Comments on: San Bastjan tas-Sapun Ahdar: John Dalli says it’s a miracle, and he’s organising a thanksgiving mass

By: Carlos Bonavia

Carlos Bonavia — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:47:55 +0000

In reply to Min Jaf. It would be like one of those Corleone masses we saw in the Godfather, only it's for real this time.

By: carlos

carlos — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:34:24 +0000

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.

By: Randolph Peresso

Randolph Peresso — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:39:52 +0000

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.]

By: nev

nev — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:16:35 +0000

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.

By: Chris Portelli

Chris Portelli — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:50 +0000

Can’t we people here organise a sort of mini bus to his thanksgiving mass? I can make a banner: Gej Dal Li Ba.

By: John Higgins

John Higgins — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:46:13 +0000

How ridiculous can Dalli be? He’s lost all credibility and should keep a low profile.

By: etil

etil — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:55:11 +0000

He could also request a Papal Blessing from Pope Francis.

By: Min Jaf

Min Jaf — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:16:43 +0000

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.

By: Alexander Ball

Alexander Ball — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:37:47 +0000

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?

By: jojo

jojo — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:46:36 +0000

What a f**king hypocrite.