A racist gunner with the Armed Forces of Malta says on Facebook that somebody who criticised him should be gang-raped
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June 2, 2014 at 11:23pm
This is Christian Borg, a gunner with the Armed Forces of Malta (pictured) arguing with somebody on a Facebook page dedicated to exposing Maltese racists.
See also my previous post about him.
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I actually thought you were a bit over-intrusive in your previous post about Christian Borg.
Then I read this.
He’s at it again:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=687682534632009&set=p.687682534632009&type=1
These people are being trusted with weapons!
It has been said that Malta is an exception to the European rule because it elected a mainstream party to the European Parliament instead of a far right one.
I beg to differ.
Malta elected a far right party. The main difference between Malta and the rest of Europe is that the far right IS the mainstream. Anti-EU? Check. Alfred Sant and Joseph Muscat waged an anti-EU campaign for years. Anti-immigrants? Certainly. Joseph Muscat’s government was only stopped from pushing back immigrants without giving them the right to apply for asylum at the last minute by an injunction in the European Court of Human Rights.
Ideologically, there is little difference between the Front National, UKIP, Golden Dawn, Imperium Europa and the Malta Labour Party. But for once, and here’s the scary thing, Malta is ahead of the (negative) curve. The equivalent of what happened in Malta in the last few years would be if, in ten years’ time, Marine Le Pen will be president of France and Nigel Farage will be prime minister of Britain .
There’s another aspect which puts Malta ahead of the (negative) curve. All the anti-EU parties will discover a new found love for the EU in the coming years, just as the Malta Labour Party did. Do you really think that after thirty plus years trying to get elected, parties like the Front National are going to vote themselves out of a parliament to sit in? No, what they’ll do is keep huffing and puffing against the EU while quietly dropping their most radical demands. They’ve already reinvented themselves once to become semi-respectable (they used to be anti-semitic). They will have no qualms about doing so again just to stay in business.
Anti-EU groups are a scam for the simple reason that they need the European Parliament to sustain themselves. Again, Malta serves as a case study. Look at Alfred Sant heading to Strasbourg a decade after warning us that the EU is the mother of all evil.
Instead of pandering to far right group think, mainstream parties like David Cameron’s should be exposing this scam and putting their full weight behind people who REALLY believe in the European project. Instead of rounding up immigrants in a show of force like France did last week, mainstream parties should be running the other way. They should launch a blitzkrieg campaign explaining how we can make Europe work just the way it is.
Far right parties thrive on fear and ignorance. Eliminate those elements and the parties have nothing to stand on. Despite eating Kenyan breakfasts, owning American gadgets made by Chinese hands, getting their houses cleaned by Filipinos, getting their fast food fix provided by Pakistanis, getting their medical needs taken care of by Indians and getting their streets swept by Eritreans, many people have a very poor understanding of globalisation. Nor have they woken up to the fact that Europe is ageing fast and, unless it imports workers, it’s going to have serious trouble sustaining its generous pensions.
Far right parties sell nothing but pie in the sky. What do you think is easier; chucking out all the immigrants (imagine Britain without Pakistanis, Poles and Russian oligarchs or France without Algerians and Congolese or Germany without Turks or Malta without Somalis, Eritreans and Filipinos), dismantling the EU and going back to national currencies OR making Europe work the way it is? What far right parties offer is shutting the gate long after the whole herd of horses has bolted.
The people of Europe and the far right politicians they just elected are all in for a big shock. NOTHING is going to stop the flow of refugees and irregular immigrants. They emigrate because they have no choice: war, chaos, lack of security and no future. They’ll try anything to get away, and with the Libyan border becoming more porous as the country descends into complete mayhem, the flow is bound to increase.
The mainstream parties need to get real, explain the situation and stimulate job creation for all people residing in Europe, wherever they come from. Giving the illusory impression that we can get rid of immigrants or build the European Union from scratch is not going to work.
While mainstream parties waste time throwing fearsome shapes in the hope that they will look tough, Europe’s demography keeps changing and a whole new electoral base is coming up for grabs.
In the United States, the Republican Party has finally cottoned on to the fact that they need the votes of blacks, Latinos and immigrants and are slowly easing their anti-immigrant rhetoric. The Nationalist Party and all other parties of good will should get ahead of a (positive) curve and win the hearts and minds of immigrants because they are the future of Malta and the rest of Europe.
When I bring Alfred Sant up as a case study, I do mean Alfred Sant and the whole Labour contingent. They all voted against EU membership after all.
Excellent points!
I think it was Toni Abela who said on Xarabank that the large majority in favour of the party in government here in Malta was against the general trend in the MEP elections all over Europe and he seemed to me that he wanted to ave to give the impression that Malta’s vote was some sort of victory for Europe.
But I think this is a wrong interpretation. A Euro-sceptic mood has swept over these elections all over Europe, often fanned by xenophobia and racism. Malta is no exception.
So, suppose one is a euro-sceptic in Malta who does not want to vote for Norman Lowell and who thinks that the other anti-EU parties are ineffective. Which party would such a voter choose?
Which prominent candidate for these elections is probably the foremost EU-sceptic politician in Malta?
The answers, I think, are obvious, and go a long way towards explaining the seemingly surprising vote we saw, just as the pro-EU mood (barely, there it was) goes a long way towards explaining two successive PN victories at General Elections. So, the vote in Malta followed the same pattern as in the UK and France. But the EU-sceptic political party happened in government.
You have a singularly rosy-eyed view of the European Union, Matthew S. If your sort is the typical EU bureaucrat, then it’s no wonder the populist vote is winning big time.
You say that Europe needs more immigrants to fill workplaces because of the ageing population. That’s hard to believe for the 25% unemployed Spaniards or the 13%+ Europeans, or the 50% unemployed youth.
And they’re not all refusing to clean toilets and collect rubbish. Some of them are willing, but are refused, because there will always be more applicants than there are jobs.
Your solution is so typical today’s EU. Avoid the big repairs and just run creaking engine faster, hoping for the best.
Your immigrants, in a few years’ time, will presumably have reached salary levels comparable to the European Union citizens. In fact they will have become EU citizens themselves. What then? Do you think that poverty in Africa will have been eradicated by then, and that new Africans will stop migrating to Europe, thus safeguarding the jobs of the old Africans?
Let’s talk demographics. People are living longer and longer. Yet the pensionable age is fixed at the magic number of 61, plus or minus a few years. Even after you let in migrant workers (who will become EU citizens) people will still live longer. What happens then? More unemployment.
Of course. Because in your scheme of things, the factories are still far away in China, and tariff barriers do not exist. Capital can move at the speed of light, but workers still move at walking speed. Capital can be anywhere, but men and women will still need to be with their spouses and children.
See my point? Lowell may be a deluded crackpot, but some of you aren’t that far away.
My point is less that we need more immigrants and more that we have more immigrants.
It’s impossible to stop the flow of immigrants because when they set their minds to it, immigrants migrate and there is little you can do about it.
It’s impractical to dismantle the EU. The cost, both financial and social, would be so enormous that future generations will curse us forever more.
The practical thing to do is to make the EU, with all its faults, work. Contrary to what you say, I’m being practical. It is people who believe that we can build Europe from scratch, and with no immigrants to boot, who are rose-tinted (not that a place without diversity would be very rosy, mind you).
As for the unemployed masses, the biggest problem is a mismatch of skills. As you point out, finding people who will clean toilets is cheap and easy. It is finding chemists and engineers which is hard. Europe has a lot of vacancies but few people with the right experience and qualifications.
Spaniards are a fun-loving lot but their entrepreneurial nous and nose for the market’s needs is often next to non-existent. Everybody seems to dream of a job which pays the bills and offers no worries. It’s probably got something to do with the education system. There is little guidance to what the market needs. It’s all worry-about-it-later.
Germany, on the other hand, has near full employment because young people are guided towards the market’s needs. Germany also has a greying population. That’s where immigrants come in. Yes, people should retire later and work longer than they do but the population still needs to be replenished.
You make the cardinal mistake (unusual of you) of thinking about the number of jobs as being finite. It isn’t. If it were, we would have run out of jobs a long time ago. When the population grows, it will need more goods and services, so the number of jobs grows too. New Africans will not take the jobs of old Africans The settled Africans will create new jobs for the new arrivals. Job creation is not a zero sum game. You don’t need to be kept out of a job for my job to be safeguarded.
“It is finding chemists and engineers which is hard.”
You either lie, or you are ignorant.
The number of jobs may not be finite, but it grows far, far slower than the population. We may have to accept that the future will consist of 25% of the population supporting the 75% who don’t work.
I put it to you that a major cause of the problem is the uneven playing field. Europe plays by one set of rules (freedom of movement, zero tariffs, free movement of capital and industry) and the rest of the world plays by another set of rules.
It wasn’t meant to be this way. Dismantle the EU? No. Put up tariff barriers to protect the prosperity of its citizens? Yes. Slap a heavy tax on the super-rich? Absolutely. We need capitalism, not corporatism.
You call it Festung Europa. I call it Jean Monnet.
Then we get Malta vetoing a law that would have closed a tax loophole. In the name of gid ghall-poplu taghna, no doubt. So a few more fat cats can build a few more Dubai-style high rises. an they call this gid ghall-poplu?
It seems that Daphne Caruana Galizia new found hobby is to try and ridicule our soldiers. The same soldiers how are the first to help immigrants. I wonder what you do miss Daphne to help immigrants except from try to damage peoples lives. SHAME ONE YOU!
[Daphne – Great. Now we have soldiers who can’t write properly. Hang in there, C. Pace. You might be brigadier before the year is out.]
C. Pace,
Waqa l-ass. Imnalla smajtu bassa. Ghandkom x’iddumu tirrepetuha ix-shame on you.
Meta s-suldati jmorru jigbru n-nies mill-bahar, ikunu qed jaghmlu xogholhom – mhux pjacir lil hadd.
So the fact those people turn out to be illegal immigrants is no business of yours. What next, should we start asking people caught out at sea, whether they are Maltese before picking them out of the water?
And cut this crap of feeling wounded or ridiculed whenever people offer a counter-argument. If you can’t take it then don’t dish it.
Once you say rubbish, particularly in a public forum, expect to be answered – at the cost of feeling ridiculed. Mela Gunner Borg xi oraklu?
Issa jinghataw Gieh ir-Republika talli jaghmlu xogholhom ukoll!
C. Pace, jekk inti veru suldat missek tisthi. Misshom diga tajruk mill-post ghax mintix dehen li tilbes l-uniformi ta’ suldat fil-Forzi armati ta’ Malta.
Kellu bzonn hemm is-serjeta’ fl-armata halli tara kif ittir minn posthom fi zmien inqas minn 24 siegha. Jew issa tmur tibki ghand Toni Zarb dak it-tank tas-sebghin biex jiddefendik? Shame on you.
“Il-gebla dejjem waqqajniha fuq saqajna”.
Bhala membri f’ korpi iddixxiplinati, ghagiri bhal dawn ikomplu jgharraquna. L-immaturita u l-injuranza ta’ xi whud minn dawn il-membri, li sfortunatament m’humiex numru zghir, qieghdha dejjem isservi sabiex tkompli tghakkes il-“public image” taghna.
Din hi l-ewwel darba li qed nikteb f’dan is-sit, u ghalkemm mhux dejjem naqbel ma’ xi artikli li itella’ Mrs Caruana Galizia, l-umiljazzjoni pubblika li tikkaguna fuq dawn il-karattri, fuq livell uman ittini sens ta’ sodisfazzjon kbir.
L-uniformi hi tqila, u kull zball li jsir, jinhass mill-membri kollha. Sfortunatament, dawn in-nies ma jitghallmu qatt. Il-Malti jghid “sapun f’ras il-hmir”.
Niskuza ruhi ghat-tul ta’ dan il-kumment, imma nirrabja immens meta nara lil min ikassbar l-uniformi b’dan il-mod, qisu liebes xi xkora. Ideologiji u kummenti razzjali ghandhom jibqghu privati, mhux imxandra fuq l-internet.
You’re not the first one to say that. Sadly, you won’t be the last.
Thallux nies ta’ dan it-tip ihammeg ir-reputazzjoni taghkom.
This person needs to be sacked. This is unacceptable.
Ghandek cans. As events have now amply shown, whenever Labour is in government, it is the decent individuals who get sacked; the others get promoted.
I think he’s ‘sacked’ himself already as has rightfully been pointed out by ‘Disgruntled Serviceman’: ‘nirrabja immens meta nara lil min ikassbar l-uniformi b’dan il-mod, qisu liebes xi xkora’
The problem here is not that Christian Borg has his own opinions. Everyone is free to have those.
The problem is that his opinions may not enable him to carry out humanitarian tasks with the right determination.
What is even worse is that Christian Borg brings them out in the open. This tends to create ‘the pack effect’ which in turn fuels greater hate.
I don’t think it is only Cristian Borg who is wrong here but also his Commanding Officer who should be stemming such personal feelings also because they discredit the army.
It may even be possible that Christian Borg is an exceptional soldier who puts aside his racial feelings when carrying out his duty.
If that is the case then he should realise it was even more silly to write the way he did on Facebook or anywhere else for that matter.
I thoroughly agree. At the very least he seems to have some weird fantasies which make him unfit for purpose.
As a medical doctor I refused a medical certificate for someone to be given a licence to own and to carry a sporting shotgun for something much less damning than the mental set up of these local soldiers. Our AFM appears to be less choosy.
This soldier’s argument (although unsound) is that anyone who thinks that it’s OK to live with coloured, non-Maltese people should be gang-raped to show them what it’s really like to live among them (because raping women is the only thing these people can do).
This argument is even scarier than your title gives to understand.
But beyond this, I see a basic “tribal survival instinct” at work. Acknowledgement of possibly irreconcilable cultural differences is one thing, visceral hatred because you’re different is another.
Let me give you a banal (but truthful) example. I may find any living/working arrangement with you absolutely unbearable, but it does not follow that I should harbour any animosity towards you. I may not agree with what you think, say or do, but I cannot deny that we are equally human with identical rights (or so we should be, at any rate).
It is an easy distinction to make, but very difficult to live by as it goes against our baser instincts.
I think some people join the army and police force to satisfy their need for power and dominance. I shudder to think what would happen if someone was at their complete mercy. I’d put them in the same bag with paedophiles and necrophiliacs.
The word “gang rape” gives me the creeps.
If he thinks this way, he should be sacked out of the army. No matter what.
I cannot imagine people with this kind of disgusting mentality being deployed in a war zone.
“Jiena Rambo u nista nirrejpja kemm irrid nisa” this piece of trash would think.
Indeed. He’s just a war criminal waiting to happen. It’s definitely not the kind of people a democracy would tolerate in its army.
I hope this soldier only gets kitchen duties.
One like that should never be trusted with weapons.
I hope his superiors are aware of all this.
Only kitchen duties? They keep sharp knives there! Safer if relegated to cleaning out toilets.
Well said Doc.
Shocking. I agree with Joe Fenech – this guy should not hold a position in the army.
What a bunch of semi-literate gung-ho wannabes and a far cry from the days when soldiering, and serving as an officer even more so, was a matter of pedigree and a real vocation that ran in the blood of once honourable gentlemen.
Then again, the army always had crooks and villains who took to the lower ranks for want of a weekly wage and for lack of opportunities other than being cannon fodder. It is these people, who fail to comprehend the very nature of their job and their role vis-a-vis society who go on to commit violent crimes against humanity such as rape and gang rape.
By his own admission Gunner Borg would love to see someone gang-raped. Any such admission would have him brought on charges. But apparently not in the Maltese army, where the officer corps has been neutered into submission through the unlawful and unmerited promotions of a few who are helping to break the bond of trust established between the AFM and the people of Malta since 1987.
Shame on you, Gunner Borg. Shame on your superior officers if they have not brought charges against you. And shame on the Brigadier if he knowingly turns a blind eye to all this.
Some members are turning AFM into an undisciplined corps. Who’s running the army?
Dear Daphne! Please stop being negative when faced with such positive energy.
First we had our Prime Minister threatening with push backs of African migrants who were drowning. This was followed by a post on his Facebook by one of the newly appointed assistant commissioners claiming “li ghandna Prim Ministru bil-bajd” and now a soldier calling for a journalist who criticised his racists posts to be gang-raped.
Indeed a slippery slope. The Prime Minister set the tone. The rest followed.
you are accusing this soldier and he is the one that directly faces these immigrants everyday. You dont know what happens in there when they break things for nothing and we all pay and when they try to hit on us!! and the worse thing is that you all talking dont have a member of your family that was physically abused by this same type of people! so dont you play it that you are so liberal and open minded because youre not! respect for all soldiers and police that unfortunately have to face thee people that knows nothing more than violence!
He is not the only solider like that. This fellow, another Farrugia, is even worse. You wrote about him once;
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/the-hysterical-conspiracy-theories-of-one-of-the-organisers-of-tomorrows-aborted-anti-african-demo-read-them-here/
Here is his facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/stephen.farrugia.92?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab
He wrote some gems there like
” I will bring back the Maltese Lira ”
“Hanging for national treason and the right to carry arms should be made into new law.”
“I know Antoine Galea very well and he is super honest and one of the best people anyone can ever meet. Daphne is a piece of shit next to this good man, she should kiss his feet and offer her daughter to marry him, if she had one.”
The scary part; there is a fellow with his name at the AFM who holds the rank of instructor for Search and Rescue;
http://www.sarmalta.gov.mt/sartc_staffmembers.htm
Dear Daphne,
I don’t mean to criticize, but you are trying to emphasize how important it is for people in certain positions or otherwise (since you said by the ‘human rights’ no one should bring himself down to the level Mr. Borg did by uploading his pictures) to maintain a level of privacy when it comes to what they post on Facebook as it could compromise their integrity. According to you, this is even more relevant to people in certain positions, like Mr.Borg whose job requires a level of trust by the general public, once again according to you. That said, after all that ranting about keeping things like this private, you posted several posts on this person rendering everything even more public than his Facebook profile ever would as I’m sure your blog gets more views.
[Daphne – I don’t mean to criticize, but your line of reasoning is so tangled and confused that I can’t understand what you mean to say. Is it, perhaps, that my role is to protect people from themselves?]
Secondly, you don’t know when this photo was taken. Just because it was uploaded on a certain date it could have been taken way beforehand…he might not have even started his service back then. Also, I know people in similar positions who have fun on their own time but at the same time as soon as duty calls they leave all of their private matters fun or otherwise behind them and concentrate fully on their work.
[Daphne – It’s the date when it was uploaded that is relevant to whether he is currently in service or not, and not the date when it was taken.]
With regards to the statuses, It is a personal view he wanted to share. Whether you agree or disagree, no one really cares, just don’t bash on people for using their right of free speech.
[Daphne – ‘Whether you agree or disagree, no one really cares’. You apparently do. And you have taken the time and trouble to write in and say so. ‘Don’t bash people for using their right of free speech’. I never do. It’s what they actually say and write when they deploy their right to free speech that is my focus. Make the distinction.]
Please do not pass judgement on people just because of a couple of statuses and next time be careful not to contradict yourself and make a little story that should have been hidden from the public (in your opinion) even more public.
Anyway I wrote this for the benefit of the people who read this blog and mindlessly agree with you. They should know better than to agree with a person who spends all day looking at Facebook profiles just to have something to ‘blog’ about.
[Daphne – I spend no time at all looking at Facebook profiles. Other people, even complete strangers, are more than happy to do that for me.]
You might want to show this video to Gunner Borg.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/06/04/dnt-officer-pda-photo.wjxt.html