Sorry, my dears, but the Minister for the Far Right says that you’re not allowed to give things to black children in camps
On the very day Pope Francis visited Lampedusa, the Minister for the Far Right, Manuel Mallia, has given instructions that there are to be no more donations of clothes, toys, food, blankets and appliances for the children and their parents at the Hal Far immigrants’ camp.
Somebody from the Facebook group Help the Children in Hal Far went there today with a car loaded with donations, and was stopped by a guard she had never seen before, who was accompanied by a policeman.
She was turned away, car still loaded with stuff, and told that no further donations would be allowed.
When she asked for an explanation, she was told: “Ordnijiet godda hi!”
Perhaps this is the Minister for the Far Right’s cunning new plan to make already isolated people feel even more so. Perhaps the brilliant idea was hatched by his chief of staff, Don’t You Know Who I Am Scerri, and it came to him as he was being chauffeured about in ZER 088.
And then when the Minister for the Far Right goes over himself with a basket of fruit children hate, all wrapped tightly in cellophane and bought and paid for by somebody else, he has to call in the cameras.
Oh, and here’s another one, this time talking about her experience on Facebook:
Erika Gauci
Hi all! It was I who went up this morning with a carload of stuff you all so kindly donated. You can imagine my surprise/shock when I was stopped by a policeman whilst the new co-ordinator approached my car & in an arrogant & angry tone told me that he didn’t want any more clothes. When I questioned him regarding other stuff I had such as toys & items specifically needed by the minors I was arrogantly told that nothing was needed & no volunteers or help were required anymore! This made me angry – after all we volunteer & donate to help vulnerable people in need! What an attitude!! I must admit I’m still angry …. going up to Hal Far & being sent back with everything is no joke! It also costs nothing to be polite!
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Hon Mallia, you make me feel sick.
Well, there we have it. First Muscat gets all his liberal followers to give him the benefit of the doubt, and now they are all in a bit of trouble seeing as it is now blatantly obvious that no one within the Labour Party is liberal and it seems they are all racist and want to make the problem worse.
To be honest I think this is a tactical move on behalf of the government to starve and bully those waiting at the centre, to provoke them to rise up and rebel against the people holding them hostage, so that then they can write in the newspapers about how dangerous these people are and how ungrateful too.
It’s not like the PL is not known for orchestrating such things.
Yes, a full riot in August needs time. Are we to understand the open centre’s off limits?
Unbelievable, hatred does not get you anywhere.
I disagree. Hatred is dangerous.
Another one the ever-growing “Urgent explanation required, Mr. Prime Minister” list.
Isn’t it good to know that they “Don’t need anything”
It means they are being well taken care of and there is no need TO Dump our worn out clothes etc at the centre.and expect to be thanked and looked upon as benefactors by our
friends when in actual fact, all we are doing is getting rid of our unwanted clothes.
If one wants to be a real benefactor , give them some vouchers with which they can buy new clothes according to their needs.
If there were a way to make money out of ill-informed and cretinous comments, yours would be a gold-mine.
The people who spend their time sorting through stuff and delivering it to those who need it do a whole lot more than you do and, yes, they do deliver new goods too.
Some people put their money where their mouth is. Maybe you should join them.
Silvio’s back.
Seems he’s been left waiting.
Speak for yourself, Silvio.
Benefactors give much more than used clothes. What may be a surplus for us, can be a necessity for them.
Are you serious? It does not seem, but it is a fact that you have all been taught how to manipulate an argument your way, turning it upside down.
Do you still insist you are not racist, Mr. Loporto?
What a stupid comment from an ignorant man!
Just FYI, the donations that are made are much more than just used clothes. People have donated anything from nappies (definitely not used) to powdered milk, brand new fans, hot plates, toys and the list goes on and on.
Unlike you, dear sir, there are people out there who do help out these desperate souls and do not just donate rubbish.
It would do you good to inform yourself before you start clicking away at your keyboard.
Silvio, it appears you are winding people up on purpose. If not, you are incredibly stupid.
Could be one, could be the other.
At my age it is important to keep your mind ticking all the time. and there are so many who easily fall into my trap.
I really enjoy it.
Erika Gauci – a person cannot be polite if he has been brought up with no manners at all. The people have a right to know since when were new orders issued that no one can donate clothes, etc. to the people at Hal Far.
Isn’t this illegal, not to mention immoral?
As if morality and legality ever had a proper place in the world of Labour…
Well, what if I decide that I want to donate something to you and just turn up at your doorstep, would it be illegal for you not to accept it?
SInce the donation would not be for you have you the right to stop me from giving the donation to the intended recipient?
Sorry nobody, but you are really a nobody and a petty one at that.
It would be wrong for government- appointed security guard to stop you accepting something brought to your home which the donor is lilting to give to you and which you need and want.
Fair enough, I was not looking at it from that point of view. The recipients in this case are the immigrants not the government.
@Josette, you need to chill out a little bit
The do-gooders raising donations and gifts for the children at Hal Far may have a noble mission, but most of them spent 5 years moaning and bitching against the previous government, and now most of them – especially the ones who whine most – have not opened their mouth.
One of them just wrote on Facebook: “no more donations for now”. Oh really, is that all, dear?
Unfortunately the children in the detention centres are the ones who will suffer from this new policy aimed at making detention centres more unbearable. Nice way of helping them integrate with the rest of our caring society as soon as their detention term is over.
It’s more like the Minister of interminable gaffes. He definitely has to explain what’s the reasoning behind these ad hoc orders.
They are no gaffes. We are persecuting him.
Does the Minister for the Far Right think that the immigrants’ camp should be like his home, with an empty fridge and no stocks?
Is he going to make the detainees fetch their water from the Main Guard Fountain in jerry cans next?
This is not just far right, it’s sadistic.
It’s starting to look like the concentration camps.
Have they put up an “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign on those camps as yet?
It’s planned.
Incredible.
I hope government can offer a sensible explanation to all this.
Is it true that instructions were given not to allow donations of any items to children and their parents at the Hal Far immigrants’ camp? If yes, who gave the order and what are the reasons?
Even in the UK they are slowly telling the truth about migrants:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10158678/Immigrants-create-overcrowding-and-fuel-tensions-report-finds.html
“Immigrants create overcrowding and fuel tensions, report finds
Asylum seekers, refugees and low-skilled immigrants are creating overcrowding, fueling community tensions and putting pressure on the NHS, a government report has found.
Home Office researchers have assessed for the first time the ground-level impact of immigration on British communities by conducting a survey of local authorities and service providers.
They found that immigrants were likely to lead to longer waiting times at GP surgeries, be involved in anti-social behaviour and create pest control issues because of overcrowding.
Mark Harper, the immigration minister, said: “This report highlights the significant impact high levels of migration have had on UK communities.
“It emphasises the importance of protecting our public services and taking a robust approach against those who come here to exploit our welfare system.
“While we have always recognised and believed in the benefits of immigration, uncontrolled immigration causes a number of problems for the United Kingdom.
Queen’s Speech: Immigration laws to ‘deter’ foreigners who will not contribute to UK 08 May 2013
“If we do not implement the proper controls, communities can be damaged, resources will be stretched and the benefits that immigration can bring are lost or forgotten.”
More than 2.2million people from the EU and 2.4million from outside the EU live and work in Britain.
The Home Office study found that half of people in England and Wales live in an area hit by high levels of migration.
The report found that while most immigrants were based in London and the South East, they had the biggest impact on industrial towns with high levels of unemployment such as Rotherham and Oldham.
Towns with high levels of migrant workers such as Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Lancashire were also likely experience an increased burden on local services.
The researchers surveyed 80 local authorities and service providers on a variety of issues such as health, housing and social cohesion. Their responses were assessed by a panel of 12 experts.
They found that asylum seekers were likely to put the greatest strain on the health system.
Researchers found they are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and mental illness, while immigrants in general were more likely to suffer from tuberculosis, HIV and and Hepatitis B.
“This suggests the treatment costs for certain conditions and diseases may be disproportionately attributable to immigrants,” the report says.
Migrants also have more children than people in Britain, creating “additional demands for midwifery, maternity and health visiting services”.
Their poor levels of English meant that GP appointments took “appreciably longer”, leading to longer waiting times for other patients and increasing costs.
Local authorities raised concerns that in some areas demand for primary school places “outstripped supply” because of the number of immigrants, while social services experienced “higher interpretation costs”.
The researchers also warned that the rise in the number of immigrants was leading to more people living in overcrowded, poor quality accommodation, described as “beds in sheds”.
The report found: “Secondary effects of high migrant demand at the bottom end of the private rental market were poor quality, overcrowded accommodation, inflated rents, exploitations by unscrupulous landlords, waste management and pest control issues that can quickly spread, and a growing number of beds in sheds.”
Some local authorities said that destitute migrants and asylum seekers were “disproportionately involved in crimes like shoplifting and disorderly behaviour”.
Asylum seekers, refugees and low-skilled migrant workers were also found to cause tensions in communities because of anti-social behaviour.
It found that low-skilled migrants had taken to drinking in the street because it was the “cultural norm” in their home country.
However, most local authorities said that low-skilled migrant workers were seen as having a “positive” effect on the local economy, particularly when they did “hard to fill jobs”.
[Daphne – Britain is a country made up almost entirely of migrants of one kind of another and their descendants. Surely you knew that. Eventually, migrants meld together to form a homogenous type called X nationality. However, that is only temporary. It’s the same with Malta, and it’s most obviously the same with the place where you live, North America. Black people in North America have roughly as much European DNA as they have African, which is why they look nothing like people in Africa. I wouldn’t worry too much about these issues. You are, after all, Maltese – and that makes you 100% Mediterranean mongrel, with bits from west, east, north and south. A good look in the mirror will tell you that.]
If “low-skilled migrants had taken to drinking in the street because it was the “cultural norm” in their home country” then they can’t be migrants who come from Muslim North Africa – alcohol is a no-no for Muslims. If they drink, they certainly wouldn’t do it in the street.
Yes I am a mongrel and proud of it but I am not a black mongrel.
I am made up of Phoenician, Irish, English Italian, Jewish and Spanish descent which is a fairly common admixture in Malta.
[Daphne – Phoenician, really? Do you actually know how long ago ‘Phoenician’ was? You might as well say that you have Pictish blood, not ‘English’. I think you mean North African, Syro-Palestinian or Middle Eastern. But people always prefer to say Phoenician because they imagine it to be more glamorous. There is no direct continuity between the Phoenicians who lived here, and ourselves, because Malta was depopulated for a long while in between. Any Phoenician blood we have comes via our much chronologically closer Near Eastern and Tunisian ancestors.]
My great grandfather came from County Sligo in Ireland via the Royal Navy and one great great grandmother was from Pistoia of what became Italy.
In the USA the majority of blacks do not want to fit in and stop being destroyers of cities and a danger to themselves and any anyone else around them no matter how much tax money we throw at them via EBT welfare cards, free public housing, section 8 housing, education grants, affirmative action, preferential government job hiring, Afrocentric schools, and special dumbed down school courses so they can pass the exams etc.
You really have no idea how much we cater to them.
[Daphne – You’re not talking about ‘blacks’. That’s the fundamental mistake you make. You’re talking about the underclass. Every country has that. In the United States, there is a mixed black/white population, so the fact that there are black people in the underclass stands out, while the middle-class, hardworking blacks just disappear into the background. But there are as many white trash.]
We would LOVE for them to fit into society as the tax money spent on them per annum could have funded a NASA manned mission to Mars AND Venus and back to earth.
[Daphne – Well, Malta could say the same couldn’t it. And they’re not black.]
It only takes a small percentage of them as ne’er do wells from the whole general population of all races of Americans to poison the spring that everyone drinks from so to speak and good portion of blacks unfortunately are willing to fit that bill to a tee.
I beg to differ that African blacks are much different than American blacks as Somalis are a big problem in St Paul and Minneapolis Minnesota with drug gangs, murder and living off welfare cheques just like a lot of American blacks do.
[Daphne – The Maltese did that in London for decades: drugs, prostitution, white slavery, you name it. In fact, for a small island nation, we are pretty good at exporting crime, but fortunately, our name is no longer automatically linked to it. The same will happen eventually with Somalis. I find it fascinating that you fail to see the gaping hole in your argument: the Mafia in the United States.]
A city with a high percentage of blacks in the USA is a destroyed city, bar none, they did the destroying and no one else did this to these formerly magnificent cities.
Take a tour of these cities if you dare on your next holiday abroad and see if I am telling you a lie.
I am certainly not, with all honesty and candor.
[Daphne – Small time criminals. Nothing like what Sicily and southern Italy exported to the United States. Now that would be a criminal network any Somali would envy.]
They are the same way in Toronto with a huge police raid just last month on an very large pubic housing apartment block near Dixon Rd. by the airport that is infested with Somali refugees.
[Daphne – Infested?]
They are now in a drug and illegal gun running turf war with Jamaican gangs, the most blood thirsty gangs in North America.
[Daphne – Ah, but they won’t beat the Sicilians. Those have a massive headstart.]
We the general public would rally love for blacks to fit in and be law abiding as it is not their colour that causes whites or anyone else who is respectable to move away from them but it is their actions that destroy formerly decent neighbourhoods and anyone that they target as an easy victim for robbery, assault or rape or wanton cold blooded murder out of racial hatred and envy.
If you were living in USA you would avoid living near them like all disingenuous whites and liberals do no matter how much excuses they make up for their behavior and are willing to call anyone with a different point of view that tells the truth, a “racist” at the drop of a pin regardless of the evidence in front of their eyes.
[Daphne – Isn’t that normal? There are whole areas in Malta where I would never dream of living because of the people there. They’re all Maltese.]
You should check out some websites that dare speak the truth on what is happening in America, as not all are Racist or White Power sites. The news mass media is NOT reporting the real news anymore in the USA.
-I find no glamour with “Phoenicians” but if I said Syrian I would be even less accurate, may be coastal Lebanese then.
[Daphne – Syro-Palestinian, not Syrian.]
-From the Roman world that directly dilutes and influences our modern world, their descendent the Carthaginians got a bad rap with their child sacrifices so Phoenicians or Carthaginians carry no special favours with me. There was claim of a DNA link with the Coastal Lebanese and the Maltese and therefor a claimed so called Phoenician link done by Spencer Welles.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081030-phoenician-dna-genographic-missions.html
[Daphne -Yes, but not a continuous link with Malta dating back to Phoenician times. The coastal area of Lebanon continued to be inhabited by descendants of the Phoenicians (the Lebanese) and we had a much, much later stream of ‘immigration’ from the eastern Mediterranean.]
-It is still Blacks that are wrecking cities in the USA, that they have kin that are little more intelligent and refrain from the extreme criminal low life behaviour does not change the fact that Blacks are the ones who cause this mayhem to the detriment of all others including decent Blacks and everyone else.
[Daphne – Not blacks, but members of the underclass. Every country has them. In the United States, lots of them happen to be black. In Malta, they look like you and me.]
-In Malta “hamali” are not going to shoot me because I took a wrong turn and ended up in the wrong neigbourhood.
[Daphne – They would, if they had free access to arms in the way they do in the States. It’s your gun laws that are wrong-headed. We have had more than our fair share of shootings in neighbouring Mosta: one of them a drug dealer who went out into the street in the middle of the day and shot at passers-by after snorting cocaine for hours. Another an old man who shot his spinster sister for burning his toast. I could go on. And the way people behave out on the roads, I have no doubt that if they were allowed to carry guns they would shoot, no problem.]
I still do not see the benefit of importing “Hamali on steriods” with an even more savage demeanor on a tiny and overcrowded island. This does not help the gene pool. You want to ameliorate the situation and not make it worse.
[Daphne – Shows how little you know. The blacks you are talking about in your home area are ‘hamalli’ because they are part of the underclass and not because they are black. Africans who come to Malta are not ‘hamalli’. They tend to be super-civilised and polite, much more so than most Maltese. You wouldn’t want to be judged, as somebody of Maltese origin, by the behaviour of those individuals who shout Viva l-Labour at coffee mornings for Silvio Parnis, so don’t do the same to others.]
-The Maltese of 1950s Kray brothers and the Richardsons Soho where amateurs and a blip in the history books compared with decades of degeneracy of low life Blacks in the USA, in fact Blacks were better behaved in the 1950s than now despite Jim Crow laws in the American South and open racism in the North. Now they got no restraint and they are going hog wild and think no one can stop them.They are very much mistaken.
[Daphne – You are quite, quite wrong. The Maltese were such a notorious and well-established part of the criminal underworld in London that their reputation is generally cited by researchers on immigration as one of the main reasons why Maltese immigrants into Britain made a point of ‘disappearing’ into the general community and assimilating themselves completely rather than forming knots or Maltese communities as they did everywhere else. They simply did not want to be known as Maltese in Britain because of the seriously negative associations and the assumption that they were criminals.]
-The Sicilian or Neapolitan Mafia does not wreck cities or kill and rob and rape innocent people or create no go zones.
[Daphne – You must be joking. Apart from the screaming great holes in this argument, exactly who did you think organised and controlled the networks funelling hard drugs into North American cities from south and central America? The very same hard drugs that led to all this secondary crime?]
-I would rather live in the worst part of Malta than in today’s Detroit or East St. Louis a thousand times over, you really have no idea.
[Daphne – Malta is a small island, not a metropolis. Your comparison is all wrong. You might as well say that you would prefer to live on a Greek island in peace rather than in the worst part of Malta.]
Reading comments on the Times and Independent makes me shiver. There seems to be an orchestrated attack against the Church, against immigrants and against the EU. Makes me wonder who is behind it.
Soon it will be against businessmen, and then the return to the Golden Years (1970s and 1980s) will be complete.
It’s the usual battle against the Church, the businessmen (‘the rich’) and the ‘barrani.’
Now this beats the whole dirty lot! If Mr. Minister thinks he is ever going to stop the majority of Maltese reaching out as they have always done to the needy & emarginated, he needs to rethink!
And think again….for what goes round usually comes round.
The scary part is, judging by the sheer number and type of comments in the on-line papers, that I have the feeling that in this particular case, the majority will not reach out at all.
If I were the EU, I would hold back those 1.2billion in funds allocated to Malta in the next 5 years budget and pass them on to these people in need. Frankly speaking they are more deserving.
Maybe soon we will have Muscat saying that this was a misunderstanding. We will also see Muscat and his 2 twins donating to children .. of course with journalists and cameramen called in. But no questions please.
tautology: two twins
Two twins are not necessarily each other’s twin.
I seem to have started living on the 10th March 2013.
“Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”. ?? Hilary Cooper.
I loathe the expression “Basta tmur thabbat fuq sidrek u tibla l-ostja”.
It sounds really crass but I’m now shouting it out at Tweedle Dum Mallia.
He heard Sunday mass at all the different parishes of Sliema – pre-election, mind you, because he’s never been seen since. None of the services seems to have had an effect on him. Any switchers out there care to comment?
The switchers are hiding.
I get a glowing feeling inside from a satisfaction that scream…” I told you so, but you were happily impressed by painted impersonal faces shouting ” taghna lkoll” well serves you right!
Well, I think we’re in our right to expect a volley of PQ’s following this development.
Why is Silvio Loporto so sure that ‘they don’t need anything’? Has he ascertained this himself? Is he now relieved that he shall not feel the pressure of the moral vise yanking his heart strings as he cranks up his trusty dusty old van to go lumbering around scavenging for the needy?
How convenient for good old Silvio to placate his conscience so easily over some half baked statement uttered by one of the uncivil sods that are now commandeering the already decrepit and hovel-like migrant reservations.
I think if you give the stuff to Fr. Dioyonisius Mintoff he would be able to give them to the people at Hal Far . nobody would stop the monk
I don’t always agree with Father Dionysius but he is a good man and among the foremost in helping the migrants.
Neo-Nazis like to use the number 88. H is the 8th letter of the alphabet so 88 stands for HH which stands for Heil Hitler.
I am half Maltese and grew up in Malta. I always knew some Maltese were xenophobic; my British parent was regularly told to go back home and cheated and made to stand at the back of queues.
I was always angry about this, even as a child, but excused it by telling myself that these people were ignorant and hadn’t travelled much.
I was comforted by the idea I had that Malta was a safe, warm place to grow up and live, and that most people, even these ignorant people, would never hurt your wish you harm.
Recent events have made me reanalyse my experiences. I’m ashamed and disgusted. Malta, you have sunk too low this time.
And unfortunately despite all the well-meaning, good people there, it will remain a degrading and disgusting place until this big, fat mess is sorted out. I hope (and trust, because scum can’t hang around for long) that this will be soon, before we become a complete disgrace.
Those volunteers also serve as third parties who monitor – informally – the situation of the migrants. This is a dangerous decision.
I totally agree
And yet you half hearted racists feel true to yourselves because you go to mass on Sundays.
I think that it would be more kind and useful if we donate our fellow maltese who are in need , not to someone who is infiltrating our country , its not Racism , they could have been white people from another country , its still all the same , they take our jobs, part of our taxes , and multiplying almost daily in summer , i bet theres already more illegal immigrants then there is policemen and soldiers in malta so pls WAKE UP!!!!!
Well done Dr.Mallia, enough is enough.If this person wanted to donate stuff, she still can donate to other charities that hold carboot sales for MALTESE people that cannot pay shop prices to buy clothes especially for small children as children grow out from clothes very fast and shoes etc. Not everybody can afford to buy new stuff, Ms Caruana Galizia and as the saying goes “Charity begins at home”.
Hello
can anyone tell me whom i should contact regarding Halfar? as i had been planning our yearly trip to Malta with the thought of visiting Halfar with donations from Scotland.
This is very disturbing and i feel this is definately a matter for the EU to take up. This is against human rights.