Lawrence Gonzi shows the way
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July 9, 2013 at 7:35pm
In parliament just now: “Even if it were legal, it would still be unethical and immoral to send them back.”
That really points up the unsoundness of Simon Busuttil’s earlier argument quoted in Times of Malta, where he said that he is against push-back now because the ECHR ruled against it, and it is illegal.
Fortunately, he more than made up for that blunder when he spoke in parliament earlier this evening.
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EXACTLY!
I still can’t forget the picture shown in this link:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/local/over-100-migrants.477219
The PN has always had great leaders. Real gentlemen. Lawrence Gonzi is one of them.
Now there’s a real statesman.
I fully agree. I heard them both and you are perfectly right and to be quite frank, I’m relieved.
To be fair with Simon, Eddie didn’t become what he is overnight but it took him a couple of years. Then he rocketed. So let’s be patient.
Incidentally both Mario DeMarco and Beppe Fenech Adami were good too.
A true statesman.
A great, responsible prime minister we had.
This evening he gave a great lesson to Dr Muscat and I hope that for the good of our country that Dr Muscat will see sense, reason and humanity.
Sense, reason and humanity you say.
Joey has one principle and that is called Joseph Muscat.
http://carolinemuscat.com/2013/07/dear-prime-minister-how-do-you-sleep-at-night/
This is not a matter of ethics or morality.
Nor is it a matter of legality.
It is a matter of humanity.
In the twilight of his political career and excels. A gentleman above gentlemen.
What a great Man.
What an inconsistent man. I wish he’d applied such noble principles in other spheres of government when he was PM. He did lots of perfectly legal things which were unethical and wrong. Perhaps he can reflect on his errors when he starts writing his memoirs.
An example of what separates a man from a boy. I sincerely hope Gonzi will reconsider his decision to resign from the parliament. Not only Malta needs him but also the EU.
Whatever anyone will say I think Gonzi was/is a person of high moral principles which he uses to lead others to higher achievable targets. He has personality and above all integrity.
He may have made some tactical vote-catching mistakes but for JM’s talk about THE NATIONAL INTEREST I wonder how he (JM) would have handled the Libyan crisis particularly when the two pilots landed their jet-fighters here.
Well done, Dr Gonzi and ‘ad multos annos’.
This morning I was thinking about a story most of us have heard. A man and a woman, forced to flee through the desert with their newborn because, in their country, they and their child were facing a greater danger than the one entailed by trekking through the Sahara on the back of a beast of burden.
The massacre had already started and if they stayed put they could number among the victims.
They had no passports or documents and, if any were available, they did not have the time to obtain them.
Nor could they afford to alert the authorities of their plans. In many countries, getting papers has never been as simple as Malta where a half hour bus ride takes you to Valletta where you can take of all your administrative matters.
So they just left with the clothes on their back and with their child in its mother’s arms. Many people might have called them foolhardy and say that if anything happened to them, it would be their fault. They might even have called it child abuse. But staying put was not feasible.
They arrived in a foreign country, with a different religion and stayed there until it was safe to go home.
That country was Egypt. The parents were Joseph and Mary, The son Christ – the one on whose teachings we supposedly base our notions of Christianity. The one who told us that there are only two rules which we should respect – to love others like ourselves and not to do to others what we would not want to be done to us. I call them the two rules of empathy.
If everyone followed them, the world would be a much better place.
A lot of Maltese, many of them omnipresent on Facebook, do not follow them but declare themselves to be Christian. A number of politicians seem to think that these rules are disposable even as they flood us with pictures of themselves with the Pope.
And then you have the hatemongerers who, with the excuse of protecting our Christian heritage, vent their spleen on those weaker than them.
Catholic/Christian Malta? I am sure that there are still remnants (witness the action taken by more than 60 of our lawyers and Dr Gonzi’s speech) but lot of our much vaunted Christians/Catholics would not recognise real Christianity if it hit them on the head!