It’s such a shame the vast majority of Maltese people are so poorly educated, even when they think they are not, with tragic consequences for them and their country
George Orwell
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
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I can already hear the chorus: “But 1984 was so long ago. It’s SOO over, people.”
And yet the majority cannot give a flying hoot as long as they have their kacca, property deals, flashy cars, high heels, facebook…missed a few, I’m pretty sure.
Calling it Liberal had to be the worst.
Muscat implies the PN shouldn’t even exist, this for the greater good.
That means people who subscribe to his religion, taghna lkoll, taghna lkoll, are by nature liberal, whereas those who’ll remain free will be traitors to Malta and common good.
It’s not a coincidence that most of the switchers never said they’d vote for Muscat, but against something specific.
They knew, yet they did. Scicluna being the first, does he really think anything other than this would have come out.
Muscat wanted to win and win he did, a 36,000, 9 seat majority. That carries a price, one that perhaps a 12,000, 4 seat majority wouldn’t have.
Still he pushed ahead. It’s on record he wasn’t accepting anything less than a 25,000 majority. Why?
Saviour’s panicking, insisting on a moderate way with immigrants, the EU and, bless him, environmental matters.
The movement cannot afford anything but force in the long run. From building permits to letters to the editor demanding all nationalists in Gozo be kicked out.
How could anyone possibly believe Marsaxlokk? Oh dear, a certain architect green party spokesman insisted on the benefit of the doubt. As did an engineer, a retired professor and our dear Michela (although how she expected to put her two cents’ worth based on Tonio’s ‘arrogance’ , in my view, backfired)
The blackmail to be seen ‘tolerant’ was that bad.
Voting for the PN became ‘intollerant’.
Time to choose.
As you put it on several occasions, democracy was imposed by the British on Malta.
If the British had never ruled here, Malta would today be another Middle Eastern/North AFrican country. The Maltese would have never set up democratic institutions for themselves.
Written on his deathbed, coughing up blood, aged 45.
The huge amount of ignorance in Malta has long worked in favour of the Labour Party and against the Nationalist Party. And I don’t mean only ignorance among the working-class, because there’s plenty of ignorance beyond it, as this last general election showed.
More than ignorance I believe most of those who voted labour did so because they are selfish. They were disillusioned by the PN because they didn’t get what they expected from their party..
Dr. Gonzi did his utmost for Malta ending his legislature with a billion euro from the EU but the former didn’t look at the bigger picture of how much Malta would benefit if the PN were re elected.
What mattered was their personal gain. And now how many of those who voted for change are satisfied with the present situation? -(which doesn’t augur much better for the future).
The Malta Independent published the month-by-month requests by the Maltese Police Force on various Facebook accounts:
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-09-01/news/police-request-fb-data-for-general-elections-act-violations-2472378369/
Some analysis is due:
Total requests for Jan to February (PN administration) = 22, 11 requests per month.
Total requests for March to June (MLP administration) = 67, 17 requests per month. This is equal to a 50% increase in requests.
Surely crime hasn’t increased that much in 4 months.
But it has! You have had too much to think sir. You need a visit by the Thought Police.
Oh how I wish Joseph Muscat could think even once before uttering such inanities. On the other hand, it could be that he simply wants to turn public opinion against certain figures, as he did in the immigrant stand-off story:
“Three years down the line, the Government is still waiting for the results of the Air Malta restructuring process, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this afternoon.
Speaking during a meeting with the board of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association at Castille, Dr Muscat said people were paid €500,000 a year to restructure the airline and they should deliver.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130903/local/government-still-waiting-for-results-of-air-malta-restructuring-process.484705
I was thinking about Orwell’s dystopia just last week when the Taliana and Facebook user information stories came out.
Here’s another memorable quote from that masterpiece:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.”
With the police commissioner a mere puppet in the minister’s (and his minion’s) hands, it’s not too fictional to forecast Orwellian nightmares happening in future Malta.
This very worrying affair happened within just a few months of Labour coming to power. Imagine what things are going to be like in 2022 when they will be nearing the end of their second term in office.
What blissful irony! That which applies to global politics, (read ‘Western’) is here being attributed to tiny Malta.
War on Goldstein, anyone? Or should that read ‘terrror’?
But let the children play. They may never grow up, after all.
Or should it be “War on GonziPN”, kev. You should watch Michael Radford’s movie, kev. It starts with a “Taghna lkoll” meeting.
How tiresome you are, Kev, and how boring your life must be if you feel the need to pop in every ten minutes to pour scorn on your intellectual inferiors.
Really, why do you imagine anyone should listen to someone who lionised Dom Mintoff and voted Labour for a lifetime?
This account sounds so familiar with the situation in Malta right now.
Why didn’t George Abela read this from the throne in the opening session of Parliament?
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/book/walden-by-henry-david-thoreau
This is excellent. Thank you.