Ignorance and power
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December 3, 2014 at 10:58am
The best way to describe the current situation is by misappropriating Carl Sagan’s famous words about the dangers of scientific development combined with a general lack of scientific knowledge: “sooner or later, this combination of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces”.
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Times of Malta’s editorial summarises the current situation and the future pretty well
“Unless Labour checks its growing hubris in time, it could spell the beginning of its downfall. Its massive support at the polls is not expected to crumble overnight – not even, perhaps, by the next election – however, a return to good governance is needed for the good of the country.”
The general electorate is too stupid or does not care enough to vote the PL out of power by the next election even when presented with such an appalling situation such as the current one.
Well, screw the Times of Malta for helping to put them in power in the first place.
Agree, now they are trying to pick up the pieces. Too bloody late
Nonsense … if anything, a more accurate way of saying it would be “Screw the idiots who believed the propaganda and voted the PL to power “
This government had started on the ‘wrong’ foot from the very beginning. Everything Muscat does is designed by him to keep himself in power.
There’s no turning back now. His plan is to hang on to power as long as possible by hook or by crook. Just watch it happen, especially if good men and women do nothing. That’s when evil rules.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and we lost that vigilance two years ago by being hoodwinked by a bunch of liars drooling over the booty.
The voters who did not vote PL were not hoodwinked at all.
Who the devil writes these things? “Growing hubris”, “in time”, “beginning of”.
The circumlocution and mealy-mouthedness is bad enough. But they also write as if Labour were a normal party in the democratic government process. Today it’s them, tomorrow it’s someone else, and the fight is essentially over policies
They’re not normal. Labour are Malta’s Nazis.
And then you were surprised that an Aryan baby was used in the ad about HIV.
No, that’s another issue. The Maltese, for all their pious Christian cant about equality, are rabid Nordicists.
That’s why mothers swoon at the sight of Joseph Muscat’s sky-blue eyes and ginger fuzz. It’s also why MTA uses blonde babes to advertise Malta, instead of the average dark-eyed and dark-haired Ritienne.
I can’t stand this out of body positioning either, the dosing of newspeak, this new catching-up sense of news duty, when it should be the newspapers breaking it and able to see it coming.
Don’t deceive yourself Baxxter. You’re as incompetent as they come. Your hubris will not conceal your insular mentality.
It already has in many ways.
It already has blown up in most of our faces including the faces of most shifters and other deluded voters who risked all to be “IN” but have been unceremoniously left out by a Muscat government that has been foolishly accorded “power” by the plentifully “ignorant”.
I have to disagree with the last word “ignorant”.
I would have qualified it with the adjective “greedy”.
These people took a calculated risk in voting for Muscat in the futile hope of getting something out of him for nothing.
Their main motivation was greed.
But they were also pretty stupid to trust a jerk like him.
Well they should smash up their calculator would you not say ?
Agree with all three above.
There’s maxim used in logic “inclusio exclusio” which sums up the Joseph “I’m in” crowd. If you’re not there supporting him on a billboard or on twitter or at their little tent meetings, if you’re not an ex-Nationalist ready to reconstruct yourself appearing on Super One, sorry but you’re part of the “I’m stuffed” crowd.
Its going to take time, but there’s a tipping point in everything and when it comes, it is unstoppable.
As much I applauded PL for their great victory as much I do regret it now…..
Why applaud a massive show of ignorance and deceit?
The people have already shifted. I know of many, even young people whose parents are staunch MLP supporters who have now realised what this party in government is.
The problem is not the Maltese voter but the fact that the MLP never relinquishes power easily and I am convinced that this amoral lot who cannot even understand what the word ‘morality’ stands for, will do anything in their power to stay in power.
We had already experienced it 1971-1987 and we all know what we went through to wrest power from the hands of the usurpers.
This is MLP upgraded into version 2, and the PN and all honest journalists and leaders of society need to understand this. We are now led by a power hungry lot who will make Malta go through a similar road that they made us go through decades ago.
Don’t let them do it again.
Watcher of lies and traitors, the problem is the Maltese voter because if the majority of voters don’t vote for them they will be kicked out automatically according to our constitution.
Why do you think the PL government is dishing jobs, promotions, appointments, etc. etc. so that they will have a large gathering of loyal members in case of any protest, etc.
One does not throw a savage cat into an aviary of budgies because a cat lover shouts that there was a mouse in the cage.
But that is what the Malta voters did in March 2013.
They threw in the cat lover together with his savage cats. It is a disaster that the lovers of savage cats wear blinkers so as not to admit the carnage of birds in the aviary.
I cannot sleep whilst my country is raped.
I’ll have no peace until they are jailed for life with no amnesty.
What they did to me is nothing compared to what they are now doing to all Maltese.
We need to fight for our essential and basic rights, together, as a people united.
This is larger than colour or language.
We each have our strengths.
Let that be the focus.
Let us see who or what they will blame this time…
”Malta had the worse retail trade figures in the EU in October when compared to October 2013, according to data issued by Eurostat this morning.” TOM
It might be a good idea if the Maltese government manages to sack whoever does the Eurostat statistics. (sarcasm intended)
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141203/local/malta-fares-badly-in-retail-trade-figures.546713
That’s democracy for you. People are not given a vote according to their intelligence.
One of the benefits of democracy is that it gives the opportunity to all and sundry to improve their intelligence and better their position, including the possibility of choosing the proper people as their legislators.
It is obviously up to each individual to grasp such opportunity and raise his standing. Should the individual fail to do that, it is all society which ultimately stands to lose.
Timesofmalta.com
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat should have already taken the decision to sack Manuel Mallia.
That interview with the Prime Minister last week on PBS’s Dissett may have well ended after the first five minutes. In his opening volley, journalist Reno Bugeja asked Joseph Muscat what he had to say about the controversies over his Home Affairs Minister, his Equal Opportunities Minister, his Economy Minister and his MP Luciano Busuttil. Muscat mumbled something to the effect that the issues are different and then said: “What people care about is what affects their pockets.”. . . . . . . . . . . . . ,
Jan Farrugia • a day ago
Muscat measures others by his own yardstick, that is, for him it is only money that counts.
This is the third time in its history that Labour is voting itself out of power. It was Mintoff who was longest in power as Labour Prime Minister. Alfred Sant was the Prime Minister who spent the shortest time as Labour Prime Minister.
Now the youngest Labour Prime Minister is eligible to gap the bridge between those two extremes. Even though the never endeavoured to bridge the rift between Mintoff and Sant.
On the contrary he simply jumped over the fence to the other side of it and called Mintoff a traitor. What would Mintoff be calling Joseph now? It is time he got paid with his own coin.