Arrest and four-hour interrogation, all communication devices sequestered and still held, for taking a picture that wasn’t taken
Why was Charlon Gouder, communications coordinator to Jose Herrera, not included in the group?
What last night’s incident shows most of all is that the police are now the servants of the government, a forma mentis made clear to them when their boss the new commissioner had them cook and wait tables for the police minister.
What it shows, too, is that the ex Super One crowd and their political masters haven’t yet understood that they are now firmly on the other side of the fence. After two decades of hounding people – including those who, like me, are not public/government officials – they now think they have the right to undiluted privacy in all circumstances, even when they are travelling on government business which they chose – for obvious reasons – not to disclose.
The Department of Information releases pictures and information about visits to pet shows and art exhibitions, but when the communications coordinators of all cabinet ministers, led by chief of government communications Kurt Farrugia, leave Malta for state-funded training with flights, hotels and all other expenses paid, they try to keep it secret, imagining that a group that big of well-known Super One faces can just slip out of the country unnoticed.
And when somebody notices – lots of people did, actually, because these were the Heathrow flights – they go ballistic and begin demanding arrests and investigations.
They need reminding that it is our right to know these things and that it is THEY who should be reprimanded for thinking that they don’t need to tell us.
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This is Kurt Farrugia we’re talking about. Expect no less.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20030314/local/youth-organisations-urge-labour-to-respect-democracy.154576#.Um4qMxAudKQ
“The point is that these youth organisations who are speaking in favour of EU membership are going against what their ancestors wanted,” he said.
Mr Farrugia criticised the youth organisations for holding a press conference in front of the MLP headquarters, arguing this was an evident “provocation”.
He was already rather short then as well.
They are so damned arrogant that they do not feel we have to know.
Arrogance is their creed. they were arrogant in opposition, let alone NOW that they are in government. They never learn.
BBC training and Stasi techniques.
Why was Charlon Gouder flying first class on the 16.45 Lufthansa flight on 30 September (MLA-FRA)?
Peppi Azzopardi must be gearing up for a show about this, I don’t think.
Peppi got his iced-bun. Norman Vella, on the other hand, refused to be manipulated by the Muscatian regime. So he got arrested for no valid reason whatsoever. Peppi will not run a show to come to the defence of his ex colleague. Ma tarax. Would you expect JPO or Diva Debono to start an internet petition to stop the government from arresting people just because the police got a hunch? Hardly.
Peppi ssagrifika lil Norman meta tah program politikament jahraq fi zmien difficli. Haseb li tal-Labour jaqtaw l’ghatx ghat-tpattija malajr billi jisfogaw fih u hu jehles u jsalva rixu.
L-aghar tal Labour johrog meta l-affarijiet imorru hazin.
Lou Bondi hasn’t uttered a word about the way Norman Vella was treated.
He’s too busy invading his own privacy by uploading countless pictures of his new baby on Facebook, as though nobody else has ever had one before, including him.
That’s right – why has the Xarabank clique not made any noise this time? Why did they not jump to their ex colleague’s aid?
Too busy sucking up and watching their back.
That trust I had in the Malta Police Force is now gone. A regime again.
FFS, why would anybody ever have had any trust in the Malta Police Force?