http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130326/letters/Second-Republic.463009

@Alexander Ball
There are many more freedoms than just buying and reading a paper and commenting on a blog.

Start here.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

Jonathan, my thoughts exactly.

It’s too early (or too late) for Carnival, as otherwise JM would be paying a visit to the floats.

Cyrus provided the pictures.

More than so many of us thought, my friend. Almost thirty six thousand more than those who are not!

The brainless rest could not even think about what il-ginger and his cronies stand for – except, perhaps, that “Malta taghna lkoll” without even suspecting what that could mean.

Have taken note of your remarks, Baxxter, and will duly pass them on to my cleaning lady. Appreciate your help.

Legum justorum esse opertet – vere sine has liberi esse non possumus. Amicus Plato, magis amica Veritas.

In simple English, laws are to be obeyed only when they are just – that’s what makes for true freedom. Even if Plato himself asserts what is not true, then one has to follow truth, not him.

‘Send in the Clowns’ will be prophetic, but we already knew that.

No one guarantees that you can carry on with such freedoms.

Hitler abolished freedom of speech in the Reichstag Fire Decree within four weeks of becoming Chancellor.

All that Muscat has to do is find alternatives that operate in the same way while maintaining a mask of democracy. A 9 seat majority gives him the power to introduce a huge range of laws without the need of an opposition.

There are no checks and balances and no one will stop him. Simply look at the recent appointments to top posts without the promised transparency and meritocracy.

What if you or I or someone else was better qualified to lead these organisations?

Look at the significant additions to the number of ministers and staff and the added costs creating an additional burden on Gross Domestic Product. Is it wise to add government expenditure? Isn’t it better to add government investment? Doesn’t excessive expenditure in a state of deficit increase the likelihood of going Cyprus’ way?

I find having to pay 7% to 10% on my savings for the incompetence of and gross negligence by MLP Marxist economists too hard a pill to swallow.

Turn now to another implied threats by the MLP reflecting the murmurs on the Times and other comments boards: An anti-European sentiment, if fomented properly, may spell economic, political and cultural disaster for us all.

Our personal freedom is curtailed by all these acts. Our constitutional rights to democratic governance are immediately endangered. It is not just you or me at a personal level. It is a national AND an individual problem.

I sincerely hope that you do see these clarifications as practical issues.