Comments on: Is Manuel Mallia’s ‘sale of Maltese passports’ scheme going to be a sort of witness protection programme for crooks, criminals and the families of dictators?

By: ciccio

ciccio — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:21:24 +0000

In reply to Angus Black. My question here deals with children born to parents AFTER those parents have acquired the Maltese passport for cash. If those parents are living outside of Maltese, are their offspring automatically entitled to have a Maltese passport, presumably for free?

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 02:18:11 +0000

In reply to ciccio. Very good point, Ciccio.

By: curious

curious — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 01:47:39 +0000

everyone will simply be a EUROPEAN citizen

The more reason why the EU should fight the anonymity clause of the scheme. It has consequences on all EU member states.

By: David

David — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 01:47:16 +0000

In reply to Stefan Vella. Arafat was given the Nobel peace prize. [Daphne - Correction, David. It was given to Yasser Arafat, Yitshak Rabin and Shimon Peres jointly for their efforts at securing peace in the Middle East. In other words, it was given to a group and not to an individual.]

By: Frank Scicluna

Frank Scicluna — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 01:29:12 +0000

With the greatest respect. All you people are missing the whole point of what this is all about. There will be NO such thing as a Maltese citizen within a few generations! Nor Italian, German, French, Spanish or anyone else in Europe…everyone will simply be a EUROPEAN citizen just like American and Australian passport holders are citizens of those countries by paying big money to obtain that right. Don’t like the idea? TOUGH because THAT fact my friends is what the EU was always likely to produce. Unintended consequences? Possibly – but very predictable. It is much too late now to cry over the milk that has already been spilled.

[Daphne – Do go to hell in a handcart, Mr Scicluna. A Mintoffian who’s been in Australia since the 1960s, still writes in to support Labour, hates the EU, then doesn’t know what tack to take when his two worlds collide and his Joseph begins selling EU passports. Running this comments-board is as emotionally and mentally draining as working the phones for the Samaritans.]

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 01:14:49 +0000

In reply to Tabatha White. The new passports will be easy to spot. They'll bear the legend: ISSUED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SPOUSE OF THE PRIME MINISTER

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 01:05:06 +0000

In reply to Ghoxrin Punt. Vote Labour? Inzabbab.

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:35:05 +0000

In reply to La Redoute.

What about, for example, my position as a genuine Maltese citizen?

Am I now to be put in the same suspect basket as all the “New Maltese” population?

Isn’t this bill negatively effecting my birth right? by giving a negative weighting to what was previously very positive?so much so that it was considered the 9th best passport to hold?

This is not right.

NOBODY, except those already in on the scam, voted the Labour Party in to have this done to them.

By: Ghoxrin Punt

Ghoxrin Punt — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:21:44 +0000

In reply to Edward. A bit late Edward, you should have seen through Muscat earlier on and not voted him him in the first place. [Daphne - If you are a regular reader of this comments-board, you would know that Edward is one of the most insightful critics of the Labour Party/government and that he definitely did not vote for them, despite a mountain of peer pressure to do so.]

By: Stefan Vella

Stefan Vella — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:44:32 +0000

In reply to David. Groups like Fatah, Black September, Tanzim and Al Aqsa Martyrs brigade who were arguably under the direct or indirect control of Arafat are guilty of terrorist attacks such as the Achille Lauro hijacking. Some might call Arafat as a freedom fighter, I brand him as a terrorist and a murderer.