I wasn’t contesting the fact that what happened is totally appalling. Only I was under the impression, after reading your initial post, that it was the Ministry who requested the police to do the catering and to check whether Dr. Mallia was maybe lying in parliament.

[Daphne – Yes, that’s what I meant, Galian. The Police Corps cannot/ may not offer to provide catering services to the ministry.]

On another note, I couldn’t help noticing how totally incoherent Mallia is during his parliament speeches.

[Daphne – He’s not getting any younger, he’s out of his depth and under severe stress. And he was never as bright as he was made out to be. He was most unimpressive in his defence of Meinrad Calleja. On the witness stand, I preempted his questions probably before they even occurred to him, which really surprised me as I was led to expect a razor-sharp mind, and then I realised that he had spent a lifetime dealing with uneducated criminals with a low IQ, and people who are easily intimidated by a courtroom environment, and that was about it. The man is, quite frankly, pretty thick.]

The violence will come as well eventually. However this time round there will be no Fenech Adami preaching Christian brotherhood and forgiveness.

Well, that is exactly what he said. I heard it live on the radio.

[Daphne – WHETHER THE POLICE ‘OFFERED’ THE SERVICE OR NOT IS NOT THE POINT. My God, this is so exhausting. I’d better put up a post spelling it out.]

Ok, let’s admit it. There is an erotic side to it.

(a) Removal of professional civil servants and diplomats, to be replaced by travel agents, nursing assistants and party donors

(b) Bungling ministers with no sense of decency, not even a façade of constitutional compliance

(c) Two classes – the governing political class, and the rest

(d) Abuse of power; under Maltese employment law it is actually illegal for an employer to ask an employee to perform a task outside the scope of his work (e.g. cannot ask a bank clerk to clean the toilets)

(e) A “we can do what we want and like” attitude – EU veto issue, “museum” in Parliament house, change the constitution, bring in gay and transgender marriage and all that

(f) Visual application of power, by increasing the visibility of police, army, etc. at functions and government buildings

(g) Make public broadcasting compliant and synchronised with the prevailing government’s ideology and along party lines

(h) “Labour Party” is a department of government and no clear Chinese walls between party, government, state, constitutional structures, police and army – just like the commies in China and North Korea.

(i) Promote the myth that the “boss” is an action man – Mintoff was a “sportsman”, Muscat goes to the “gym” (does he really, now! I wouldn’t have noticed if you hadn’t told me), Putin hunts and shoots, etc.

(j) Erode, constantly, gradually and consistently, the constitutional safeguards and the liberty of the judiciary, the legislative, and the administrative parts of the state, fusing it all into “Labour’s own”.

(k) Start criticising the judiciary and dismantling the “disloyal” parts and individuals in the police force and army.

(l) Rewind back to is-Salvatur ta’ Malta.

[Daphne – For God’s sake, Galian.]

Was it this lot?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2TXJkb-5wc&list=PLFCdPHSCsGDv1hP09l2ccn-hMA6HFeZpW&NR=1&feature=endscreen