I hate to split hairs, David, but the issue here was whether a “cover-up” had been perpetrated, and I don’t believe that particular term is used in the Criminal Code either. Still, we all understand what it means.

And by default for the Libyans (?) also Russia and the Ukraine.

Neither was it in the terms of reference for the Gang of Three to pass comments about those who passed comments about them, but they had to, didn’t they?

I agree with your statement and that is probably the reason why he and his supporters hate Daphne and her blog so much.

If a few more so-called journalists took a similar approach to reporting he would not have committed all these atrocities in 20 months.

Here I have to also congratulate Medialink Communications and Maltarightnow which have markedly improved over the past few weeks.

If you compare the way Lawrence Gonzi was howled at and hounded by all the media including the independent journalists, you will see the contrast between Muscat and Gonzi. Gonzi was never afraid of facing them and always gave a straight answer when he had one.

But Muscat cannot take direct questioning or face the media unless he has had time to contemplate their questions first.

He lies through his teeth and bats questions away so as not to get caught out.

He even lied about what he clearly said himself and is on record as having said, about the power station and resignation.

In a functioning democracy, where the police are an independent force and not a farce, this would be investigated by their criminal investigation unit.

If the Prime Minister wants to gain the people’s trust again, he should give Michael Cassar a free hand to deal with it without interference and hand in all the evidence it has available. Tall order, it may be, but worth considering.

[Daphne – The prime minister does not ‘give’ the police commissioner a ‘free hand’ to investigate. The police commissioner, under our Constitution and the law of the land, does not take orders from the prime minister or anyone else on who and what to investigate and when. Any police commissioner who fails to investigate a crime or fails to act on investigations which show that a crime has been committed is 100% accountable for those decisions and cannot cite superior orders because he has no superior.]

I certainly disapprove any perversions of the course of justice. However to my knowledge and maybe also to the knowledge of the learned judges, there is no crime of perverting the course of justice in Malta and I know of no such criminal procedures ever being taken in Malta.

There are related offences as false testimony for example, however this is not the issue here.

I do not know Louis Amato-Gauci, however apparently he practices law outside Malta.

The main point is that a serving policeman fired a gun without due cause in a public space and the prime minister thought so little of it he went to bed and left his hapless Super-One-Reporter-Turned-Government-Communications-Chief in charge of the problem.

To Muscat, all problems are simply about what tomorrow’s headlines will say and as long as they deflect blame away from him, there is no problem.

And Qatar too.

Mallia hasn’t been minister of justice for a while.

It is not the ministry per se that interests him but the power and influence that pertain to it.

There are other ways of ensuring power and influence. Mallia hasn’t been dismissed outright.

He hasn’t been dismissed at all. Muscat has already said that he will pop up again shortly.

“Joseph Muscat seized power”

I think there needs to be a deep unswerving recognition of this fact.

There was nothing proper to the seizing.

Misrepresentation, lies and corrupt dealings were and are before our eyes.

It’s time action is taken that includes the full extent of this scam.

The Constitution DOES PROVIDE for all actions undertaken to need to respect democracy, in intent and deed, and not undermine it.