I’m keeping my fingers crossed, hoping that Cyrus did not threaten Gabi with a pendrive.

Gabi Calleja is constantly nagging about gay rights, but then, when one of her fellows who is supposed to vouch for gays and their rights goes encouraging homophobia and commits such a disgusting crime on another gay man, she remains silent and gives no comments.

Actually, I think her work with the MGRM and previous efforts to stick up for this government demand an official statement.

Whatever the facts of the case (as clear as they are), that the prime minister condones Engerer’s homophobic actions and wishes him to retain his civil rights consultancy and LGBT-related positions should be scandalous to both the MGRM and to her.

Doing it once might be considered a mistake. Doing it several times shows serious premeditation and vindictiveness and can no longer be considered a mistake.

For the Prime Minister to rush to the defence of the perpetrator, eulogise him and say that he shares his values, while implying sordid motives to all and sundry is a mistake of colossal proportions that anywhere else, but in a banana republic, would be more than enough reason for his colleagues in Cabinet to make him resign.

The prime minister’s actions in this sordid affair have taken him, the Labour government and the Labour party into the political and moral gutter.

Cyrus Engerer can be quite a vindictive person.

When he tried to get a job within George Pullicino’s Ministry and this somehow fell through he went around all Malta saying Pullicino refused him because he was ‘gay’ and saying it was Pullicino who himself that told him so stating ‘ghax skoprejt li int homosesswali’.

After that, in retaliation, he went about trying to screw up Pullicino’s idea of the pedestrianisation of Bisazza street with the residents causing more than a few ripples.

She is too busy as lead singer of the Dreamers to care about Cyrus and his problems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDEJABnxotg

That might have been the case had it been done in the heat of the moment.

But the fact that it was done repeatedly, with such stealth, shows that this was a premeditated act intended on inflicting maximum damage.

You mean Gabi Calleja, John. And you’re not the first person to ask the question either.

I’m surprised that, of the many gay people I know, none of them take Joseph Muscat to task for actually sticking up for a vicious, nasty convicted homophobe, instead of firing him as his advisor. I truly expected better.

You did know Daphne, you just missed it probably.

Remember Simone Mizzi in her testimony said that when she received the first batch she binned it thinking it was some stupid prank. (Or words to that effect)

It was only after she received the second batch that she made her report.

I’m quoting all this by memory but am quite sure I read it somewhere on this blog.

[Daphne – I somehow thought he sent them all out at once, God knows why, given that I knew he’d been emailing from different places.]