Comments on: Supporters and members of the progressive liberal movement Malta Taghna Lkoll savage authors for their stand https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:45:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Liberal https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1136146 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:45:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1136146 In reply to John Higgins.

Egocentrics like Kenneth Zammit Tabona only complain and protest when they believe their own minority is persecuted.

]]> By: John Higgins https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1136009 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 14:59:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1136009 And what about Kenneth Zammit Tabona? Waqa’ fil-muta

]]> By: Tom Double Thumb https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1135918 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 13:00:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1135918 “Who do they think they are just because they are authors. So what? Why don’t we have a statement from 25 plumbers or 25 mechanics – mela they’re not important as well. Some people really think they are something “just because they push a pen.”

This argument can be turned the other way round too.

Who do they (the people criticizing the authors) think they are just because they blindly support the party in power?

Some people really think they are something just because they (cannot) push a pen to present a decent argument.

Don’t authors have as much right as anybody else to have and express an opinion?

What is stopping other groups of people expressing an opinion for or against the matter under discussion? Is FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION now the prerogative only of supporters of Labour policies?

]]> By: Maradona https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1135568 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 06:06:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1135568 I wish Mark Montebello would say something now.

]]> By: John Schembri https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1135520 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 05:21:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1135520 The people supporting push backs are arguing that we will be loosing our (Maltese) identity with this ‘invasion’ of the boat people fleeing Libya.

If by ‘our’ identity they mean being xenophobic and racists, I am coerced to say “Help these families to settle here”.

I don’t want my old neighbour to behave irrationally, and I want my new neighbour to integrate in my community and make Malta his home.

I hasten to say that this ‘popular’ attitude against immigrants can be seen everywhere around the world: France, Australia, England, Thailand, Finland, Germany and Italy, to name but a few.

It is a natural basic instinct to “protect our territory”. The fuel for this Fascist attitude has been always there – all it needs is a fool in a position of power to ignite it with a push back policy, to alienate the people from more important and pressing national issues.

With this “push back/smell the coffee” stunt what did Malta gain?

What new investments did we attract to our shores? How many more tourists did we attract with all that negative publicity we got lately on the international media?

]]> By: Pandora https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1135308 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:49:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1135308 Just have a look at the body language, Van Rompuy doesn’t trust Muscat.

]]> By: Victor https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1135269 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:18:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1135269 In reply to Natalie.

And the fools believed.

]]> By: Crockett https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1135257 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:10:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1135257 This so-called ‘Malta Taghna Lkoll movement’, with its sweeping assumptions, has no room for dissenters and is drunk with power after only 120 days. Further debauchery can only ensue, (actually, it already has). I cannot bear to think of the colossal hangover this country will have to go through.

]]> By: sunshine https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1135218 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:38:55 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1135218 Caption: Idhol, naghmillek kafe’?

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/supporters-and-members-of-the-progressive-liberal-movement-malta-taghna-lkoll-savage-authors-for-their-stand/#comment-1135152 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:30:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34741#comment-1135152 “Hello, I’m Hermann Van Rompuy. So are you saying you are the Prime Minister here? Oh, I just love your British sense of humour.”

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