Sky News reports on the behaviour of the Labour government’s friends
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January 23, 2014 at 4:18pm
Oh, the irony! To think that this lot in government made such a meal of calling Lawrence Gonzi a dictator and getting their new sect-followers to do likewise.
This when they were taking money from, and scheming and plotting with, the world’s most powerful and oppressive dictatorship. Joseph Muscat is proud to call the Chinese dictatorship his friend.
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Nothing short of what was typical of Malta in the 70s and 80s. An eyeopener to anyone considering blowing the whistle in Labour`s face under the Whistleblower Act. Fascinating how the party thugs swarm in like flies nose diving on sugar. Deja vu.
Ara fhiex se ġġibna Joseph, skjavi ta’ dawn in-nies.
China’s billionaires want to escape from that hell, and Joseph Muscat is letting them go into Europe in return for Eur 650,000, while he wants to integrate us with the communist bastards and he seems to be working so that we will eventually loose our EU passport
I see he still has the same vision he had when he did not want us to join the EU.
How can any Chinese billionaire acquire a Euro 650,000 Muscat brand Malta Passport when a Chinese citizen is only allowed to exchange less than Euro 70,000 worth in Yuan currency annually?
Is Malta conniving with mysterious rich Chinese to circumvent the law? Or are both the Malta and Chinese governments acting in synch to aid and abet privileged filthy rich Chinese nationals to evade the law and to infiltrate into Europe?
One last question. Is Ms Konrad Mizzi one of the pieces in this jigsaw puzzle?
The mind boggles! It is no wonder that the European Union is alarmed.
In true communist fashion the exchange restrictions do not apply to party members and fat cats.
It is truly alarming that the wife of a Maltese cabinet Minister is earning a salary of Eur 13,000 per month, in China, and we do not know what she is doing, while this is going on, and we are reduced to the situation of suspecting that she has a role in this.
Where is Transparency International?
That was precisely similar to the BBC report I was listening to on radio yesterday.
This is the same untruth game we are witnessing here in Malta; government says one thing and facts point precisely to the opposite.
The mere fact that our prime minister ordered an investigation on how NET TV journalists came to know the time when the Chinese billionaire was leaving Malta, is enough.
Airplane enthusiasts always know when out-of-the-ordinary aircraft are landing and on which runway. I wouldn’t be surprised that through their “contacts” they knew when the private jet was leaving. This is Malta; you can’t hide anywhere here.
Joseph Muscat was furious in parliament, on the eve of his 40th birthday, probably because his double-dealing act was noted by the Chinese Communist government which does not allow its citizens to obtain the citizenship of another country.
I suspect that if that video passes through the Great Firewall of China, the talented investor has to line many pockets to escape a kangaroo court like the one being reported on Sky News and the BBC.
Dealing with Commissioner Reding is a piece of cake for our Joseph when one compares it to the silence of the amoral Chinese Commies. I think Joseph is in deep shit up to his nose.
Very worrying for everyone, I must say.
The guy blocking the camera is wearing a The North Face jacket.
Than it must either be a fake or he nicked it from some clothing “factory”.
The deplorable situation of human rights in China as illustrated in the video of Sky News represents yet another fundamental reason why Joseph Muscat’s Citizenship 4 Cash programme is immoral and should be scrapped as soon as possible. Incidentally, while the events in the video were unfolding, we witnessed the arrival of a ‘Chinese billionaire’ at the Malta International Airport who, allegedly, was here to buy a Maltese passport. What better opportunity to put things in perspective?
The communist and dictatorial Chinese government continues to indiscriminately trample on the fundamental rights of its own people. Illegal arrest, unfair justice, torture, suppression of freedom of speech and other basic rights are the order of the day despite the apparent economic growth. This situation affects the entire population, which exceeds one billion (note to Manwel Mallia: one billion is “one thousand millions”).
It is this desperate situation that Chinese billionaires wish to escape from when they seek to obtain a foreign citizenship or residence. In the past 30 years – that is since the end of the Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedong – those billionaires have seized the opportunities of the gradual economic opening up of China and have made a lot of cash. Let us be clear: the exact derivation of their money is not always clear, and in many cases may have included illegal or illegitimate means, which may have involved further violation of the human rights of fellow Chinese people.
Since Joseph Muscat’s government stands to benefit financially, on a significant scale, from the situation of human rights breaches in which his target market of billionaires live, Muscat is putting himself and Malta in a situation of conflict of interest in which he as prime minister cannot take a clear, unambiguous and firm stand against China’s abuses on its people, because if he does, his target market will decline and the Chinese government could retaliate against the scheme.
In other words, it is in the interest of Muscat’s scheme that China continues with its abuse of the rights of its own people. Those abuses are the very reason for the existence of such schemes.
So it is highly unlikely that Muscat will ever take a clear stand on China in the international fora, or in bilateral talks. On the contrary, he is more likely to engage – “integrate,” even – with China and to improve relations with the communist regime, while he continues to target Chinese billionaires to whom he sells passports at Eur 650,000 a piece. He would not want to awaken the sleeping dragon. He is likely to sign more memorandum of understandings, like the one he signed in China in 2010 while he was still leader of the opposition, the one signed with a Chinese company – which is blacklisted by the World Bank – for a feasibility study on the Gozo channel bridge, the one signed in Dalian to privatise Enemalta to the communist Chinese government, and the last one signed by Hose Herrera to inject Chinese culture in Malta.
But when Muscat fails to condemn China for its human rights abuses, it is not only the billionaires who suffer those abuses. He is condemning the other billion of Chinese persons to live under a cruel regime. Those billion people have no opportunity to buy a Maltese passport to escape from the regime.
The scheme is immoral. It exploits human rights violations. It does not match our European values. It should be withdrawn as soon as possible.