Comments on: Former chairman of Malta Communications Authority writes about police obtaining phone logs: ‘Are we back to 1984?’

By: It-Tezi ta' Mario

It-Tezi ta' Mario — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 05:04:21 +0000

In reply to papru.

http://www.scribd.com/mobile/users/sevee2081/collections/4222619

By: Joe Fenech

Joe Fenech — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:04:15 +0000

In reply to Evarist Saliba. "Jien nigi nitnejjek mill-Kostituzzjoni." So do the likes of Mugabe.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:09:07 +0000

In reply to papru. Totally a planned and executed act of evil.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:25:23 +0000

In reply to Evarist Saliba. "Il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio"

By: papru

papru — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:42:24 +0000

I have very unpleasent memories of those horrible three days in December 1973 when as a National Bank of Malta cashier I dispensed thousands of pounds to panic-stricken depositors who had heard Mintoff’s concerted appeal to stop the run since ‘il-bank diga qieghed fuq tlett saqajn…tkomplux ghax inthom tbatu.”

He did it deliberately, to make the stampede worse, a stampede he had provoked himself with rumours, threats and insinuations. I still recall the bank chairman Louis Vella and his fellow directors Philip Attard Montalto and Austin Cassar Torregiani returning from the prime minister’s office following the premeditated last act of drama. Within a few hours it was all over – a planned and executed act of evil.

By: Evarist Saliba

Evarist Saliba — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:46:37 +0000

Under oath, it was stated that when Mintoff was challenged whether the steps he was taking in the takeover of the National Bank of Malta were in line with the provisions of the Constitution, his answer (translated into more polite English) was

“I could not care less what the Constitution says.”

Mintoff’s approach is being resurrected from the grave.

[Daphne – His exact words were: “Jien nigi nitnejjek mill-Kostituzzjoni.” He said them to one of my grandfathers.]

By: G Orwell

G Orwell — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:39:39 +0000

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

What pure power means you will understand presently.

We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”

― George Orwell, 1984

By: shagows of the past

shagows of the past — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:56:45 +0000

Dr Ghio should not have given into pressure and resigned. This piece shows how important it is to have somebody who can stand up to the government as head of an EU-regulated authority, rather than a government stooge.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:35:08 +0000

http://ictlawmalta.blogspot.com/2013/09/are-we-back-to-1984_3.html