Jeffrey the Door-knocker (distantly related to Kurt the Keychain)
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December 13, 2014 at 11:28pm
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He really has it in for Richard Cachia Caruana. You have to wonder why. Professional jealousy?
Nothing but.
U Peppi spicca bil-borom tahtu.
What’s that enormous ring on JPO’s pinky?
Purity ring
What a cultural and informative programme.
An Emmy is on the way. U hallina, Pep.
Peppi said ‘ rispett’ lejn il-program’ he needs to have his head examined.
Where can I watch the full episode?
At the end of the programme JPO’s ring was on his other hand…nervousness or anger maybe.Joker.
Peppi : “Ghandkom ikollkom ftit rispett ghall-programm ?”
Do you find it strange that last Friday’s (12/12) edition of Xarabank is not available for on-demand viewing on TVM’s website, but instead the 5/11 edition is still available when each week’s edition is normally discarded and replaced by the current week’s?
If this is being done on purpose, then the unwanted door-knocker has most certainly embarrassed the Moviment no end for them to go to such lengths to “help us forget” this remarkable episode.
Jeffrey moqli b`zejtu bhal dejjem.
Tawh il-microphone, baghtuh fuq id-dardir, dardar lill kullhadd u mdardar hareg hu.
Meta ser jitghallem ftit u ma jibqax jara kollox “personali”? Ghaliex din it-trauma u phobia li ghandu?
I think the analysis of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando should be done differently.
I believe we all agree that he needs medical attention. Whatever it is that’s wrong, it is apparent and undeniable.
It’s not our job nor our duty to diagnose him – but it is our duty as decent human beings to open his eyes to the fact that he needs professional help as soon as possible.
Secondly, since he has got some mental condition, we cannot hold him responsible for his displays of irrationality and instability, his frightening ire and other patently neurotic if not even psychotic behaviour.
We are morally bound to exonerate him of his deeds. No mentally-ill man is liable for his deeds. That’s a basic principle of civilisation. And therefore, Frank Psaila should not attack him. We do not attack a mentally-fragile, mentally-unstable person, because we know that those who do not know what they are doing, are innocent.
[Daphne – You are absolutely wrong in that. The fact that a person has psychiatric problems does not exonerate them from responsibility for their actions, not even from criminal irresponsibility. The testing point is awareness of what you are doing. If you are aware, then you are responsible and you will also stand trial. Not even being high on drugs or drunk is a mitigating factor, but rather the opposite. The defining characteristic of this man’s illness is actually hyper-awareness of what he is doing, and obsessive plotting, planning and scheming – so there is no way on earth he can be absolved from lack of awareness. Lack of awareness would apply to full-blown untreated schizophrenia in which the individual hears voices that tell him how to act. That is most certainly not the case here. But I repeat that psychiatric conditions do not make for absence of culpability – that is precisely why prisons have psychiatric units and secure wings for those who are extremely dangerous in this respect. With your line of reasoning, almost nobody would be in jail or fit to stand trial, because anybody who murders others, rapes them or fiddles around with children has got something wrong with them up there. The psychologically sound do not behave that way.]
The culpable person in this tragedy is Joseph Muscat. Muscat KNOWS that JPO needs professional (possibly psychiatric) help. He knows it and yet uses JPO’s weakness as a weapon against the PN. Without the shred of a scruple.
This behaviour of Muscat’s is despicable, to say the least. It is worse than immoral – it is (as you like saying) amoral.
[Daphne – I agree with you there. It disgusts me too, but then remember that it started under Sant. It was Sant who was leader when they began using Jo Said, who was so mentally ill that he couldn’t even work and had been ‘boarded out’. Yet he presented as a fairly rational but angry ‘Sliema switcher’ and those who are unobservant failed to recognise the signs. He campaigned for Labour again publicly the last time round and then he killed himself. I say this only to illustrate the point I had been making since he first appeared just before the 2008 general election: Labour’s use of him was absolutely gross. I say the same about Labour’s use of Franco Debono – which is far, far worse because they have mocked public office by making him ‘Law Commissioner’ when they know that he has problems; they shore him up, cover up for him, let him do what he likes – he’s always walking around Valletta or in restaurants – and when he spins out of control and begins texting them a thousand times a day, they say in parliament that they will name a law after him. This is the height of irresponsibility.]
Beppe Fenech Adami should not have attacked JPO. He should have spoken to JPO in a Christian-like fashion. He should have told him, “Listen Jeffrey. Can’t you see that Muscat is using you? Can’t you see that he sent you here to deflect the discussion? Jeff, can’t you see that your life is drifting away into nothingness? Can’t you feel that you’re being sucked down a vortex from which there is no return? Can’t you realise that you have to take action before it’s too late, to save yourself from total annihilation?”
[Daphne – What does Christianity have to do with it? Please don’t drag religion into it. It is not necessary to be Christian to be civilised. And quite frankly, that would have been utterly the worst way to speak to anybody, because it comes across as patronising, smug and self-satisfied. The only way to speak to that man is brusquely and with a few home truths. He absolutely can’t handle it. Unfortunately, the home truths are not fit for publication because they involve completely non-culpable third parties whose privacy has to be respected. Unfortunately, the general public does not know the extent of what has been going on. If they did, Pullicino Orlando would not be able to take the decency of others for granted so as to behave in this manner. One day, that sense of decency might crack under the full onslaught of his abhorrent behaviour. But if people knew the full facts, they would be absolutely horrified at his craziness in doing what he is doing when there are so many people who know what they know but who are too decent (towards others) to say or write anything in public.]
Jeffrey needs Christian compassion. He is just a pawn in Muscat’s hands. Jeffrey needs to be told voluntarily to go to a good doctor and have his case diagnosed professionally. He needs also to be told that the longer it takes him to start the therapy, the harder it will be to cure the psychosis or whatever it is he has.
[Daphne – I am afraid you are wrong there. Pullicino Orlando is not a pawn in Muscat’s hands, but the other way round. You clearly have not got the full measure of the man, but I have – and a long time ago. He has deliberately wormed his way into that position so as to be able to manipulate his (negative) power over Muscat to do what he pleases and avenge himself on those he has been plotting and scheming for years to avenge himself, starting with Godfrey Farrugia. Farrugia was appointed minister and then removed shortly afterwards on a pretext in line with a pre-arranged agreement between Muscat and Pullicino Orlando, and never doubt that for a moment.]
The attack should instead be directed – coherently and mercilessly – against Muscat. Muscat is the villain here, not JPO. Muscat is unashamedly using Jeffrey’s mental instability to destabilise any proper democratic discussion. He knows that Jeffrey will blow off at the very first provocation and that the dentist’s behaviour serves as a sort of (perverted) entertainment.
This (perverted) entertainment then distracts the masses from the issue(s) at hand. Muscat is trying his hand at Grand Distraction, and possibly succeeding. In part due to the PN unwittingly helping him by giving in to the temptation of shooting at JPO, out of sheer revenge. This is not good strategy; this is mere giving in to the call of the emotions.
[Daphne – They are both villains. Pullicino Orlando is in fact the classic villain. The fact that he has psychiatric problems does not deflect or detract from this fact. The Kray Twins had massive psychiatric problems. It didn’t make them any the less villainous or keep them out of prison eventually. Indeed, you could say that all villainous people are of disturbed psychology because you would have to be to think and behave like that.]
Which brings me to my last point. Reason should overcome emotion. PN representatives ought not let their ego come in the way. The ultimate goal is more important than revenge.
As we have already said, JPO is mentally unstable, therefore not guilty of his deeds. It is his unconscious or secondary processes which make him behave in the way we have all witnessed. He has no control on those psychological processes, and therefore there is no volition on his side.
He is a poor fellow who needs to be helped, possibly even kept at a clinic for some time. He surely needs pills to restabilise the neurotransmitter levels in his brain, as well as psychotherapy to exorcise the demons which trouble him. Psychoanalysis might help him – but antipsychotic drugs would be sine qua non.
At the same time, the PN needs to forgive JPO and move on. It cannot keep having a Pavlovian reaction each time JPO is dispatched to bark at it. Who cares about JPO? What credibility does JPO have? Labourites still hate him over the Mistragate affair – and Nationalists hate him for his turncoat antics. So what’s the point of indulging in JPO, except soothing one’s own ego?
PN, let not your ego get in the way. Vengeance is not necessary. What we need is the achievement of the Final Objective: Victory.
[Daphne – Unfortunately, this argument is severely weakened by being based on the false premiss that those who have psychiatric problems are not culpable. They are of course culpable. How they should be handled is a separate matter. I part company with you when you say that Pullicino Orlando should be treated with pity and concern. He is not Jo Said. He is a vicious paranoid individual and this makes him dangerous to others far more than he is a danger to himself. Pity is for those who are harmless to others. Those who have made it their life’s mission – nay, obsession – to plot and scheme harm to others should be seen for what they are, and pity and ‘Christian charity’ do not come into it.]
But then the PN will keep dancing to Muscat’s tune. Muscat dispatches JPO as his (or his party’s) emissary, and the PN, instead of focussing on the issues and the absolute stench of this government, wastes its energies on JPO and his troubled soul.
There must be a way out. My understanding is that JPO should be forgiven and consigned to the dustbin of history. No more exacting revenge – let’s work for Victory. As the Jews say, the greatest revenge is success.
Also, if what you say people know about JPO amounts to criminal behaviour, then the Police ought to be formally and publicly informed. Not out of vengeance, but out of a sense of public safety and civic duty.
For instance, this accusation that he had/has an unlicensed gun/revolver/pistol/other firearm at home. Why hasn’t anybody lodged a report with the Police?
[Daphne – This business of putting everything in a religious context is exhausting. Where does forgiveness come into it? If a person is harmless, you move on. If a person is dangerous, you have to deal with it. Clearly, you know nothing about the nature of obsessive paranoia. It doesn’t let up. The person who is in the grip of it will stop at nothing. His days and nights are consumed by thoughts of revenge and by planning how to exact it. You have consummately failed to understand what is going on here: it is not ‘the PN’ that is after revenge on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. They couldn’t care less. It is, on the other hand, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando who is utterly consumed by the need for and thoughts of revenge. He’s in extremis now, and it really shows. That is when he is going to be at his worst. People like that are seriously dangerous, and make no mistake about it. And no, not all danger involves criminal acts, and the police can’t take action on criminal acts before they happen.]
More than a villain, JPO is a knave, pure and simple.
Doesn’t JPO have an unlicensed firearm at home? Why do you say that the act has still to happen … ?
It’s a damn shame Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando doesn’t kill himself. The world would be rid of a scoundrel, and the MCST might regain some credibility.
We must acknowledge Jeffrey’s unique achievement. He has succeeded in being sham, shamed, shameful and shameless in one go.
Peppi is like a teacher desperately trying to quiet down a class of naughty twelve-year-olds, with Jeffrey as their ring leader. I mean, he even had to turn off the microphones. How uncivilized.
The PN should just ignore Jeffrey, not engage in debates with him. The man is sick and needs medical help.
It is not up to the PN to make him realize that. If I where Beppe, I would have refused to participate in Xarabank with Jeffrey present.
Jeffrey is a nobody, an empty vessel who makes most sound. And Xarabank has lost all credibility, with Peppi the idealist turned mercenary.
On a public level and when the actions of a person impinge on the rights of others, backing off and letting him dominate the situation is a disservice to those affected by him.
Should we be ‘Christian’ and not accuse him of employing someone he has a personal relationship with, and breaking the ethic of keeping personal relationships outside of the office?
How ‘Christian’ would that be for the person who has the proper qualifications and aptitude for the job, and all those who suffer because, when the assistant is sleeping with the boss, work can never run smoothly and a myriad of complications and inequalities arise?
It’s time to replace Xarabank
Il -istra Jeff tal – mistra—-part 1
Minn dentist sar opportunist,
Minn gurnalist sar opinjonist,
Minn nazzjonalist sar faxxist,
Minn xjentist sar laburist,
Minn skartat spicca fi hdan muscat,
Minn paladin sar gakbin,
Kien se jibni disco imma spicca fiasco,
To be continued
His face is botoxed