#WTFAmIDoingHereWithTheseNobodies?
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January 12, 2015 at 1:37pm
Joseph Muscat demonstrating for freedom of expression in Paris yesterday: he must have tried to force his way to the front biex jimxi labbranzetta ma’ David Cameron, but failed.
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The perfect musical soundtrack for this photo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_is1iyUDJ8
I am still waiting for the first columnist (bar Daphne of course) to make this point.
Angelo Micallef’s article was a disgusting piece of nothing-to-see-here laghqizmu. And he’s from the Opposition, if you please.
“Angelo Micallef’s article was a disgusting piece of nothing-to-see-here laghqizmu. And he’s from the Opposition, if you please.”
Agreed.
where can I read this article?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150110/opinion/The-French-resolution.551241
He even misquotes Voltaire, for God’s sake.
I wonder if any of these politician-columnists have ever even read a single copy of Charlie Hebdo. They’d be calling for the paper to be closed down ghax mhux sewwa.
Trid tara lil Kurt fuq fork-lifter biex jiehu ritratt ta’ Joseph.
Didn’t he say that dimanche he will be avec Hollande?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/false-front-update-le-pere-de-soleil-et-etoile-est-francais-aujourdhui/
Here is Hollande with his preferred company.
http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2015/01/000_Par8071483-e1420991190388.jpg
To his left, Angela Merkel: the leader of the country which is probably the “bast in Urip” – hated by Joseph Muscat because she is a Christian Democrat.
To his right, Ibrahim Boubaker Keita, President of Mali. A black African.
Rather than pushing Keita back, Francois Hollande has pushed Joseph Muscat back.
Oh, the irony of it all.
Muscat’s facial language says that he got bored saying “Do you know who I am?” whilst trying to shove himself forward to link arms with Cameron or Merkel.
I see no problem here. If he had not gone, what would that have said to the far right nuts here in Malta?
Obama didn’t go, neither did many of the European leaders. No big deal.
My own take was WTF did this march achieve, other than a monumental waste of resources and a traffic to end ’em all?
It is an observation that Muscat looks and feels out of place. It is a problem because it shows he doesn’t really believe in free expression but is there just to be seen.
So were representatives of some of the world’s most repressive regimes, so presence means nothing in and of itself.
Typical Joseph, cunning enough not to be part of a risky front line.
[Daphne – Hardly. My own assessment of that character is that he would have killed for the chance to be in the leading row, and is seething there because he wasn’t. People of his personality do things for impact and consider the effort pointless and wasted otherwise.]
Call me cynical. However I fail to see how yesterday’s demonstration has helped the fight against extremists in ANY way. If Europe wanted to stop extremists repeating what they did last week, then they need to sit down and draft changes to some existing laws and policies. A protest walk by Europe’s leaders is, I’m afraid, entirely useless except for election purposes.
It has actually helped the terrorists. They achieved their aim, which was to make the headlines. And boy did they make them.
The message it sends out is that a very small act (some weapons and 17 people killed) can have a massive effect (millions of Europeans marching).
Not content with the hand-wringing hypocrisy, Hollande adds the cherry on the cake: 10,000 French troops to patrol the streets of France, when the French armed forces are massively overstretched as it is, fighting wars in Mali, Niger, the Sahel and now, Iraq and Syria. Plus a 10-man cell for anti- Boko Haram operations.
It’s called rallying the troops.
Indeed, rallying the troops. They’re on horseback and the enemy is in a starship.
Of course not, it’s all just going through the motions and play acting. Those politicians are as much an enemy of freedom of expression as the Islamist terrorists who carried out the attacks. They bend over for the sponsors of this mess. Most of those chanting don’t have it in them to really cross the lines and defy the way the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo did.
http://qz.com/324621/these-are-the-biggest-hypocrites-celebrating-free-speech-today-in-paris/
https://twitter.com/DanielWickham93/status/554234005923848192
So here are some of the staunch defenders of the free press attending the solidarity rally in Paris today…
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
1) King Abdullah of Jordan, which last year sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 15 years in prison with hard labour http://t.co/giZg7JounI
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
2) Prime Minister of Davutoglu of Turkey, which imprisons more journalists than any other country in the world http://t.co/sLCJaZprex
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
3) Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 7 journalists in Gaza last yr (second highest after Syria) http://t.co/w74zqVHZf9
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
4) Foreign Minister Shoukry of Egypt, which as well as AJ staff has detained journalist Shawkan for around 500 days http://t.co/xzVRgmkM1g
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
5) Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia, which last year jailed a journalist for “insulting a government servant” http://t.co/J4Rca9chuA
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
6) Foreign Minister Lamamra of Algeria, which has detained journalist Abdessami Abdelhai for 15 months without charge http://t.co/KlDiwKibzL
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
7) The Foreign Minister of the UAE, which in 2013 held a journo incommunicado for a month on suspicion of MB links https://t.co/15ESrDu1kh
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
Tweet che è stato criticato e ha ricevuto immediata precisazione:
@SYMONDSxSAYS you want cases of deliberate targeting and arrests? Here http://t.co/B4BavvLNTE http://t.co/rrqO64Hzh4 https://t.co/uSeeYjBEug
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
8) Prime Minister Jomaa of Tunisia, which recently jailed blogger Yassine Ayan for 3 years for “defaming the army” http://t.co/8fwfVHq8VK
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
9) The PMs of Georgia and Bulgaria, both of whom have a record of attacking & beating journos http://t.co/sB0gkTtnJl http://t.co/bnvaAyic5p
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
10) The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted WashPost reporters http://t.co/fYtWGEl3pL
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
11) Prime Minister Samaras of Greece, where riot police beat & injured two journalists at a protest in June last year http://t.co/Vr8MPsEwWR
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
12) Sec-Gen of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journos in ’99 http://t.co/wp0mR0a52l
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
13) President Keita of Mali, where journalists are expelled for covering human rights abuses https://t.co/LByJYLfxIe
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
14) The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, 2nd biggest jailer of journos in the world per capita (they also torture them) http://t.co/HX6Q3Ia3lG
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
15) Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, which jailed a man for 15 ys for writing the Jasmine poem http://t.co/8s1N0wcPC6
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
16) Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who had several journalists jailed for insulting him in 2013 http://t.co/2p0VXYB2Sd
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
17) Prime Minister Cerar of Slovenia, which sentenced a blogger to six months in prison for “defamation” in 2013 http://t.co/cBVYh4niys
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
18) Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, where “blasphemy” is considered a criminal offense http://t.co/zyJlZnAEwS
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
19) Prime Minister Kopacz of Poland, which raided a magazine to seize recordings embarrassing for the ruling party http://t.co/6asFIyiLr9
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
20) PM Cameron of the UK, where authorities destroyed documents obtained by The Guardian and threatened prosecution http://t.co/VLS13dnckJ
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
21) Saudi ambassador to France. The Saudis publicly flogged blogger @raif_badawi for “insulting Islam” on Friday http://t.co/ZTlPCGa6u5
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
Morale?
Keep this photo with you: useful illustration when those leaders attack press freedom again once they return home pic.twitter.com/ycJ2P7JBh1
It seems that Joseph Muscat was rather far back in the march, not in the first 10 rows.
The responsibility for this lies with Malta’s ambassador in Paris, whose job it is to ensure that protocol is respected.
But what do you expect if you appoint amateurs? It probably never even occurred to him to check. Jokers.
There’s no protocol to respect, because this was a public rally. It was Hollande who should have checked “protocol”. And the constitution too. Then he’d have realised that street rallies belong to the citizens only. They are a tool for the citizens to make their voice heard. The government, being the government, already makes its voice heard. So he shouldn’t have been there, and he shouldn’t have organised anything. He should know, of all people. After all, the French invented the public rally.
But it was too tempting not to imitate his idol Mitterrand, that other duplicitous lecher. He was the only other French president ever to march in a public rally, in 1990, after a Jewish cemetery was desecrated.
Oh and amateurs? One foot in the grave, more like.
Once there was a presidential entourage, there is a protocol to be observed. Merkel, Netanyahu, Abbas, Tusk and Keita were not in the first row by coincidence.
I agree that the march was hijacked unashamedly by a President desperate to improve his poll ratings
Hollande wanted to be part of the rally, to save his political butt, nothing more. He used the whole affaire for political mileage. If politicians truly want to cause chaos to militant groups they should wager cyber attacks on their finances.
Hollande has no chance in hell. Le Pen has her best chance ever.
Why the ambassador’s responsibility? Perhaps, as is his wont, Joseph turned up late and found that all the places in the front rows had already been occupied.
Wahdu Wahdu Wahdu,…miskin.
This is the same Muscat who back home is afraid and refuses to face journalists.
Nothing comes in between Muscat and his populist stance. For him, thew huge Parisian event was just a personal PR exercise.
Same embarrassed facial expression he had when Angela Merkel ignored him completely. Kurt Cover Up Farrugia might say that the men around him are were all his French-appointed security officers.
But then he and his people are the first to block Twitter accounts of those who criticise them.
Joey was not in the front row at the rally because as usual, he is always late and he missed the bus.
Shouldn’t he have been in the front line with Hollande, Cameron and Merkel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h31Sne852C4
Next time he should take a placard and Ian Borg not Kurt Farrugia.