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How come it has not come out in the media that Jeffrey punched Nicky? The unknown old man was punching Nicky and the scuffle moved towards a deserted part of the carpark.
Jeffrey took advantage and went around the scuffle and punched Nicky from behind. At least 20 people saw it but I guess they are scared to testify (as am I).
Since he came from behind, Nicky didn’t even see him (he assumed it was just another punch from the old guy) and did not mention to the police that Jeffrey punched him. So yes, Jeffrey did throw a punch.
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I assume Nicky didn’t feel it. Drunk tooth fairies are renowned for missing the mark.
According to the media Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando hit Nicky Azzopardi by mistake, while defending him.
Why is the person who saw this afraid?
This is the saddest part of it all. People being AFRAID to speak!
Afraid of what?
Whoever asks this question probably hasn’t been around in the eighties.
The 80s would do that to anybody who lived through them. And with JPO and Franco Debono (and let’s face it Muscat too) we are talking about individuals who are driven by egocentric ambition, spite and a distorted sense of self-righteousness.
They’re dangerous people who wouldn’t think twice to stamp out individuals who stand in their way, for personal gain.
Of the repercussions by PL supporters who think he should have remained silent.
Great. 20 people are content with letting Debono and Pullicino Orlando, two public officials in fairly advanced middle age, get away with mobbing a 22-year old, because they are afraid of revenge and of Pullicino Orlando’s hysterical fury. Whose side are they on?
@Min Jaf – Afraid of what we had to go through the 80s maybe? Unfortunately for those of us who went through the 80s, those incidents are embedded in our brains, in our hearts and in our souls.
If we’re afraid of what happened in the 1980s, that’s a reason to speak out rather than to remain silent.
If you remain silent when someone else is wronged, you are complicit in the wrongdoing.
That was the other ugly side of the 1970s and 1980s: the ‘see no evil, hear no evil’ mindset that allowed government and the police to get away with murder, quite literally in a few cases.
Min Jaf,
thanks to the “Salvatur” many people of my generation grew up living in great fear, which, I’m afraid is still very much alive in the majority of the population,now, in 2013 – this occurred for the simple fact that it continued being passed on from generation to generation.
I lived though the Mintoffian mid-50s, the Mintoffian 70s, and the KMB early 80s.
Through those decades what sickened me most was the consistent failure of people to speak out in the face of escalating abuse and injustice by the socialist MLP government.
By failing to speak out, those people propped up, then cemented in place, a climate that eventually led to murder by the police, killing of innocent individuals for political reasons, the government-planned and sanctioned frame-up and the intended faked suicide (fortunately thwarted at the last minute) of Pietru Pawl Busuttil, and countless other human rights abuses.
The comments posted here show that those same people have learnt nothing through that experience.
What has gone before is a reason to speak out in the name of justice, not an excuse to remain silent.
That should have read “Mintoffian 70s”.
Does anyone trust the media in Malta, even if the journalists are obliged to protect their sources.
Most journalists are simple suck-offs who will do anything to be in the ‘in’ circle and be invited to ‘in’ dinner parties. Just watch a few journalists behave at parties, and I am not referring to the PN and MLP media.
Agreed. A good indication that people know what this “changed” government will lead us to.
You old farts deserve it for allowing yourselves to be cowed into silence. How I despise your generation. You have made this country so dull and mediocre, half of you through sheer skullfuckery, opportunism and adulation for bastards like Mintoff and the rest through your refusal to stand up to them and excise the tumour when it was possible. But no, you had to go for the milktoastwater doctrine of forgiving and turning the other cheek and allowing the cancer to spread.
That is totally unfair. Maybe we think that you young farts are not worth getting into trouble for. We HAVE stood up to them. Do you know how many people used to be admitted to hospital every time there was a demonstration or meeting or even silent marches? And that’s just the ones who dared go to hospital because you never knew what or who awaited you there.
I’m sorry but after the last election, I seriously doubt I ever want to put my life in danger again for a nation that is so undeserving of it. And especially you young farts who have had it so good for such a long time and after our money put you through your education (when it was denied us) to go and vote in these complete imbeciles.
Maybe it’s your bloody turn now, it’s your future after all. But don’t you accuse us of having done nothing when we spent the best part of our lives resisting them in any way we could.
I am a victim of the 70s and 80s. I did not act scared. When a bomb was placed on my doorstep. I identified by name, under oath, the culprit MLP cabinet minister during the magisterial inquiry in spite of warnings to be discreet.
It was all in vain because the police never followed up the case.
When I proved that an acting Commissioner of Police had given perjured evidence against me before the PSC I reported the crime to the police who refused to take action.
I “challenged” the police before a magistrate to take action. My chief witness was threatened in open court that if he repeated the (true) evidence he had given before the PSC, he would be charged with something or other and dismissed from the service.
That witness bravely confirmed that the evidence he had given was absolutely true but he would accept the court’s advice that he could choose not to testify after the threats by the prosecution in open court.
The case was adjourned “sine die!” for sentence but a few days later sentence was read out in the privacy of the magistrate’s “secreta” behind my back a few days later.
There were others like me who were not “cowed into silence”. We do not deserve to be called “old farts”.
That appellation should be reserved to the politicians who committed those crimes and who are today in a position to continue doing so, to members of a police force that connived with the murderous criminals instead of protecting the innocent and who are now in a position to do the same, and to the emasculated courts of law.
Wormfood, we did excise the tumour, and not before inhaling tear-gas and dodging bullets.
I would think twice before calling the people who brought you democracy old farts.
How is it possible that nobody recorded the scene with a mobile phone? At least the audio of it all if they didn’t want to make it obvious that they were recording. There must be one.
I tell you why people are afraid to talk. Because the present government has the Police by the balls.
Anyone who has had anything to do with the Maltese Police has reason to be afraid. You should stand up anyway though. I would stand up as many times as necessary to this bunch of thugs. This is why we need the PN to be strong. People are shitting bricks.
Being the celebrated coward that he is, I can see JPO punching someone from behind.
Kemm gejna sew!
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando hit the young man from behind? Now doesn’t that just figure.
Yes, and what is even more vile is that the man is young enough to be his son.
SCUM. That is what Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is.
Punching from behind? Sounds very JPO. If you saw this happen you have a moral and legal duty to approach the police . You have nothing to be afraid of.
Dawn ghadhom ghaddew hames xhur biss. Ahseb ftit il-futur ta tfal taghna sa jkun. Il-Passat raga gej warajna. Kliem Gonzi gejjin fih. Qalu li kienet kampanja negattiva imma kollox gej fukna.
The comments on this entry have mostly centred around why a person should be ‘afraid’ to report something they saw during a physical aggression.
What we went through in the 1970s and 1980s constitutes a powerful reason to speak out rather than to keep silent.
It’s not a question of being heroically brave; the experience of the Mintoff/KMB regime shows that submitting quietly effectively encourages bullying.
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They’ve already managed to get us in the mindset of the 80s, with people afraid of State-sanctioned bullies acting with impunity in the knowledge that the police would even frame an innocent to protect them.
I know of one case of a shooting in 1981 when a witness withdrew his testimony after receiving a visit from a then government minister. To this day, he still won’t talk about the issue. One man was maimed in that case.
But today things can be different. We all have mini cameras and videorecorders in the form of mobile phones. We can all ensure that if such an incident happens we record it and even pass it on anonymously to the press.
There is also the internet which is a tool which was not available in the 80s. This blog is an example of how different the situation can be. But we must be ready to stand up and be counted otherwise we are doomed to relive the past.
Things can be a lot different from the 80s but not if we are afraid to speak up. And, a message to Simon Busuttil. I respect you and was glad that you were elected PN Leader. But the softly, softly approach is not doing any good. It is just making people feel abandoned.
Well said, Josette.
It is imperative for us to use every available tool to ‘fight’ for what is right and to make sure that the scum that is leading our country will not be allowed to repeat history.
Silence, whether voluntary, or through being afraid, is a perpetrator’s best ally.
Only one word for people like Franco Debono and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando: scum.
But the person or persons who saw the whole story are as bad if they can’t show who they are. It is our duty as human beings to have the guts to speak out. What is wrong is wrong.