A blatant description of clientelism: and Silvio and his little friend don’t even know that it’s wrong
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December 18, 2011 at 12:42pm
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One ‘ovvjament’ every seven seconds. If it is that obvious he should have kept quiet about it.
The audience for this programme must not only be subliterate but also IQ-deficient.
Hu l-Bubu?!
Ovvjament ma rajtx iktar minn 3.04 sakhemm ovvjament wasal fuq lis-skrin ovvjament l-onorevoli Silvio ovvjament Parnis.
Silvio Parnis sums it all up for the Labour Party.
‘Barra li inti politiku , inti wkoll uman’
Wow now that’s interesting. Who would have known. I stopped at 3.12 minutes – I couldn’t take more.
Interesting how several well known large firms, previously identified strongly with the Nationalist Party, are climbing over each other to sponsor such trash on the Labour station. Thoughts of feathering one’s nest somehow comes to mind.
This is the soon-to-be Minister for the South.
U kif tista’ ma tidhaqx?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111218/local/Silvio-Parnis-was-never-promised-Ministry-for-South.398794
lovely – we are short on ambulances anyway.
Kenneth Galea – a comment on the internet:
Yesterday, 13:06
Silvio Parnis is the nicest person on earth one can come by. Regardless of your political views Mr Parnis is always helping people. If he were a woman I will nickname him ‘Mother Theresa’. He also asks his friends to take people to hospital if he cannot accompany them. This guy is a gift from heaven to us all.
a comment on Times online regarding Silvio Parnis
Silvio Parnis is the nicest person on earth one can come by. Regardless of your political views Mr Parnis is always helping people. If he were a woman I will nickname him ‘Mother Theresa’. He also asks his friends to take people to hospital if he cannot accompany them. This guy is a gift from heaven to us all.
unbelievable.
Investing for his future.
You’re asking too much to go through one hour plus of Silvio Parnis. I could watch a good movie or two episodes of Allo Allo in that time.
Ovjament Joseph jivvinthom.
Daphne,
I cannot keep myself from sharing this with you because it made me feel so angry and disappointed of the people that I used to call friends and colleagues.
Aaron Farrugia
What we are experiencing in Malta is very close to what is taking place in North Korea, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Burma . Print and electronic media is under heavy state control or influence. The Nationalist Government owns and/or controls all media outlets. What a shame!
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To even dare compare what is happening in Malta to North Korea and other dictatorial regimes must be the most hidious and disrespectful comments I have heard for a while. I cannot say that I fully understand what the people in North Korea are going through because I do not live there and cannot visit this beautiful country because of restrictions on tourism, therefore my humble opinion was shaped through reading books such as Barbara Demick’s ‘Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea’ which graphically describes the horrible lives of those that managed to escape to South Korea through an insidious trip to China and Mongolia.
North Koreans are completely brainwashed from a young age, believing that their beloved leader (or great leader – call him what you may) came from the sky in the same way as some religions describe the advent of their god. They are made to study texts, supposedly written by these sub-literate ‘leaders’, which not only challenge the most basic tenants of philosophy, justice and ethics, but also science. People are executed just for demanding something to eat, or for minimally challenging the regime (which has become a family affair). When it comes to law, individuals could be punished with internment at any of a variety of concentration camps according to the severity of their crime, and North Korea adopts a policy of punishing not just those who commited the ‘crime’ but their debt with society has to be repaid by up to three generations down the line. Then they have politics, or whatever you can call it. As a politician you have to adulate a ‘king’ or demi-god that feast on lavish dinners prepared by ‘imported’ chefs from Japan and the surrounding countries (most probably they are held hostage), and also spend millions importing cognacs from Europe. Their parliament is a joke – it’s just a rubberstamp for the perversion of one man, be it Kim il-Sung, or Kim Jong-Il or Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-Il massacred more than two million people, not through execution or persecution (those statistics do not include them in these 2 million) but through hunger, reducing people to scavangers eating garbage, bark, grass and at times each other. Economically the country has been reduced to a pityful state, with heavy investments in the farming of ostriches (because Kim Song-Il was made to believe that this was the way forward – economically speaking) while factories producing basic and fundamental goods are out of primary materials, electricity and water. Health care is in a sorry state too, people do not have access to any sort of medical care, except maybe in Pyongyang, which has been reduced to a showcase city, which appears to be functioning but in actual fact there is nothing working properly.
It is because of these and many more reasons that what Mr. Farrugia, the head of the PL think tank, did was absolutely out of place, and extremely distasteful. This insensitivity towards peoples suffering form lack of any basic service, as well as any basic freedom, must stop immediately. We have to admit that what we have is not as bad to what these people have … might I dare say that although our situation was bad in the 1980s, not even than could we compare our situation to these countries. We are not dying of starvation, we are not educated that our Prime Minister is god almighty, we are not being indoctrinated through censorship of books and any type of media coming from any of the political camps in Malta, and we live in a democratic country whether Mr. Farrugia admits to this or not. As I said in the first part of my contribution, I feel even more angry because these people are, or were my friends. Even worse is that these people should be our ‘bright’ future, the leaders of tomorrow, the new thinkers, and the modernisers – however there is nothing modern in ridiculing the situation of these people and trying to take political advantage out of their suffering.
I sincerely hope that Mr. Farrugia will recognise his mistake and apologise, and that his party will take action against such insensitive comments. Never again should our politicians go down to this level!