Some more sparkling wit and brilliance from the famous comments-board on timesofmalta.com
Paul mIcallef
YES GADDAFI must go, but where? do you people know that who ever loses this war will end up in MALTA? eh? so before our BELOVED GONZI tells GADDAFI where to go, he must first tell EUROPE where to go for not helping us with the EMIGRATION broblem then tell him what to do. Gaddafi has helped Malta a lot in the past, keept illigal emigranys at bay, payed our fathers wages in the past, even GONZI was seen in his TENT or was it a DOUBLE GANGER?
My point is, we must take a back seat, if the LIBYAN community want to help there brothers they should take up arms and not cause trouble here.
England and Frace are already making deals with the rebels who about t the OIL, and the slow moving ITALIANS know this, what deals has GONZI made??? Hotels have suffred businesses, even our own workers who had a job there, so please caution with words.
Least but not last what about the deposites that the GADDAFI familiy have in OUR BANKS?? its all about MONEY.
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Paul Saliba hbieb rajt dan l-artiklu fuq reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/04/us-libya-gaddafi-idUSTRE73372N20110404?WT.t
Now my question which I stated before is clearer: What will happen if Libya will hold an election and one of Gaddafis (to say like this) get elected from the Libyans??
X’ jigri ??
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JOe VELLa
To all those in favor of the Freedom Fighters, I for one believe in their cause BUT it is not for us to take sides. As someone below said: ”A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT IS ONE WHEN ELECTED NOT WHEN SOMEBODY SAY SO”.
Let us not rush after all our friends the Europeans in the Union do not care to help us with our problem. Why are they so excited to get rid of Gadaffi? and all this rush? Is it Gadaffi or Oil?
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John Gatt
Right you are,Sir
But we do know world reconized the present authorities for 40 years.
During them years the regime UP LIFTED country from citiziens living in corrugated
sheet SHEDS in poverty under IDRIS rule, to a decent life and education in par with any european country.
We clearly know that most of REBELS are egyptian settlers brainwashed by BROTHERHOOD sect, carrying the Monarch Banner of IDRIS, whom heir so called PRINCE lived in London since born in 1976, a UK conservative party funds donator member.
Since 1970 Libya had elected governments BUT not an elected President.
To return to PEACE the country needs to elect a President , a person chosen by LIBYANs from all walks of life , excluding any one from Gaddafi family
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Louise Vella
The Swede Cecilia Malmstrom can monitor as much as she likes. If this is not an emergency for her, it’s an emergency for us. Dr Gonzi should act like a true Maltese and give instructions that Malta should not accept more illegal immigrants as long as Sweden and the other rich countries of northern Europe refuse to take the burden off our back.
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Bonello David
When these illegal immigrants are still at sea, we should direct them straight to Cecilia Malmstrom. If she’s so happy with them, she can harbour them ALL. We will even send the ones we have on the island to her. That way she will make everybody happy, especially us Maltese people. So this Cecilia is admitting that there was never an agreement on burden sharing, and still there isn’t. I wonder who was JOKING????
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John Portelli
Who is this cecilia malmstrom. Is she looking to make herself a name in Sweden. Her interest are not the EU, but Sweden. Stop talking to her and start talking to someone who listens. The Maltese and Gozitan people. Based on these discussion, then we should implement the necessary action plans regarding illegal migrants. This is after all a free democracy isn’t it.
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Law Agius
We Where born, live and die under colonialism and now dictatorship from some clowns living up north of the so called Europe . How is it that we never managed to rule ourselves
Thanks EFA for getting us in europe !!!! You will always be remembered in our history books, no doubts about that
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Joe Borg
Under pressure from Malta…I bet she get scared…the reply will be that you have plenty of excellent housing so you can keep them and this is what you get for beeing a tax haven & gaming republic.
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joe micallef
Come on Gonzi show what you are made off put your feet down tell the EU that you and the Maltese are not there to be made fun off the EU are showing you and the Maltese there thanks for helping all there people give them the respective pappers to travel where they want the illegal immigrants anyway they don’t want to stay in Malta and we will see what Malmstrom will say then she change her mind quick smart Why we had the Independence not to stay under the English to go under the EU..
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J. Camilleri
Dawn tal-EU biex jaqtawlna l-kacca u l-insib tajbin!! Ghal- xejn izjed!
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Stephen Farrugia
This lady has a problem and it is now called, united Malta against Malmstrom . What a headache she is about to have and many sleepless nights because the poor women, has no idea about our culture and history. :)
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Here’s one that’s articulate:
Ahmed Sewehli
Thank you government of Malta for telling Gaddafi where to go. I was a bit worried that Gonzi might say something different, as I am aware that unfortunately there are a few Maltese politicians implicated in appeasing Gaddafi over the last few weeks during which Gaddafi has killed thousands of my own people. This included allowing Gaddafi’s relatives and his cronies procure supplies to continue the atrocities. I spoke to the Maltese consul in London about this, and told her the British-Libyan community’s concerns about Malta being used in this way by Gaddafi. My father and 2 brothers who were kidnapped by Gaddafi’s men in Tripoli because they protested are still missing. Thank you Maltin for your support of the Libyan people in the face of the horrible monster Gaddafi and his monster sons.
These people are totally cut off from reality. I know that sounds very condescending, but it’s true.
They don’t know that Gaddafi is responsible for the deaths and disappearances of thousands of people, that without the EU Malta is just a tiny island surrounded by giants, that illegal immigration is not a problem only found in Malta, but all over the western world (in other words – get over it!).
Oh, and the whole “it’s about oil” bit made me chuckle. What is this? 2001?
Thanks to our beloved neutrality, Malta is now seen by the rest of the EU as a stool-pigeon, or worse still, as some deluded idiot who thinks that they can sit and wait to befriend the winner and fool the world. Our actions, or the lack of, tell the world all it needs to know. Our intentions are self evident.
And what of this humanitarian aid? There has been none carried out on behalf of our government, but only by NGOs who have risked their lives to take food and medicine to Libya.
And all this because our government wants to be seen as good Catholics? Because they don’t want to stab a monster like Gaddafi in the back?
Well guess what- they have failed.
But you have to admit that the EU isn’t helping either and that’s why the ire of these people against the EU.
Where is the EU solidarity they preach so much about.
The EU is leaving Italy and Malta alone to tackle the problems. I only hope that the Maltese government has enough spine to do what the italians will be doing… granting travelling visas to EU countries and sending the illegal immigrants to where they WANT to go.
[Daphne – Stop talking about the EU as though it is a foreign entity. Malta has been PART of ‘the EU’ for the last seven years. The EU member state with the biggest immigration problem is the United Kingdom. That’s because it’s the very place where all the people who enter Europe illegally want to end up, because it is so easy to disappear there and because its social services are so good. The next on the list is France, mainly because it is the through-port for Britain. People make their way overland to France en route to Britain and then get stuck there, waiting to smuggle themselves across the channel. There are makeshift camps on the coast, full of young men waiting to strap themselves to the undercarriage of some truck, or get into the back of a lorry. And they don’t include only the ones who enter Europe by sea through Spain, Malta, Italy and Greece – but also the ones who come in overland from the Middle East and south-east Asia. Lots of Chinese are smuggled in, for instance. Perhaps if Maltese people looked more often beyond the bars of their hamster’s cage, they would know these things and be able to keep the situation in perspective. One of the main factors obstructing burden-sharing is precisely this: Malta thinks that the only immigration burdens that will be shared are Malta’s and Italy’s – but you can’t have that discrimination in a European context. So Britain’s, Greece’s, Spain’s France’s and Germany’s etc immigration burdens will have to be shared out too. Malta might very well end up with more immigrants and not fewer, but it looks like nobody’s thought of that one.]
The EU solidarity is very evident. At the moment it is helping get rid of Gaddafi. It is our government that isn’t showing solidarity.
And before we start claiming that the EU started it by not helping us out with the immigrants, may I remind you that illegal immigration is NOT only Malta’s problem. It is a problem found everywhere.
It is not leverage.
So can we stop acting like a bunch of babies crying “it’s not fair” while we totally blinker ourselves off to the problems of everyone else. That’s the problem in this country- we all think we’re something.
What’s even worse is that people believe that because Malta isn’t backing the coalition in any way, they think it’s a great “that will teach you to ignore us” move on our part, and that now the EU is going to feel so sorry about it all and ‘unburden us’ of all illegal immigrants.
The total opposite is more likely: You act like Gaddafi’s secret agents, you don’t back our efforts, you stay out of it all, and now you demand that we come to YOUR aid? No.
And we had better get used to it if this is how this country is going to be run and represented.
One of the Dilbert comic books is called “When did ignorance become a point of view?” I guess you get your answer on the timesofmalta.com comments board.
When Joe Azzopardi created Xarabank. Back in – when was it, 1992? 1993?
These comments don’t say much about our education system. Or rather they say a lot!
And to think that these people have a vote!
I feel like gnashing my teeth whilst tearing my hair out. Painful to admit, yet an apt quote to consider would be, ‘forgive them for they know no better’. Do these people deserve such an easy way out of their insecure self-centred way of looking at the world about them?
Haven’t you realised yet that nobody is taking any notice of you?
Apparently you are “taking notice” of Daphne and her blog, chavsRus.
ChavsRus, the fact that you bothered to leave a comment means that you are interested in reading what our dear Daphne writes.
Zawija has been overrun. A coat of white paint and all is forgotten, Gaddafi thinks.
Maaaaaaaaa…………… It’s a real pity that all these comments are so scary. They could have been so funny.
And least but not last:
Paul Saliba (again – or his DOUBLE GANGER?)
Dear Prime Minister, why we have to hurry to give recognition to the Libyan Rebel Council? What are we going to gain with this? What benefits will have Malta if we give recognition? Do we know who the rebels really are? I am sure you know that there are members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group withing this council. It seems that this issue has all been planned since the dissolution of the LIFG in 2009. Lets do not hurry. We are a small country. When things will arrange, then we will have Berlosconi saying that Frattini was giving a person oppinion on requesting Gaddafi to step down. He will offer him millions like they already did and things will start working again between the two countries but Malta…. what can we do?? We do not need to hurry to recognise the rebel council. I worked with Libyans for many years and my experience is that we only have to lose if our relationship with this country is abolised. I also wish to ask a question: What will happen if a democratic election is called and the son of Gaddafi is elected?
That Louise Vella has been writing the same crap for years. Clueless, xenophobic, anti-clerical and possibly racist. But also persistent. I’ve always wondered who she is.
“Possibly” racist? I think you mean a blatant racist.
Anti-clerical? I was wondering whether or not she worked at the Curia, seeing that there was a time when a Louise Vella worked there.
They are all trying! I mean, they are all so irritating to say the least.
I just loved Paul Micallef’s “Least but not last”.
Our democracy is really in serious danger if we do not improve on our education policies.
Who else is coming out in hives?
“Least but not last” – epic
DOUBLE GANGER
Marc Dorcel’s new film.
I hadn’t realised we had an emigration problem. I always thought of that as one of the problems (virtues?) of the Golden Years.
And, least but not last doppel walker sounds better.
I love Paul Saliba’s “(to say like this)” – Obviously literally translated from the Maltese “(biex nghidu hekk)”.
What really gets their hackles up is when somebody with a non-Maltese name posts a comment. The usual suspects start invoking the Foreign Interference Act. By the way, is it still on the statute book?
From the same culture: Trash The Dress At Ramla Bay and the Love Story of Noel and Francelle, courtesy of Weddings in Gozo:
http://vimeo.com/15387339
http://vimeo.com/15332557
http://vimeo.com/16322295
http://vimeo.com/15640643
http://vimeo.com/14186711
http://vimeo.com/14099664
“Up in smoke” should have been the site’s name.
http://vimeo.com/14720323
With politicians and future deputy prime ministers like this one, what do you expect of huge chunks of the electorate?
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=9300
Being quite a fan of my fellow Swede, can I perhaps urge the visitors here to sign the one-seat-campaign, which was initiated by Malmström to stop the constant move of the EU parliament between Brussels and Strasbourg.
http://www.oneseat.eu