Gozo ferry traffic on the road between Mosta and Burmarrad – one person skipped it
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November 18, 2013 at 1:37am
I wrote about the traffic at a standstill between the Rabat road and Burmarrad, earlier today. Then I found this email, sent around lunchtime.
We were just driving in slow moving traffic along the Burmarrad road when a white car beeped its siren behind us indicating that we should get out of the way. It was our PM, in a hurry to get to his wife’s soup.
A few minutes later we passed by his street. You would think he would have been at table already since he skipped all the traffic, but to our amazement there was a scene straight out of a film with security men crawling all over the place and checking the area.
What a circus. So over the top.
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Perhaps they were looking for Tamil Tigers.
Well, you cannot blame him for getting so paranoid – after all this week is the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. After all, Malta is in the international news these days.
Or perhaps one of the shady characters he befriended and negotiated with during the last five years is asking insistently for his pound of flesh.
It cannot be long before there is the proverbial `falling out of thieves` – 8 months into this fetid regimes reign and their time seems to be running out, already
Jien ma nistax nifhmu dal-poplu. Iz-zmien jghaddi u nibqghu pajjiz ta’ erbghin sena ilu.
Ghax il-passagg ghall-Ghawdex b’xejn, nofs Malta telghat Ghawdex u in-nofs l-iehor jidhaq bl-injoranza ta’ dal-poplu.
Ara kif qatt nistghu nimxu il-quddiem b’mentalita bhal din.
It is the same all over the world.
Must have received a kind reminder from a past promoter still waiting for his secret passport.
He who sows the wind, reaps the whirlwind.
Shouldn’t he be slinking around incognito, with the flood on international disdainful furore buzzing round his ears and overflowing all over the Malta citizenry?
This is not Tamil Tigers country.
Make way for the EMPEROR
And what may I ask, is wrong with giving one’s P.M. all the protection he deserves, especially with all the inciting and
the way some write just for the sake of trying to ridicule him , his wife and his family.
I know some countries where the roads are closed to traffic, just because their P.M. is passing through that road.
We have to admit that one comes across persons who are so full of hate that they will do anything to harm another person .
[Daphne – How ridiculous you sometimes are, Mr Loporto, in your attempts to justify (to yourself, I suspect, more than to anyone else) your decision to vote in these dangerous, greedy clowns. He’s the prime minister of an island 17 miles by nine, with a population of under half a million. He is not governing Libya or Britain. And ridicule and mockery are not incitement. It is so obvious that you have far right sentiments when you misinterpret the hallowed democratic concept of mockery of politicians as ‘incitement’ – just like all totalitarians everywhere.]
Don’t you think the wellbeing of a P..M of a small country ,like ours, is worth as that of the larger countries?
Does this fall under the heading of Inferiority Complex?
[Daphne – No, Mr Loporto, that’s not what I meant and you know it. It’s got nothing to do with the size of the country but the size of the RISK. International terrorists are really not interested in assassinating Joseph Muscat, PM of Malta, outside his home in Burmarrad or anywhere else.]
Who on earth was talking of assasination, God forbid.
What I meant ,was protecting him from autograph hunter sand wellwishers who sometimes can be real pests.
If you were my age,thank God you aren’t,you miight remember the beatings Nationalist candidates ( The original P.N.) and even minesters received,and they wouldn’t have thought of stopping just there. Do you doubt that killing G.Borg Olivier was not on someone”s mind at QuisiSana and in your time Zejtun Eddies life was in danger.
And all that in tiny Malta.
[Daphne – Yes, you are right to worry about abuse and attacks on individuals now that Labour are in government once more, Mr Loporto, but the point you miss is that – as you correctly noted without apparently registering its significance – they never abuse and attack their own.]
Mr. Loporto, I can assure you that Ex PM Dr. Gonzi never ever had such a massive security around him in spite of all the incitement and criticism coming from all quarters especially from the Labour and GWU’s media. In fact his security arrangement were at a bare minimum. Many times he shrank from his security personnel all together.
It took us four hrs from Xlendi to Mgarr. Once in the queue at the harbour, Honourable Minister Mallia, frisk daqs hassa in his GM14, skipped the queue which was all the way to Rabat and through the side roads till Qala.
You deserve to be treated that way, Steve. If you are so gullible to fall into that trap, than it’s your fault. Four hours in a queue to make two and a half miles to save 20 euros on ferry tickets while blowing your engine and wasting diesel/petrol! Clever indeed. Moreover, Gozo is best enjoyed when it is deserted not overcrowded by Maltese.
The best time to visit Gozo is in January or February when it is practically empty and one doesn’t need to make pleasantries with anyone.