Why would any man want to issue death threats to Economy Minister Chris Cardona for three whole months?
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August 17, 2013 at 10:53pm
A man has been held on remand while facing charges of having threatened, over three months, to kill Economy Minister Chris Cardona.
Now why would he want to do that?
I really think we need to be given some background here. Let’s hope it’s not anything to do with the girlie club underworld.
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I know what it’s about. That man was promised a job before the elections. He’s from Cardona’s constituency.
They got the guy a job as a cleaner with the company contracted for cleaning his ministry building. But he wanted a full-time job and they only took him on part-time.
He was constantly nagging his supervisor to employ him full-time (swearing included). He was subsequently fired and has been harassing Cardona since…not too sure he’s the email kind of guy.
Xoghol prekarju taht il-gvern tal-Labour? Tsk Tsk.
A very good reason to vote Labour: to get a full time job sweeping the Ministry’s floor!
If this is true then I’m impressed by the minister’s ability to create jobs.
This is really bad stuff. Guy gets wronged, threatens to kill the ‘wronger’, sent to the slammer, probably tortured. Admits he didn’t mean it, set free and gets full time job as sweeper.
Just like Egypt at the moment. ‘Sigh’
What’s even worse is that we have allowed this mentality to foster and grow for decades. There are tens of thousands on this island who believe that their allegiance to a political party is simply a bartering tool for personal gain.
I agree. The mentality of most Maltese people is vote = favour or promise and vice-versa.
What’s worse is that the present incumbent has introduced a new slant – reward of “traitors”. So now being unfaithful to your supposed “principles” has become a virtue, turning any idea of ethics upside down.
The hurtful truth is that many people of supposed intelligence and a certain standard of education and moral behaviour where taken in completely by a sham.
Why not giving the poor chap a good post with the Law Commissioner? He could help him with his threatening SMSes and could be useful at some 5am cockfight over a pastizz.
Why not give the good old chap who voted Labour a job with JPO. Now with a new PR and secretary, the consumption of Earl Grey will be on the increase as he shall definitely be spending more time at his office. This new bloke can be useful to keep the ice bucket full and get rid of the empty Earl Grey bottles.
Ippreżentat id-disinn tal-“Monument il-Kbir tal-Perit Duminku Mintoff”
http://www.inewsmalta.com/dart/20130818-ippre-entat-id-disinn-tal-monument-il-kbir-tal-perit-duminku-mintoff
The man in the video – Josef Grech, a fraudster. Perfect.
http://m.maltatoday.com.mt/newsdetails/news/courtandpolice/Author-of-new-Dom-Mintoff-biography-charged-with-44-500-fraud-20121122
Proposed Mintofffff monument…. what are your comments?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130818/local/society-unveils-mintoff-monument-design.482577
It’s really pathetic how politics in Malta has been reduced to this.
Where’s the article/slew of comments about that new Mintoff statue proposal? I need the belly laughs.
How many Mintoff monuments does this country need? Isn’t one enough?
Call it a medley of monuments and iconography, from the one tal-haddiema bil-patata barra to the presepju, with Mintoff’s portrait, the one every club had to have, waving at no one in particular.
They just cannot synthesize.
So it turns out that this government considers 16 and 17 year olds not mature enough to drink (The Sunday Times of Malta’s front page news today) but it considers them mature enough to choose the country’s leadership for five years.
This idea of lowering the voting age is so wrong. Young people are great and I am by no means saying that they are ignorant but at 16, few are really interested in politics (not just Maltese youngsters, but many people that age, regardless of nationality). For them, politicians are just a bunch of old farts who don’t understand them.
Our education system also leaves much to be desired.
A few years ago a newspaper (I don’t remember which) interviewed university students about some basic political issues and a substantial number did not even know who the president of Malta at that time was. How many 16 year olds know what side of the political spectrum our political parties are supposed to represent?
Admittedly, it is hard for any political party to come out against this proposal. It will make opposing parties look exclusive and old-fashioned to people who sooner or later will have the right to vote, but someone needs to speak up.
For a party which stretches so far to the left, it comes out of the right side, lowering the voting age is a stroke of genius.
At that age, young people’s ideals tend to veer towards the extremes. It’s the age of Che Guevara T-shirts, communism, ‘Make love not war’ placards or it’s the age of ‘Let’s die for the motherland’ brinkmanship. It’s the age when young people feel that their generation is really going to be completely different to anything that has come before.
In short, it’s the age before realism and pragmatism set in.
What is interesting is that Joseph Muscat has repeatedly called the upcoming change in voting age an experiment, first to be tried at local elections, and later spread to all elections if successful.
What checks and balances is the experiment going to have? Are 16 and 17 year olds going to be examined about their political knowledge before voting? Or is the Labour party just going to check whether 16 and 17 year olds voted Labour before giving the go ahead for a vote in all elections?
As if our political landscape wasn’t dumbed down enough, all we need now is political parties trying to appeal to 16 and 17 year olds who would rather be out clubbing, doing sport or playing on their game consoles.
If you think that Labour’s giant iPhone ads (what did they do with those things?), the tablet wars and A Friend in London’s concert were a low point in politics, it’s quite clear that you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Brace yourselves for more inappropriate tweets, Facebook likes, freebies and late night parties than you can handle. If adults can be so easily fooled by mass hysteria, imagine how much easier it is to fool children (all people under 18 are children according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) so susceptible to peer pressure.
Our already piss poor electoral campaigns are about to get much poorer. They’re also going to become more Berlusconi like. Oh, the joys of watching Karmenu Vella and Edward Scicluna at the grand old ages of 68 and 71 respectively cavorting with 16 year olds and trying to get down with the kids.
The internet meme makers are going to have the time of their lives.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-08-18/news/handful-of-mintoff-diehards-gather-for-monument-design-launch-2358214656/#prettyPhoto%5BcarouFredSelMediaGallery%5D/0/
The working class on their knees under Mintoff. Brilliant!
There is no justification for threatening the life of another person, but you reap what you sow.
Daphne,
I just posted this on francodebono’s blog, but he is refusing to upload it:
Ma nafx ghalfejn din il-hdura kollha kontra s-sinjura daphne caruana galizia. ma nistax nifhem ghalfejn qed tikteb hekk dalghodu franco kontrija? ghalfejn? x’ghamlitlek? taqbadx ma nies? halliha bi kwieta.
Franco, daphne dejjem kitbet il-verita fuq il-blogg taghha, ma nistax nifhem ghalfejn bniedem li suppost jghid li hu intelligenti qed jobzoq il-hdura fuq daphne hekk b’dal-mod.
Isma minni hu l-ezempju tal-kap tieghek u zomm il-kwiet u kun posittiv. tibqax tkun daqshekk negattiv u taqbad ma daphne. erhila kwieta.
Il-vittma hija daphne, huwa ovvju li intom qed taqbdu maghha u tipprovokawa b’dan it-tip ta’ qlajjiet u gideb fil-konfront taghha. xi trida taghmel mhux ovvja li trid tirribatti?
u hag’ohra ma nistax nifhem ghalfejn kullhadd jikteb b’mod anonimu u kodard, iktbu b’isimkom vera jekk mintomx kodardi. ara daphne b’isima tikteb
Mark Demicoli
St. Julians
Hi Daphne, you may want to include this in one of your posts. It regards a Spanish tourist who was extremely disappointed with the lack of Spanish versions of information brouchures, Spanish speakers at the info points as well as Spanish versions of menus in Malta during his stay on the islands. However, he also mentions that other EU countries are just as lacking in this kind of info in Spanish.
http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/08/17/opinion/1376762705_331146.html
Typical Spanish.
A professor accompanying his students on a visit to Malta and like most Spanish students they can’t communicate in English. So instead of encouraging his country to teach English at school he complains to el Pais.
And as far as I know most of the literature found at the MTA is also in Spanish.
Typically Mediterranean, you mean. Maltese people have the same attitude, without speaking a language that is widely spoken elsewhere.
But at least we try to communicate in English one way or another or even in other languages when we meet foreigners. So let us not slam the Maltese in this matter as well.
Unless they changed it in the past year, it indeed is also in Spanish.
My experience has always been that this tends to be related more to education rather than nationality. You hear the French stereotype being touted incessantly, yet some of the most polite and friendliest people I’ve met were French tourists, speaking English, and wanting to learn how to say ‘hello’, ‘thank you’ and ‘bye’ in Maltese nonetheless.
Quite the same with everyone really.
Create another government board and appoint him chairman.