Comment of the evening: ‘Labour is a criminal organisation’. Please discuss (while you are still able to do so).
Posted by Nighthawk:
It is not clear to me that the PN and the non-Labour population are fully aware of what they are dealing with in the Labour Party.
The P.N. is a political party operating in what it thinks, quite wrongly, is a mature western democracy. As its principal aim, it has a vague mission to improve the country’s lot, but like all political parties it is flawed to the same extent its leadership and upper echelons are flawed.
Its intentions are good, but the quality of its outcomes may wax and wane according to the skills and good or bad intentions or beliefs of the common mortals upon whom it depends for success. History will show that these outcomes have been mainly positive successes.
Labour, on the other hand, is not a political party. It is a criminal organisation; it operates like one, and has been so since the ascent of Mintoff and his criminally libellous coup d’état against and disposal of Paul Boffa.
That the intimidation is (so far) no longer physically violent but only mediatically so is simply an update for the times.
The Labour Party’s vote buying – not Anglu Farrugia’s pathetic claims of the PN purchasing junkie votes, but the wholesale purchase of every lobby with illegitimate aspirations – is further testament to this criminal behaviour.
Its principal aim is the advancement of its leadership and a restricted set of hangers-on. Malta Taghhom Biss. The country’s advancement is only incidental to these aims at best, and is often times contra-posed to them.
The Labour ‘movement’ corrupts all that it touches, including those who join it with the best intentions, and the corrupt and the amoral flock to it as they know they will find a home there. One need only look at the prominent (and flawed) former members of the P.N. who are now operating within Labour to see how true this is.
The result of this is inevitably economic failure, because the amoral and corrupt tend to be blinded by their greed. If they were not terribly bright to begin with, just cunning, they can and will destroy an economy in short order. That is when they will become seriously undemocratic, the inevitable fate of every Labour government post-Boffa. (Sant’s excluded, mostly).
So a run of successive Labour governments is unavoidably a descent into economic failure and deterioration of freedoms, followed by a struggle for the return to full democracy with further compounding of the economic issues.
Eddie Fenech Adami’s only big mistake was national reconciliation, although one might say it was simply an attempt at putting a brave face on an unwinnable situation: an armed and violent Labour Opposition in the early post-1987 period, with a corrupt and unwilling police force still firmly in Labour’s grip.
But even if it was really a genuine attempt at reconciliation, it’s useless. National reconciliation is ultimately meaningless. There is still a poisonous streak running through Maltese politics because of this. There needs to be atonement, not reconciliation. It is too late for those responsible for the last excesses, but it has to be made clear to the current lot that it will not be tolerated again.
This time round, there has to be jail time. (Henley & Partners are also prime candidates for this). Then there can finally be national reconciliation. But really, on principle there should be no reconciliation with the Mafia.
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Jail time for the criminals. And the sack for conniving academics.
Evil may start in men’s hearts, but it needs the halls of academia to conquer the national narrative.
Malta’s true history is yet to be written, and this generation of intellectuals needs to go before that can happen.
These hyenas do not worry about going to jail.
For example, their earlier incarnation raided and dismembered and snacked and munched away on the tasty remnants of the BICAL bank in the early 1970s and it was the Pace brothers that ended up in a prison cell.
The guilty ones have grown rich, old and fat and some have already completed their earthly stay, and no one ever did thing to them in retaliation.
Crooks that make-up the law as they go along have nothing to fear.
The rewriting of history is easily achievable. All it takes is a Brian May concert, open to paying patrons and sundry government scroungers and hangers-on (“do you know who I am?”), a badly spelled and poorly constructed website, and a collection of wannabes who can’t see the irony of marking supposedly historic occasions by wiping them clean of any sort of meaning.
Malta’s history is being written. Watch “Storja ta’ Poplu” on PBS. With the special participation of Profs. Godfrey Pirotta B.A.(Hons.)(Pol.Sci.)(R’dg),M.A.(Public Policy)(Bath),Ph.D.(Bath),D.S.S.(Oxon.),P.G.C.E…
Anyone wishing to watch the REAL “Storja ta’ Poplu” should obtain the 28 episodes of “Storja ta’ Poplu” (PBS is using the same title notwithstanding the copyright) issued and presented by Media Link Communications in 2005. These episodes reflect Malta’s history.
I really treasure these episodes.
Well, Labour have been particularly strategic as to the positioning of their people.
What more can you want than have a former Secretary General of the Labour Party as Dean of the Faculty of History? Perfect positioning to decide what gets taught and what doesn’t and what thesis gets written and how it is written.
Pure conjecture, of course, on my part, and the individual concerned may be totally upright and upstanding about it – but then I do remember the article he wrote when Dom Mintoff died.
This one’s for you.
http://www.anitaservizi.it/news/societa-disonorata-identikit-multidisciplinare-del
The authors explore the links between anti-education imposed by the various families on the villages they controlled and the Marian cult, typical of the south, used to pious approximation of what’s right versus a social ethic denigrated as coming from an anticlerical north.
Mintoff did both in sequence.
I agree. However, I would like to add this observation:
People are often quick to point out certain things that Malta lacks today. They complain about X or Y, as if money grows on trees and since these things haven’t been sorted out it s because the PN have been keeping it all for themselves. (Gonzi and Fenech Adami have been in office, guys, not Mintoff)
They fail to understand that Malta’s main income is from tourism, something that is not all that lucrative in the grand scheme of things.But this is not the main issue I have with these comments.
I agree that there is a lot of room for improvement in Malta when it comes to infrastructure, laws, organizations etc. I grew up in Malta that was a third world country, where elections meant we didn’t go to school and everything was bad.
In fact, I think our attitude of “everything Maltese is bad” comes from those days, and not post-colonial mentalities. It wasn’t because we had this self deprecating attitude towards Malta that was born out of an inferiority complex. Everything really was bad-terrible in fact. Power cuts left right and center, roads that may as well not have been tarmacked, a stagnating education system, products on shelves that tasted awful, while everywhere else in Europe had everything.
None of this was the result of PN administration. It is, however, indicative of how miserable the Labour governments were. They put Malta at an extreme disadvantage which we are still overcoming today.
While the rest of Western Europe was growing and improving and enjoying technological advances, the Maltese were fighting against oppression. While the UK was climbing out of a recession, Malta was digging its way into one.
That is the legacy of Mintoff and Communism, not just in Malta, but the world over. Why is it that there is so much homophobia in eastern Europe and Russia, the type we haven’t seen in developed countries for quite some time now? Because that society had to fight for such basic rights, that it never had to worry about minorities. The same can be said about Malta.
I don’t think the mistakes made by the PN are a result of the PN being flawed- although they do have their down side. We are still struggling with the ignorance that Communism nurtures. If they made any mistakes, it was because they consulted specialists and professionals and not the man in the street. What a sin!
The PN worked tirelessly for 25 years, and today we are in the EU with education coming out of our ears and opportunities we never imagined, and a life style that you don’t find anywhere else in Europe and on top of it all we complain about an open air theatre and about the quality of water and blame the PN. What? Complain about the quality of water? Just under 30 years ago the water you used was usually brown-if you got any water at all and the money that was supposed to go to re-building that theater back then….God knows where it all went.
Please put things in the right perspective.
If the PN seems so super, it’s only because we compare it to Labour, which is the pits. In actual fact, the PN is your average socialist European party, policy-wise and performance-wise. It is neither brilliant, or corruption-free. Nor is it free from self-serving individuals.
If the Maltese lifestyle seems so good, it’s only because we compare it to life under Mintoff, where Malta’s lifestyle was only inches away from North Korea’s, including the torture and killings (yes, j’accuse). In fact, many of the metrics are below average (health, happiness, wellbeing, environment, culture, travel, education…)
If the opportunities seem to be so good, it’s only because we compare them to the prison that was pre-EU Malta. In fact, Malta will never offer the opportunities that other, normal-sized countries do, even with EU membership. Not everyone wants to be a doctor, architect, lawyer or programmer. Some positions are still barred to Maltese passport-holders.
Finally, do you really want the PN to consult the man in the street? If it did that, we’d still be sleeping in caves and having dung for dinner.
Awesome stuff, Baxxter,
‘man in the street’? So many and so in charge now.
The Maltese lifestyle is good Baxxter.
Trust me.
I, for one, never thought that the PN were a perfect lot. However, I’d rather live naked under the Nationalists than fully clothed under Labour.
And with all the criticism of the PN, you name me one perfect government anywhere, anytime.
See the comment on Godfrey Pirotta above. You call this a good lifestyle? In any normal country he wouldn’t even be allowed near academia.
Hang on a minute. Did you say quality of water? Did I miss something here? Did the government say it will be doing something about the quality of water?
Are we sure they are not planning to privatise it to China? Seriously.
Well done, Nighthawk – you have written “What oft was said, but n’er so well expressed”. The relief I feel in reading this is like finally scratching an intolerable itch in the unreachable and the unmentionable.
One can for example look at the marketing tactics employed:
”Malta to host top UK medical school – Health Minister”
Before chalking this down as a victory one needs to ask if it means that we are going to do any more teaching in our only teaching general hospital.
How many of you readers have had a cannula inserted by a newby? Was it fun? What makes us attractive to a medical student? Our renowned doctor-patient communication style or perhaps less vociferous lab rats than their European counterparts?
Nighthawk, a post that exposes all that these scary people have in store. Excellent.
Please keep your head down, the bullfrog is about.
Little Joey sold the country out to a bunch of scammers.
So sad but not unexpected..
I have to say, as a non-working import, that I haven’t seen any real change this last year. Internet still works unhindered and food prices are stable, as are fuel prices etc.
I try to keep up with current affairs through the English-language media, via the websites.
Politics in Malta has very little to do with policy. If it did then all the true socialists would have voted for the PN.
If things are as bleak as predicted in four years time then those who voted for a change, or to get rid of Gonzi, will flock to get rid of Muscat. Not the average PL voter but those floaters who put Muscat in last year.
All it needs is 18,001 to vote PN and Muscat is toast. Hopefully the PN will have a decent selection process when choosing candidates. Muscat selects his with the charm of a pimp. He’ll select anyone.
I will be surprised if Muscat does get in again. His lies and broken promises are bordering on the criminal, in my view. He has no mandate to sell passports, simple as that.
I don’t take a cynical view of the Maltese electorate. They got all the decisions right since 1998. The PN needed a kick up the arse last year. Now they have to work at getting elected.
If the PN took an electoral pledge to bring all criminals to justice then they might get more support than you suppose.
I realise this is rambling waffle. But don’t underestimate me. I have the vote. And I use it.
No real changes?
Prisoners receive three meals a day, are taken out for daily exercise, and have plenty of time to read, if that is their inclination. But they still live in a prison.
If the PN took an electoral pledge to bring all criminals to justice then they might get more support than you suppose.
This is the sentence that says it all. Eddie Fenech Adami’s grave mistake was that his government never brought any of the Labour very wrong doers to justice.
[Daphne – And the grave mistake that everyone else makes is to think and say that it is the government who can, may, should and would bring people to justice, when Malta is subject to the rule of law and the separation of powers. A government that brings people to justice – do you actually know what you are saying there? Any government that acts to bring people to justice is a government that can also act to make sure that people are not brought to justice – which is exactly what the fuss is about with John Dalli and Joseph Muscat. The problem is that institutions in Malta are extremely weak and people have a weak understanding of democracy. In a real democracy, people would react with horror at the thought of a government ‘bringing people to justice’, still less would they call for it to do just that. Looking to the government for justice is a tacit admission that the structures which are there to do exactly that are not functioning as they should.]
This is what someone said at a PN club- “Simon Busuttil should promise to redress the wrong doings of Muscat et al”.
Only then will he win back the lost sheep and lure them back to the fold.
The person who said the words in inverted commas, is not a university graduate – he’s a graduate from the school of life under a Mintoffian government – and I think he’s much wiser than most of our professors.
“He has no mandate to sell passports, simple as that.”
This is where the focus should remain.
The man is undeserving of the title Prime Minister and every act leading from the first sale is corrupt and tainted.
The Labour Government is there by fraudulent misrepresentation.
That alone is criminal.
The cherry on their cake of lies and deceit.
The awarding of the “exclusivity” to Henley & Partners is corrupt.
The awarding of the power station tender to Gasol Plc is also corrupt.
The manipulation of the Police force and the Army is transparently corrupt.
Countless other such actions already.
Perception-deception continues to work on a malleable spineless part of the population.
If one can attempt to attribute to the Nationalist Party when last in Government: “Excellent but not enough,”
How does one begin to contrast this with the Labour Party in Government?
No positive notion of excelling.
Failing, but not fast enough to raise the blinkers.
The next dream, “in poetry,” leading to the next sure failure.
Lack of honourable guts; Lack of principles; Lack of brains to create a clean, decent, product with polish.
Such are the people who sell Malta out with every passport.
Such is the mafia web that expands and gets exported with every passport.
Such are the commissions that Manwel, Henley & Partners, Muscat, Keith Schembri and others are pocketing.
Baxxter and Jozef were correct about the complete lack of Foreign Policy with Labour. The consequence and the sequel of such actions does absolutely nothing to help us stand ramrod straight at any table where this is discussed.
The Maltese have become the moral hunchbacks of Europe thanks to this stooge of a Labour Government.
This activity is rotten at the core. Pure Labour rot.
Thank you, Nighthawk for this masterpiece.
May I assure you that all righteous people like me who lived our most precious formative years unfortunately under the Malta Labour Party governments will not hesitate to endorse your thoughts. The facts you gave are still very vivid in my mind. I am convinced that the 18000 switchers are moslty from the later generation who found Joe Muscat appealing with his deceiving promises. They could not care less of the recent history.
Nighthawk is right.
Labour acts like a criminal organisation, and has done so even in opposition. There are indicators that they have been organised and trained to act this way, especially since the 2008 elections. While in opposition, they seem to have acted on a risk-reward basis, with post-electoral victory rewards granted on the basis of performance in damaging the government and creating public discontent while in opposition.
They cannot be trusted to operate in good faith, but only in their political self interest. “Tista’ ma taqbilx maghna izda tista’ tahdem maghna.” What sort of threat is that?
They operate with a hidden agenda, while presenting themselves as a fresh and genuine article. They seem to report to a central command and to operate under fear.
They spend disproportionate amounts of the nation’s resources on managing their appearances. Hence “Il-gvern li jisma’” and “Dan hu l-gvern tieghek” adverts on radio.
The use of meaningless catch phrases and slogans has been very effective in diverting the scrutiny of the media.
They are not guided by values and principles. Instead, they turned Malta into a Land of Opportunism, where the end justifies the means.
They rule by the mob. Hence the fresh wave of ‘government that listens’ corner meetings for the faithful. And the cabinet meetings at the village band clubs.
They humiliate their adversaries and resort to offensive language like “tradituri” and “tixwix.” And they set their media on their victims.
They spent their first 6 to 9 months since the elections filling all spaces in government, weaving a cobweb of key Labour appointments. They now seem set to implement their plan with political revenge. The elimination of Arriva.
They promised meritocracy and transparency, but have so far delivered secretive deals. The contract with Henley. The agreements with China.
They dedicated special attention to gaining control of the police and the armed forces. They will be handy in the eventuality of public demonstrations.
Meanwhile they harbour extremists from all aspects of life.
They risk becoming an illegitimate and illegal government.
Yes, cleaning the country of their excesses may necessitate jail terms. They should be warned. They need to be held fully accountable and responsible for their actions of government.
Exactly Ciccio, tista’ tahdem maghna is an offer we can’t refuse.
Now look at what’s happening in Mater Dei, the MUMN has issued directives to defend its members from the protection racket going on in the hospital’s wards and operating theatres.
Listening to some of the taghna lkoll callers on DotNet, they think it’s legitimate to behave in this manner, the plebiscite must be demonstrably realised. A hint Muscat shouldn’t ever go down Sant’s path, that of refusing transfers, his failure was to acknowledge vindication in multiple grassroot forms.
If this is left to fester, we’ll soon be back to talk of a ‘small minority which our dear leader couldn’t control’.
Well said, Nighthawk.
Spot on. Had I been suffering from delusions, I would have said that Nighthawk has read my mind.
Nothing much to add or discuss here. Nighthawk is right in every way.
I hope Simon Busuttil reads this. Spot on, Nighthawk.
Very well said, Nighthawk! I called them a criminal lot shortly before the election for much less.
I’m afraid that those 18000+ voters are the only ones who can get us out of this deep hole our country has dug itself into.
I agree with Alexander Ball on that count, that come next election they will be the ones to fry Joseph Muscat.
And I really hope I’m not clutching at straws here.
grapes are sour when they cannot be reached good day
The fact that I agree with those saying that the PN is only seen to be a better proposal relative to the chronic abysmal levels of the PL, is in itself tragic.
It’s tragic because the PL seems to be on a constant regressive trajectory, and that does not help elevate the performance of the PN and local politics.
To myself the point in history which has marked the political scene eversince is the first post independence Mintoff administration. We often, and for good reason, quantify the economic and social damage perpetrated by Mintoff’s government, and overlook the catastrophic cultural and political damage that may never be corrected.
If ever possible, Muscat is even worst than Mintoff for the simple reason that Mintoff made it obvious he was out to get whoever he didn’t like. It is also evident that Muscat has no guiding values, if any values at all.
I also find it telling (though I stand to be corrected), that the “politicians” who leave the PN can easily be identified as the “bad apples” and more often than not find refuge within the PL – the skip.
Well said, Nighthawk.
Another thing these organizations disguised as political parties look for is continuity. More people they involve in their scheme more people is interested in the continuity of the model.
For that, they need to control (and subvert) the institutions, which sound complicated but it is very easy, just put the wrong people in the right places.
That process is already being done.
There could be a link somewhere between Labour’s steady rise to power and the Sicilian mafia’s cupola beheading a few years back.
Maroni had introduced a law which gave lawmakers the power to confiscate every asset belonging to boss’s families and distant relatives, it proved quite the parting shot.
One can guess where the retreat could have been.
Otherwise, how does one explain the weekly executions going on in this place? Every mafia perdente was the one which didn’t organise itself politically for reciprocal protection.
Poor you all hahahahaha unbelievable what a 36,000 smash down can do to some…. hahahahaha are you really going to live this way for many years to come? May God have mercy on you hahahahaha
[Daphne – Been taking speed, have you, Coleiro? That’s rather risky, what with your job at the Freeport. You don’t want to end up dropping a container on somebody’s toes. And if it’s not speed or magic mushrooms, then I strongly suggest you see a psychiatrist, because you sound as though you need one. Il-vera bniedem vulgari u stupidu, reklam tajjeb wisq ghal Partit Laburista. Min jaf kemm jisthu minhabba l-agir ta’ nies bhalek.]
Idiot. What this means is that the Labour Party is busy setting itself up for another 25 years in Opposition. Do the maths. For those of us just on either side of 50, this is Labour’s last run in power in our lifetime.
And on cue…..
http://markanthonysammut.blogspot.com/2014/02/all-is-not-well-in-land-of-joe.html
Come on…no politician will ever end up in prison in Malta.
No one did and no one will.
Many of them are corrupt. We know Malta is small and everybody talks. The newspapers are not like the foreign ones and never ‘trap’ politicians.
We do not really have journalists (Daphne only comes near ). Anyway these, after all the talk, will not arraign any Nationalist politician and the Nationalists never arraigned any Labour ones.
You see they take it in turns to ‘rob’ Malta (us). We are not stupid. That is why we desperately need another party.