Comments on: Pity the nation where members of the government and their aides consort with convicted cocaine traffickers as though it is entirely normal https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/01/pity-the-nation-where-members-of-the-government-and-their-aides-consort-with-convicted-cocaine-traffickers-as-though-it-is-entirely-normal/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/01/pity-the-nation-where-members-of-the-government-and-their-aides-consort-with-convicted-cocaine-traffickers-as-though-it-is-entirely-normal/#comment-3064090 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:15:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=74332#comment-3064090 In reply to Spa.

I wouldn’t count on the ‘eks’.

]]> By: Spa https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/01/pity-the-nation-where-members-of-the-government-and-their-aides-consort-with-convicted-cocaine-traffickers-as-though-it-is-entirely-normal/#comment-3064083 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 23:37:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=74332#comment-3064083 Meinrad hu EKS-TRAFFIKANT TAD-DROGA.

MAKE THAT HIGHLIGHTED.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/01/pity-the-nation-where-members-of-the-government-and-their-aides-consort-with-convicted-cocaine-traffickers-as-though-it-is-entirely-normal/#comment-3063991 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 17:18:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=74332#comment-3063991 In reply to jj micallef.

Oh, I’m sure he can. After all, he’s a philosopher now.

]]> By: jj micallef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/01/pity-the-nation-where-members-of-the-government-and-their-aides-consort-with-convicted-cocaine-traffickers-as-though-it-is-entirely-normal/#comment-3063982 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:56:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=74332#comment-3063982 I take it he’s pitying Malta but could not possibly express it in his own words.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/01/pity-the-nation-where-members-of-the-government-and-their-aides-consort-with-convicted-cocaine-traffickers-as-though-it-is-entirely-normal/#comment-3063978 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:52:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=74332#comment-3063978 Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion [Angelik iva, l-Arcisqof le].
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave [lycra]
and eats a bread it does not harvest [Pringles].

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero [ic-Caqnu],
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful [Sandro Chetcuti].

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral, [Kemm kien ragel sewwa Censu Tabone]
boasts not except among its ruins, [Tinda fuq Hagar Qim]
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, [Louis Grech]
whose philosopher is a juggler, [Mark Montebello]
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking [The Knot Monument]

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, [Joseph Muscat]
and farewells him with hooting, [Lawrence Gonzi]
only to welcome another with trumpeting again. [Marie-Louise Coleiro]

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years [Edward de Bono]
and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle. [Ian Borg]

Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation. [Is-South]

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