Imagine the jubilation of these savages if ‘they’ win the referendum vote
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January 17, 2015 at 12:25pm
They’re difficult to keep in check now. Imagine what the situation is going to be like after they win the referendum vote, because it’s looking like they’re going to do so.
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They will win in. Unfortunately Malta is full of savages.
So you consider Simon Busuttil as siding with the “savages” ????
Mr Privitera, I made a sweeping statement and I was not refering only to the hunting issue in particular but to all kinds of arrogance I notice around me.
An example: yesterday I was stuck in the traffic in Mdina Road, Hal Qormi. A typical traffic jam. The reason was that three cars were parked wrongly as the owners stopped to buy something from various shops.
I notice also that in certain areas of Malta you can park wherever you want to as you will never get fined no matter the traffic congestion you could create.
We all know the reason. Support to the shops in the area. Maybe it’s a Malta Taghna Lkoll theory.
“So you consider Simon Busuttil as siding with the “savages”?
Yes.
Yes, Eddy, Simon Busuttil is siding with the savages, and has lost all my respect. That said, the alternative is a totalitarian redneck, so the PL won’t win my vote anytime soon.
Eddy, is that what you can come up with? If that was not a mistake, would that be applicable to the PM who is also stating to be voting in favour of the hunters?
And then people here fret about ISIS and Islamic invasions.
The hunters are the Maltese version of ISIS. After April 11, it will be like living in hell. The hunters will take over the roads with their guns.
The downward spiral will be quick.
More or less this is what you and your party ,including Gonzi and Simon Busuttil, had predicted if the PL won the election in March 2013 !!! Scaremongering is the weapon of the weak !
Same mind-set.
I shudder to think of a victory by the hunters in the referendum.
Both political parties will regret it one day.
Political parties don’t give a hoot about anything except getting that 0.1% advantage over the other.
Politicians have no self respect. We can now see that even Simon Busuttil has close to none.
All he’s interested in is how he or the PN performs (or is seen to have performed) vis-a-vis PL. Immature prats straight out of the primary school yard.
I am really let down by the PN on this issue. Next time anyone of them speaks about the importance of protecting the environment and not giving in to lobbies, we should be giving them the two-finger salute.
Of course, I am leaving the PL out of this consideration as we all know one cannot expect any of them to be on the right side of an argument and of history.
Pukka.
Absolute chaos.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/48531/pl_deputy_leader_against_hunting_but_in_favour_of_maltas_derogation#.VLpUJdLF9mM
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-01-17/local-news/Toni-Abela-to-vote-against-hunting-in-Spring-6736128894
The balanced view across all media.
This besides the irresponsible damage done to the water table with such high concentration of salt.
The hunters who did this are ecological criminals.
Again, this is besides the tons of lead contaminating the food chain, through the vegetables and fruit cultivated nearby.
“Although at least two officers should be available at night, she said she had repeatedly been told by police headquarters that no ALE policemen were on duty when trying to make a report.
Officers were also difficult to contact during the day because most of the time the officers were either out at sea or on festa duty.”
Out at sea or on festa duty?
Could someone explain that please?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150117/local/-Trappers-dump-chlorine-on-rare-Dwejra-habitat-.552153
“Could someone explain that please?”
I doubt it
F**k Simon, Joseph and all the rest. I’ll be voting NO in the referendum and sending my vote for Local Councils’ elections to the PN via registered post for them to keep as a keepsake.
Simon Busuttil HAD to be political, unfortunately, once Joseph Muscat declared himself a priori in favour of hunting.
Busuttil is not so suicidal to have said Yes – he is a political person and politics IS dirty believe me. Bil-malti issa Simon Busuttil reddagghulu (lil Joseph Muscat) u issa dak li hadna Sur Joseph Muscat. You are the ruin of the nation and you are proving to be this very well.
Hear hear!
Daphne,
You were against those branding all Muslims as terrorists, yet now you are branding all hunters as savages.
[Daphne – Hunters are by definition savages, Roger. Everybody who gets a thrill from destruction, who claims to be addicted and fixated on it, is a savage. Non-savage people do not derive pleasure from destroying a thing of grace and beauty. I see no aesthetes out hunting, and I see a lot of them on a daily basis.]
Roger, they’re not even hunter gatherers, the basic distinction of a human being.
Both arse-licking political stooges are voting Yes.
100% behind you, Daphne. Spot on as usual.
So even the Royal family are savages? Because they go hunting, even big game?
[Daphne – What royal family? There are several in the world. The King of Spain was subjected to so much criticism when he was discovered to have gone big game hunting that he never recovered from it.]
They don’t live in a microstate.
Whenever there is a monarchy, there is hunting, this is a fact whether we like to hear it or not. The tradition of hunting animals has been passed on through generations in most families and was considered to be a rich man’s sport ( rich meant educated in the past, certainly not today!). this was also applicable in Malta where only nobles carried out this practise essentially because they were the land owners.
Hunting was rendered what it is today through a general lack of education and the availability of more land to uneducated persons who turned to hunting and the lowering of the hunting age to 18 from 23.
Yes, hunters are savages! They get pleasure by killing all flying species including pigeons. I pity Simon and Joey for this decision which i’m sure they will regret in the near future.
Seems we have 2 rubber dollies then
Once upon a time, our prehistoric temples were vandalized by these same savages. Has everyone forgotten that, or does the conservation of our cultural heritage garnish no votes?
Shame on both political party leaders, for going to vote in favour of hunting.
Could we add “spring” before hunting as the qualifier?
Another precision to make in the campaign is that this is not a vote about ALL hunting but only about spring hunting: during the season that the birds that the hunters want to shoot are procreating.
I’m afraid that people will miss the point about the very reason the referendum is on.
What do you expect from these “people” if you can call them that.
It’s the group that pushed for the referendum that will regret it most. The time was not ripe for a referendum.
Another ten years were required.
But they thought they won just because they got their way with getting the referendum… a group of not very wise men and women.
I dread to think what’s in store come April 2015, and how they’re gong to have to shut their traps while the hunters spread theirs wide.
Just read Simon Busuttil is voting YES.
The hunting lobby hijacked Labour politicians, Eddie Fenech Adami, Gonzi and now also Busuttil, when I had started to think that he had some spine. Well I was mistaken.
Busuttil, in my opinion, is just another mediocre politician littering the Maltese political scene.
Just a bunch of prima donnas.
What a big disappointment. Blackmail has triumphed.
Sorry, Simon, I’m not on the train with you this time.
I am all out against hunting. Will somebody try to explain to me the fun in looking at a beautiful bird DEAD in your hand.
I cannot come to terms with the way most people are reasoning here.
I can understand Simon Busuttil’s Yes. He was there to get this derogation; he negotiated it and therefore to keep with what he started, it would have been a suicide to say NO.
[Daphne – STOP RIGHT THERE. Those who negotiated the derogation didn’t do it because they agreed with it or because it was a particular passion of theirs. They didn’t choose to do it. They didn’t volunteer in the way those people volunteered to organise the referendum petition. They were paid to negotiate. It was their job. The Opposition leader’s argument would apply if he were, say, a Birdlife member 10 years ago and now feeling obliged to vote No to be consistent. But even then this does not hold on grounds merely of consistency but only of conscience and belief. You vote for something because you believe in it, and not for the sake of consistency.
I think the Nationalist Party has already forgotten the fact that the one thing Alfred Sant was mocked most for (other than his wig) was his constant boasts of consistency regarding his views about the European Union. The world and Europe changed, the Berlin wall fell, the Cold War ended, the bloc evolved from the European Community to the European Union, and still our Fred was against it. He was consistent. And what do you know, he’s still consistent about it now, even as he sits in the European Parliament. We need a lesson in Darwinism here: ADAPT TO SURVIVE.]
I am the first person who will be in the polling booth to vote NO as I am against all forms of killing, birds or other animals, but I can understand his stance and find it very disturbing for people to call him all the names in this world.
He said it very clearly, that since he was part of the negotiating team in 2003, he is sticking to what he negotiated and saying yes to keep the ‘deroga’ as it was agreed with the EU. He also stated that IF Joseph Muscat had not promised the hunters that they will do whatever they pleased if Labour was in government, we would not have had to have the referendum. For this although I do not agree with him, I give him credit. My vote is No and no political party will ever tell me how to vote in a referendum.
Why all this fuss about how Simon Busutill will be voting?
There is still a long time to go before the referendum.
Maybe Dr Simon will change his mind. The P.N are used to U-turns.
And why keep calling hunters savages?
Of course there are some shady ones, but why blame them all?
What we have to do is be strict and the ones that do not learn should be severely punished.
This is very strange. If I am not mistaken, Joseph Muscat ALSO DECLARED THAT HE WILL BE VOTING YES. In fact he even boasted that he was quick on the draw to come out on the draw and declare so. So all this criticism to Simon Busuttil above applies to him also.
It’s just that everyone expected it from Joseph Muscat. But not from Simon Busuttil. It’s shock and disappointment rather than criticism.
You’re missing the point, Ganni Borg. By his declaration Simon Busuttil is sending out the message that he’d rather go for the hunters’ vote (most of whom will vote Labour anyway) than the environmentalists’ vote (many of whom would not vote Labour anyway).
By saying that he will vote in favour of spring hunting, Busuttil showed that the environment is at the bottom of his priority list.
The alternative would be that on environmental issues he is an ignoramus.