What human rights is Dr Falzon talking about? Adoption? That’s not a human right. It is a choice, not a right.

Marriage? It is not a human right; it is a choice.

If it were a right, then a man and a woman who live together and refuse to get married, either civilly or religiously, are infringing their own human rights.

“Yet our celebration of the adoption of the Civil Unions Act in no way distracts us from the serious challenges faced by asylum-seekers, migrants and refugees.”

Well, that is what your hero the PM is doing, Dr. Falzon, and with “serious challenges” of asylum seekers you might like to add that he is deviating the nation’s attention from the real problems.

The Chinese Sleeping Dragon is going to hit this island so hard that people will not know what actually hit them.

Dr. Falzon has not YET realised that, for the Labour Party, as long as “asylum seekers” are Chinese and they are ready to pay, then it is OK for them to receive Maltese citizenship.

One day they spite Muscat’s’ actions, the next they party together as if nothing wrong ever happened.

Maybe Joseph Muscat is hypnotist of some kind?

Does ADITUS also cater for the rights of patients, animals, children, people with special needs, hunters, criminals and their victims and those discriminated against because of their political views?

Aditus seems to view human rights piecemeal. It’s all about the fight against physical harm when society rejects your skin colour, the psychological harm of living with one’s sexual orientation when your society rejects your choice, and other liberal pièces de résistance which, it saddens me to say, can be a distract rather than focus.

It seems to me that there is a human rights which is a prerequisite for everything else. And that is for the individual’s government to live by its own rules.

To challenge those rules is a step up. Aditus challenges the Maltese government on the rules for the detention of illegal immigrants. Good.

But let us take a step back. Is the Maltese government living by its own rules? No it isn’t. It breaks them with impunity.

Because wholesale corruption, colonisation by China, and deceit is a violation of this most basic of human rights.

And it goes unchallenged by Aditus.

This brings me to another point. It’s all “the Maltese this” and “Malta that”. The Maltese are racists. Malta is intolerant.

Is Aditus nothing more than a collection point for sociological data? Surely, the attitudes and behaviour of a society are shaped to a large degree by its government. Very often, by single individuals in government.

Such as Joseph Muscat, when commenting on pushbacks.

Or Joseph Muscat, when he praises China unconditionally.

Aditus appears to be doing the utmost to remain “politically neutral”, in time-honoured Maltese NGO fashion.

It shouldn’t. It cannot. It is governments who make laws. It is governments who implement those laws, or otherwise.

It is political parties who get elected to govern.

If there is any justice in this world, and if the Adituses are right, history will judge Joseph Muscat as duplicitous, evil prime minister who sold his country to China, and freedom of expression and the rule of law along with it.

I don’t see much reason to party at Palace Square.

Or do I have to show him a deaf black gay first?

I am a great admirer of your work – anyone who champions the rights of the vulnerable particularly when this is done in a hostile environment should be commended.

Your work requires various skills and loads of perseverance. Most of all you need to be able to read people and their intentions.

Nobody would have commented if you held a private party to celebrate. You could have also organised a bigger party. Nobody would have blinked an eye.

The point here, and you more than anyone else will understand this, is that the event in front of the palace was choreographed to gain political mileage. Your participation in the event was a part of that choreography. The intention was to undermine what you stand for.

It was designed to say “Dr Falzon supports the PL track record on civil rights – he’s on our side. If you see him complaining on the immigration issue, u iva irrid kollox dan. L-ewwel tal-gays, issa din?”

The fact is that most Maltese don’t believe in equal rights. However the ‘gay’ issue is easier to digest than the immigration issue. The prime minister knows this. You know this.

Make sure that you don’t allow yourself to be used by a manipulative bunch.

Yes, Aditus pulled out, but Dr Falzon drafted the law (badly), so maybe best to stop boasting about pulling out of the council. He drafted the law as MGRM’s lawyer, but this is hardly a question of hats, unless hats are substitutes for principles.

This is the same argument that is used to praise Mintoff.

“Tana s-servizzi socjali”

So, should we forget all the violence and the hardships that we went through? I don’t celebrate the man for any good he might have done. The negatives far outweigh the positive.

You can take as many examples as you wish. For example do you praise and respect a father who buys things for his children but then abuses or beats them?

Why not all of the above?