What the state decided to confer on Dom Mintoff has nothing to do with his ‘holiness’.

Mintoff was an anti-clerical man who did anything to get what he wanted and hurt so many. He called his siblings, a priest and a nun, ‘black sheep’ in mass meetings (‘Kull familja ghanda il-paljazza, jiena ghandi tnejn’) to mock them because of their religious vows.

The Pope, on the other hand, is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church which – with this one especially – has a proper social conscience. Kissing one and the other is in no way equal.

I’m sure the way Muscat went on and on about his adoration of Mintoff and his lack of mention of proper Christian (especially not Catholic) virtues shows which kiss he really meant. The other kiss was just for show.

That’s protocol. I’m sure no one believed it to be truly genuine.

The pity is that he is so damn smug that he won’t even realise that he’s self destucted after he has managed to do so. And if he does realise, then he will start blaming anybody and everybody but himself.

[Daphne – Yes, David. That is exactly what is wrong: that he “was given a full religious and state funeral.” The man didn’t believe in God, let alone Catholicism, and any state funeral should have involved a large stake and some garlic.]

Just another notch in his crotch.

This boy is going to self destruct. An unguided missile.