Corrupt businessman with both political parties in his pocket files 19 libel suits against me

Corrupt businessman Silvio Debono, who has both the government and the Opposition – the latter until last weekend – in his pocket, this morning filed 19 libel suits against me. That’s around €8,000 in court fees alone to file the responses before the case begins.

I have not yet been notified, and so don’t know by which blog-posts or references he feels libelled – he is corrupt by his own admission, after all – but it is clear that he has systematically filed one libel suit for each post about the same subject, in a clear act of intimidation.

I have this to say to him: it’s not going to work, even if it means I’m the last person standing who you haven’t bought. You can buy Lou Bondi. You can buy Mario Demarco. But you can’t buy me. And you have been very badly advised by your aides. Filing a raft of libel suits does nothing to convince the public you hope will buy your bonds, or the politicians you hope to corrupt further, that you are free of blemish. On the contrary, it tells them that you are a rat forced into a corner.

Unlike the deputy leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister and several members of parliament and present and former politicians from both political parties, I am not one who says “I have to eat”. I’m one who says that I’ll bloody well starve if that’s what it takes.

My value-set does not include Maseratis.

Corrupt businessman Silvio Debono, who systematically buys up politicians and political parties to get what he wants.