Some of that British humour which is perfectly beyond Muscat, Pullicino Orlando, Mugliett, Debono and so very many other ‘typical Maltese’
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October 22, 2013 at 9:30am
I wish I could say that theirs – the individuals in the title of this piece – is a sub-culture. But it isn’t.
It’s the dominant culture in Maltese society – totally alien to the true democratic spirit which, as this Private Eye cover makes clear, comes from the bottom up and not from the top down.
Freedom of speech, in a real democracy, is something which the people impose on the government, and not the other way round. That’s what is wrong with Malta. It’s a society in which freedom of speech has had to be imposed on a public that rejects it because it doesn’t understand the imperatives that drive it.
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Comparisons are odious.
Let us not forget that parliamentary democracy in Britain is three hundred years old.
In Malta, we are about to celebrate its fiftieth birthday. And that is being very optimistic and stubbornly refusing to wash the country’s dirty linen in public.
The dominant culture in Maltese society, the type which I and Daphne yearn for, will not be around for many moons to come.
I will not live to see it and I strongly suspect that neither will Daphne.
Blame the British.
They handed Malta democracy on a plate. I am sure if they had to fight for it, they would value it.
Hear, hear.
How depressing, but I do believe you are right,
Paras 6 and 7 will leave you speechless:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131022/local/muscat-pns-commitment-on-civil-unions-questionable.491508
Before “Freedom of Speech,” you need “Freedom of Thought” and ‘the majority’ won’t be permitted anything of the sort.
The two concepts are different, yet only one forms part of Human Rights. It is assumed, that the two are the same.