Malta, where almost half the electorate voted to make this dangerous crank prime minister instead of Fenech Adami
In 1992, around 48% of the electorate voted to make this crank prime minister again. What sort of person does that?
KMB has tumbled out of the cupboard again to hold another press conference.
This time he tells us of his fears that the government and the Opposition are conspiring to tamper with the Constitution and erode Malta’s neutral status.
We can’t have that, can we. Being in the 21st century is no excuse.
He is still cross that Malta ‘silently supported’ the war on Muammar Gaddafi, in full violation of our Constitution.
We should have sent those fighter jets back, he says. That would have been a neutral act.
I look at him and I think, “Was this man really our prime minister, or was somebody playing a truly elaborate trick?
How did we survive that level of madness? How was it possible for the madness to happen?”
Then I remember: other people. One of the most debilitating, frightening even, aspects of life in Malta is the thought that in 1992, around half of the electorate voted to put this dangerous and unstable crank in charge of the country again.
And this was after we had direct experience of what he was like as prime minister, and when we were currently experiencing the relative heaven of a normal, stable government and a sane prime minister.
I try not to think about it, but as I stand in supermarket queues, visit the bank, sit in traffic jams, walk through crowds, I sometimes become hyper aware of the odds that I am surrounded by people who actually voted for Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici to become prime minister, who thought him more fit than Fenech Adami to run the country.
And it’s a frightening, disturbing thought. With so very many people like that around, anything is possible and nothing is safe.
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Well, what do we make of people who use their freedom to broadcast the myth that they’re afraid to voice their opinions, likes the Elves putting about that Inkontri ‘report’ that blokkerz called Defni & Lou make life hell for people who do not vote Nationalist?
I’d call them Kafkaesque, but that’s a bit too sophisticated.
“The majority is always wrong, the minority is rarely right”
Mhux dik il-kbira, Daph, illi dan il-bniedem ghadu jigri ma’ saqajna, mhux qieghed almenu il-halfway house ta’ H’Attard.
Why would he be in the ‘halfway house’? This man had done the whole nine yards, has been a certifiable crank for most of his political life and still does not miss any chances to confirm what a complete lunatic he is.
He’s one of those people classified by Norman Tebbitt as ‘wandering around unsupervised’.
Truly frightening.
There is only one possible explanation;
Those people don’t question anything.
One thing which fascinates me is trying to imagine their mental extent as individuals. What I find disconcerting are the blank stares. They seem resigned to follow, even if it means missing reason for the sake of complying to an imposed hope.
Labour has so much to answer for, not just physical violence.
Some ‘inconvenient truisms’ for these people:
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
What one person receives without working, another must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not take from somebody else.
You cannot multiply wealth by deviding it.
Alas, I fear that, even if translated into Maltese, these people will never ‘gettit’.
Oh, forgot to briefly summarize, as simply as possible, for these people:
When half the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half get the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of a nation.
Daphne this is the one topic on which I stand, unreservedly, foursquare behind you.
The horrendous results of the 1987 and 1992 general elections are one of the few things that occasionally interfere with my sleep pattern.
After all these years I still feel sorry for my country.
I struggle in vain to try and be proud of Malta and its people.
When I think of those results I just cannot help it.
Pride is replaced by anger and scorn.
I hope that someone will, one day, produce evidence that those particular elections were tampered with.
Then I will be a much happier Maltese man.
It would be more frightening if people couldn’t vote for such a crackpot if they wanted to.
[Daphne – People with mental problems are prevented by the Constitution from holding a seat in parliament. The problem is that certifiable people are not certified. Your reasoning is twisted. We’re talking about a party leader here, who, if elected, becomes prime minister.]
Hey DV,
His now deceased blood brother (or was it cousin?) wrote in his revered Green Book…”in need freedom is latent” and ”democracy is a direct threat against the people” amongst other gibberish.
It’s a shame our home-grown cranks aren’t fun.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/features/article838930.ece#next
The least successful practical joke
In the 1994 Danish general election Jacob Haugaard stood for parliament as a joke. His manifesto included free beer, nicer Christmas gifts, more Renaissance furniture in Ikea, Nutella in all army field rations, continuous green traffic lights, the introduction of several whales into Randers fjord, the right to impotency, a tail wind on all cycle paths and the reclassification of people without a sense of humour as disabled. To support his candidacy he wrote a book entitled If Work is Healthy Give it to the Sick.
The practical joke backfired, however, when this fine man not only got elected with a staggering 23,253 votes, but also had one of his manifesto policies made law: Nutella in all army field rations. The stunned new MP for Aarhus said: “It was all a practical joke, honestly. I guess people elected me because my promises are just as trustworthy as those of conventional political parties.”
He decided not to stand for re-election.
We’ve had more than our fair share of nuts in parliament.
And famously, some century or so ago, the Nationalists of old elected village idiots and disreputables to parliament with the express purpose of bringing the institution into disrepute.
KMB is a delusional crackpot. That goes without saying.
But his fulminations on neutrality are more than fuelled by our Prime Minister’s own evangelical zeal in protecting us from the horrors of war.
With the full support of PN’s heavyweights. Military action is infra dig.
We are the happy exception. We turn our noses at those evil Europeans who send military hardware to rain death and destruction on poor defenceless civilians. And all the rest of that sentimental tripe.
Karmenu’s “neutral” has definitely been switched for his “live” and someone certainly left out the “earth”.
Anyone who remembers what this ex-Prime minster did
a) to annul the decision of the law court that the PN be allowed to hold a public meeting in Zejtun by providing the SMU to use tear gas in alliance with an MLP mob,
b) to accept glibly a handful of perjured affidavits that Dardu Debono had “escaped from custody” when in truth he had been murdered inside the police headquarters and when it was a prevalent sick joke that Nardu’s ghost was appearing in that CID room,
c) that he praised the wreckers of the Curia as “the aristocracy of the workers movement”,
would readily believe that he prefers that the neutrality cause be retained as it is so that bloody dictators of the ilk of Ghaddafi would be able to slaughter his people without interference from Malta.
“And it’s a frightening, disturbing thought. With so very many people like that around, anything is possible and nothing is safe.”
It is indeed a frightening thought – but the most frightening aspect of this whole very sorry affair is that we can never ever take anything for granted.
But the reality of it all is that if we had to think about how precarious our present well-being and serenity and peace of mind are, we would instantly lose our well-being and serenity and peace of mind with the result that, since most people do not realise how chimerical our present well-being is and how volatile our peace of mind is, since we’re at the mercy of so many cranks, the sheer reality of it all is that we might very easily, so very easily, lose our peace of mind and our serenity.
@ el bandido guapo.
The improperly wired electoral connection could explain why KMB’s hair seems to stand on end. Even if an earth leakage circuit breaker (salva vita) was installed it would still have required an “earth”.connection.
While this man was a Prime Minister we had the darkest moments of our recent history. The attack on Curia, the incidents at ” tal-Barrani”, the political murder of Raymond Crauana and the frame up of Pietru Pawl Busuttil.
This man should be hiding in some remote cave rather than continuing to make a fool of himself.
Francis Saliba forgot to include the hijack debacle at Luqa airport – then KMB was in charge of the grand mess he directed
@ oldtimer.
But KMB made amends immediately – he actually wore a black tie during the subsequent cabinet meeting in honour of the deceased and he offered his resignation to the other incredulous cabinet ministers but he was easily persuaded by them to stay and press on, regardless.