He did it to shift the focus from his drunken brawl and his being with a woman other than his wife at 5am
ATTENTION! Lying fraud and brawling drunk on the horizon.
I trust you noticed that Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, the Science Council chairman, suddenly discovered an overwhelming concern for schoolchildren bullied on the internet by their mates when he himself was the focus of the news because of his drunken brawl outside a Rabat pastizzi shop at 5am, in the company of a woman other than his wife, and the Law Commissioner.
He set up his petition, and rang around the press for coverage, precisely to shift the media’s focus from Jeffrey the brawling drunk to Jeffrey the champion of bullied children (amongst whom he counts himself, clearly).
The mainstream press dutifully obliged, having been led into the trap by this nasty little fox, as they have been, on a regular basis, over the last few years.
This website will not oblige. The Malta Council for Science and Technology chairman was caught drunk and brawling outside Is-Serkin in Rabat at 5am, in the company of the Law Commissioner (also beside himself) and a Hal Ghaxaq hairdresser called Mariella Mifsud, who has made a sideline career out of dating married men. Also, several witnesses saw him stand slightly to the rear of his son’s 22-year-old friend, Nicky Azzopardi, so as to deliver a punch to the side of Azzopardi’s head without Azzopardi being able to see who it was.
Let’s not forget that.
The Maltese press really is the pits if it considers Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s ridiculous petition for a law that is being discussed already by his Labour friends to be more worthy of coverage and further investigation than Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s disgusting behaviour and public brawling.
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Jeffrey’s post (shown in the picture) makes it obvious that this “cyber harassment” thing is just a self-serving sham, and not at all about bullied children.
As far as I can remember, after the death of the British girl Hannah Smith (who was severely bullied on a site she was a member of), David Cameron issued a statement wherein he urged the website owners to amend the rules of their site and to monitor it responsibly.
As far as I can correctly remember, Cameron did not amend or change cyber laws in the U.K. probably because it is impossible to do.
‘Din hija kampanja kontra l-hdura’. Jew ahjar, ‘Irrid nharbat l-ghelieqi tal-Mistra’.
Jew hdura kontra il-kampanja?
“kampanja kontra l- hdura”
Is he referring to the hdura expressed on Cecilia Malmström’s page?
Speaking about shifting focus…. What about Johnny D?
And the fact that, ten days on, the police have done nothing about the Serkin brawl. The new Police Commissioner certainly does not impress.
The Prime Minister is to blame because he should have fired both JPO and Franco Debono as soon as he heard the news later on, that same morning.
We can all think why he did not do it – probably they’ve got many things to tell about what has gone on between them way before the election campaign, if he does not keep them happy.
It serves him (the PM) right – he should have known better than to have anything to do with two bad losers of the worst kind – and what is even worse is that he shared the burden with all of us, simply because they helped him gain power.
I fully concur with your reasoning. I can’t fathom how and why the news media, especially Times of Malta, appear to be prioritising the non-news items over the real news items. As if attempting to depict what Pullicino Orlando wants to do is more important than what he is in fact doing.
That’s because news reporting is reactive, not proactive. The Malta Independent dedicated an entire page to Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s petition without mentioning what he’d been up to only a short while before.
It is possible that a law to limit the freedoms of expression is the work of the Labour party, and it is also possible that a draft of such law was already prepared before 9 March 2013.
It is possible that some time was allowed to go by after the elections and before Labour got Jeffrey to start ‘his’ campaign, packaging the law as one against cyber-harassment.
I really do not believe that this is the initiative of Jeffrey alone. It must be an initiative involving a bigger circle, the usual one.
Of course, the Law Commissioner is not involved in this – he is too busy trying to deflect excessive attention about the Hal-Ghaxaq hairdresser.
Does anyone remember Labour’s campaign against ACTA, and how they said it would limit our internet rights?
“Let us rein in the media.”
The Law Commissioner is involved. It was – and is – his idea to repeal the criminal libel law but to concurrently introduce much harsher penalties for journalists he doesn’t like.
Ok, just some questions as I notice a bit of a mix-up.
How can the law in Malta ref. cyber-bullying be introduced if people who use international sites such as Facebook (for instance) are capped under the U.S. laws?
The law in Malta can do nothing much where foreign sites owned by the countries they fall under, apply their own laws to the sites they own.
[Daphne – I’m afraid you’re confused on this point. The law applies to the person and the territory, not to the site. Libel and criminal defamation laws, for example, require publication in Malta. Publication doesn’t mean ‘printing’, but making something public by whatever means, including distributing flyers. The content of all websites is, effectively, ‘published’ in Malta. So if you live in Malta and defame somebody on Facebook, that person – wherever he lives – can sue you in the Maltese courts.]
Eg.: In France, it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon. So if if a Maltese in France happens to find himself in a situation where he is arraigned for naming his pig Napoleon, the Maltese law can’t do anything to help him because the person committing this kind of crime, falls under the French law.
Same with Facebook and other foreign owned sites.
[Daphne – That’s the mistake you make. Facebook is not a state. It is a company. It falls within the jurisdiction of every state where it is accessible. Of course, suing Facebook in the Maltese courts, as the publisher, is a time-waster, and suing the individuals who write defamatory things on Facebook is easier, so the latter happens.]
Will the law be amended (if ever) for Maltese website owners and those commenting on their sites?
If the latter “happens”, Maltese website owners can take their “website” to a Facebook page or other, where there, under the U.S. laws, they can say what they like in the Maltese language because Facebook does not monitor the Maltese language (at all).
Correct me if wrong.
[Daphne – You’re completely wrong. If a media owner lives in Malta, he can have his website hosted anywhere in the world, but because it is accessible in Malta, he will be sued in Malta. It’s publication which counts. A website (and social media) visible/accessible in Malta is, for the purposes of the law, published in Malta.]
Flash news:
Tweet by Prime Twat:
#Clowns in Castille will not support petition for a law on cyber harassment and cyber stalking motivated by a pastizz.#
Why does The Malta Independent produce an article each time Alfred Sant opens his mouth or writes a sentence? Are they rooting for him in the next MEP campaign?
Either it’s the silly season (a very prolonged one) or the lack of news in the middle of summer.
He might have and the timing confirms it but it doesn’t mean that this issue is not a real one.
Jeffrey campaigned for divorce legislation so he could use it himself. He’s doing he same thing again, but he’s the worst possible advocate for the cause, seeing as he harasses anyone he feels is against him.
In Jeffrey’s works there can be no criticism of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, and he wants legislation to suit that end.
Here’s a cutting-edge solution for good ol’ JPO if he feels that he’s being bullied online: http://cheezburger.com/7732726272
Can anyone compile a list of harassing and inciteful comments by JPO as examples of the need for more control?
Ma jiflahx ikun aktar purcinell dan il-bniedem.