Comments on: Double standards: the chairman of the Anti Cyber Harassment Alliance finally speaks about Cyrus Engerer

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:48:10 +0000

We could even suspect premeditation in this change of law in case all Cyrus got was a slap on the wrist.

In my mind the government knew that Cyrus would be sentenced because I cannot believe that the AG did not inform someone of the gravity of the charge.

They hoped for a more lenient sentence whereby with this change in the law Cyrus would be able to worm his way through – but Cyrus is a bigger worm, much bigger.

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:34:32 +0000

‘He has paid dearly for a mistake he made a number of years ago by withdrawing his candidature.’

So Joseph Cuschieri was right after all.

‘Les jeux sont faits’ – Cyrus had been guaranteed a place on the winning team and Cuschieri found about it.

Either that or Cyrus has not paid dearly at all. He only lost the candidature not the post.

‘Those who want him see him totally destroyed and ostracised’

According to Cyrus’s C.V. he didn’t manage to hold a job for more than a couple of years since 2002 (that’s another year Chris Engerer was arrested, this time for cannabis possession).

By: Alexander Ball

Alexander Ball — Tue, 13 May 2014 13:49:39 +0000

In reply to Mr Meritocracy. Only prisoners in jail should be allowed to stand.

By: Mr Meritocracy

Mr Meritocracy — Tue, 13 May 2014 13:02:07 +0000

In reply to sunshine.

Ah, but the law was amended this March to allow people with suspended sentences to stand for election.

Cyrus Engerer would have therefore still been eligible.

Indeed, this is why Norman Lowell is being allowed to contest.

Yes, banana republic indeed.

By: one of us

one of us — Tue, 13 May 2014 10:11:25 +0000

He makes me sick. His leader makes me sick. In fact everything they all do makes me sick and we have at least another four years of it.

There may not be any physical violence but this is mental violence at its worst.

By: Tom Double Thumb

Tom Double Thumb — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:55:03 +0000

Although it is a purely hypothetical and totally impossible case, I would still like to ask Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando a question.

Jeff, what would you say and do if you discovered that obscene pictures involving you were sent to Joseph Muscat, the Science Council, your family etc, and investigations proved beyond doubt that these were sent by, for argument’s sake, a member of the Nationalist Party?

One thing I am doubly sure you would NOT say would be that it was a mistake. What you would do is unimaginable.

I rest my case.

By: sunshine

sunshine — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:33:40 +0000

I wish everyone would stop with all this “paying dearly for his mistake by withdrawing his candidature…”!

Chapter 467 of the Laws of Malta (EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS ACT) clearly states at Article 19:

“no person shall be qualified to stand for election as a member of the European Parliament or, if elected, to remain a member thereof if, whether in Malta or in any other Member State –
(e) he is serving a sentence of imprisonment (by whatever name called) exceeding twelve months imposed on him by a court in a Member State or is under such a sentence of imprisonment the execution of which has been suspended;”

So, like it or not, he would not have been eligible to stand…

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:01:15 +0000

Imagine if he’d been sentenced to any actual jail time, which would have been deserved in my view. This was not a “furia di sangue” moment; it was calculated and repeated over an extended period.

By: Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin — Tue, 13 May 2014 08:56:20 +0000

JPO, like many other Labour apologists, practices Orwellian ‘doublethink’ perfectly.

He sets up an Anti-Cyber Harrassment Alliance one day, and the next thing you know he is making apologies for a convicted perpetrator.

By: Volley

Volley — Tue, 13 May 2014 08:52:47 +0000

I would like to tell JPO that this is not a matter of being ‘destroyed and ostracised’ because it’s Cyrus Engerer’s fault full-stop and yes he has paid ‘dearly’ for it.
I think we’re all forgetting the fact that if the common layman out there commits an offence, he/she might lose his/her job instantly besides having one’s reputation tarnished for the rest of his/her life. So yes I expect the same from Cyrus Engerer-either to resign from all his public posts or get fired.