San Bastjan tas-Sapun Ahdar: John Dalli says it’s a miracle, and he’s organising a thanksgiving mass
John Dalli, quoted in The Malta Independent on Sunday:
“But since Police Commissioner Zammit made his statement yesterday week, the situation has changed completely. I had a lot of support in Malta from the people who know me.
Those who know me and know who I am could not believe what they were hearing. But now everybody feels very comfortable with approaching me, talking to me, being seen with me.
I thank God, because this was a miracle since we were grappling with big forces – the tobacco industry, the Commission, the Maltese government. I was like David with three pebbles fighting Goliath. Commissioner Zammit’s statement was a big relief and in fact I will be organising a thanksgiving Mass next week, because I really believe this is something we need to thank God for.”
For a Maltese man of 65 and a seasoned politician, it is really odd that he doesn’t seem to understand the real reason people are happy to approach him, talk to him and be seen with him once more.
It is not because the new Police Commissioner has said there is no case against him (that kind of thing never bothered anyone on this island). It is because he’s deemed to have power through his access to Prime Minister Muscat and the Labour government.
It’s kind of sad that he thinks it’s because he’s popular and good company, sort of like those short, fat, elderly men with no redeeming feaure except a bottomless income, who think that the Lithuanian lovely on their arm actually loves them, and for themselves.
Il-vera miskin. Miskin bil-flus. Hafna, hafna, hafna flus (but no interest in Lithuanian lovelies).
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John Dalli must thank his lucky stars to get away with it. But this is not the first time. When will he learn?
What a f**king hypocrite.
I found an old slipper I am very fond of that I thought had been thrown out.
How do I go about arranging a thanksgiving Mass?
The more important issue is that involving Dalli’s resignation from the EU Commission due to his no longer enjoyed the Commission’s trust. It is only if and when he manages to again attain that trust that Dalli might regain some sort of standing in the public eye.
The police case is a wholly different matter. Whatever the degree of evidence available to support the case, the validity of the decision by the Police Commissioner not to prosecute is seriously vitiated by the prior transfer of Commissioner Rizzo, Dalli’s own Angelique ta’ Borg inNadur style coincidental miraculous recovery from psycho-social invalidity and, but not least, the rapidity with which Joseph Muscat took Dalli into the fold in a bid to prop up his talent-starved and incompetent cabinet.
As to the planned thanksgiving Mass, it should be most enlightening for one to have a look at the make up on the congregation.
Incidentally, one cannot understand why Dalli should have felt the need to so publicly thank God once he claimed that there was no tangible evidence against him. In those circumstances, and in the ordinary course of things, dropping the case should have been a foregone conclusion. It would have been a situation that one could face with serenity and without cause for any adverse symptoms, be they psychological-social or otherwise.
It would be like one of those Corleone masses we saw in the Godfather, only it’s for real this time.
He could also request a Papal Blessing from Pope Francis.
How ridiculous can Dalli be? He’s lost all credibility and should keep a low profile.
Can’t we people here organise a sort of mini bus to his thanksgiving mass? I can make a banner: Gej Dal Li Ba.
God has nothing to do with all this. You should instead thank your lucky stars and the Commission itself who foolishly enough and inexpilcably managed to botch up the whole investigation.
John Dalli knows very well that when the Maltese Police Commissioner declared he cannot proceed against him due to “INSUFFICIENT evidence” (http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130609/local/-Insufficient-evidence-to-charge-John-Dalli-.473057) he is not contradicting Kessler’s conclusions.
Kessler had repeatedly said there was “unambigious CIRCUMSTANTIAL evidence against Mr. Dalli.”
Unambiguous circumstantial evidence is enough for the sacking of a EU Commissioner.
Daphne, if my memory serves me right, you had pointed this out when the story broke.
[Daphne – John Dalli’s mindset stems from the fact that he is so accustomed to doing as he pleases as long as it is not strictly speaking a crime, that he forgets that Malta’s standards are not the European Commission’s.]
John Dalli should thank God for the change of Government which brought about the removal of the two officials in charge of his case. Also his healing in time from the psycho-social-invalidity to board a plane to Malta just after the result of the election.