This is a textbook tactic of National Socialism
What a cynical hypocrite Manuel Mallia is – but what can you expect of a cocaine trafficker’s friend and defence lawyer?
Joseph Muscat and his government, hitting new lows in the popularity polls and obscured by the swirling mud of the John Dalli scandal – a man the prime minister cannot shake off and who is now wrapped like an albatross round his neck – have used one of the textbook tactics of socialism.
In desperate times, rally support and divert attention from the scandals that dog you by the cynical expedient of picking on the most vulnerable, feared and despised members of society: the outlanders, those who are different, those who are ‘taking what is ours’.
It has been done by National Socialists everywhere and throughout history into the present.
John Dalli scandal we can’t do anything about? Government in a mess and not knowing what it’s going to do next? People laughing at the police waiter business? Wall to wall bad press?
Pick on black people. Pick on Africans. Pick up black people and send them back to Libya. Violate human rights. So what. Anything to rally support and get people to band together ‘in the national interest’.
And then some idiotic women chattering in the Facebook group Help the Children at Hal Far refused to understand that the ban that has just been imposed on donating to people in the camps there is a policy decision in readiness for the government’s pushback policy.
They don’t want you to donate because they’re getting ready to send those people back to Libya.
“Because maybe the Minister is still in parliament and that’s why he didn’t get back to us.” Oh grow the bloody hell up, will you. The beloved minister and prime minister who you voted into power is gearing up to dispatch back to Libya all those people for whom you’re collecting toys, clothes, cookers, blankets and bicycles.
You know what to do now, but you’ll have to pull your heads out of the sand first.
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You are so right, now MEP/waiter cuschieri has asked a question and emphasized that there is a crisis in Malta http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/local/migration-mep-asks-european-commission-how-it-will-deal-with-maltas-impending-crisis-situation.477296
Crisis? What crisis for the of God?! This is not an exodus for crying out loud! The previous government dealt with it full stop. But no this government is as usual hyping up the news, using bullying tactics and being utter and complete prat to create momentum where it should not exist. This is all being done to deviate from the what should be of concern!
Not knowing what to do next is exactly the agenda.
Government by Super One headlines. Blame everyone.
If John Dalli is so philanthropic that he was ready to travel for 2 days to the Bahamas and back (because that is the way he does business) just to provide pro bono consultancy to an initiative that should have helped the people of Africa why hasn’t he yet (since he is now already getting paid by this gov for his wise advise) called on his seemingly misanthropic boss and offered him a few millions of his billion dollar deal to sustain, educate and provide a future to all irregular migrants arriving here as opposed to sit back and seeing him play macho and tell us that he might send them all back to affirm that he is macho and aspires to be called Salvatur..
Come on Johnny am sure your good will is forcing you to move and give Joey a much need push back….after-all you know what it means to be exiled – for years you dominated every corner of our media to tell us about your sufferings even though you were earning thousands, travelling on jets and making billion dollars deals.
So you can imagine what these poor migrants are going through after hours out at sea, away from their troubled lands, without food and drink, with no future.
If you do something NOW am sure there will be space for another thanksgiving mass.
Come on Johnny don’t let us down.
Me: Why on Earth would anyone vote Labour? They have shown what sort of leaders they are and what they want the country to be, and have never changed their attitudes.
Facebook person: Oh come on. Do you honestly believe that is going to happen again?
Me: Yes I do.
Facebook person: You are so narrow minded.
That conversation happened before the election. Guess I was right after all.
I am sure that someone from his gang took the fruit basket away from the poor kids after the picture.
In just 4 months, Malta managed to change from the respect small island who stood yup for innocent lives in the Libya crises even though the risks for us were huge, to receiving EU warnings that push backs were illegal.
yet so many people were happy and some still are to have seen the end of Lawrence Gonzi and the PN. The Maltese are so damned stupid that hey don’t even realize they ruining what they had, themselves.
After years of being proud of being Maltese I am once again i am starting to fell ashamed of being Maltese
Oh but Daphne, didn’t you hear? It wasn’t the minister who issued the policy, but some woman who appeared to have decided willy nilly that being charitable to the Hal Far residents was against policy.
Why is it never the Minister? Why are all the ministers misunderstood? And more important why is it always a woman who gets the blame? Pattern anyone?
Knowing that the Minister was a National Board Member of the Malta Red Cross only two years ago, makes this story sound even more bizarre to my ears.
Considering that only such a short time ago, the same person was fighting to promote human rights and fulfill the overall mission of the Red Cross in assisting the vulnerable in the community, just makes me think…. Hypocrisy at its best !