http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/06/04/dnt-officer-pda-photo.wjxt.html

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.]

“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?

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.

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

Indeed a slippery slope. The Prime Minister set the tone. The rest followed.

Well said Doc.

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.