Comments on: About as liberal and progressive as Turkey and Algeria https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: AE https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-835584 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:19:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-835584 He is such a hypocrite and one that plays to his audience,

Just now during the Times’ Leaders’ Debate he said he agrees that defamation should no longer be a criminal offence.

How does he reconcile that statement with supporting Emmanuel Mallia’s position against Paul Borg Olivier?

As for Dr Mallia, if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen, pal, and go to the Triton fountain to cool off with water – it’s free there.

]]> By: Hibernating from Malta https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-834657 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:01:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-834657 Huh? From timesofmalta.com comments:

Joe Pace Asciak
Today, 14:07
Meta jitkellem il-Leader, hu politikament korrett li kulhadd jaghlaq halqu. Min jiftah halqu ghandu jigi kkunsidrat bhala ghadu tal-poplu, jitwarrab jew jintefa’ l-habs. U meta jghidilkom li xi kaz maghluq, ifisser li maghluq u li ma tistghux tkomplu titkellmu fuqu.

Mark Fenech
Today, 14:05
Jekk Manuel Mallia jidhirlu li ġie malafamat għandu kull dritt jipproċedi legalment u iva jekk hemm bżonn in-nies imorru l-ħabs imorru.

]]> By: charlie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-834609 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:37:14 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-834609 In reply to observer.

Joe Calleja, former editor of In-Niggiza, was jailed under the Mintoffian regime for a report in that satirical newspaper. The socialists never change.

]]> By: Pupa https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-834574 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:23:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-834574 you may read this for more details

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-02-24/news/232-journalists-in-prison-on-work-related-issues-only-1-in-eu-955809797/

]]> By: Crockett https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-834542 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:12:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-834542 Criminal libel has been abolished in the UK and France, as far as I know. I am also waiting (probably in vain) for Maltese journalists to pick up on this and enquire about the validity of such a law. A number of their colleagues around the globe have been jailed for supposedly breaking it.

]]> By: Wormfood https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-834497 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:50:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-834497 In reply to Wormfood.

Not that I have any objection to people making fun of Catholicism and Catholics by the way but consistency is important.

]]> By: Wormfood https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-834492 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:46:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-834492 Don’t you know? Freedom of speech only applies if you’re dissing the Catholic Church and faith

]]> By: TROY https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-834293 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:10:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-834293 They’re not in power yet,but they’re already threatening all those who oppose them.
PN builds hospitals and schools.
MLP builds prisons.

]]> By: observer https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-834247 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:45:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-834247 If I remember correctly, Michael Frendo was arrested – or at least severely harassed – by Labour back in the 80’s simply because he looked angrily at one of their then ministers on graduation day.

How’s that for being liberal and progressive.

]]> By: Mesmes https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/02/about-as-liberal-and-progressive-as-turkey-and-algeria/#comment-834227 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:35:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=28613#comment-834227 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/malta-today-grinds-another-axe-this-time-its-tarcisio-mifsuds/

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