Unfortunately yes so long as the standard for recruiting wardens remain so low. In my experience, most wardens are would-be police officers who failed to get into the corp. You can just imagine what kind of qualifications they have.

Oh God, I do not know you but you are a real know-it-all prat aren’t you? You probably go through life telling everyone that you told them so, even when you are patently in the wrong, and then wonder why people do not like you.

Respect has to be deserved by the person having the authority. It is not and should not be automatic at least if the person who is being espected to do the said respecting has a modicum of intelligence.

Additionally, this case clearly involves an abuse of authority, which is not infinite, even for persons having much more authority than wardens.

The fact that the accused here admitted to the offence is unfortunate as from the events it is pretty clear that if the wardens involved were abusing their authority and he was right to stand up to them initially.

Anyone who respects the authority of somebody who is abusing his or her position is obeying illegitimate orders and ultimately helping to create a monster.

Actually Mario is a single parent and he does not only love but adores his children especially the one with special needs. When he was leaving the scene after he received the ticket from the warden he told her he had to go to bring his special needs son and was in a hurry and the warden replied, I do not care about your son, and so Mario said stand aside as you have already given me the ticket and you are calling the police which you have no right to do.

She said, I want my photo deleted as she had a mobile phone coming down her driving helmet in that photo.

At the law courts the magistrate, being a woman, should have at least some compassion after Mario asked her that his special needs son is dependent on him all the time and the magistrate said now I have given the verdict. I think the true justice is in God’s hands only.

So according to David, people should suffer the abuse and complain later. Screw that. Let the abusive party do the reporting. Nobody has to obey an illegal order. We are not puppets in a dictatorship, or at least not yet.

My question is why do you bother with Times of Malta at all?

It has been months since I logged in to their site and I must say I’m all the happier for it. At the very least I avoid all the moronic comments and the shabby grammar.

The Malta Independent is a much better source of news than Times of Malta. Better written, more impartial and less stupidity.

I told you about 42 trillion times. Daphne should get the EU’s Sakharov Prize.

I second that without hesitation.