Comments on: They took this Somali immigrant to the health centre in handcuffs and barefoot

By: White coat

White coat — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 03:41:27 +0000

Racism and homophobia is one of the dictators’ joker cards. Two typical cases are Hitler and Milosevic. Everyone is familiar with Hitler’s rise to power founded on anti-Semitism but not many realise how Milosevic hung to power following the fall of the Berlin wall and eastern European communism. In brief, Yugoslav Federation was one of the very last countries where citizens rose up against the regime and introduce democracy. When Yugoslavs (mostly Serbs) organised the first and only demonstration in Belgrade’s Red Square, Milosevic, who had succeeded Tito as president, order the army to shoot at the protesters who immediately fled, never to organise another protest.
Seeing the risk of losing power, Milosevic immediately spinned the centuries old Kosovo story, abusing of the state controlled media and mobilising his propaganda machine to instil hatred against the Kosovars. The trick worked perfectly for some years but ultimately resulted in the disintegration of the Yugaslav Federation. Thus one can say that Milosevic’s policies only kicked the democracy can further down the road. But until the can was again met a decade or so later, the Serbian population had gotten infected with hatred towards the Kosovars and later on the Bosnians and many Serbs became supportive of Milosevic and his extreme-racist policies that saw atrocities not seen since the 2nd world war.

Joseph Muscat has managed to find varying levels of support from a large section of the Maltese by instilling his racist push-back policy mostly w.r.t. black (no disrespect intended) Africans. This is just opportunistic populism in view of the fact that otherwise, if the Maltese were to analyse the real national situation will come to realise that this administration is nothing but a worse-than-amateur one.

Suffice it to say that within the first 30 months of his MLP/PL administration not one single high added-value, employment-creating foreign investment of major proportions, on the level of Lufthansa Technik for example, has been attracted to Malta. Instead we have had hunters and trappers appeased, bilding developers too, police investigations and court proceedings against PL-leaning individuals dropped, the prostituting of our national identity, the selling of what otherwise the MLP would refer to as our National Jewels to the Communist Chinese.

The Maltese have been blinded by JM’s ‘floodlights’ of anti-immigration propaganda.

By: Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:45:05 +0000

In reply to Katrin. "Breast feeding into adulthood?" The mind boggles. It would give a completely new definition to the term "mummy's boy."

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:30:09 +0000

In reply to len. OH really ? From what is said here, for the immigrants to revert to such a sort of relief, as seeking pretended ailments, their situation MUST (in bold capitals) be worse than hell. These are social human beings who under normal humane circumstances seek each other`s company over a tea. Sort of what we do when we flock to the local for a round of beer. What is stated really reflects on a very pitiable situation.

By: Ramon Mizzi

Ramon Mizzi — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:30:00 +0000

Whoever says this is not racism should look up in the dictionary and UNDERSTAND what the bleeding word means.

You are right: pig-ignorant is the description for these people.

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:25:43 +0000

In reply to Jo Saliba. From what I gather on the grapevine and read in blogs and postings, we have been there since last March and getting worse by the hours.

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:22:39 +0000

In reply to Chris M. Sounds more like the time when a former president of the republic in an interview reminisced on the days when he went to school either barefoot or wearing one single shoe of a pair. The last I saw a Maltese go barefoot in Valletta and all its public places, law courts included, was the 70s, only to learn that the pour soul was deficient and had to be taken for psychiatric treatment.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:53:38 +0000

In reply to Rita Camilleri. No, you glorify animals and burn humans at the stake.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:52:10 +0000

In reply to L. Vella. I agree that Dr Gonzi had more than one redeeming factor. My statement, however, was intended to be free of partisan politics. Love him or hate him, Dr Gonzi is a compassionate and humane man.

By: Not Sandy:P

Not Sandy:P — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:11:32 +0000

In reply to Katrin.

The WHO’s recommendations make sense in situations where food supplies are erratic and clean water supplies are next to non-existent.

All else is obsessive, mindless bullying of women who have neither the mind, nor the time or inclination to live as a milk-making machine.

It is beyond ridiculous to bang on about breast-feeding when the worst dietary problems are not formula milk but what comes afterwards.

What next? Breast feeding into adulthood?

By: Not Sandy:P

Not Sandy:P — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:06:18 +0000

In reply to Fearing the future. Has anyone told the detainees that they can refuse to be handcuffed?