So he had booked the planes already, even as he told the press that he was ‘considering all options’
Playing tough with the weakest of the weak, eh? There you go, bully boy Muscat.
Somebody please ring up Philip Rizzo, will you, so that he can tell us all over again how compassionate and empathetic Joseph Muscat is, and that’s why he’s voting for him, because he cares so much about his Down’s Syndrome daughter.
Somebody else please ring Kenneth Zammit Tabona, who I know for a fact would be horrified at the thought of a human being pushed back to torture and abuse after making a frightening trip like that, and ask him where Joseph Muscat now ranks on his sensitivity and humanity index, and whether he still thinks he’s freaking lovely because he plays up to gay men even though he treats black men (and woman and children) like a bunch of animals.
Somebody else please ring up that brainless Moira Delia and put it to her that perhaps, just maybe, human beings are more important than cats.
And somebody else, do ring Carina Camilleri and suggest that she gives the dog pictures a break on her Facebook Timeline and posts a few pictures of desperate people about to be sent back to Libya instead. And while she’s at it, maybe she can tell us again how fantastic Joseph Muscat is.
Calling them the ‘chattering classes’ is an understatement.
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I am really angry that the Maltese Church is absent in all this.
Norman Lowell got one thing right: this is a battle of civilisation or, rather, civilisation versus barbarism.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=470447009712574&set=a.225529440871000.51710.100002418362814&type=1&theater
Can we set up a protest in front of Castille?
At least we will give a voice to these people, who will be unjustly sent back to Libya tonight in breach of their Human Rights.
I wonder if it ever occurred to Air Malta’s management that they should refuse to operate the flights.
I wonder if it will dawn on the flight crew still.
Must be lovely to be known as the Airline of the Maltese Islands and push-back flights.
Part of me still wants to believe he is just bluffing. What sort of consequences do you reckon there could be internationally?
I plead to the Air Malta pilots to refuse to fly the planes tonight. They will be breaching the fundamental Human Rights of these people.
Joseph Cuschieri thinks we have a crisis. I agree. We have a rubbish government that can’t keep things in perspective and exploits the vulnerable to pander to the self-centred.
Bastards. The whole lot of them.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/local/migration-mep-asks-european-commission-how-it-will-deal-with-maltas-impending-crisis-situation.477296
This man is dangerous, because deep down he’s as crazy as Hitler was.
Brussels warns Malta that push-backs are illegal
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/local/brussels-warns-malta-that-push-backs-are-illegal.477302
So basically Joseph Muscat will be doing as Norman Lowell told him to do:
“We reiterate our stand and advise the PM: Avoid Veto as much as you possibly can.
Implement Push Back: refuse to pick up the floating, Black garbage when they next arrive.”
And:
“That is how our People expect the Prime Minister to talk.
A firm stand that not one, single boat will be allowed to unload its Black garbage onto us.
And if Italy, or France or Sweden disagree – well, let them enjoy the “Burden”.”
National Socialists posing as liberals and progressives.
In other news, look who’s preaching about poverty with a very sexy pose…
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/local/-It-is-impossible-for-anyone-to-live-on-5-700-each-year-.477187
Who is paying for the flights?
What if Libya don’t accept these passengers without documentation?
It is wrong to send them back. Period. But even on a personal, selfish level, Joseph Muscat should not do it. A couple more years and his own children will read about it and judge him.
Explains why he’s been avoiding the press since yesterday.
This idiot’s breaking international law, exposing the country to serious consequences and he knows it.
Where do they plan to take them? How many, on what basis, and what ‘guarantees’ does he have?
Trust him to keep it from the electorate. Absolutely vile.
Ftahar tant meta mar San Alwigi bil-valuri li tawh il-Gizwiti! Ma kien tghallem xejn fuq kif titratta l-umanita’?
When the PN were campaigning they said the following. ” When the PN are in government, the Maltese are proud to be Maltese. But when the PL are in government, we are all ashamed. ”
Those wooly thinking liberals who were probably always PL supporters anyway thought ” How narrow minded. What is it with the PN? Will they ever learn?
Guess what: THEY WERE RIGHT
Could we please rewind to 9 March 2013 retaining the memory of what would be the result if Labour won – a sort of Back to the Future. Although with what I’ve witnessed amongst the Maltese lately, I doubt how many would have learned their lesson.
Michelle Muscat habitually steps in for her husband. How about doing so now and putting an end to his madness?
She could go waive them goodbye with a big expensive handbag on her arm…and take her kids with her to show them their father’s doing.
Welcome to the new Fascist Malta.
We now understand better those Mussolini poses of the Prime Minister.
“This is not push-back, it is a signal that we are not push overs” – Joseph Muscat’s (yet to be famous) words.
Daphne, the individuals you mentioned would never have believed you when you were telling them and all the other PL campaign promoters that they were being used by Joseph Muscat.
I hope that now, after hearing Muscat’s own words, they realise that he’ll use ANYONE as means to his ends, whatever those ends are, and at whatever cost.
He’s now using men, women, and children, who are in the most desperate of situations, as “a signal”!
What a bloody poser for a PM. He’s not fit to run a pig farm, let alone a country.
Do they still think that Joseph Muscat would think twice to use them and any likewise gullible volunteer as mere props in his campaign?
Malta has gone Far Right by voting a pseudo Socialist in power. Shame on Malta! Am ashamed of being Maltese.
People without brains resort to savage tactics. It is blatantly obvious that a problem exists but going about sending people back won’t solve anything.
An astute politician would do things differently without putting lives at risk. What is muscat thinking? Pushback is no deterrent; the problem needs a solution at source.
Muscat is ridiculously incompetent.
Might is not always right.
I think that Muscat hasn’t got the mettle to handle this and is only too aware that the EU will block attempts at pushback. He is trying to score points by, once again i would add, playing with emotion and fueling mass hysteria.
Muscat would have been briefed that sending the latest group of arrivals would be met by a ‘no way’ reply so thought he had nothing to lose. He then speaks of how the government means business. Cheap talk, Muscat.
if during summer peak season Air Malta has 2 planes to spare on standby something is terribly wrong, or most probably Muscat was just bluffing.
Will Manuel Mallia take them fruit in cellophane before they go ?
Can I please remind everyone that during The Times Big Debate (minute 5:00 in the following video) Muscat mentioned that he was in favor of a pushback policy:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130226/elections-news/livestream.459175
Because I’m fed up of seeing fb statuses and comments of people condemning Muscat’s actions, when they were the people that elected him.