphne, stuns me even though from personal experience I knew all about the depraved police behaviour that became rampant as soon as the force fell under the control of an MLP minister.
It should have been stamped out long ago, but evidently it wasn’t.
Don’t bother to deal with today’s police officialdom unless you have a lawyer at your elbow. They would be interested in one thing only and that is to curry favour with whoever may be dishing out transfers and promotions after the election.
[Daphne – The police don’t even adhere to what should be standard procedure: introducing themselves by name, rank and number when they ring you. “Hello? Defni? Hawn mil-Ghassa tal-Msida…”. Shocking. And when I ask for their name, rank and number and put them straight on how to address me and anyone else they might call, it becomes ‘threatening the police’. So I stand accused of threatening PC Whatever when I don’t even know who PC Whatever is because he didn’t introduce himself when he rang. What are these people? As I told him, anybody can ring anybody else and say ‘this is the police’ especially when the voice and approach are that sloppy.]
How is it possible for a police officer to ask you to go to the station at that time of night, unescorted after a (unfounded) claim like that had been made?
I hope you have an ID caller to be sure that the call can be identified.
Still remember the day when the late Dr. H. Farrugia was called on to go and visit a sick person and as soon he went out was beaten hard.
Labour days never change.
[Daphne – It was the police. My point when they rang was that it is completely unreasonable and abusive to expect somebody who has just returned home after a 13-hour day out, who hadn’t even eaten yet or taken a shower, to drive back down from Bidnija to Msida at 10pm, just so a policeman could look at my car bumper. So they drove up themselves, from Msida to Bidnija, at that time of night (and without ringing me first, so I wasn’t there), to look at my bumper, which is just as abusive and unreasonable. If somebody had been killed or maimed, yes – but for a disputed Eur243? Incredible. Maybe they thought I would catch a plane to North America the next day, and escape.]
You got that right, Daphne. Remember it vividly.
1996, Sant just elected, I’m accosted by four guys in black leather jackets, outside my flat, taken to car, no IDs (I asked), taken to Floriana police HQ, interrogated all night, then to slammer. Found out later the black leather jacket guys were CID. Ugly thugs.
Here we go again.
Daphne you should possess enough common sense to know we live in a society where not everyone is tolerant of your venom particularly those which you categorize and praise so profusely. You did cross certain boundaries which a more sensible individual wouldn’t have crossed. What do you expect? that they invite you to Sunday dinner? I’m trying really hard to feel sorry for you, but on second thoughts, not that hard. A cold washcloth applied to the forehead aids most migraines.
[Daphne – A very Labour attitude to freedom of speech: sort of akin to a mullah’s. ‘We will tolerate you as long as you say what we like. If we don’t like the things you say, expect to be done in, and you have only yourself to blame.’ Lovely. Really progressive and liberal. Malta Taghna Lkoll.]
Matthew, you remind me of one of those young Hitler Youth boys warbling the menacing” Tomorrow belongs to ME”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNMVMNmrqJE
Puuuh ghal wicckhom. L-intern taghkhom ma jitbiddel qatt.
Is telling the truth about Labour’s violent past (and future?) ‘crossing the line’?
Maybe the MLP need to come across that line?
They are so afraid of the truth, historical, documented, recorded and witnessed that they want us to forget their past and as Joseph put it, “we are only interested in the future”.
How convenient.
Ohh Miskina Daphne… is that what you expect from us? You’re getting far less than what you deserve. You have been playing the bully for quite some time now (portraying yourself as untouchable just because you can say what you like and still be defended by the party you support)and you have felt so good about it … being proud and all and popping open bottles of champagne on dead people’s graves. So just suck it up Daphne and if you try to portray yourself to be someone who’s scared of nothing then at least try not to be a hypocrite.
[Daphne – Hello, Facebook elve. Now tell me, have you ever actually read anything I’ve written? Perhaps not. Too many big words and complicated syntax.]
elve (lv)
n.
An extremely dim, short-lived, expanding disk of reddish light found above thunderstorms and believed to be created by electromagnetic pulses from intense lightning.
@K.G.
I do not know what type of psychiatricl illness you have , but whatever it is, it must be very difficult to spell correctly or pronounce.
If the Evil Bidnija Witch is so protected and untouchable, wouldn’t it stand to reason that whoever has treated her in such a manner would be called up and reprimanded.
I believe your sort would say ‘ghax ghanda l-power’.
Had this happened under a labour government, and a NP-leaning police officer were to harass a LP-leaning columnist, malajr kien jaqla transfer kieku, or worse.
Then again, it won’t happen because you are such a frightening lot that nobody would dare try these sort of cheap tricks.
It’s quite interesting to notice that there are quite a lot of Laburisti reading and commenting on your blog, Daphne.
Fret not, you might instill sense into just one of them.
It’s a wonder how anyone who reads Daphne’s blog could still remain a Laburist.
Panic time in Elvesville. One cannot instill sense into nonsense.
K.G – Joseph qalilna li se jahdem ma kullhadd anke ma min ma jaqbilx mieghu. Ma temmnux int? Ahseb u ara kemm se nemmnu jien.
Tinduna li elves, għax kollha bil- ‘we’. Taħsibhom l-Anonymous dawn minn kif jitkellmu.
When I read such articles I feel fear. It is called ‘fear of the known’.
It is the duty of the Police Commissioner himself who might be aware of such abusive police.
They should be disciplined.
Jaqq x’nies! Jaqq! Mhux ta’ b’xejn bezghu mill-Ewropa.
The same thing happened to me, Daphne, with a police officer at Rabat’s police station.
When I went to report the case and he realised that he knew my attacker, he immediately turned against me, when all evidence indicated that this person had in fact attacked me.
The day we met in Court he made sure to help this person out and even provided her with an attorney from Anglu Farrugia’s office to make sure that she wouldn’t have to end up unrepresented.
Daphne, normally I’d be on your blog having a rant about the tripe you post here which belittles and vilifies other people who don’t share your views (you can’t really blame me, you’re a little too closed minded for my liking).
But in this case I’m actually going to take your side.
The majority of the police are lazy pigs who just do what suits them. To sum everything up, even though I think you’re cold and heartless, nobody deserves what you’re saying the police put you through so I feel for you.
[Daphne – How do you know I’m cold and heartless, sweetheart? You don’t know me from Adam, and it also means you’re a poor judge of character. But thanks, anyway. It’s the thought that counts.]
One would have thought that the attitude in general of the police force members changed over the years and the police are indeed people’s friends (as I was taught when I was young).
Unfortunately. we are still being lumbered with the sort of policemen who did not think twice about joining forces with Socialists thugs at Tal- Barrani a quarter century ago, and target innocent unarmed civilians, including women, young people and septuagerians.
MALTA TAGHNA UKOLL, indeed.
The problem is that it is mostly those kinds of riff-raff would even consider joining the police force. Why would anybody with even half an education want to take up that thankless job in such a thankless environment with such ghastly colleagues.
I do not think that the police force is the only ‘public entity’ infiltrated by Labour moles with strict orders from above to ensure that public dissatisfaction with the present government is kept at the maximum.
What’s this about Tal-Barrani a quarter of a century ago? I’m still 18 and genuinely curious.
Stephen Borg Fiteni
Tal-Barrani was when the government of this country ordered the police force to blockade Zejtun rendering it inaccesible to the PN.
The excuse was that if the PN were to hold a meeting the place would erupt in riots and violence.
Sweet eh? Making a place off limits, ironically admitting to having lost control of any law and order, instead of enforcing the rule of law and ensuring the right to the foremost form of democratic expression, public gathering.
When the PN decided to hold the meeting anyway given the rights at stake, the number of thugs and police officers thrown at the crowd was unprecedented.
When Daphne puts up the sequence where Mintoff screams he’ll supply weapons to his supporters, you can rest assure he meant it. As did Leo Brincat, breaking into a frenzied applause seated to his right.
The same Leo Brincat who won’t do anything for this place if he’s not in power. Imagine if he is.
Sinjura Caruana Galizia
Tista tghidli kif int ma mortx il-Qorti ghax kellek “emigranja”, izda xorta sibt hin tikteb dan l-artikolu???
Sa fejn naf jien, meta jkollok emigranja, fis-sodda tkun!!!
[Daphne – Fil-fatt, hemm qeghda, fis-sodda. Not that it’s any of your business, but I find it amazing that you people still think blog-posts have to be written on a big computer in an office.]
tidher kemm ghandek rasek tugak…. B’emigranja F’SODDA RIEQDA, mhux f’sodda tiffolowja l-blog tkun qieghda!
[Daphne – Do please go to hell and stay there. It really is none of your business, you know. Contrary to what you have been led to believe by your political party, I am not public property.]
Emikranja.
You made yourself a public property… or to be more specific – YOUR PARTY has done this, not mine!!!
Nispera li din l-emigranja ma gietx ikkawzata mill-bizgha li daqt jitlaqlek il-power kollu li ghandek!!!
Emigranja l-Amerki.
MALTA TAGHNA LKOLL. Dawn l-istess jibqghu.
Hadra minn fuq li qed nghidlek toqghodx imperca jahasra qas li semmejtlek il familja bhal ma tghamel int!
[Daphne – Oh go away. You’re way out of your depth. Mur sib xi Facebook wall ta’ xi wiehed bil-laqam minflok isem.]
I think your dismissal of floaters is too simplistic.
What about people not brought up in Malta but who have the vote?
What shall we call them, non-aligned?
I approach each vote since 2003 with the same attitude: I assess the manifestos firstly and then factor in other variables.
There must be a good few hundred of ‘foreigners’ like me. We could have made the difference in 2008 and may well make it again.
If you don’t like the term floater then use something different for people like me.
[Daphne – If you have no vote, it’s pointless using anything. If you vote, you’re not a foreigner. You have to be Maltese to vote in general elections here. And in any case, the same rules apply as do to Maltese. As a grown person you’re supposed to be able to make up your mind.]
Fair enough.
You must accept that there are voters who are neither PN nor PL.
They make their minds up on an election by election basis.
I am one such voter.
If it’s not a floater, what is it?
I would be happy to use any term you want.
In standard political science terminology, they’re called “undecided voters”.
But “floaters”, being shorter, has come to replace the term.
Technically, if you can give an answer in a poll, you’re not undecided. But you’re not part of the core vote either.
It’s a question of semantics. Let’s call ourselves Rationalists. Short, sweet, and apt.
Bla principju
Gakbin
Bniedem hobbla u tredda
Laghqi
Ghazel int.
Opportunist perhaps?
Shallow. The rules of grocery shopping do not apply to elections. For a start, you do not always get what it says on the package.
Tal-misthija indeed!
U dan, bil-Labour Party fl-oppozizzjoni! Immagina meta ikunu fil-gvern x’kapaci jaghmlu.
The idea of all these macho men in uniform harassing one middle-aged woman is disgusting and frightening.
Look after yourself properly and do not take unnecessary risks. Sahhtek l-ewwel.
Maltese police are known for their thuggish attitudes and non-law upholding attitudes. Shame on the Malta Police Force – it’s better if they get rid of people like this, honestly.
After 25 years, we have confirmation that no one who is a declared Nationalist is safe in our roads or even a hospital car park, if on his/her own.
Imagine what it will be like in a couple of months’ time when the Neo-Mintoffian party is in power.
No imagination necessary for a lot of us – just a passably good memory. Having lived through the 70s and 80s, my idea of policemen is that a considerable number of them are criminals in uniforms.
And they will be looking the other way on March 10 as the re-energised Labour thugs thrash the Nationalist Party clubs whilst celebrating their ill-deserved and ill-begotten victory.
Some police officers lie through their teeth under oath. It happened to me and I took it up with the Commissioner of Police as I couldnt believe this was happening in this day and age.
We were them asked to go to a meeting at the police headquarters with the assistant commissioner in charge.
A police inspector who was head of the police office in question came to the meeting defending him and she wasn’t even on the scene when it happened.
Since that day I can’t trust the police and unfortunately tell my children the same thing. They are not to be trusted. The outcome of all this – three days leave for meetings at the police headquarters, one day leave to appear in court and to top it all off, I was fined Lm15 which the magistrate said was the minimum.
It cost me a lot of time and money but I know I was right and honest and spoke the truth under oath.
It just proves that “Malta Taghna Lkoll” is just another gimmick and they still do not want freedom of speech.
If they win the elections, we will be back to the 70s. I have no doubt about that.
Absolutely disgusting. I’m so shocked. The small fact alone that they showed up on your doorstep on a Sunday is ridiculous. It’s also considered unreasonable in the eyes of the law.
Don’t even want to think about how messy things are going to get as the election gets closer.
It’s your word against his.
The police have no evidence.
It’s then up to who the magistrate/judge believes.
Oh dear.
I think you are even worse off than a ‘foreigner’ like me.
It doesn’t depend on the magistrate. No evidence, no witnesses, no case. But the police do have a habit of wasting their time.
According the news item which was hurriedly taken down by The Times, the magistrate commented that “she still went to court even when she had migraine”. Go figure.
The police have no evidence, but Daphne has her video of the police inspecting her car and finding bugger all to indicate any such incident.
My approach is to trust nobody.
Not the police, not the courts, not even my lawyer.
I have adopted a one-man-army guerrilla style attitude to my life in Malta and it works a treat.
When in the jungle, it’s the only way to be.
Keep anonymous and keep trying to score small victories.
Daphne is so much a heroine for putting herself on the line.
I’d like to think I could do the same if Malta was my home country but I’ll never get to find out.
Back into the shadows I go.
Malta Taghna Lkoll….sa l-elezzjoni imma. Labour will never change.
By wearing blue all the time is NOT a change.
Il-hmar taqtalu denbu hmar jibqa. And for the floaters. A big PUHHHlease!
Labour will never change. Wearing blue instead of red is NOT a change. Il-hmar taqtalu denbu hmar jibqa. And for the floaters, a big PUHHHlease.
I’m sorry you had to go through this ordeal and even sorrier for your migraine. I know what it means to have one for days.
As for this terrible incident, if I were you, I would sue this thug’s ass for stalking you and for harassment.
and you belive her ? ?
im so sory for you :(
I don’t know what you’re writing about these days but when I did read your work I decided you’re not my cup of tea. Don’t get me wrong I admire your brutal honesty and I love outspoken people, I just don’t like bullies (again I emphasize that this is based on my views about you in the past).
However this snappy title came up on my facebook wall and just had to visit and read and if your story is true since I haven’t had the luxury of hearing both parties I must say you are completely justified; this behavior is appalling everyone is subject to the same rule of law irrespective of what they have said or done; and I discourage any of Daphne’s haters from encouraging this behavior, a woman with a voice can easily be ignored as I have done up to this point so if you don’t like it, don’t listen, why waste your energy hurtling abuse at a woman who is only doing her job? If you ask me you’re just looking at someone to hate; you’re borderline sadists.
I would also like to comment on your “floater” rant- i don’t care what the official term is but I classify myself as a floater and to me that means a person who safeguards their own personal interest above anything else and I am not ashamed of that because that is what most people are including, I suspect, you Daphne. What I am ashamed of is this blind partisan loyalty; yes ladies and gentlemen the mythological human sheep does still exist in 2013. So in that respect I do hide in the shadows, this year I might vote for one party; in the next general election I might vote for the other because contrary to popular opinion the fence is quite comfortable especially when only very few people know the truth about how this country is run.
[Daphne – Everybody safeguards their personal interest first and foremost with their vote, Citizen. It’s just that we all define personal interest differently. Maybe you define yours narrowly, to the point of opportunism, like those who vote depending on whether or not they get a contract. But I know people who voted for EU membership even though they knew it would mean the end of their business, because they knew that it would be the best decision for their grandchildren and beyond that, for Malta, and hence, in a roundabout way, for them. That’s personal interest too. Altruism often is.]
Citizen : So in your book, “floater” means “egoist. I suppose you have never heard of JFK ?
Floaters are people who do not subscribe to the belief “My party, right or wrong” but who at election time weigh pros and cons and do not cast their vote blindly in accordance with entrenched affiliations.
The position becomes very frustrating for intelligent voters when for decades they are not provided with a choice between credible alternatives risking the label of diehard supporters of one party.
Mintoff denied the existence of “floating voters” as a distinct class recognizing only turncoat members enticed to cross over to the other side.
So Evarist B said we shouldn’t take Merkel for praising Malta’s economic performance because she doesn’t live here so doesn’t a clue what Maltese families feel about their W&E bills.
Yet we who live here also know what type of government Labour has been and can still be. We know Daphne’s case is very plausible and that is disgusting. What is disgusting still is that Labour condones such behaviour and is synonymous with it.
Just look at the way they react to anyone who criticises them. Their supporters notice these reactions and repeat them in a grotesque manner, to the extent of shameless intolerance and lawlessness. This is where the police have a difficult but important job to curb such behaviour. But there again, some policemen react and behave the same way.
We who have been here long enough know what and who nurtured such culture of intolerance and violent attitude. We have experienced it directly. Pity the younger generation who don’t know about it and some of them just ignore it.
Not watching One, did you read Maltastar’s main headlines?
http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20130111-sex-scenes-filmed-in-gozo
Sex and violence for the masses. When the politics are rubbish it always works.
This story is shocking. I won’t say that I wasn’t aware of such hdura in Malta, but one would expect more professional behaviour from the police.
It’s really a case of keeping your head down unless it’s absolutely necessary, but then again, abuse should be brought to light. Sometimes I feel helpless in the face of such stories, because what can one do to achieve justice?
I hope your migraine’s better and your mother is recovered.
Mamma mia, il-kaz tieghek iffakarni x’kien issir fl-80s. Tal-misthija ic-certi pulizija li hemm fil-korp.
Ara jekk jitla il-Labour kemm se tikber l-arroganza taghhom.
I bet that in two months time, it will not be just the police force discriminating against Nationalists.
If you lived in the seventies and eighties during the Mintoffian Socialist era, you will know exactly what I mean.
Haven’t you been listening to Maria Camilleri’s shows on Super One radio, where Joseph Muscat is lauded every so often as the long-awaited and well-beloved young new Mintoff?
Some are already preparing themselves to ‘take over’ in other departments/authorities as well. It is very much in the face and I can personally vouch for this from personal experience.
They are smelling victory in the air. It happened in 2008 as well, only this time, it will happen.
VOTE LABOUR…..INZABBAB
It is obviously a case of police abuse of a political manner in my opinion but I myself have also been treated unfairly by the police and the court in the recent past.
I was forced to find a new home for my dog just because my neighbour (a police officer) claimed that he was barking at 9 am when I had a party at my home with about 20 witnesses that could deny the allegations.
The thing is I never got to voice my version in court and was condemned without a right to reply under threat that it was either a new home for my dog or my dog being put down.
By the way, there are 6 apartments in the block and this was the only person who ever complained. He had no witnesses apart from his wife and no proof!
Judge for yourself.
Seems to me that your offensive blogs has ended up pissing people off, and you don’t like it. Cliche?
U dan ghadom fl-Oppposizzjoni.
Shared the link on my Facebook wall and a Laburist commented ‘ejja ha jorhsu il-kontijiet marc’and another said ‘hemm provi cari ili habtet go fih agreddietu u saqet lhemm u li aggreddit lil pulizija’ and the first Laburist said ‘din tigdeb bhal gonzi’. Trid tara biex forsi temmen.
Tal-biza’. It’s sounds like we are back in the 80s when Anglu Farrugia was still in the police force.
I won’t appeal to those taparsi floaters (dawk 99% huma kollha Laburisti mdejqin u taparsi floaters) but to those Nationalists who maybe have already decided not to go and cast their vote.
These people are showing what they can do when they are in power. Beware.
It is inconceivable that after 25 yrs of Nationalist Administration our police force is still so rotten.
This may be the result of keeping themselves too much aloof from the Administrative side of the government. This is happening in every department.
The situation in the Police Corps is replicated across the entire public service.
This is a known and widely recognised fact.
The civil service is run by Mintoffjani and their offspring.
Whenever I need anything from a government-run entity I contact one on my long list of ‘red civil servants’ and hey presto I get what I want.
Even after 250 years of PN government it will be the same.
The reason is simple.
The only way to eradicate the rot is mass dirmissal on disciplinary grounds from the service.
No PN government will ever contemplate this line of action let alone execute it.
So all we can do is grin and bear it.
At least we can rest assured that this situation will not get worse come March.
It will stay exactly the same.
As an aside to this incident, have you noticed the sudden loss of efficiency (if ever there was any) and utter intransigence in some government departments, MEPA and other authorities, where the persons you have to face make sure to give you hell rather than service – naturally so that you blame Gonzi and the PN.
Seems that Helena Dalli’s personnel audit has already been launched.
XFM Radio are reporting your court case as first item on the news. You’ve managed to beat PL’s proposed powerstation in news value.
The shape of things to come
This is just a taste of things to come if Labour is elected.
This also shows that the Nationalists in 23 years of administration never had an effective control of the administrative side of the Government.
Reading this should not the Commissioner of Police investigate the whole story. But of course the Commissioner is there to defend his boys as often happened in the past.
Yes, after reading the events of such a story, I should be shocked; and yes, I should be in disgust and full of rage. Alas- unfortunately, keeping in mind that I fully believe Daphne and empathize for her, we have to see the situation for what it really is.
Most of us, if not all, are no strangers to such treatment. It’s all part of the system they run on the Island. Sure; You have the right to complain, but nothing will be done about it – Unless you know someone important.
“Have you been victimized? Has someone assaulted you? Stole/damaged your property? We are so sorry! But we cannot help you in any way whatsoever. The court might, if you’re lucky, in about 10 years or so!!” ..Rings a bell?
This is the point where I should round up my argument and give a stimulating point of view about how we can change the country for the better.. But unforuntely I’ve given up all hopes of this country ever going for the better.
Regardless of what anyone says or does, as long as the country is being run but our current parties and as long as such lowlifes (as the men in the above events) infect our island, there simply is no hope.
MALTA TAGHNA LKOLL.
MELA HU HSIEB LI TIBQA MMEXIJA MIL PARTIT NAZZJONALISTA JEKK TRIDA TIBQA HEKK.
Get well soon,Daf.
The ultimate problem on this island is there are way too many people like this guy. It happens on a monthly (if not daily) basis. Ultimately these people are taking someone’s oxygen.
The PN government in the the last 25 years gave too much liberty to such people (i.e. it gave them two legs to stand on), I would not imagine what will happen if Labour wins. Will it be more of a free for all?
I find nothing unusual – I lived the 70s and 80s. The trouble is that during these last 25 years we were fed the lie that we changed, how untrue.
Iz-ziju kien jghidli `l-volpi ibiddel sufu imma le fehmtu.’
This is a shocking and disturbing sequence of events. The Police should be offering you protection from these thugs instead of trying to intimidate.
I trust that the responsible authorities within the Force as well as within the Government track this abusive behaviour down and take the necessary action.
May I offer my full solidarity with you.
Migraine? B’min trid titnejjek int? Anke kieku kont kobba hara wara… Inkaxkrek il-qorti kont. Issa l-migraines KBAR jaqbduk wara id-9 ta’ Marzu ja qahba hadra u GIDDIEBA.
[Daphne – Marelli, xi kruha ta’ nies. Qishom tal-French Revolution, crossed ma’ dik il-hoxxna ta’ Gavin and Stacey.]
I like how Labour gets the blame even for this one.
The PN had 25 years to bring some much needed law and order (so ironic) to the shoddy police force.
But what did it do? Promote the ex-SMU thugs in various ways at the first available opportunity, of course.
Rogue policemen will exist everywhere unfortunately.
What distinguishes a civilised police force from another, however, is the swiftness by which the top brass intervene to cull the scum.
And the police top brass have been reporting directly to the Nationalist administration for the last 25 almost consecutive years, so the blame rests on them, not a past Mintoffian government as you allude.
The Labour Party and Labour elements in the police force have a long and tragic history of violence towards whoever criticizes the Mintoffian legacy of hatred he perpetrated.
i think it serves as a good cause- this reminds me why I need to go and make sure Labour stays put.
Your ridicule towards people who “Wouldn’t understand your blog” makes me realize just how stuck up and pathetic you really are. I am very glad that few people feel sorry for you , and i actually pity the people who do. They are probably blinded by your vast diction (which they probably do not understand themselves). I like visiting your blog once in a while just to remind myself how lonely and sad you seem to be. Somehow knowing that, puts a smile on my face. :)
Nice moniker. Right up front and centre. Another brave piece of shit.
If you’re going to argue, state your point. I dont need to give you a name to state the obvious you piece of shit. Im glad you’re on her side.
It must have been some 6 months ago when I received a call from the Spinola police station over a ‘hit and run’ incident.
Scared out of my wits and trying to remember if I hit anything or anyone, I drove down to the station.
An army of police came out to check my car over a report they received from some ‘magistrate’ who lives in the Balluta area who claimed I hit his bumper whilst parking.
I wonder if they would have acted the same if it was any other citizen filing a report like that.
Needless to say the car was found clean. I would really like to know if they are legally allowed such practice.
I suspect that the police commissioner is being undermined by die-hard Laburisti hodor policemen and he cannot discipline his subordinates out of self preservation.
There are many policemen who are apolitical yet these are scared of the outspoken pushy policemen with Labour leanings. Senior officers are thus prevented from carrying out their job properly.
Bastards. There’s Labour for you. And dear floating voters and disgruntled Nationalists, here’s what’s in store for us should Labour manage to win the coming elections.
What do you expect when you’re so viled by people? You don’t have to be a political figure, but when you’re so famous for your arrogance and vile words towards other people, I don’t expect anything else from those people that feel harmed, threatened or otherwise attacked by your words.
[Daphne – How can I be famous for my arrogance and vile words among people who can barely read, still less read English, RS? Your lot haven’t read me over 20 years and made an assessment on that basis. You’ve just swallowed up Labour’s hate campaign, wholesale.]
Kuragg, Daphne – certain Labour and old Mintoff style police habits die hard.
If you, Daphne, who can bring this incident to the notice of the general public, undergo this type of incident, then what will we go through, though of us who live in Labour strongholds and don’t vote Labour?