Those who voted Labour and who should have known better, please just hang your heads in shame
The prime minister was doorstepped outside Manuel Mallia’s office – he visited the National Security Minister, not the other way round – and when asked about his push-back policy, said in defiance of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights: “We are not push-overs.”
He was asked repeatedly whether he would send ‘boat people’ back to Libya even though he knows it is illegal, and his response was: “We are considering all options in the national interest.”
The ‘national interest’ – that ugly, ugly term so beloved of national socialists.
How is it in the national interest to fall out with the European Union to which we belong, to violate human rights in open defiance of a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights?
How is it in the national interest to pander to racism and be openly and hideously inhumane?
Those who voted Labour and who are horrified by this kind of thing – and I know that many would be horrified because I know them, and they are not the sort to favour racism or inhumanity – should hang their heads in shame for bringing this about and worse, for not having the insight to see it coming.
All the signs and signals were right there.
Liberalism and acceptance of differences are not civil unions for people of the same sex. They are an entire, all-encompassing outlook, a philosophy of thought, an approach, an attitude. Labour is totalitarian, controlling and dismissive of anything which is there to act as a check on its excesses – like the European Union, like the European Court of Human Rights.
What price transgender marriage and civil unions, when you have elected a bunch of inhumane racists who think nothing of violating human rights on a massive scale?
Each one of those people sent back to Libya will have a case to make before the ECHR. That is the scale of this horrific abuse. Joseph Muscat, that dreadful Manuel Mallia and the rest of them are counting on the likelihood that they will never be able to make their case because death, torture or the inability to return to Europe to make it will intervene.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/local/government-considering-sending-migrants-back-to-libya.477273
And my beloved Nationalist Party maintains its sterile handling of this blunder-rich government! #wakeupPN
Hear hear.
Who will be responsible for these illegalities if this push-back policy would be applied? We as a nation or these two stooges?
[Daphne – Manuel Mallia and Joseph Muscat will be responsible for doing it. But if your question is who will be HELD responsible, then the answer is ‘Malta’. Human rights cases are filed against, and decided against, states and not individuals.]
And what are the possible outcomes then? Would they be (Muscat and Mallia) prosecuted?
[Daphne – No, no, no. Mr X files a case against Malta in the European Court of Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights decides against Malta. Malta pays compensation to Mr X. Muscat and Mallia don’t come into it. They might not even be in power when the case is decided.]
Farsa akbar mil-Gvern ta Sant.
Slow down there. I fully agree with you on the merits, but your political point is flawed, surely, considering that it was a Nationalist administration that returned 220 Eritreans to torture and murder in 2002, and a Nationalist foreign minister who repeatedly supported Italy’s pushback policy as recently as 2012.
[Daphne – Perhaps you should look up how strongly I argued against it at the time, and all the other stories written by other journalists, to understand why I still feel so strongly against it now. Those particular Eritreans had somehow managed to get a letter to me while their case was being debated, which only made my feelings worse, and those individuals more real. As for Tonio Borg, my views about him are well documented. But so what if he supported Italy’s pushback policy – the main point is that his prime minister unequivocally did not, and lost a great deal of votes because he spoke repeatedly about our moral and legal obligation to rescue people in peril and treat them like the human beings they are.]
Spot on Daphne..that’s the whole difference!
He’ll be making a faster Visa and citizenship service, so we’re not quite full, therefore, that is not the issue. The real issue is they are black people and without money.
NGOs denied access to the group – they haven’t even been allowed to explain the migrants’ rights to them.
If this comes to pass, and I think it will, then this government will be responsible for murder. Without a doubt.
THIS CRUEL, RACIST GOVERNMENT, WILL HAVE COMMITTED MURDER.
Shame on you Mr Prime Minister and shame on all those people out there who are backing your idea.I really hope some of them will sue Malta.
So what solution do you propose Daphne ?? Do you admit this is a big problem for our country…and in these last years very very little was done to tackle it ?? Alternatives pls or else I have to support Joseph’s reaction
[Daphne – No, I do not think – so there is nothing to ‘admit’ – that boat people are a big problem for Malta. On the contrary, those who are given refugee status work hard and, unlike the tens of thousands of Maltese who don’t work at all, preferring to live off others instead, they are economically productive. They also add interest and diversity to our otherwise tediously homogenous society.]
The best solution for your particular problem would be to keep things in perspective.
What big problem for our country? No one spoke about until a week ago.
The big problem is someone else. When will you people learn to think for yourselves?
Erm, from your words you already support his reaction but, knowing that it is inhumane and totally wrong, you want to blame someone else for it. Grow a pair of balls and take responsibility for your opinions and actions.
What, you’re waiting for Daphne Caruana Galizia to convince you that this is wrong in every way imaginable, apart from being against international law?
Come off it, John. You already support “Joseph’s” (dead giveaway, by the way) stance. Bloody obvious.
Very worrying situation. I hope only for one thing, that if this happens JM and his band of amateurs would be scorned in all corners of the globe.
This bully of a PM is not worthy of being called Maltese.
I’m sure the Chinese would still welcome Muscat and the rest with open arms as their new best friends and fellow human-rights-abusers.
Prouder, every single day, to have formed part of the minority on March 9th.
And then a whole entourage went to meet the pope,the word hypocrites is not even strong enough for him and his like.
The silence on Facebook’s deafening.
Trying to save face, they’ll bury their heads.
The country needs the PN. As it always did. Before we’re isolated. Which is what Joseph’s masters intend anyway.
Muscat is not to engage, he’s something to dismiss preemptively. It’s not arrogance, it’s called leadership.
Otherwise, the Loportos and the Priviteras gain their right to an opinion, legitimising their vulgarity. The way to degeneration relies on their noise.
I think it was much more than ‘signs and signals’. JM was specifically asked about push-back during the ToM Leaders’ Debate and his reply was that he was all for it.
Some good news for Joseph Muscat:
A beleaguered PM hounded by the Zionist ToM.
50 Traitors: the Media, the Jesuits, NGOs and the whole, rotten do gooder lot.
But the People are with him and wish him well.
We are Four Square with our Prime Minister in this struggle for the survival of our People.
May he remain resolute and steadfast in the face of adversity.
And next time: these impertinent intruders must not be allowed to set foot on our Sacred Island.
When We of Imperium Europa will be in Brussels in 2014 –
together with our Friends, Patriots all, formed into a formidable Group: Nova Europa –
will give Malta all the support necessary to pull it out of this looming abyss.
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The national interest is as fluid a term as national sovereignty?
I’m just hoping that the European Asylum Agency, which is situated in Malta, is reporting back to Brussels about the situation. They have no excuse for not ensuring that the actions of this government receive the widest possible exposure within the EU.
Just one thing, Article 7 of the Treaty on the European Union provides for the suspension of the rights of a Member State which is found to be in a serious and persistent breach by a Member State of the values the Union (respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for uman rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities).
Such a suspension requires only a qualified vote of Member States in Council, but the determination of the existence of such a serious and persistent breach must be made via a unanimous vote of the Member States on a proposal of one-third of the Member State and with the consent of the European Parliament. The duties of the Member State concerned would remain unaffected.
So, if our PM decided to start continually threatening to veto EU proposals/actions and the EU wanted to pass some new law etc, this would be a way out for it. He is giving them the serious and persistent breach on a plate.
Thank you, Joseph Muscat, we’ll soon be the European pariahs. Abd, believe me, my concerns are because I love my country and believe that that love can be conciliated with the respect of the rights of these poor souls who ended up in Malta. But you are dragging us to the levels of the countries with the worst human rights records.
What a stark contrast to how Lawrence Gonzi managed the crisis in Libya two years ago!
He wants us out of the E.U. so that he can hand our country to the Chinese.
What a farcical PM we have- now he’s saying “We’re considering ALL options available!” Instead of ‘yes, we’re sending the irregular migrants back!” Of course IT IS ILLEGAL TO DO SO!
If Joey doesn’t even have the balls to be honest with the reporters and the Maltese public, how does he think he is going to strong-arm Europe into submission.
What a Quixotic little man we got saddled with!
http://maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=Jidher+li+l%2Dimmigranti+ta%27+dalg%26%23295%3Bodu+se+jintbag%26%23295%3Btu+lura&t=a&aid=99848801&cid=19
By the look of thing everything is being set up for tonight
The majority of those who voted Labour will never hang their heads in shame – they are of the same ilk as Joseph Muscat.
In the meantime here is the government’s consultant on poverty, Yana Mintoff Bland:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/local/-It-is-impossible-for-anyone-to-live-on-5-700-each-year-.477187
When government finds an excuse to breach the human rights of one minority, it will create excuses to breach the rights of anyone and everyone.
National Socialists indiscriminately imprisoned and killed Jews, blacks, Austrians, Poles, French, journalists, Communists, men, women and children.
Muscat is following a dangerous path and this is only after 100+ in government.
Oh this tiny rock never ceases to amaze! Malta – the land where birds are shot to pieces for the hell of it, the majority scream hysterically about animal rights but treat their pets like shit, where it’s either red or blue unless it’s faqa then its rainbow. Oh and now we’re officially a bunch of inhumane racists to boot. I’m so ashamed.
Hey, ta, he gave himself a waiver.
Could all this be an engineered action, starting the down-slide of our relations with the EU, and eventually leading to a pull-out of the Union?
That’s what it’s beginning to look like.
The way that I see is this: The PL – Malta’s socialists are simply and intrinsically anti-clerical period.
Look at the Maltese scenario at the moment. Whatever the Church in Malta opposes (or rather has a more cautious opinion, like gay marriage) they endorse and vice-versa; as in the case of the illegal immigration.
Push back please, ara veru mentalita’ ta’ Johnny l-Kajboj
Quite right, giraffa. Thats what this `government` is doing. The aim is to get ourselves in the black book of the EU, so that Muscat can blame them and not himself and Manuel Mallia.
I am 100% against any pushback of genuine refugees but, please, could someone explain what is the objection to trying to “push forwards” these refugees in the general direction of their intended destination on mainland Europe and so drying up the crocodile tears of a hypocritical Malstrom & Associates.
And to all those who posted on their Facebook page, 100 days and we’re still here, and to all those who liked, hang your heads in shame. You know who you are, and so do we. Idiots.