It’s even worse if he is receiving instruction on how to accentuate this “professionally.”

U l-kbir ghadu gej. We are back to the 70s and early 80s when we always waited for the next froga of the Socialist government of that time.

Now we do not have socialists in government but socialites…parties, fashion parades, make-up artists, hairdressers, stage-managed reactions.

Lots of outward appearances and no substance at all.

‘In or out, there is never a doubt
Just who’s pulling the strings
I’m all tied up in you
But where’s it leading me to?’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXVGbFSP4Ps

I know Godfrey Farrugia well, and he is a gentleman, though somewhat naive.

He and Marlene Farrugia were taken in by Muscat’s sweet talk and what they thought was a real change for a better Malta. I had totally disagreed with Godfrey at the time, because it was obvious to me that Muscat’s only interest was to grab power and then grab as much as possible.

For that end, he wanted as many names on his bandwagon as he could get, but he wasn’t interested in them as people, or in what they could do to help make Malta better. He just wanted to use them to gain power.

Once he obtained what he wanted, Joseph Muscat was under extreme pressure from Marlene Farrugia’s estranged husband (he was not yet her ex husband, remember) Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, who wanted Muscat to be the means by which he, Pullicino Orlando, would exact revenge on both.

Muscat had to give in to Pullicino Orlando because of what he owed him and maybe still owes him, and so began systematically to undermine Godfrey Farrugia and humiliate him in public.

Godfrey took action and sent him flying instead of giving him the chance to place him in an even worse situation as the Minister of Social Services.

“The Oxford English Dictionary defines Catch-22 as “a set of circumstances in which one requirement, etc., is dependent upon another, which is in turn dependent upon the first.” ”

The difference between Joseph Muscat’s case and Manwel Mallia’s, is that

(i)
Joseph Muscat’s promise to resign was made by him to the nation, and constitutes the fulcrum of his electoral mandate.

This electoral mandate had already been misrepresented when the Passport scam surfaced.

That mandate results in having been a sham one on these two counts already.

(ii)
The need for Manwel Mallia to be sacked by Joseph Muscat, as head of the sham government still in position, is couched on the basis of the ethical functioning of an ethical Government, which again it isn’t.

It is however the flagrant abuse of position of a subordinate for which Manwel Mallia is directly responsible in an official capacity, whatever connection he may have to the victim in his supposedly inofficial capacity.

The fact that his chauffeur was carrying the arm from which the bullets were fired is one aspect.

The fact that his chauffeur discharged the bullets is another.

The fact that the chauffeur has not been held in custody, yet another.

These aspects are not as negatively weighted, comparatively, as the fact that Minister Mallia lied about the make-up and sequence of events, changed his version of events another and again changed his perspective to read “angry and disgusted, ” when it wasn’t previously, later on in the day.

The fact that the Department of Information colluded in this lie, is yet another aspect.

The facts that the basic rights of a Foreign National have been trampled on, and abused, by the very person who, in his official capacity, was meant to have guaranteed them, another.

Catch-22 would apply to the barefaced lie aspect, and to any other hold Mallia has on Muscat, and though one lie doesn’t outdo or cancel the other, the immediate focus demands only one immediate action by Joseph Muscat: in that he sacks Manwel Mallia for negligence and abuse of his position.

Dante Alighieri

L-aghar gvern mill-Indipendenza ‘l hawn.