GUEST POST: Control through fear
Manuel Mallia and his henchman Silvio Scerri
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Post 9/11, President Bush pushed through the terrorist surveillance program giving the National Security Agency (NSA) authorisation to monitor, without search warrants, phone calls, Internet activity (web, e-mail, etc.), text messaging, and other communication involving any party.
The US government instilled fear into its own people, and by so doing it was allowed to gain more surveillance powers. The Bush administration was heavily criticised for using its enhanced surveillance program to silence its critics.
Given that the Labour Party is a Government of Spectacle its strategy could be to slowly instill this fear into the people so as then to increase surveillance and control its critics in the same way that the Bush administration did back then.
In one of Muscat’s many meetings before he became Prime Minister, he had remarked (maybe even promised) that he would look into the excessive use of internet shopping and look into ways of curbing it to protect Maltese businesses. He also suggested that the Broadcasting Authority should be used to control journalists working for print and internet.
Using the justification of ‘national security’ (terms already favoured by the prime minister and Manuel Mallia), the government will then be able to implement its strategy to take control of our communications.
Keep in mind that they have taken control already of the army, the police, public service broadcasting, and planted agents in most of the independent media. We can also see what is happening at the National Statistics Office and all other ‘independent’ bodies. The only thing left to take control of is the internet.
What the government will do is follow China and its state-control censorship and blocking of the internet and all things related.
Look what has happend with Bizzilla, the Air Malta in-flight magazine – it was pulled because there was an article which referred to Dom Mintoff as ‘the socialist dictator’.
Our national airline had no inflight magazine for about five days. The publisher was forced to remove the offending piece (or edit the offending words out) and reprint the magazine at its own expense. On top of this they had to issue an apology.
Sitting in St. George’s Square in Valletta now feels like being inside George Orwell’s ‘1984’, with screens blurting out the wonders of the new budget and promos of our ‘Government that Listens’.
It’s all surreal, but we truly are descending into a dystopic future where our phone calls, text messages, emails, internet browsing and all our lives will be monitored and controlled by our government.
Any dissidence is dealt with in the quickest way possible and any mess is cleaned up as though it didn’t happen.
Only that this time, their plans were thwarted. So now they are trying to rewrite the story and find a way out of this mess. Where is Paul Sheehan? Why haven’t we seen him? Why hasn’t he been arrested?
They threw the Malta-Gozo bridge story at us today to deflect and take away the attention from the shooting story.
Tomorrow there will be another story in the papers to try to make us forget. And in the meantime they will continue to work at their master plan of full and total control. Control through fear.
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Isa, just a step away, now…
Wasn’t 9/11 so very convenient, don’t you think?
Search ‘Tower 7’ on Youtube and start thinking outside the box for once.
[Daphne – Look, Kevin, please don’t turn this into a discussion about 9/11. This is a discussion about the situation in Malta in 2014.]
It’s distantly related. Ninth cousin, eleven removed, I believe.
Somebody came up with the interesting thesis that the blame will be shifted unto Silvio Scerri. May I invite you to flesh this thesis out? You might be onto something.
Look at the facts. The PM ‘decides’ to appoint a board of inquiry. The board will have to identify someone who was responsible for Wednesday night’s press statement.
Malta Today carried the report about Silvio Scerri’s phone call to their newsroom on Wednesday night. Do you think that Malta Today suddenly saw the light or is it still the Labour Party’s unofficial English language newspaper?
Ariadne Massa was promoting the Bridge story (deviation) on Twitter today. Watch out for more spin in the form of news.
We have a bunch of journalists managed though a remote control.
Someone asked yesterday whether it was stupidity and cunning over malice. I would say that “stupidity” is only equal to the necessity to have such pyramid schemes distant and separate to succeed, and in this scenario, that is an impossibility.
It is the inherent weakness of an evil plan, not stupidity per se, although intelligence would never have allowed the plan to germinate in the first place. But this is how they reason. Corruption is oxygen to their system.
I only put the dots together since May 2012 with the ousting of Richard Cachia Caruana and Carm Mifsud Bonnici, where from then on I had no doubt but no tangible proof either.
Proof happened in September 2013 with the exposure of Nair.
When the ousting happened in May 2012, I immediately went to Daphne. There was nobody else who I could trust with this. I only gained enough confidence to start writing in September/October 2012. It became ultra urgent from January 2013 when the signs were increasingly evident.
I came to this website originally and am here everyday with a sense of urgency since then trying to warn people because I know precisely how they function, having been a victim of those unjoined dots until finally they did join, and I saw clearly through every excuse and sham promise, through every fraudulent move, its network and its extensions.
I was the one who worked out the extent of Nair’s involvement before the last general election, but the Nationalist Party didn’t even know who he is. They were not even aware of his existence. Suggestions of any Labour scheme involving Nair and China, besides other corrupt totalitarian regimes, were dismissed as far-fetched. And then a few months after Labour was elected to government, the truth was revealed – not by the Labour government, who tried to hide Nair, but by this website.
I am here present every day, insistent, with the knowledge that is is vital enough to forgo everything else until Malta and the Maltese awake from their slumber.
This is why I will beg you to stop using the present continuous or future tense when you speak and write. We are not losing democracy. We have lost it. A criminal organisation with an extensive network is now in power.
It isn’t happening or about to happen. It has happened.
Yes, now you tell Simon Busuttil why he shouldn’t be going on fun runs with mobsters then.
Sorry – too late. It’s Christmas season now. Let’s all join hands on L-Istrina.
I agree with you, except for the date. This all started as early as 2006 in anticipation of winning the 2008 election.
In fact their network of spies in all institutions and organizations were already in place before 2008.
After losing this election they continued to expand their network further. Agreements and discussions with China started then too.
The government has drawn itself into so many tangles that it will be impossible to find a solution to everything.
A liar causes his own problems and will lie even further to try and extricate himself from a mess.
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/11/24/paul-sheehan-imgieghel-jigdeb-li-spara-fl-arja/
Then Silvio Scerri has committed a criminal offence, subverting a witness.
Give the masses fodder to alienate them with, throw smoke screens in front of their eyes, play loud music to deaden the cries and you have all the hallmarks of a repression that most Maltese fail to detect.
Is it possible, in view of all this security that we are receiving threats from Labour’s fiends in the South of Malta?
I was thinking that this could be an angle:
Libyan billions freshly in the hands of Labour on condition of “safe-guard” procedures.
Who else is in on it? Who else is heavily guarded?
Which are for show, and which a real part of the deal?
You are always spot on, Daphne. I do not read any newspapers unless there are links to them on this site. Who needs newspapers when we have you?
Reminds me of the V for Vendetta movie plot.
It was the movie that re-introduced the Guy Fawkes idea of rebelling against the oppressor.
Remember, remember the 19th of November, the minister’s driver and the shooting plot. I know of no reasoning, whereby the the driver’s shooting should ever be forgotten.
Guido Fawkes was a Jesuit lackey and stooge and a total bungler.
I finally understand why broadcasting was put in the same ministerial portfolio as National Security. At the time the only justification I could think of was Silvio Scerri’s business interests in the industry.
However, it is probably not too far fetched to think that with broadcasting under Mallia’s control too, he can control the media – all in the name of national security.
The tax on communication channels has just been increased – on the one hand, whilst free wifi spots are the sweetener – on the other.
U tghid mhux se jnehhili l-internet u ma nitkellimx fuq l-internet? Ma bzajtx f’dawk iz-zmenijiet tad-dlam immur il-meetings ta’ Eddie flimkien mal-genituri tieghi, ha nibza issa nitkellem kontra dan il-gvern?
Fuqna li konnha tfal u zaghzagh fit-tmeninijiet se taqa ir-responsabbilta kollha li nergghu inqajjmu l-ispirtu ta’ protesta, ta’ rebelljoni, u rezistenza kontra dak li qed jidher li hu regim gdid.
Iz-zaghzagh tal-llum ma jiftakru xejn mit-tmeninijiit, u l-adulti ta dak in-nhar xjahu jew diga telqu qabilna ghand il-Mulej.
Issa sta ghal kap Simon Busuttil li jaghraf iz-zminijiet u jqajjem lil partit mi-raqda ghax Malta taghna qed tghajjtilna.
Naqbel pero hemm bzonn kawtela wkoll..
Who said internet and voice communication isn’t already under surveillance?