So it turns out that the government was lying about PM Gonzi’s use of that bozza tal-plastik
At the height of the Justyne Caruana helicopter trip incident, the government released a stream of accusations that Lawrence Gonzi, when he was prime minister, used an army helicopter to go to baptisms, the opera in Gozo and they made it sound as though he was in that helicopter all the time, buzzing off to parties and to listen to fat ladies sing.
These accusations were picked up by the internet elves and repeated right across the comments-board and Facebook, which was the intention.
And of course, that’s leaving aside the fact that the prime minister’s use of an army helicopter can in no way be compared to a lowly backbencher’s use of that same flying machine.
Now it turns out, through information given in parliament, that Gonzi used that helicopter just three times in five years, and it wasn’t to go to baptisms and the opera, or rather the government has no way of knowing whether he used it to go to a baptism or the opera, because the purpose listed in the logs is ‘secret’.
So what we have here is a situation where the government, through its communications coconut Corto Farrugia, lashed out with a string of false accusations, knowing them to be false, and then a question was asked in parliament (by a Labour MP, interestingly) and Army Minister Manuel Mallia is forced to admit that Gonzi used the helicopter just three times, and for reasons unspecified.
How unscrupulous.
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Dirt, pure sheer unadulterated dirt.
‘Dirt’ doesn’t even begin to cover it.
‘Secret’ and ‘for reasons unspecified’! And they pledged transparency.
Nothing new there, Lawrence Gonzi will go down in history as the one they loved to hate.
Following Fenech Adami and Borg Olivier.
Gonzi is still being treated as if he is still the prime minister or opposition leader. Labour is trying to play a game a lure him back into the limelight and question Busuttil’s leadership.
I was reading some of his old tweets yesterday. Would have him back anytime. What a difference? I think some people forget.
Gonzi or Muscat?
The only person who had real use for that bozza tal-plastik was Broderick Crawford.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjewx_qxi7Y
http://youtu.be/zMTbFSJ_Tr4
So for the first time Malta sends someone to represent us in the winter Olympics and we choose the ones organized by Russia instead of boycotting them. But then is it worth it to lose the prospect of selling Maltese passports to wealthy Russians over defending LGBT rights of poor gay men and women ?
Unfortunately Daphne, it doesn’t matter what Lawrence Gonzi used the helicopter for anymore. The previous government can have all the best and valid reasons in the world why the helicopter was used.
What matters is that Labour got exactly what they wanted. They went into it covered in mud and came out smelling like roses because of all the lies their internet elves spread about the opera and what not.
Typical Labour.
They lie through their teeth and their unthinking minions believe them. Few would learn that Minister Mallia’s own response gave the lie to them. Honour and integrity? Anybody know what these mean anymore?
So Kurt Farrugia is lying scum and once again uses Gonzi, still their favourite scapegoat.
However I understand it was used by backbenchers in the PN time too. So why make a fuss about it now? If it was needed to be used in the national interest then it doesn’t matter if the person aboard was the PM or someone sanctioned by him.
I definitely think that Justyne Caruana’s use of it was wrong. Facts show that it was totally unnecessary.
Apologies the point I wish to make is that it is not the use by Justyne Caruana that is wrong but that it’s use then was totally wasteful, unnecessary and not in the public interest.
The government has obviously lost control of the situation and is constantly behaving like a cornered rat.
There is no other reason for this prolific lying.
At this rate it is going to be rather difficult to find out when we are being told the truth if we ever are.
Maybe Daphne can help enlighten us if this ever happens.
That’s all very well, but the mud has been thrown and most of it stuck.
But it does make me wonder though – why didn’t the PN try to rebut these lies? The Opposition must get on its feet again.
Four years fly by and it can’t wait for that 36,000 majority to evaporate by itself, however irked many of the “switchers” must be by now.
PN, wake up for Malta’s sake.
There are times when silence is golden.
The people are fickle, they will be more irritated by Labour’s actions than by the PN’s silence.
The labour mantra that the PN also did it will also make people realise that voting for Labour did not get the desired change. It will in all probability, based on what we are seeing to date, rebound back on them.
remember the grass is always greener on the other side
Not in Malta, I’m afraid.
The message has to be repeatedly hammered in the Maltese consciousness. It is the only way that works. Labour repeats its drivel until it is believed.
Take, for example, that blokka silg – a smoking gun if there ever was one. Labour repeatedly glossed over that little story, and as the PN didn’t hound Muscat, he managed to get away with it.
Conversely, take Tonio Fenech and that bloody clock. Labour media mentioned it on a daily, if not hourly, basis. It went to the top of the agenda.
On the other hand, how many people remember that Joseph Muscat is getting wads of cash for using his own car?
Or take Franco Mercieca, still doing eye operations to supposedly keep his hand in, although he is making a ton of money from this.
When was the last time he was hounded on the subject?
Sai Mizzi? The Opposition asked for details of her contract, the government said no, and that was the end of that. All wrong.
The Nationalist Party has to unleash its journalists, and they shouldn’t take no for an answer. They shouldn’t be intimidated by Mallia and his pozi, or by Muscat’s waspish tongue.
Their job is to uncover and publish, and as they belong to a politically-owned media organization, to keep up the pressure on these people.
that’s labour for you. All lies, damn lies and more lies. The Prime minister has a right to use the AFM helicopters but backbenchers do not have this right unless it is for a matter of national importance and what that oaf did was NOT of national importance.
‘Scum’ is the proper word for the lot of them. What a government.
Yet – how many out there will actually know the truth now?
What is one more Labour “terminological inexactitude” (Churchill’s euphemism for lies) among the profusion churned out on a regular basis by the Labour Party dirty tricks propaganda machine.
Il-Laburisti ziebel kienu, ghadom u jibqghu – huma u min izomm maghhom.
They simply never get tired telling lies. And they want people to believe everything they say.
Eddy Privitera was all over the comments board at timesofmalta.com, spluttering and repeating himself ad nauseam about Dr. Gonzi’s “45 trips” to various social gatherings.
What have you got to say for yourself now, Privitera?
Now that you’ve been proven wrong by your beloved Labour, who rather ironically were the ones to sell you that lie (yet another) in the first place?
He’ll just carry on. It’s his job to reduce this place to his level.
I mean, look at us, going through the fine print of a bogus legal notice to see how our democratically elected government planes to shove it up.
It’s a war of attrition, but they’re far fewer.
Vote for government reshuffle on timesofmalta.com.
Mallia, Cardona, perhaps Scicluna..
Lying has become the order of the day.
There is only one way to be sure: take it for granted that what the government is saying is a lie.
Bil-Malti nghidu “Zaqqhom tesgha furnata hobz imma halqhom ma jesghax kelma”.
U kull darba li jobzqu il-velenu tas-sriep qed ikollhom jilghaquh, ibda mill-High and Mighty u spicca fil-Corto e Basso. L-ghaxqa taghhom jitmegheku fit-tajn.
If there is one thing one cannot accuse Dr Gonzi of is being frivolous or shallow.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140206/local/shareholders.505754#.UvN9Osu9KSM
Is it any surprise that they lied about Gonzi’s use of that “Alwett”?
The surprise comes when they actually tell the truth.
Joseph Muscat said in an interview that sometimes one has to tell the truth. In other words, telling the truth is the exception for him, not the rule, and he considers that normal.
If Lawrence Gonzi had made abusive use of the army helicopter even once, the Labour Party would have screamed “scandal” to high heaven and milked it for God knows how long.
http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=Il%2DKap+tal%2DKomunikazzjoni+ma+jafx+li+91%25+ma+jridux+it%2Dtank+tal%2D%26%23295%3Ba%26%23380%3Bna+tal%2Dgass&t=a&aid=99854129&cid=19
I have no doubt that Super One will now put this news as its headlines tonight. Tactics of a totalitarian State, no less.
Typically Labour. Aggressive as always when the going is relatively good. They will not resist the urge to physically assault any opposition when the going gets bad for government.
Yes, they should all be forthcoming if Muscat got what he wanted.
Joseph Muscat to his mirror in Castille:
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest liar of us all?”
The issue is one of credibility. Prior to the general elections, the two parties were at each other’s throats trying to undermine the credibility of the other side.
Being caught out in a lie like this is stupid. It undermines the credibility of government with those voters who consider themselves to be floaters and it does so over something which is fairly trivial.
[Daphne – It’s not being caught out that’s stupid, but lying in the first place. Why do it?]
This is not the first time they have been caught lying and it will not be the last.
Compared to what is happening in Malta, Joseph Goebbels was an amateur.