“Those who have been alienated from the PN and have fallen for Muscat can look forward to their share of the crumbs – the decriminalisation of marijuana. They’ll need it.”
From Ivan Fenech’s column in Times of Malta today:
The Prime Minister scraped the bottom of the barrel with his petrol price debacle, using one of the government’s last remaining monopolies to make a people grateful for his small mercies.
Now he’s promising another big surprise, this time for Gozo. Labour’s weekly, KullĦadd, said there was great “excitement and curiosity” in the air when the Prime Minister made the announcement. He treats his people like idiots and they love him for it.
In Cospicua last week, the cradle of socialism, Muscat turned the EP election into a vote of confidence in his government. It sounded foolish but the latest Malta Today survey was good news for Labour. A clear win for Labour will translate into a more abrasive government.
The Developers Association will throw a big party and environmental NGOs would need to reconsider their very existence. Nationalist-oriented voters who have fallen for Muscat’s liberal bait, alienating them from the PN, can look forward to their own share of crumbs too – the decriminalisation of marijuana. They’ll need it.
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If Muscat wants an explanation for the cool reception at Cospicua, he should turn to his colleagues and ask them what exactly have they promised the electorate. That would be a start.
Dumping his liberal gibberish would also help but, then, that would cost him the place he notched for himself in history, which would be a shame for a young man of such calibre.
Today’s Labour is not built on soldiers of steel but on soldiers of fortune. It is built on opportunists, on unrefined, gel-haired wannabes who swagger around Valletta’s streets flaunting their political appointments. No wonder the Malta Employers’ Association is concerned at the size of the public sector. It has grown by 1,400 in a year.
Read the full column via the link below.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140506/opinion/Soldiers-of-fortune.517846
The whole article is good.
Izjed kemm jghaddu l-granet izjed qed insir nobghod lil daz-zibel ta’ gvern.
Brilliant!
“In Cospicua last week, the cradle of socialism, Muscat turned the EP election into a vote of confidence in his government. It sounded foolish but the latest Malta Today survey was good news for Labour. A clear win for Labour will translate into a more abrasive government.”
Just to see how well-timed and well-staged the whole thing was, I’m sure the pro-gay adoption vote in Parliament and subsequent party (benefactor still ‘unknown’) will get Labour some more MEP election votes. So even if they shouldn’t care less about being ‘suldati tal-azzar’, local LGBT groups will now be duped into giving their seal of approval on the subsequent abuses by the Labour party-cum-Government.
“Today’s Labour […] is built on opportunists, on unrefined, gel-haired wannabes who swagger around Valletta’s streets flaunting their political appointments.”
Thank you for the reminder. You can also count the egotistic and opportunistic ‘switchers’ among their number.
Come to think of it, it’s been a while since I’ve heard someone brag about how s/he’s a born Nationalist who voted Labour. Are they hiding under a rock in shame or what?
Thanks Daphne for quoting this article. It’s spot on.
The size of the public sector is the only thing to have grown fatter than Joseph this past year.
And on a different note: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621361/The-economy-class-prince-William-takes-cheap-seats-journey-home-American-wedding-praised-humble-awesome-fellow-passenger.html
X’tahseb, Michelle?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621361/Prince-William-flies-economy-class-journey-home-American-wedding.html
Qisu taghna
“Today’s Labour is not built on soldiers of steel but on soldiers of fortune. It is built on opportunists, on unrefined, gel-haired wannabes who swagger around Valletta’s streets flaunting their political appointments.”
Times of Malta has a thing or two to learn from Ivan Fenech.
Decriminalization of cannabis possession is a great thing and I don’t care which political party puts it into law.
The stuff was perfectly legal 100 years ago and it has never killed anyone.
Making criminals out of normally law abiding people to protect the monetary interest of the pharmaceutical industry and the alcohol beverage industry by the status quo is hardly fair.
I don’t want to hear the usual nonsense of how bad cannabis is for you and we have to protect the children, the children, the children etc, as if my world revolves around your children.
You should be more worried about the vaccines you give to your children and alcohol at the corner bar and the junk food they stuff themselves with.
[Daphne – A fatuous argument. Nobody cares if a man your age spends his pension getting wasted as you’re on the way out anyway and it doesn’t matter if you can’t hold down a job because you’re retired anyway, but it would be a little different if you were 20. Then yes, people would bother.]
Soon we have not only morons driving around like lunatics but stoned morons doing likewise. How do you breathalyse drug-drivers?
You will get the same amount of THC impaired drivers as you do now, they are the ones driving way below the speed limit.
In Cannabis legal Colorado, it is at the discretion of the police officer or Highway patrol state trooper.
The motto on the Colorado Freeway Billboard Ads is “Drive high, get a DUI”
If you are stopped by the police in Colorado while driving a motor vehicle and the police officer suspects that you are stoned, then you are done for, no need for a breathalyzer test even, you are arrested, car is impounded, go to court, get a hefty fine, face prison time, lose your drivers license, pay much higher insurance cost- if you ever get your driver’s license back that is.
In Malta it would make no difference, as plenty of alcohol impaired drivers take to the road, like the coast road after a night of bar hopping in Bugibba and Qawra on weekend nights.
The Malta police force could take a tip or two from the Colorado police, even for just the boozers behind the wheel.
The Malta police force do not do spot checks on them for DUI, seen this many a summer while staying in Malta.
People of all ages can get wasted on a more insidious and dangerous substance, and it is available in nearly every corner of every block in Malta.
Governments are not in the business of personal self-control, that is your job, you have free-will and common sense built-in.
[Daphne – In Europe, governments are in the business of personal self-control because, unlike in the US where you live, Ken, they are in the business of having to pick up the pieces in hospital care and welfare aid for those who can’t hold down a job. But even under the US system, the social costs of drug use are huge.]
I still don’t want to get hassled by the police and the law court system regardless of my age or whether I use cannabis as medicine or recreationally.
[Daphne – That’s not the point. At your age and in what I assume is the comfort of your position (and age and status are relevant here), you’re not exactly going to go out and mug people or burgle houses for the money to buy the drugs you need. Some people seem to think that legalising drugs will stop drug-related crime. Why? People are still going to need to buy their drugs, whether they are legal or not, and it’s not the cost that’s the issue but the fact that people with a drug problem can’t work. Also, cheaper prices lead to an escalation of consumption – as any Vice Squad officer will tell you, when the street price of cocaine falls, consumption rockets. The pushers have to push harder and to more people to make their money, and resistance to overtures is lower because of the attractive price.]
Legalization and taxation and control of cannabis make more sense than this so called ‘decriminalization” or the present “you-are-a-criminal” for using a herb that has never killed anyone and has been used for thousands of years before.
If you grow it yourself, it will cost you pennies per gram so it is not a strain on even the smallest pension or income.
It will be as costly as growing tomatoes.
[Daphne – And there’s the flaw in your argument, right there. If you grow one plant for yourself, why not grow 20, 30, 40, 50 and sell it to others? Why not use the profit to buy a greenhouse and grow even more and find new customers and markets? And there you go.]
Cannabis is still cheaper to buy than my arthritis medicine and way less dangerous to my liver and more effective too.
I believe that you and you alone are responsible for yourself and your family. I would not like to have the government tell me what to do in any circumstance, even if it is picking up the pieces. I grew up in the American system and I do prefer it to any other.
In my business life I found that less government interference made life better for my family, my business and for my employees. My two sons run the family business now and they are more “no government interference” then I ever was.
[Daphne – You can’t compare business-related bureaucracy with welfare care. They are two completely different issues. Europe has evolved differently to the United States. It used to be just like the US, as you very well know, with a near-free-for-all in business and no welfare at all, right into the 20th century. The result was abject misery for the majority and constant fear and insecurity for everyone else. The US is the essential liberal economy: the flipside of ‘you succeed on your own merit’ is ‘you fail through your own fault so nobody else is obligated (obligated?) to pick up the pieces – just sit in the gutter.’ I am all for liberalism in business and markets, but only when qualified by the welfare state. A properly civilised society supports those who cannot support themselves. It doesn’t kick them into the street.]
I do not know anyone that mugs people for weed, even street people do not do that. At 5 to 7 dollars a gram for half decent bud street price and it is within reach of almost all strata of society.
It would be even cheaper if you can grow three or four plants a year legally, for most cannabis aficionados that is all they would need.
Cannabis is not heroin, you do not go jones-ing for a hit of pot. If you don’t have any weed your life still goes on fine.
If everyone is growing legal cannabis, why would anyone, including myself grow more than I need?
Personally, I don’t need the money from selling weed, maybe others are in a different position in life than myself but then again, everyone is responsible for themselves.
[Daphne – Perhaps you should read this: http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/6121 ]
Daphne, your anti-marijuana position is irritating me. I will not go into the pro and against arguments as they have been exhausted but if you can manage to look beyond you can easily see that this is simply a matter of choice.
There are far more dangerous (legal) substances on the market which are being abused. There are also legal foods that are dangerous or lethal if not controlled by the ‘user’. This leads to the logical conclusion that it is education and self discipline which matter in life as the exposure and temptations are also there.
If you would like a second opinion:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140507/world/Nobel-economists-others-urge-end-to-war-on-drugs-.518026
[Daphne – The solution to not being irritated, if my view on this subject upsets you so much, is to avoid reading it as you have advised others to avoid chocolate if it’s bad for them.
What irritates me far more profoundly (but I read all of it nonetheless) is the childishness and simple-minded reasoning of those who argue for ‘choice’. They speak as though individual actions take place in some kind of vacuum. I might have argued that way 30 years ago, when I knew next to nothing of life and had the profound egocentricity of youth, but I certainly don’t now. Now I know that some individual choices affect the wider picture – and other individuals who should have a say in the matter.
As a lifelong non-smoker, I have a profound objection to the personal choices of smokers which lead to so much of the state health budget and precious resources being spent on treating and dealing with the consequences of those choices. I feel the same way about super-fat people, incidentally, but there’s not much you can do to control that.
You can at least slap a heavy tax on cigarettes now that it’s around a hundred years too late to ban them outright, which is exactly what should have been done. And yes, then we wouldn’t have had this many smokers. We have this many smokers because smoking is legal.]
Jahsra Daph; If you can read something which irritates you why can’t I? How would I know it irritates me before I read it through and try to understand where you’re coming from?
It is a personal choice and yes, some personal choices have a collective effect. Many negative effects are tolerated through necessity (fuel burning power stations: energy/emissions).
I am not advocating a burden on tax payers, far from it. Policing drug use costs taxpayers well. Taxes on drug sales will finance health concerns – which are being exaggerated as sensible use is not harmful. The police force can be put to better use in preventing real criminals or other things that they do from time to time.
[Daphne – Sorry, Logical, but I give more weight to the arguments of people who actually know what they’re talking about: http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/6121 ]
I admire (and appreciate) your patience, so here goes.
I remember the ‘smack era’ well and had friends who also got hooked. You mention heroin, what about people falling asleep on the wheel on the way back from Gianpula, after popping downers? They also died a horrible death.
Can a medical professional on this site cite the estimated number of people abusing (and hooked) on legal tranquillisers or anxiety medication?
You are simply using ‘sad’ stories, taking it to an extreme to put your views across; you do not need to. I see your point and you are right in part but the problem is not so simple and has many dimensions, some of them perceived.
Prohibition of cannabis ( I am yet to be convinced as to other substances) is not a solution but a method of incentivising organised crime, which breeds corruption and violence. It makes criminals out of people and stigmatises them for it.
[Daphne – Actually it does not stigmatise people and make criminals out of them. People are very clear on who the real criminals are in these equations. The weakness of your argument, which is why it fails to convince, is its fallacious logic. Banning a substance keeps both production and consumption at much lower levels than they would be if the substance were not banned. That is a good thing, not a bad thing. The other flaw in your argument is that decriminalising cannabis (or any other currently illegal drug) will help control organised crime which breeds corruption and violence. It won’t. That’s why I gave you the example of the vast trade in smuggled cigarettes and arms. Both are legal. But a huge parallel market exists in smuggling. It will be no different with cocaine, heroin or cannabis. Do you imagine that criminals who are now making huge fortunes from trafficking will either give up the business or go legal? Neither: they will stay illegal and compete with the legal operations, and the legal operations will be really up against it because the criminal operators were in there first and..because they’re criminal and not averse to getting rid of you if you get in the way. Has legal prostitution stopped the white slave trade? No, it’s fed it.]
The stuff was perfectly legal 100 years ago and it has never killed anyone.
Both heroin and cocaine were legal in 1900.
Making criminals out of normally law abiding people to protect the monetary interest of the pharmaceutical industry and the alcohol beverage industry by the status quo is hardly fair.
Who would sell cannabis, in your opinion? A bunch of pot-heads? If it were legal on a mass scale, it would be mass produced by the same big companies like Phillip Morris, that produce vast quantities of tobacco and alcohol products. It wouldn’t alter the status quo in that respect.
I don’t want to hear the usual nonsense of how bad cannabis is for you and we have to protect the children, the children, the children etc, as if my world revolves around your children.
Your world does revolve around other people’s children. Without them, your pension won’t get paid and the country you live in would collapse. Your stupid argument aside, cannabis is harmful – as are tobacco and alcohol. While the taxpayer pays for your health, curbs on how much damage you can do to yourself are a good idea – because, quite frankly, I don’t see why someone should pay tax to put you back together.
You should be more worried about the vaccines you give to your children and alcohol at the corner bar and the junk food they stuff themselves with.
Alcohol and junk food are worrisome and they are a problem that needs to be tackled. Your opinion on vaccines, however, is woefully misinformed.
But unlike with heroin and cocaine, you cannot die of an overdose of cannabis.
[Daphne – No, but you can end up in hospital for complications and certainly in a psychiatric hospital after a psychotic episode directly induced by cannabis. And in young men who are genetically predisposed, cannabis may trigger permanent psychiatric damage: schizophrenia.]
Cannabis was made illegal out of pure greed.
[Daphne – Whose greed? The traffickers?]
My opinion on vaccines is based on what I saw in my own family and they are to blame for autism and no one can tell me otherwise. Get your child vaccinated at their own risk and your risk as a parent(s) who has to raise that child.
[Daphne – That’s rich, coming from somebody who doesn’t care that cannabis is documented as triggering psychosis, but then seems to care about his own personal observations that vaccines trigger autism.]
If you go paranoid with your first or second try of cannabis early on, then it is not for you. Grace Slick was like that, cannabis was not for her.
Myself and cannabis get along just fine, in fact I had more problems with doctor prescribed medicine than I ever did with weed.
ACD, if anyone is concerned about paying taxes to support drug users, well, alcoholics, food abusers, smokers, etc are already being supported.
[Daphne – So let’s add some more addicted ducks to the list, shall we? Again, a lame argument: we already have lots of people harming themselves with other substances, so why not add some more. Majtezwel. Otherwise it might be seen as discrimination between the legality of different forms of self-harm.]
Drugs will be taxed if they are legalised. Obviously, it is decriminalisation that is being discussed but the long term solution is legislation. (Drug) Taxes would be paying for users health.
[Daphne – You clearly know nothing about the vast, uncontrollable market in cigarette smuggling to evade excise, Logical. And for other reasons: the Irish Republican Army ran a cigarette-smuggling operation in league with a few Maltese some years ago. They used the money they raised to buy arms which were smuggled along the same route and probably also by the same people.]
Psychosis is aggravated by certain strains of cannabis. The amount smoked will also determine whether a patient is affected or not.
Some people are predisposed towards psychosis and cannabis will aggravate this. The solution is to stay away: if your cholesterol levels are high, don’t eat too much chocolate.
The only people I know who were went to medical care after smoking cannabis were only paranoid after consuming too much. Too much of anything is obviously bad.
[Daphne – Not quite. I’ve known some people who smoked cannabis every day with no discernible effect except that they were immensely boring company and couldn’t function properly (though I never knew quite what came first, the weed or the malfunction). And I’ve known a few who suffered paranoid psychosis after just a short period of smoking it. So no, it’s not really a matter of too much. Some people chain-smoke all their lives and die at 80 of other causes. Some people live with somebody who smokes and die of lung cancer at 50. And nobody dies of alcohol unless they become extreme alcoholics. Drinking a glass of wine every day is not a potential trigger to anything – unlike smoking a joint every day.]
As to your argument that ‘subsidising’ people who abuse food, alcohol, cigarettes etc – not adding to the list shouldn’t be the concern but reducing that list should be the target – as with cannabis use. However, it is always the individual who makes the final choice and the legality of a choice is not always a concern to those who truly understand that the ‘problem’ is a perception that has grown on society.
[Daphne – You don’t reduce cannabis use by decriminalising possession for personal use and making it more widely available and accessible, logical. That does precisely the opposite. Take cigarettes for example. It’s legal to buy them and smoke them (given only the age restrictions), and it’s also legal to sell them. The consequence? Massive worldwide addiction, children getting addicted as young as 12 and 13 because access to cigarettes is so easy and those who sell them come up with innovative marketing techniques (the latest, e-cigarettes) and a huge burden on the healthcare system which the taxes on cigarettes and on the profit from selling them don’t even begin to cover.]
I can understand your reasoning (which is by and large uninformed) and what worries me is that your position is the kind of mentality that this government is exploiting to their advantage. It happened with all the proposed ‘liberal’ gimmicks. This is not about being liberal but legalising, regulating, taxing and controlling a market.
[Daphne – It’s really a poor idea, Logical, to patronise and talk down to, on the subject of illegal drug use, somebody of my particular age and social background. I come from Malta’s first generation of heroin addicts – not me in particular, but so many of my friends, acquaintances and contemporaries that I can’t even count them. When dealers first began pushing heroin in Malta, they didn’t go to Bormla as they do now it’s become a slum-drug. They went where the money was – to the boys’ boarding schools and the girls who lived round Sliema and went to the better-known convent schools. Malta’s first heroin-induced deaths were all of people I knew, people who lived in my neighbourhood or who were somehow connected with it. They were all in their 20s. One of them was 19. Most of them became hooked on heroin when they were still at school. At 29, I went to the funeral of my best friend’s brother, somebody I grew up with. He was 28. It may surprise you to know that many of my contemporaries today are former heroin addicts because they didn’t all die. They don’t wear signs on their head saying ‘former heroin addict – spent years in recovery programmes’ and with some, you’d be astonished to know it because they hold pretty serious jobs. So next time you’re thinking of lecturing somebody my sort of age and type about illegal drug use on the grounds that they’re some know-nothing conservative dad or housewife, think twice. You might well be making a fool of yourself, though you would never know because they would never tell you the truth as it would probably be none of your business.]
I love how Ivan Fenech turned the ‘soldier of steel’ metaphor into ‘soldier of fortune’. So apt.
The PN governments, over the years, did everything possible to educate the public, yet the public still see MLP as their home.
How is this possible? How can’t they see that Muscat is taking them for a ride.
A year has past since the election, and you still can’t accept the fact that people like me did not vote Labour because, as you say , We Fell For Muscat””
I for one voted P.L. because I did not think the P. N deserved another term. Surely not the PRESENT PN.
Now if the P.N. could revert to the P.N. that we always supported.and fought for that would be something I dream of.
The present leaders of the P.N. can’t understand that we, the grass roots of the party, want a radical change in the leadership of the party.
How can we go back to the party which still has most of the persons who were there when arrogance and corruption was the order of the day?
[Daphne – Probably because you had absolutely no compunction about voting last year for a political party which still has most of the persons who were there when arrogance and corruption (the real variety) were the order of the day, Mr Loporto? A Mintoffian minister round-up in the party for which you voted last year: Karmenu Vella, minister of tourism and now EU Commissioner; Alex Sceberras Trigona, Malta’s permanent representative at the World Trade Organisation; Joe Grima, Malta’s envoy to the World Tourism Organisation; Leo Brincat, minister for the environment. Those are just the people who worked directly for Mintoff – I couldn’t be bothered to list the rest because it’s a waste of time with reasoning like this.]
The crucial point that should have motivated you evidently was not “… I did not think the P. N deserved another term…”, It should have been if the Labour Party would be able to do better and if whether it was not stupidly gullible to take that chance.
“…the P.N. can’t understand that we, the grass roots of the party, want a radical change in the leadership of the party.”
If you were truly the grass roots of the party, then you would not have voted for the PL, Mr. Loporto.
Sorry to say this, but you are pathetic to say the least. Those who truly hold grass roots principles and values, will never vote against those same principles and values.
No man of principle would ever do that. You and your taparsi-switchers and floaters have consigned Malta into the hands of an abrasive political party and an incompetent and vindictively dangerous PM.
So please, stop justifying your actions. Start beating your chest hard and say ad nauseam “mea culpa…mea culpa, mea maxima culpa”. This is all your doing and that of people like you.
Tell me about this PN you supported and fought for, Loporto. I keep hearing you old-timers yearning for the PN of yesteryear. I am young and keen to learn.
Daphne, you left out Mintoffian Labour Party secretary-general Mary-Louise Coleiro, now president of Malta.
So Mr. Loporto, now you feel comfortable with a Prime Minister who leases his own car for thousands of euros, a minister hiring his wife for a staggering euro 13,000 per month, Labour MPs having income from four jobs, a national press conference by the prime minister and his energy minister to declare a 2c decrease in the price of petrol, and an endless list of obscenities.
Mr. Loporto, I have read what you have written on the internet, here and elsewhere, since before the last election. You are a Labour supporter. The people who vote Labour are Labour supporters and not ‘true PN supporters who voted Labour’.
So Mr Loporto, you’re one of the switchers who wanted to give Jo a chance.
Thanks to you and the other idiots we’re well and truly shafted. And that includes you, mate.
Daphne, well said.
Daphne, the problem is that the Maltese can’t dispose of their bipartisan mindset. It should have been Alternattiva’s turn to be in office.
@ loporto ser inwiegbek bil-Malti ghax bl-Ingliz minix tajjeb. Fi kliemek inti wiehed minn dawk li qtajt il-bajd biex tinki lill-mara. Prosit sew ghamilt, nittama li tkun tista tmur quddiem il-mera ftit snin ohra u jkollok is-sahha li thares lejn wiccek u tiflah tghid “mea culpa”.
Ara jien minix ser nghida. Jien naqbel li kien hemm min kien arroganti, imma jekk ghandek ftit melh kieku kont tivvota ftit ucuh godda fil-PN. L-iskuza tieghek ma tantx tinzilli u miniex impressjonat. Nikkonkludi li ma tantx tidher li ghandek indiema.
Silvio, you speak about arrogance and then have the cheek to say “we, the grassroots”. You’re not even a PN supporter, let alone a representative of the so-called grassroots members of the party.
To all the above who commented on what I wrote, I have only this to say.
It is persons like you who are doing the most harm to the P.N., unless you admit that the party needs CHANGE, it will keep on sinking the way it is doing now.
The day is not far when our children and in my case grandchildren, will be only reading in their history books that once there was a party called Nationalist Party.
The fact that the P.L has still some of the old guard is no comfort and of course two wrongs won’t make a right.
Well, let me tell you, Mr Loporto, under the PN I had a chance to find a proper job because Malta was governed by a party with European values and attracted like-minded entrepreneurs. I studied hard and did well, and didn’t immediately shift to the labour market because I wanted to also undertake a Masters course. I thus had the misfortune of graduating some time before the last election.
So, as someone who’s looking for a decent job for which my years of hard work count for something, let me tell you, the Labour you voted for has endangered my future. Opportunities are becoming scarcer by the day, and any real sense of meritocracy has gone down the drain. I dare not mention our reputation abroad; I’ve had to travel a couple of times since March last year, and all I can say is that news travels fast and I’m tired of having to prove my decency every time someone founds out where I’m from.
I happen to have a keen interest in history both local and international, and even studied it for quite a stretch of my student life. I knew what voting Labour entailed as soon as I saw the echoes of Mintoff in Muscat’s perverted love for him and the people being presented to us as our future Cabinet. They were definitely not only not a substitute for the PN, whatever the latter’s faults, but stood against any progress attained these last years and all that I stand for.
I thankfully never lived through the Golden Years, and am not at the ‘grass roots’ of the PN party itself. I could still see what was coming with clarity. What the hell is your excuse?
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/06/news/economy/china-property-nomura/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
How sad that the word liberal has been hijacked to mean a bad thing, when it clearly isn’t, and people claiming to be liberal are anything but.
I was stuck in traffic this afternoon when a siren was heard wailing in the distance somewhere behind us.
The driver in the car next to mine looked into his rear view mirror and remarked, “Mghaggel il-ministru hej, u tghid mhux se npaxxih.”
I looked around and observed that no one was trying to edge out of the way. Finally the siren came closer. It was an ambulance struggling to get through, and no one had moved as they usually do.
It’s the unfortunate by-product of the ‘brutalisation of our society’ that Ms Caruana Galizia commented on before here: http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/labours-big-solution-to-the-burials-problem-is-borrowed-from-the-mafia-dissolving-bodies-in-chemicals/
Labour are re-engineering our society and creating an environment governed by abuse (theirs in particular), fear, uncertainty and envy. The well-intentioned are made to immediately assume that abuse is taking place (because it has become systematic) and may end up hurting others unintentionally in the few instances that this is not the case.
Mela qed imur issa fil-kcina tal-familji? M’ghadux jitmejjel b’Lawrence Gonzi.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/europe_2014/38749/prime_minister_visits_zejtun_family
And doesn’t this family cook in her kitchen or do they have the other kitchen in the roof room?
So Mr. Loporto, are you satisfied with the way this government is going about its business?
Where have meritocracy, transparency and accountability gone?
Pity you were so gullible and you were taken in by the false promises of a zerbinott.
And you who are so homphobic voted for same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. Or were you tricked?
Ken il malti, do please get your facts right regarding vaccines. There’s enough scaremongering and misinformation as it is. Here’s a start (as long as you read them with a clear head):
http://www.who.int/features/qa/84/en/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-raff/dear-parents-you-are-being-lied-to-about-vaccines_b_5112620.html
M’ghandekx biex tiftahar sur Loporto li kont switcher is-sena l-ohra. Ghamilt opra.
http://www.inewsmalta.com/dart/20140506-it-tra-is-tal-uniformijiet-ser-ikun-qieg-ed-jg-in-lill-familji-pm
Tiftakar x’kont ghidtlek?
Li jaghmluha premura mill-OPM kif jilbsu l-familja li jkun se jzura Muscat?
L-ahhar darba zmattati biex juru li huma familja komuni, allavolja kien gej il-prim ministru ghandhom, u din id-darba bl-uniformi tal-iskola biex jaghmel enfasi.
Kemm hasibna boloh.
Mr Loporto, please stay put in the Labour skip. It suits you just fine, after your most obnoxious comments about gay people. And if you do get second thoughts and attempt to climb out of that skip, I hope you get kicked in the face and slide back in.
LOL @ the gel-haired wannabes, how apt.
Ivan Fenech is getting better and better with each article he writes. He should set up a blog.
The main thrust of Ivan Fenech’s article was not about drugs. The reference to drugs was just a comment made in passing and half-jokingly.
A couple of elderly supporters of drug use have, however, latched on to this brief comment and completely ignored the rest of the article.
It’s true then: marijuana kills brain cells.