The Ministry of Homeland Security and the Police: DON’T YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE?
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October 28, 2013 at 10:58am
Andrew Borg-Cardona sent me this photograph of a Ministry of Homeland Security/Police vehicle parked on the tight corner of Strait Street with Melita Street, outside Manuel Mallia’s ministry, in violation of traffic laws.
He said I should use his name when uploading it so that the police will be spared the inconvenience of sequestering all sorts of people’s telephones and interrogating them for four hours.
There was no parking ticket because in the current climate there is no police officer who isn’t afraid of the consequences of slapping one on the windscreen, or walking into the building to demand that the car be moved.
Don’t you know who they are?
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You won’t mistake us for English officialdom.
When a policeman fined a member of the Royal Family, he was commended for his behaviour.
Now, that’s a country we should hold for our standards -“mela ic-Cina”.
Shame on this government. It’s doing the exact opposite of what it promised before the elections.
In just a few months we are at that horrible place where “ghax il-gvern taghna naghmlu li nridu” whilst the rest of the population is intimidated into submission and keeps low lest they attract undue attention from the authorities.
We already are at that horrible place.
If the Police themselves are afraid of consequences, how should the man in the street with a (political) issue to report feel?
Only a few weeks ago, according to the Daily Mail, Hilary Clinton’s official vehicle was slapped with a parking ticket right in central London.
Four US security services personel tried to talk the traffic warden out of it, but the latter insisted that there was a parking violation and the ticket would not be cancelled.
Better still, the British Government sent a bill running into millions in unpaid traffic fines to the US Government insisting that these should be settled immediately.
isn’t that the disabled parking slot?
This morning I was almost run over by that same car. The driver was trying to reverse into Melita street while eating a pizza.