You can spend the day at the beach, after all – they’ve called off the anti-Africans protest
“I don’t know whether I mentioned this earlier, Madam ambassador, but we really don’t like blacks in this country. Our government will be speaking to your government and asking them to send us somebody white.”
The anti-African-asylum-seekers demo (for that is essentially what it’s all about) due to be held tomorrow has been called off by the organisers.
They say it’s because many people think it’s being organised by a PN sympathiser to cause damage to the government. What convoluted reasoning. It’s obvious they backed down because the prime minister himself – even though he agrees with their intentions, as otherwise he would not have done what he did – is worried about the damage to his image that any such demo will cause.
That’s why the PM has said it doesn’t have his backing, which is tantamount to asking them to call it off, which they have done.
The organisers said on Facebook:
“Simon Busuttil is in favour of turning Malta into a Haiti and he should pay 10 years in opposition as the price.”
They also said that “Malta’s traitors” were planning to turn up to provoke them and backstab them. Oh yes, right, because we have nothing better to do on a hot August Sunday than go to Valletta and look at a bunch of rednecks minus their Ku Klux Klan hoods making utter asses of themselves with their mid-century sentiments.
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“Madam Ambassador, I assure you that my boss has no problem with African American ladies like yourself serving as the US Ambassador here. But had Mr Obama sent a healthy African American man as Ambassador instead, we would have pushed him back, in the national interest.”
Is that the reason they’re giving? They must really think we’re stupid.
Oh wait, they think we think like them, that explains it all.
“Taking to the streets” and “governing from the squares” are typical Mintoffian ‘activities’ organised against the government during colonial rule. The PN adopted similar tactics after the 1981 ‘gerrymandered’ election result, against a Maltese government.
It is therefore very easy to convince Labour minds that any mass demonstration (even if it’s only a silent march) is directed against the government of the day. That is why any demonstration with political overtones but not directly organised by the Labour Party taking place during a PN administration is so heavily attended.
“They say it’s because many people think it’s being organised by a PN sympathiser to cause damage to the government.” You may call it ‘convoluted reasoning’ but as you have said that is exactly how a Labour/Mintoffian mind ticks.