@ Fast track visas……Thank you for your comprehensive reply. I was a young person during Mintoff’s years and my family were always PN supporters. The man was no angel but he did do good. My family was never penalised for our political and religious views.

In the eighties I used to spend most of my time at PN headquarters and we worked very hard to bring about the change that was needed.

My concern is that I have been let down by both political parties. I tend to agree with you that the way politics are being handled at present is very disappointing and an indication that nothing has or will ever change in Malta.

As for the Whistle-blower’s Act it is the politics of hypocrisy. Malta has been cheated and defrauded of its democracy and it could be heading towards a dictatorship disguised as democracy. Only time will tell.

Of course they can. Don’t 120,000+ vote Labour every time?

Many thanks for your reply. I appreciate that revisiting the ordeal is like re-grating raw wounds over which bleach has been thrown.

I carefully read all your blogs and had a look at your You Tube postings before making my first comment. I think what you have done must have required first overcoming a progressive sequence of steps that were intended to demoralise you primarily, eat up at your financial resources to get you on to your knees, harass you, ruin your reputation and then get you out of the way.

It is a shame that these injustices are not the ones focused on. You have had to restart your life, alienated, away from home and your family had to suffer with you. Malta being what it is, and financial resources not infinite, nobody else has the time or motivation to go into cover ups of this nature that involve a politician or now, a public person or protected businessman.

Yes, I can understand that a foreign jurisdiction offers guarantees and protection, whilst the man in the street will conveniently say ‘ara dak,… harab,’ whilst others will be planted to mislead the general public, desperate for gossip, with false accusations.

I may not agree with your description and belief in Mintoff, but I can respect that as a different political opinion once your principles remain steadfast.

I understand why you would say ‘go out in peaceful protest.’ Even being against something for a valid reason requires action. One cannot just talk.

In your case it is unlikely that the political party that insisted on the Whistleblower Act is going to go any distance in offering anything more than lip-service support once it has aligned itself with the whitewashing of the perpetrator.

If there is no support for whistleblowers, the law will act as a warning or barrier rather than an open channel. It will be a hypocritical farce.

There is too much whitewashing going on under this Government already, even with other appointments, a minute number of which might appear to be based on merit.

There are sites that gather information on Ponzi Schemes. Ponzi trackers. These generally treat cases, mainly in the US, where several victims have been cheated of a very grand total. In such cases the FBI builds up profiles of people and irregular business dealings but you would have to provide them with a detailed dossier. The US Embassy in London would be able to handle such an approach. This does help in preventing create other victims, or, should the person chose to operate similarly in the US, for example, then the profile would have been established and pre-advised.

To my knowledge, there is nothing really which offers easy and immediate access within the EU of protection against scams or the full devastating effects of whistleblowing such as in your case where the basic prerequisites of fair treatment are stacked against the victim.

Now that Barroso and Kessler know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of such treatment, the EU might decide to have some independent set-up of recourse similar to an International Criminal Court where persons may be brought to trial, irrespective of their position in society, business or politics.

The expectation that the victim’s own country will serve justice is insufficient, where that country holds that particular person in esteem as a national asset and all the necessary hands are twisted in order to achieve this. In Malta, especially, there are no guarantees that no conflict of interest is present.

Such persons have a knack of finding others to whitewash smokescreens they can hide behind and they continue their business unpeturbed.

You explain that, as a person, you have been a means to an end.

You might have chosen to look the other way, but in doing what is meant to be the right thing, you were punished for it.

You are no longer the same person you were before. Your career was detracked and your reputation and life were hijacked. You were helpless. Your ‘fault’ is that you didn’t play ball or look the other way.

You see, the reason why I don’t share your opinion about Mintoff, is that he did this to us on the other side. That is why I can understand you, or think I do, so well. Now Joseph Muscat is collecting an army of these people, all suitably qualified in this manner in one way or another, for the job.

When economic powers and political powers are joined it is not only the competitive factor in the country that suffers – as Milton Friedman warned, but the personal human rights aspect that is ruthlessly trodden on.

In our context, there is nothing to protect us, except if the EU decides to do something about it fast.

Yes, I am the same person. My blogs are supported with documented evidence. In all the years my blogs have been on line no one has started proceedings against me.

Should anyone wish to do so they have to use the UK courts. I live and publish from the UK where freedom of speech is respected, the police and courts are impartial.

I, like many others am very disappointed with the Labour Party and the previous administration for neglecting to investigate my allegations against John Dalli.

John Dalli’s qualities are very dubious. He is an expert at covering his tracks and switching sides to protect his personal, financial and political interests. I do not make any allegations unless I have evidence to support them.

Yes, my ordeal has been devastating over the years. The way things have developed it is obvious that there is one law for those with money and influence and another for the man in the street. I doubt if I will ever get the justice I truly deserve.

You should read my blogs in detail. Then make your mind up. http://ec-eu-john-dalli.blogspot.co.uk/

The bombardment is also a manner of sowing confusion. It will be repetitive and also misleading. Its intention is to make the electorate so dizzy that it gives up. Or busy getting heated up on what has been planted as the LP word of the week “incitement.”

The main focus will be kept hidden and off the public agenda.
Until it’s a done thing.

That’s how Joseph Muscat wants you and us all to feel and be – dejected by his (new) way of doing politics.

We have to learn to take it all in (despite the bitterness) and react, each in his own small way, on a day-to-day basis, until more and more people realise that mediocrity can only breed mediocrity and finally failure.

Maybe you say we (Malta) deserve(s) better and I agree. However, this is the democratic game – sometimes you win, at others you lose. In spite of its ups and downs no other system, so far, has proved superior.

“The Government believes that it is important that people from a wide range of backgrounds take up public appointments so that the Boards of public bodies reflect the rich diversity of our society and better understand the needs of the communities they serve. Appointments are made on merit and applications are welcome from all sections of society.”

Mr Ellul-Grech,

Are you the same person who had a major problem with Dalli some years back and who has a blogspot dedicated to this?

I’m curious, how do you feel about the Labour Party now that John Dalli is within its fold because of his qualities rather than despite them?

Your ordeal must have been an extremely devastating one in many respects.