Christianity of convenience
Robert Musumeci adds his own to the cries of sympathy for Noel Arrigo - obviously
The pseudo-Christians are littering the internet with their comments advocating the Christian spirit towards the awful Noel Arrigo, when what has made people angry is not so much Arrigo himself (we take that as given) but his early release from an already ridiculously short prison term and the fact that he didn’t spend a day in jail.
It’s amusing how they snatch and grab at Christianity – the classic last resort of the dastardly – in this case when many of them are the very same ones who mocked and derided any mention of ‘Christ’ or ‘Christian’ in the divorce referendum debate.
And I didn’t hear any such arguments when it came to the pederast priests, either, but rather the opposite.
Their arguments reveal the very mentality that led to the bribe happening in the first place, to the relatively soft judgement handed down on Arrigo, to his preferential treatment while serving time, and to his early release: come on, what he did wasn’t so bad.
That’s the state of Malta, my dears.
Come on, it isn’t so bad for a magistrate to have sex with a prosecuting officer.
Come on, it isn’t so bad for a magistrate to give court expert appointments to the man she is secretly having sex with.
Come on, it isn’t so bad for a magistrate to sit in judgement over the brother of the man she is having a secret affair with.
Come on, it isn’t so bad for a magistrate to have dinner with somebody who is a defendant before her, to invite people who are plaintiffs before her to parties, to build close personal relationships with lawyers who defend cases in her court and policemen who prosecute them, and to meddle in politics and invite half the media to her home and her birthday parties.
Come on, it isn’t so bad for a chief justice to take a bribe – and quite a small one at that, which tells you a lot – to reduce the prison term of a drug-trafficker on appeal.
Come on, you would have done the same, wouldn’t you? What if it had been your father or your brother?
And bang on cue, here’s Robert Musumeci on his Facebook wall:
Robert Musumeci
Osservajt dak li kellu xi jghid Peppi Azzopardi fuq il- blog tat- timesofmalta. Fortunatament, ghad fadal persuni dicenti u umani f’ pajjizna.
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he.
It’s only a matter of time before he tells us to be Christian, deluding himself just as he did when he went on his mixja tal-Gimgha l-Kbira fuq is-Salib tal-Gholja with his ‘partner’.
As I said in court last Tuesday, “Min jaf kemm ha pjacier bihom Gesu Kristu Msallab.”
They don’t even realise that they’re the very same white-painted tombs that Christ warned people about, if we’re going to be talking Christ.
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We can rest easy. When Mintoff’s gone we’ll have a worthy heir in Peppi Azzopardi, who worked just as hard to turn this nation into one giant league of morons.
I beg to differ. Mintoff was never mainstream pop.
I take it you’ve never heard Mintoff address a mass meeting.
Peppi has a knack for glorifying and sanctifying unsavoury people; we only have to remember two of them, il-Pupa and Angelik. There might be others who appeared on Xarabank who I would not know.
I understand they strongly expect that everybody else receives the same treatment – not a day in jail. By everybody I mean everybody.
There was a very interesting letter in The Times last Saturday:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110910/letters/Conduct-unbecoming.384086
Malcolm Seychell tried knocking some sense into Musumeci with a comment on this post:
“dak hu genn totali. ma jistax ikun ma jibqax habs. imhallef korrott haqqu ghomru il habs u mhux mar holiday mount carmel flok il habs bhal ma kien ikollu jaghmel cittadin iehor. min jizbalja ghandu ihallas lura u l habs hu parti mill penitenza. jekk inehhu il habs nsiru gungla kif diga qbadna it triq bhal pajjizi ewropej ohra. Ma nafx kif minthomx tirrejalizzaw li tolleranza zejda hi hazina hafna ghas socjeta”
… but Musumeci, ever the holy person that he is, responded with “min hu perfett iwaddab l-ewwel zrara”.
Incredible, but true.
Even Charles J. Buttigieg, so often the beacon of ignorance and blindness on timesofmalta.com’s comments board, seems to see the light on this one.
Oh, and another thing. Is Musumeci so thick that he also called that very same comments-board a ‘blog’?
Does anyone on this island know the difference between blogging and posting comments on a website? Sigh…
It’s never a good idea to quote Malcolm Seychell in support of your arguments, unless you want to be associated with his irrational and inarticulate bigotry.
True, but for once he actually made sense.
When Malcolm Seychell starts making sense when compared to Robert the Toy Boy, that’s when the bottom of the barrel has been well and truly scraped.
White collar crime doesn’t get punished and when it does the culprit gets a slap on the wrist. In the US these people get sent to some Club Fed. Locally they go to Mount Carmel.
Do we really live in an equal society? The worst part is that many in the lower middle class and poor would defend this two track system that effectively discriminates against them for the rest it brings disenchantment and a sense of alienation.
http://www.forbes.com/2004/07/08/cx_pp_0708prison.html
Lawyers have an unofficial inclination to take care of their ‘stock’ whether they are acting fights in court or legislating loop-holes in parliament. Remember that they legislate, they prosecute, they defend and they judge. Some lawyer-judges even party with plaintiffs and police officials. Can anyone give me an inkling as to any fat chance the common mortals have with this state of affairs?
Musumeci’s trying to create a new breed of Maltese politician, inextricably linked to the territory, willing to compromise political stability and the social contract in the name of his ramified network, unashamedly familistic and lax with his religion.
He’s not at all original. Clemente Mastella switched sides twice, created a party made up of his family and had to resign when his wife (nicknamed Lady Mastella by the press)
was implicated in a corruption scandal.
They always made sure any interview or photo had the token priest or crucifix in sight.
Vauro, leading cartoonist, calls him ‘Madre Clemente di Calcutta’.
[Daphne – It was Niccolo Machiavelli who wrote about the importance of appearing to be religious, while doing what you wish.]
Dan jaqaw Musumeci qieghed ihokk dar l-ex imhallef biex erbat ijiem ohra Arrigo ikun fil-klikka ta’ Herrera/Musumeci? Wara kollox hemm biss 4 minuti boghod min xulxin gewwa is-Siggiewi, u min hawn u ftit iehor Arrigo ikun imissu jhokk dar Musumeci jekk johrog ghall-politika.
Qabda ipokriti
As far as I know Arrigo has been interdicted by the courts for life.
On Noel Arrigo and general interdiction – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091127/local/what-does-general-interdiction-really-mean.283451
Ma nahsibx li Musumeci ghandu il-wicc johrog ghall-politika, l-ewwel ghax ma nahsibx li il-PN se jaccetta kandidat poggut ma’ magistrata tal-Labour; u it-tieni jekk jipprova jigi imbuttat biex johrog mal-Labour (hemm hu l-ambjent tieghu) dawn ma jaccettawhx ghax jafu li gol qalb ta’ qalbu huwa Nazzjonalist.
Ghalhekk caw-caw, Musumeci. Nahseb li ahjar jibda il-kanvassing ghal Jose.
Musumeci, minn tant nies, ha jitkellem dwar id-dicenza?
“They don’t even realise that they’re the very same white-painted tombs that Christ warned people about, if we’re going to be talking Christ”.
That is EXACTLY the whole point.
Well done.
Comic diversion – Consuelo’s friend cop-turned-lawyer Andy Ellul in sunglasses and a ‘sister Sharon’ T-shirt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3GNe1ff-QE
Come on it isn’t so bad if the Chief justice takes the bribe after he has decided on the case…go figure
Let’s do what Christians preach and release all prisoners from prison. This would be a great act of true Christian values.
Christianity applies only to people in authority only.
[Daphne – Actually, what Christianity teaches on the matter is quite different: I was in prison and you visited me. Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s. Commit a crime, pay the price, visit others who are serving time.]
Yes I agree that Christianity does not necessarily imply the abolishment of prisons.
I think Peppi Azzopardi and some others (as Fr Mark Montebello, and if I am not mistaken Tolstoy) advocate an ideal world where there are no prisons.
Once a foreigner who met a Maltese group, was impressed positively by the Maltese group and so asked them “Do you have a prison in Malta?” Naturally the reality is that crime and criminals exist everywhere and will probably always exist.
On the other hand Christianity distinguishes between sin and the sinner. Sin is always evil while the sinner has the possibility of redemption and of changing his ways.
“I think Peppi Azzopardi and some others (as Fr Mark Montebello, and if I am not mistaken Tolstoy) advocate an ideal world where there are no prisons”.
True, but Utopians have one problem…they must be seen to be consistent, or else risk being labelled hypocrites.
So now Peppi is defending Arrigo who did not spend a single day in prison for his crime. But I failed to notice Peppi’s campaign against Arrigo for sending all those “nobodies” to prison.