They are cutting the electricity to make the people talk about those boathouses rather than about Manwel Mallia.

Right now, the public is more interested in the prime minister cutting Mallia loose, rather than Enemalta cutting power to illegal boathouses.

How lives are ripped apart without a bullet being fired.

Re: Albatross and illegal boathouses –

Please re-read the Times article. They are cutting the electricity supply to those who have not applied for a smart meter ONLY.

One of your three wishes has been granted, Master Baxxter.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141124/local/enemalta-police-descend-on-boathouses-cut-off-power-supply-to-abusers.545497

So true.

Kev, you need to give a moment-to-moment of how this works in the everyday life of a targeted innocent person for people to understand.

Conspiracy is a perception that seems unrelated.

You need to show how this works in practice: how the network reaches out even into the ARMS bills, into the tax bills and how modifications and touches to everyday services are put into place, how the agents within banks are mobilised to apply pressure.

How the police have detailed tails on their victims and how they use the excuse of fiscal inspections to gain transparency into every aspect of their lives. How conversations are listened to without the necessary legalities being respected, how employees of such systems are roped into this parallel service provision.

How secrets and keeping quiet benefit no-one at the end of the day. Rather, we all expose the part that has affected us for the picture to reflect more bits of the terrorising truth.

This is not a plan that has been enacted overnight.

A situation so very well explained.

Prosit, Baxxter.

I do not wish to get in the cross fire, but Baxxter is right.

I cannot understand why Albatross thinks that Baxxter’s comment on prosecuting the criminals is about private misdeeds. A crime is a violation of public law, and therefore against the public at large, which is in any case made up of private individuals.

And yes, unless policy implements rule of law, it’s no point spending any time and money on policy.

And I agree that there is no need to re-invent the wheel with the policy fora and Ideas Convention. While they are good ideas to reconnect a political party to the people – perhaps to leaders in society – the truth is that if you look back through time, including the long period when the PN was in government, you would find that there were policies, and and many of them were the right policies. The environment comes to mind: by 2013, there were many policies on this subject which could serve as a good basis to protect Malta’s environment in future.

The problem was in the implementation and execution of those policies. In fact, they were, many times, simply ignored. And in many cases, politicians were simply not aware of the existing policies, sometimes, I dare say, not interested in policies. Politics was not policy based, but invented on the spot, depending on which interests needed to be protected. This is what irked many people.

Now add to that the fact that many politicians have their own interests and conflicts of interests, and policy execution becomes a nightmare.

Turning on the PN, those policy fora do not need to re-invent policies. Many good policies exist and are universally accepted. What they need to do is find those mechanisms that will ensure that policies are implemented. And yes, justice is going to feature high in those mechanisms.

May they never find the peace to enjoy their spoils.

May they – as their Chinese friends say – live in interesting times.