A progressive liberal’s understanding of he thinks is true democracy and the rule of law
A well-known progressive liberal who used to support the far-right ANR, then Josie Muscat’s Azzjoni Nazzjonali, and now supports Labour, comments on timesofmalta.com, beneath the story about 25 Maltese authors and their protest against the government’s behaviour on immigration:
In the mean time the polls show that the vast majority of the maltese not only agree with pushbacks but will back our Goverment if he resorts to them.
The government is ‘he’ – that’s a major clue to this person’s standard of education. Anyway, somebody shot back:
That is why there are laws in place.
And then another progressive liberal, one Mario Spiteri, joined in:
that’s exactly the point of how unfair these laws are … They are set up by a small minority of people (in Brussels for example) and then the WHOLE population of Europe (ie. the Majority) has to obey! That’s what I call unfair, and the law in question should be updated when there is a CLEAR case (as in this case) where the vast majority of people (democracy) disagree with that law.
There are people who have the vote. In Malta. They stand next to you in the supermarket queue, at the bar, and you haven’t got a clue that right next to you, there’s somebody who knows nothing.
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They’d change their tune if they were the ones being persecuted. Idiots, the lot of them.
After living in Malta for three quarters of a century I have learnt to assume that right next to me, wherever I am, there is somebody who knows nothing.
I always stand to be corrected of course.
Sadly, I very rarely am.
In a way I’m sort of pleased that all this is happening. Thanks to the EU, the right thing will prevail, and maybe people start having an inkling what democracy is really all about. They will also learn that racism is not on and that it’s actually illegal.
I know we’re still far away from achieving this, but maybe, just maybe, we’ll get there.
That’s what Malta is made of, sadly.
What Mario Spiteri wrote is shocking and very, very dangerous.
Today, some extremists within Joseph Muscat’s ‘moviment’ will willingly trample on the human rights of migrants.
Tomorrow, they will trample on the human rights of whoever they see fit, referring to ‘majority of people’ and ‘democracy’ to justify their actions.
To hell with human rights; to hell with the rule of law.
The prospect is frightening.
Doesn’t this stupid idiot realise that everywhere laws are made by the few, and that it is parliament which legislates?
The concept of basic human rights is totally beyond these people.
Speaking of votes,
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Churchill, of course.
And Joseph Muscat would not have had a chance in hell of getting elected were the voters above average.
Has there been some sort of an opinion poll to verify these claims? How do they know that the vast majority support pushbacks?
It doesn’t matter either way. The rule of law trumps popular sentiment.
Reading this post tells me these enlightened ‘liberal-progressives’ think that the true legacy of the French Revolution is in the barricades and the guillotine.
I think we all realized how many people we were standing near who knew nothing. But i’ve found there’s a very simple solution, make sure you are never near them again.
in the headline, of course…
Has anybody seen or read any views from Dr Giovanni Bonello – Malta’s ex-Judge at the European Court of Human Rights?