Watch that vertical furrow on the prime minister’s face
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October 29, 2013 at 4:34pm
Norman Vella wasn’t arrested, the prime minister says, having taken a few tips out of his Azeri mates’ book. Oh no. Perhaps he could describe to us what he thinks constitutes arrest.
Vella was read the ‘Miranda’ rights (‘You have every right to remain silent & c & c), he was told that he could have access to a lawyer before interrogation, he was detained in a room and forcibly prevented from leaving it, and he was interrogated for four hours, following which he gave a statement. And his mobile phone and laptop were sequestered.
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Muscat cannot carry on like this for another four and a half years.
Something will have to give.
We’ll see whether ’25 years of Nationalist rule’ left its mark.
Unfortunately, that’s very optimistic. I have no doubt that some of the switchers will switch back.
But there will be others who will switch to Labour. This for the simple reason that they will find it convenient to have a Labour in government who is readily available to help them break the rules. They only need to dismantle MEPA and start dishing out permits like Mintoff used to do with the PAPB.
It’s the seventies all over again. 1971 – Labour in power, 1976 – Labour once again in power with a bigger majority.
That’s what I mean by something giving under that recklessness. Labour think they can restrain an open economy or revert to economic isolation in this day and age.
Let’s burst the property bubble then. There’s this property price index on the cards, the great stress test.
Which is why the MDA’s piling the pressure to gobble those acres, an escape route to safe ‘land’ for the few.
Muscat doesn’t even understand the implications when the big boys get to decide.
This is what I mean by dishing out PAPB era permits
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131030/local/ngo-insists-proposed-mistra-deveopment-is-unacceptable.492552#.UnDRxHBwr8k
The Nationalists administer, Labour rules. Don’t expect to see any of the marks left by the Nationalists. Our Labour rulers are removing all of them systematically and rigorously
(a) Where are the photos?
(b) Who made the report?
Once these questions are answered, then everything can be explained and swiftly swept under the Labour carpet.
[Daphne – There are no photos. They clearly THOUGHT a photo was taken because they’re paranoid after 20 years of persecuting others themselves while working for Super One.]
You hit the nail right on the head, Daphne.
They think everybody has the same ‘standards’ that they have.
No, they just wanted to harass Norman Vella. They’ve always known there are no photos.
To spice up the story they included you in the fray; Labour enemy No.1.
Don’t you know who he is, miskin?
“A police inspector who was questioning former broadcaster Norman Vella last Sunday received a phone call to which she replied “Silvio Scerri who?” and then added that she only gave information to the Police Commissioner.”
Times of Malta
Just more lies and doublespeak from a 40-year-old jerk from the sticks who has got himself deeply involved with sharks who are playing him for all he is worth, and who bought “his” Labour Party and now want him to sell them “his” country.
The full-blown paranoia, the compulsive lying and the general state of disarray affecting the upper echelons of the Executive do not bode well for Malta.
They have this nagging thought that the Nationalist Party ruled for 25 years in some sort of Macchiavellan way they have only constructed in their devious Labour minds. Of course, Nationalist ‘rule’ was anything but Macchiavellan, but largely meritocratic.
Rather than accepting their incompetence, some Labourites actually made themselves to believe they weren’t promoted or employed because they were, umm Labourites, and not because they lacked qualification.
Now they think they can rule like the Nationalists – the only problem is they can’t, because if they had to follow real meritocracy, 80% of their lackeys and billboard boys would remain where they were before March.
I am sure some remember the time a group of bankers were ‘arrested’ at Mintoff’s whim and interrogated overnight at police HQ for nothing more than doing their daily work.
The story worries me as these are unmistakable memories of the bad past.
The trouble is that anyone with half a brain or a smidgen of independent thought is suspect to these people. That’s why we now have a bunch of nitwit permanent secretaries, chairmen and ambassadors.
What gets to me most is that in just over 4 years time, the LGBT lot will again vote Labour, kaccaturi will follow suit, Norman Lowell fans too. Bar a few hundred who will undoubtedly come to their senses, I cannot see Labour losing. Unless we go bust economically. And that’s a high price to pay.
Then again the Nationalist Party only managed a few thousand votes more in 1987 just when the country was on the brink of civil chaos. How sad.
You said it. They say desperate times call for desperate measures but even my department of wild imagination has run out of plans.
Going bust economically is a set of parameters. Labour intends to go there, policy dictates it.
The perfect excuse to get China to own this place. The veto never came cheaper.
China to buy Maltese sovereign bonds and become the Salvatur, eh? My mate Harry and I were predicting this terrible scenario two years ago.
1) Story breaks that an MLP contingent had left Malta for the state-funded ‘BBC’ training course.
2) Farrugia+Attard leave together, just the two of them, on the afternoon flight when the rest of the group left in the morning – they see and actually acknowledge Norman Vella, with whom they are obviously familiar.
3) While in the airport, Daphne hears of their travel plans and posts an article about it.
4) Farrugia+Attard (either or both) get wind of 3) and put 2 & 2 together, which results in 5, i.e. they immediately assume that Norman Vella has spilled the beans and that he has taken their picture.
5) They call ‘someone’ who was in a better position to take immediate action, as they were about to get on a plane. That someone is probably Silvio Scerri, given that she works in the same office as Ramona Attard (Manuel Mallia’s).
I think the photograph bit was added in maybe on an assumption on their part, or else it was made up during their ‘reporting’ of Norman, to add to the seriousness of his assumed actions.
And this is called a FRAMEUP
I totally agree. I am more then sure that is was Mister Coconut and his travelling companion Ms Attard who rang Do You Know Who I Am.
I really hope Norman Vella takes this all the way, and include that lying prime minister, the police commissioner, Scerri and the rest of the Labour morons who got themselves entangled in this needless, crazy episode.
sure I remember. I was one of them.
Detaining Norman Vella for four hours, interrogating him, reading his rights, extracting a statement from him and confiscating his mobile and tablet does not constitute an arrest because according to an official Police statement a couple of years back ‘A strip search is standard procedure for anyone who is held in custody’
No strip search, ergo no arrest.
Our Prime Minister is always right. He is such a clever dick.
No. Your prime minister is not ‘such a clever dick’ but simply a dick – and a malicious one at that.
Joseph Muscat reminds me of Syndrome in the cartoon ‘The Incredibles’. A redhead kid with a large jaw, who has an extremely high opinion of himself. He is dangerous as he has more power than he is capable of handling and wants to control the world by killing off all the good guys.
“Kapitlu Maghluq”
How very dangerous Muscat is.
An expert at twisting words and situations.
And this is only what we get to see.
My thinking is that Muscat never imagined all this support would rally around Norman Vella. So now he has to squeeze out of it.
But they got the phone, and they got the tablet.
Ruthless.
X’xaqq ghandu. Jekk jibqa’ jhaffru billi ma jghidx il-verita, daqt ifellel mohhu fi tnejn.
Everyone (and by everyone I mean approximately 46% of the population who didn’t vote for these right-wing fascist clowns) should start taking photos of government officials, ministers, etc. when they get a chance to do so.
What will the government do then? Issue orders to the police to arrest every person who dares take a picture? Send in the Army to confiscate phones, cameras, tablets…?
We’ll have road blocks just like in the golden days to search for and destroy mobile phones. I think it would be a nice step in the curbing of civil rights.
Next thing we’ll hear of is that the government will legislate for the need of a special licence to carry a mobile phone. There will be different rates depending on what type of phone you own.
To have a smart phone with a camera you would need to get a special licence from the Minister.
They will not stop at that. They will then ban all importation of mobile phones and set up a local factory with Chinese investment, building dumbed-down iPhone and Galaxy replicas.
In this way the government will boost the economy, create employment and fill up the national coffers. All of this, for the good of the country and in the national interest, of course.
[Daphne – Coming soon to a television screen near you: Il-Budget Tal-Qawsalla.]