Back into your dark hole, Jeffrey, please
March 2013: The chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology, drunk once more and standing on the bar in a Floriana dive with a Labour Party mass meeting going on outside, shouting obscenities against the Nationalist Party on whose ticket he was elected.
The chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology has commented about an issue of scientific relevance and importance.
“The President should appreciate the fact that he should NEVER have allowed his religious beliefs to influence him. He has NO RIGHT to impose his beliefs on others. NO ONE does,” he wrote on that august forum, Facebook.
Who said that the President’s religious beliefs have anything to do with it? I know several people with no religious beliefs, or next to none, who have reservations about same-sex marriage.
In any case, this is not about the President or his beliefs. This is about Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and his problems. If this were a more highly developed society, Pullicino Orlando’s words would not be reported outside the context of who and what he is.
We cannot expect him to know that he has been discredited by his own behaviour and had best keep quiet. So it is the newspapers who have to put his words in context.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is the man who dragged Malta through his personal crusade for divorce, claiming that he wanted divorce so as to marry his long-time companion, Carmen Camilleri Cianter, who he had lived with for more than a decade. Meanwhile, it was perfectly obvious (to me at least) that it had nothing to do with Mrs Camilleri Ciantar who, it was clear to me, he was not especially fond of and didn’t particularly want to marry. It was about giving Lawrence Gonzi more and more hell.
People knew that Malta needed divorce legislation so they seized the moment, holding their noses and voting for what they didn’t want that bitter little man to think was his cause.
With the divorce legislation through, he delayed his marriage to Mrs Camilleri Ciantar by nine months, and when the banns were out, began manifesting very public signs of psychological disorder and severe stress, making scenes in public and appearing on television in a highly distressed state.
He took his new wife on a brief honeymoon to Gozo with other people, and before the year was out, was cheating on her. When they had been married for 14 months, his new second wife had already packed up her belongings and left home, and he was (and still is) seeing the Labour Party’s billboard woman, Lara Boffa, who he used public money to recruit as his personal assistant at the Malta Council for Science and Technology.
And that is quite apart from the fact that he was involved in at least two public drunken brawls, one of which ended up in court (outside the pastizzi shop in Rabat at 5am) and another in the VIP area at a David Guetta concert, where he was forcibly evicted by security men and then claimed that somebody spiked his drinks.
This is a total jerk and waste of space. Stop quoting him. Who is he? A dentist who drinks heavily and earns extra money from Botox, with a government appointment given to him as a reward for helping to undermine and bring down the government he was elected by constituents to support. He does all that for divorce law because he says he wants to marry his companion, and then he cheats on her a year into the marriage and uses public money to give a job to the woman with whom he cheated.
Nobody like that can be taken seriously. He is a complete disgrace and it is a disgrace to the government that somebody so vile and chaotic chairs a national council where he uses public money to employ his mistress.
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How to interpret the law literally – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140327/local/ray-bugejas-appeal-to-sanction-swimming-pool-turned-down.512449
Talking of ridiculous, http://www.independent.com.mt/mobile/2014-03-27/news/one-year-on-still-no-garages-for-bandswillie-mangion-barred-from-speaking-to-media-4398710788/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd7hUG9Ac5E
I love the way Michelle Muscat switches her accents in the same sentence.
I hate it.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is hardly the right person to tell others how to behave.
May be he’s found a man for himself, who he’d like to marry now. He just needs to wait for his second set of divorce papers to be issued.
I think he should marry Franco Debono. They make a lovely couple.
A marriage made in heaven.
Franco fancies a different sort of bird.
Perhaps JPO has gone throughout all the women who will have him, so he’s decided to change orientation
I meant hell.
And let us not forget his famous speech at Leuphama University. He was completely off subject. The subject was city development and this is what he had to say…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efTTZhiTahM
Read the comments below the video. They make you weep with shame. The man is totally incompetent and should be made to resign from his post as chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology
I am not in any way defending George Abela here, but The Times reports that: “According to sources, Dr Abela’s objections are “on moral grounds”. His spokesman declined to comment.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140327/local/updated-pm-silent-as-president-refuses-to-sign-civil-unions-bill.512305
Why should George Abela take any lessons in morality from the person who was described by Alfred Sant as “politically and morally corrupt”?
“Sant had described Pullicino Orlando as ‘politically and morally corrupt’ when the MP tabled a historic bill for the introduction of divorce in 2010, ostensibly over the MP’s role to secure a planning permit for an open-air disco on his land in Mistra which was Labour’s central focus during their 2008 electoral campaign. ”
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/printversion/19141/
To dull Jeffrey, comments from l’Avvenire today:
Unioni civili, a Malta legge bloccata
Una legge che metterebbe sullo stesso piano le unioni gay e i matrimoni tra uomo e donna, anche per quanto riguarda le adozioni. E’ bufera a Malta sulla legge sulle coppie di fatto. Il governo maltese ha rimandato l’approvazione finale del provvedimento, dopo che il capo dello Stato George Abela si è rifiutato di firmare il decreto, esprimendo le sue perplessità sulla moralità del contenuto e sulla opportunità di equiparare i diversi tipi di unione.
La legge è già in ritardo di cinque settimane sulla tabella di marcia ed il governo del primo ministro laburista, Joseph Muscat, ora dovrebbe aspettare il prossimo quattro aprile, ovvero quando finisce il termine del presidente George Abela.
The visit to the Pope was well timed too.
”People knew that Malta needed divorce legislation so they seized the moment, holding their noses and voting for what they didn’t want that bitter little man to think was his cause.”
You always manage to hit the nail on the head. Yes, unfortunately people like me who believe that a country can’t function well without divorce legislation had to do exactly that.
I voted for divorce because I had to but I knew fully well that JPO, knowing how egocentric he is, would understand a yes-vote as a vote for him and would bolster his ego.
I remember myself cursing JPO all the way to the voting booth and back.