If the government is providing armed guards for passport buyers, then might we ask who the passport-buyers are?
I have received the following email from somebody I know:
My family and I on Tuesday caught the 9.25 flight from Malta to Girona (Spain). At the departure hall, I noticed a group of casually-dressed Eurasian-looking people (say Georgia or Turkey), accompanied by around six or seven soldiers from the Armed Forces of Malta. They were armed.
It was a pretty pathetic sight – the only time you see soldiers in airports is when they are leaving for an overseas mission or arriving from one – or when there is a credible terrorist threat (in the case of France and Italy). The Eurasian-looking passengers were all relatively young – say under 40.
At Gate number 2, waiting to board the flight, we saw them going round the duty-free shops, again accompanied by armed soldiers.
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One must defend against the chicken-stealing natives.
Daphne, maybe you can write something about the witness protection programme and how is this going to be applied. If I understand correctly, can this be applied also to very past acts of criminality? I have specifically in mind the murdering of Raymond Caruana and similarly the murdering of Karen Grech.
They must be stamp collectors and members of the Georgian Philatelic Union. You know, the ones who have an address in Holland Park.
If they looked Asian I doubt they were from Georgia. From Azerbaijan, perhaps?
Eurasian, not Asian. They could have been Saudis.
We don’t want them to suffer acute culture shock when they arrive from their totalitarian hell-hole to Malta.
So we have to break-in these new citizens slowly and give the airport that banana republic look, complete with AK-47 armed sweaty soldiers in wrap-around sunglasses.
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
A self-respecting banana republic must have gun-toting soldiers idly roaming its airport.