What was it that this government used to say about whistleblowers? Frauds, the lot of them.
All that hogwash the Muscat Party used to slosh about in public on the matter of whistleblowing. They used the subject to make themselves sound liberal, progressive and heroic.
Then when they get their first whistleblower, what do they do with him?
They hang him in public, after a sustained campaign of vilification plotted and executed with the government-friendly newspapers: those owned by the Labour Party, the General Workers Union, Saviour Balzan and Roger de Giorgio.
They hang the one who did the right thing and let those who did the wrong thing go free.
Worse, and this is the point that many of us missed in the chaos surrounding the report yesterday: the one who did the right thing is going to be punished because, he was told, he should have stopped investigating the robbery when his colleagues told him to do so because they had already arrested and arraigned another man (who was innocent, and for whose involvement they had no evidence).
If you voted for this mess, I strongly advise you not to own up to it unless you are also prepared to admit you f**ked up. You’re looking like one hell of an idiot right now, or if not an idiot, then as bad as they are.
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First of all, a big well done for your column on today’s The Malta Independent.
Secondly, there are two informants involved in this case. The second one who talked to Inspector Taliana was not anonymous to the police and even identified the perpetrator.
What about the one who phoned the CID? Can we know more details? Is he known to the police at least? What weight does he carry for the CID to give him such credibility? I say this because part of the basis of Borg’s arrest was this information.
I want to add that the people out here are more interested in knowing what happened at the CID section then what went wrong in procedure.
Those who work with private companies are always on the look-out to improve procedure and communication within their companies. But these kind of shortcomings do not amount to criminal acts. Not by a long shot.
So, Police Commission, Judge Depasquale and Police Board, please note.
In the eyes of honest intelligent people, it is not the upright Police Inspector E Taliana who is on trial. What is on trial in the court of public opinion is a corrupt police system that persecutes a policeman who exculpated an innocent person wrongly accused and detained by the CID and who identified and successfully prosecuted the real culprit.
The proper role for a decent police department in this case would be to investigate how its confidential document was leaked to Saviour Balzan and how a criminal convicted of serious crime was employed as a go-between in an attempt to suborn a witness due to appear before the Police Board.
Is Malta’s society so corrupted that it does not realise this or that, knowing it, is powerless to redress that injustice until there is a change of government?
The comments people use to justify the behaviour of this scum leave me open-mouthed.
What JosephPL means by whistleblowing is framing innocent people.
As soon as an arrest is made, all investigation is stopped because there is a first accused.
It is the duty of the magistrate and the defendant’s lawyer to prove the police wrong.
Guilt beyond any reasonable doubt and innocent until proven guilty have been replaced by guilty unless proven innocent beyond any doubt.
Shameless frauds. Before the elections they promised the Police the right to join a union, now they give themselves the right to dismiss honest officers on sham reports.
Malta Today had qualified a previous Depasquale report as a “cheap fiction paperback”. Now they celebrate this report.
I just hope you didn’t believe them.
In these four and a half years we will understand the true meaning of shame.
How I wish I could hibernate that long as the way the things are going it can only get worse.
Ah, JosephMuscat.com’s roadmap is no longer a nebulous aspiration. It is now becoming self-evident.
Joseph Muscat’s roadmap is a dark labyrinth with the way back to the 1970s and 1980s, for those who manage to get to the end of it.
I cannot believe Judge Depasquale let himself be talked into this frame-up. What a shame.
Neither do I, who have known Franco Depasquale for about three decades or so! To me it is hardly believable – still less explainable.
Sfortunatament, ghal hafna nies (hafna aktar milli nahsbu jew nixtiequ) hija difficli idardru l-ghajn li jridu jixorbu minnha.
Dan ma japplikax biss ghal min hu mejjet bil-guh jew min jaqlaghha w jiekolha.
Ghal min ghandu pozizzjoni tajba u jista’ jghix komdu, bizzejjed ghalih ihares madwaru, jara lil huh u jghid ‘jien irrid ikolli daqsu jew aktar minnu.’ Il-materjalizmu rhis jahkem lil kulhadd.
Dan ifakkarni fi graffitti li rajt il-Fgura u li tnehha f’temp ta’ ftit jiem: C.R.E.A.M. – ‘Cash Rules Everything Around Me’.
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This is not about Elton Taliana. This is about serious corruption within the justice system, corrupt practices within the police force, the blurring of boundaries between supposedly independent institutions, and the exploitation of position and power to exact personal revenge.
My throughts exactly: this is the first whistleblower and they tear him apart.
The time has come for people with backbones to stand up and be counted. You, Daphne, are doing it but I see we have a dearth of backbones and brain cells in this country.
It would certainly appear that Judge Depasquale lacks a backbone. Our turn is next. We, the people, have to somehow stand up and be counted. When our turn comes, and our turn WILL come, we have to stand up and be counted.
Gone are the days of rule of law so in one way or another we will all become victims.
And to all those switchers out there, I dedicate Daphne’s column of this morning and I gloat. It certainly has been a pyrrhic victory but in the end, we, the minority, are victorious in our defeat, we are vindicated and perhaps one day, while Rome burns, we will be looked at in the eye and asked for forgiveness.
We may forgive but it is already too late. Now we can only watch in horror while Rome burn and wait. The tide, I’m sure, will turn…someday.
No, this is not the first whistleblower they are tearing apart. The first person/whistleblower they went out to destroy was during the election campaign – the one who revealed the story about the drugs case at the PL Safi Club.
How on earth did Judge Depasquale allow himself to be roped into all this?
The police commissioner is quoted (Sunday Times) as saying that he will carry out his own review of the CID officers to establish whether they too should be disciplined.
Wasn’t this in the Police Board’s remit to investigate the case in the first place? If not it is absurd; if yes, why does the police commissioner feel the need to carry out his own review? In any case it is tragi-farcical and sheer travesty of justice.
It is indeed shocking and a short-cut back to the 70s and 80s as you have rightly pointed out in your other posts. And this is just the first 6 months of their mandate. From all that has happened so far it’s either a ‘popular’ dictatorship or chaos.
That’s news.
The way arbitrary method and omnipotent discretion is being introduced as ‘positive’ is shocking.
If Mintoff was in your face, these are touchy feely.