Grandstanding for the ignorant and xenophobic masses
Tweedledum and Tweedledee call a press conference to protest against Malta being invaded by inferior human beings.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee called a press conference this morning to tell us that the prime minister has demanded the European Commission’s Van Rompuy drop everything to see to Malta’s demands on immigration from North Africa.
The prime minister has no idea how the EU works, despite spending four years touring the restaurants and bars of Brussels. As for Manuel Mallia, he just doesn’t know about systems and boundaries, unless those boundaries are borders which have to be defended by jackboots and rifles against ‘black scum’.
I have no doubt that Van Rompuy has dropped everything on his agenda to rush and help Muscat, Mallia and Malta (in that order). So the European Commission has Dalli inflicted on it so that we can export our problem. The Commission president kicks him out. While he is busy suing the Commission, accusing it all over the international press of persecuting him in league with unnamed enemies, Malta’s new prime minister spitefully and maliciously offers him an EXECUTIVE role in his government, a position of great trust, while the Nationalist Security Minister’s personal appointee, Peter Paul Zammit the Police Commissioner, says there is no case against him.
Then Muscat and Mallia go back to the Commission with a list of ‘esigenti’ demands.
They live in a bubble called Malta, and only roughly half of Malta at that.
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Reading the comments on timesofmalta.com’s board made me more nauseous.
The comments beneath the story on timesofmalta.com are shocking and xenophobic.
So the Maltese go on about a dog being shot and buried, or another thrown in a skip, and then would willingly and gladly see human beings ‘pushed back’ to certain death through hunger, dehydration, exposure or drowning, just because they are African or ‘Muslim’.
How naive are you ? It is a total exaggeration when they say that illegal immigrants are at risk if sent back to Libya.
I am no racist and I have no problem at all with black people who come to Malta legally but I have a MASSIVE problem with illegal immigrants forcing themselves into our country and bringing along with them all their social problems, crime and diseases.
[Daphne – You say you are not a racist but yours is the absolutely classic racist comment. Substitute ‘illegal immigrants’ for ‘Maltese’ and make the speaker British circa 1960: “I am no racist and I have no problem at all with coloured people who come to England legally, but I have a massive problem with Maltese who force themselves into our country, bringing along with them all their social problems, crime and diseases.” ]
I am so shocked and disgusted. Many who left their comments were probably the ones outraged by the articles about Mintoff. Oh but here they are not talking about such a noble person…. no,these are just blacks floating in the sea. Who would miss them? Joe Grima had to leave his comment too. Such a sensitive soul!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=638830492795570&set=a.121488787863079.19747.119437001401591&type=1&theater
Manuel Mallia today spoke about drug abuse in Malta.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-07-04/news/drug-abuse-high-among-maltese-youngsters-1988820995/
I am confused as to which hat is he wearing at any point in time – either that of the legal defendor and friend of the worst drug traffickers in Malta that gave a significant amnesty to the same traffickers or that of a ‘concerned’ minister.
the Queen’s speech
I really enjoyed reading your article in The Malta Independent.
You are a breath of fresh air amongst the doom and gloom emanating from some Catholic Maltese who are worrying that, as one commented on 101, “‘our stock” won’t remain pure! As if there is a breed of pure maltese.
I fully agree with you and hope that your article may touch the hearts of some of those who do not show much charity towards the migrants in our midst.
If only they knew from which “pure stock” they are derived.
I would go with Tweedledum(b) and Tweedledee(rp).
Her bubble, meantime, burst.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Local-plan-revision-Are-we-going-back-to-the-past-20130703
It’s not as if the signs weren’t crystal clear before the election.
Mud on your face, Astrid, big disgrace.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Leo-Brincat-demands-high-environmental-standards-from-developers-20130704
‘…The meeting continued behind closed doors.’
See? GonziPN tried compromise, these will keep bargaining power to themselves.
With his attitude and sentiment against the EU, Joseph Muscat will soon make us Maltese the immigrants and asylum seekers in the EU, as it is becoming clear that he intends to isolate Malta further away from the EU.
Sieg Heil
I think you meant National Security Minister’s appointee, because Nationalist for sure he is not. His uncle was a Labour Member of Parliament I think in the 50s, Tabib Kalcidon Zammit.
Just a thought: Is someone hiding in Libya and sending boats with immigrants when it is opportune to divert public attention and manipulate local opinion?
We’re entering the 4th month of Labour in “power”.
Not one single beneficial REFORM!
Van Rompuy shall drop everything as he is so scared of the threatening look on Manwel,s face. He must be laughing his head off.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum should stop this charade of giving theatrical press conferences like this, otherwise we shall be seeing them pop out like jack-in-the box during this and future summers it seems.
They should stop talking such nonsense and they have to understand that these visits shall continue, as these are mostly desperate people and no economic migrants who are usually not given any asylum by the Commissioner for Refugees. What we are seeing are not yet Crisis flows of Migration and the EU and other countries will assist us if this happens.
That is why the PM and his Castille cretins are there for, to move their arses and come up with a proper strategy to move the EU to tackle properly the causes and problems of such migrations.
Yes it will take long and will need patience and perseverance but there is no other way to arrive at long lasting solidarity Policy on this issue by the EU. “Pushbacks” tsk tsk…. Caqalqu patattkom Louis Grech u George Vella. Get proper people involved and do not come up with more idiots like Ray Azzopardi.
It is not stunt-shows that we need to see that satisfy or misguide the likes of Eddy Privitera, J Brincat, Louise Vella and even Frank Xerri de Caro (!) talking the same language from their butt on the TOM. FXC is a very serious ex banker but he knows very well that problems like this are not solved overnight and the EU cannot be expected to solve the Maltese border issue in isolation.
What we need are serious credible and hard-working politicians to take up this huge challenge that had been lacking even on the PN side in the past and I have no doubt that Simon Busuttil does have a very good idea of the mammoth job that there is to convince the EU to act in unison on Irregular Migration. We really have no other choice, so get on the move seriously Dr Joseph and I’m sure you will find the PN ready to support you wholeheartedly if you do not try to mess around.
So like Malta’s financial legislation and policy the thrust for solutions to this problem can have the full backing of all parties and the Maltese.
Let me recap.
Hudu go fikom, Norman Lowell, Arlette Baldacchino u Stephen Farrugia.
I agree with your comment about Frank Xerri de Caro. He always was very carefull in walking the tightrope and never exposed himself so as to make similar comments on timesofmalta. The discussion around the Neptunes waterpolo pool must have been heated and animated.
I hope the PL will tackle illegal immigration seriously which the PN failed to do.
You seem to have missed the main purpose underlying the media conference this morning. Timing is all.
Press reports refer to Van Rompuy coming to Malta in a couple of days time on a visit that was planned and agreed quite some time ago. But the ONE news viewers and listeners will not be told about that.
The angle that ONE media will project will be along the lines:
Immigranti illegali – Muscat icempel lil-Von Rompuy u jheddu bil-veto. . Von Rompuy jahra tahtu u jigi Malta b’urgenza ghal-diskussjoni ma Muscat.
I imagine our prime minister starting his threatening call to Van Rompuy by “What the heck!”
In his visit to Libya Joseph Muscat promised he will ask for help on illegal immigration to our friends of the European Union.
So let’s put everything into perspective; the Libyans shoot at escaping illegal immigrants who end up on a boat in our territorial waters, picked up and brought to Malta, and we’re threatening our friends in Europe that we will use our veto power if they won’t solve this problem.
Can one imagine Turkey with those hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, doing this when it becomes a member of the EU?Or for that matter, if Egyptians start fleeing to Cyprus because of the political unrest , what shall we do?
Anything we ‘get’ from Europe has to work both ways.
The balloon is deflating at a much faster rate than expected.
Oh my! The similarity is indeed startling.
http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alicepic/disney-movie/tweedledee-tweedledum-2.jpg
“Asked about Commissioner’s Cecilia Malmstrom’s reported claim that Malta’s migrant arrivals were not in such large numbers, Dr Muscat said that if this was what the Commissioner believed, Malta could always pass the immigrants on to Sweden.”
I’m shocked.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130705/local/veto.476720
The PM and his side-kick are using migration issues as populist smoke-screen from other important issues. The ignorant and xenophobic masses lap it all up and then go to mass on Sunday. Some anti – EU rhetoric further whips up the frenzy.
On the same subject is the Curia in Malta in sync with Pope Francis or have they lost the hymn sheet? Not a peep out of them all.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/377595985622234/permalink/532979103417254/
Please see this. Please!
Way back in my 6th. Form days, the cleaner at the snack bar opposite the school, who was treated rather rudely by the then owner, stopped me to explain that he had a Phd.
Around 2003 I attended training at the Commissioner for Refugees with a view to conducting asylum interviews. Part of the training consisted in sitting in on actual interviews and on that day, all those interviewed by their own admission were economic migrants seeking a better life abroad.
Any talk of preserving our national identity is xenophobic nonsense. However, it is one thing to offer humanitarian assistance and rescue boat people and quite another to offer asylum. I doubt the Maltese economy can afford jobs to non-English speakers and stories of abuse of labour laws where migrants are concerned abound.
The Commission for Equality has brought to surface another issue faced by migrants: the reluctance of Maltese landlords to rent property to migrants. At face value it would seem xenophobic. However having been a landlady myself I have to admit I was wary of renting out for the simple reason that I’d heard stories of toilets being ripped out of premises or migrants living ten to a room causing considerable wear and tear to premises meant to accomodate an average sized family.
Besides equitable burden sharing, the solution lies in improving the living conditions in the countries of origin and in this respect I ask what is the EU doing to topple dictatorships? In 2013, the world’s wealth is still unequally distributed and asylum is only a temporary solution akin to giving a man a fish but never actually teaching him to fish. Unfortunately, the richer countries are in natural resources, the more likely they are to be ruled undemocratically and the West does not seem to care much beyond oil money.