The sole reason for JPO’s divorce initiative was for his own personal gain without any altruistic motives. The fact that others have also benefitted from it was only a secondary gain.

JPO’s cyber-harressment initiative is exactly the same story. For the likes of JPO, altruism is an alien concept. It is very difficult for such individuals to change…the greater problem and responsibility lies with who puts such individuals in public office in the first place.

[Daphne – I agree with you on this, but the description of his motivation for divorce legislation needs to be qualified with some observations. Pushed by his consort Carmen Ciantar, who understandably wanted the financial security and, should he pop off to the other side before her, usufruct of his property and other assets and the legal right to continue living in his house without risk of being removed by his heirs, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando suddenly started, a few years ago, getting very angry about his need to marry her and being unable to do so. His consort’s desire for financial security and rights to property became a private bill for divorce legislation and the rest, because of the government’s badly misguided refusal to take over and own the issue itself, doing the opposite instead, is history.

However, if I read Pullicino Orlando personality, psychology and behaviour correctly, when it came down to the crunch and he and his consort suddenly found themselves able to marry each other, he got cold feet. As often happens in these situations, once you can, you realise you don’t want to. They both got divorced immediately and summarily because they had been apart from their spouses for a decade or more and material matters had been sorted out already, but then they waited almost a year before getting married last August. Pullicino Orlando’s behaviour in the run-up to the marriage became increasing hysterical, crazy, high-tension and erratic.

He appeared on television interviews and talk-shows speaking with an obsessively repetitive pattern and with a voice that began in the dull monotone of the seriously depressed and then escalated into the hysterical tone of barely suppressed rage. He led the campaign against Malta’s permanent representative in Brussels, in parliament and in the Nationalist Party, where he gave a rambling presentation that made no sense at all. He was all over the place mentally and emotionally.

All this happened just before his marriage banns were published and while they were out. Instead of sparkling with happiness and serenely making his way to the altar, he behaved like a man condemned to the guillotine, possessed of a mad rage at life itself. Basically, he had painted himself into a corner. When you’ve campaigned for divorce legislation so that you can marry a particular person, you can’t then take, in full serenity and calm contemplation of whether it’s the best thing, a decision to marry. You’ve effectively taken it already.]

Karol Aquilina is enemy #1 of his buddy Musumeci

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120621/blogs/don-t-attack-him-just-pity-him.425348

Yes.

We will surely do