From the pseudo-sublime to the truly ridiculous
timesofmalta.com, this morning:
Dr Debono, a prominent criminal lawyer who has been campaigning for Constitutional reforms, said that after the French revolution one of Napoleon’s greatest conquests was not military in nature. It was the establishment of meritocracy where careers were open to talent. It was the call to dismantle privileges enjoyed by the nobility and the oligarchy. Meritocracy was even more important in a small country like Malta, he said. “These are the foundation of our European culture and identity.”
And in another story on timesofmalta.com, also this morning:
Two female football fans grabbed a policewoman by the hair and punched and pushed her as she was trying to create some space for a man to breathe after he suffered a heart attack during a match, a court heard yesterday.
(…) They then grabbed her by the hair, swearing and shouting, until other officers arrived to drag them off her.
Police Sergeant George Polidano told the court he called the ambulance twice during the incident and he was the person who dragged Darlene Borg screaming and kicking, off WPC Ghirxi.
She even kicked him between the legs after which she told him it was nothing personal but she had wanted to get at the policewoman.
Cross-examining the witness, defence lawyer Franco Debono asked how long it took for the ambulance to arrive, to which the sergeant replied five to 10 minutes.
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And on another note from this morning’s debate:
“Dr Muscat answers that the PL has become a movement. It has gone through the realisation that wealth has to be created before it can be distributed. And wealth is created by the private sector.”
So…. what’s the point of creating wealth if Joseph wants to distribute it….. Safe for business, is he? Ahleb Ahleb….
Franco Debono…. and his million-dollar question.
“How long did the ambulance take to arrive?” And how does this bring any benefit to the case?
What is an acceptable time to start beating the assisting police officers, Dr. Debono? Can I beat up a police officer if the ambulance takes 15 minutes? Why did your clients beat up that policewoman?
Your clients are savages and have no case to prove their innocence.
I’ve been to a couple of football matches at Ta’ Qali and it’s total chaos. When the club teams are playing, it’s a battle field.
If you look at the supporters’ eyes, you can only see blind rage. If you hear what they are saying, it’s all an incoherent string of swear words and that’s it. The swearing and the anger at which they blurt their threats send chills down the spine.
I don’t go see any club football anymore, because it’s not enjoyable. I’d go support the national team, but club football is just too dangerous.
Darlene Borg = 1 vote. Terrifying.
Napoleon was olso banished on the isle of Elba and later poisoned – so what’s Franco’s argument?
Josephine?
Joseph-een?
He wants to be banished to Tibet.
Mela Franco is an ambulance chasing lawyer now?
Nowadays, it is considered cool by those caught red-handed breaking the law to go running to Franco Debono or ONE news alleging persecution and discrimination because of sexual orientation, political views or religious creed.
Dee, kullhadd irid jaqla’ x’jiekol.
Napoleon Bonaparte appointed all his brothers, sisters and in-laws as Kings and Queens of the major European countries of his time.
He is also known for having commissioned the assassination of the royal-born Duke D’Enghien whom he considered as a competitor for the French crown.
Now, what was it that Dr Franco Debono was saying about Napoleon Bonaparte?
Franco Debono rants about oligarchy and cliques and then he goes on to quote Napoleon!
After first marrying into the French aristocracy he detested, after ditching the low-born tradesman’s daughter (who later became Queen of Sweden) , Napoleon re-married later with a member of the Hapsburg Dynasty,
Meritocracy my foot. Napoleon was more like a Johnnie-come- lately with chips on his shoulders for his elders and betters. Does that ring a bell, Dr Debono.
Re Dr Debono i have this to say. Whoever listens to him without the knowledge of what lies beneath his statements and his doing will surely be impressed but whoever has the nitty gritty of the matters he discusses,one has to have a different opinion of Dr Debono. Well yesterday Debono won a case for an alleged theft by a pharmacy technician of drugs. The attached is the link
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120207/local/Pharmacy-technician-caught-out.405668
What i have to add to this?
Simple when the case was known to the public, the health authorities grew suspicious not because some medicines pertaining to one or two patients disappeared but because fresh stock of medicines vanished within the first few days of its consigment. When the authorities investigated, they found out that a pharmacy technician was taking drugs and selling them to others. Unfortunately thanks to the alienation of Dr Debono, He managed to bring to the court a patient who was entitled for the same free drugs and of the acquaintance of the alleged offender. The prosecution failed to point out that even though the witness may be a good alibi for dr debono s client, it can justify part of it but surely not to the extent that drug stock will vanish within few days. What kills more is that he convinced even the magistrate to recommend the health authorities not to take action against his client!!i really need to find the case when it started to confirm my theory.
On a totally unrelated matter – Jason Micallef shows his hdura.
on (of all things) the Malta Song Festival.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Mdx8wfH3E
Hi Daphne, were you at the debate this morning at the Intercontinental? From what I have read on timesofmalta.com, I have a feeling that the report is not all that faithful to what was really said.
[Daphne – No, I wasn’t there. I had planned to be but couldn’t go.]
Have been reading The Times website and somehow I came to the same conclusion as Giovanni.
It’s comforting to know that when Darlene Borg kicks you in the balls it’s nothing personal.
@Mister
It would be interesting to know which club games you actually went to see. In my capacity as vice-president of Malta’s leading footbal club, I am at Ta’Qali every weekend. Ta’ Qali is a far cry from the “dangerous battlefield” you describe it to be. The rivalry that exists between the clubs’ supporters is indeed healthy, and is no different from what can be witnessed in stadia all over Europe. “Blind-rage, chills down your spine.” What a wuss.
So flying chairs and bottles is a day in the park for you?
“The rivalry that exists between the clubs’ supporters” is what lines your pockets my friend… thats why you see it as healthy. If you wouldnt have these flocks of sheep, paying blindly to your demands of `fundraising`…. your football team would be nothing. Its the blind ignorant supporters which keep the coffers full…. and you like it like that.
Sorry mate, but you`ve got your own interests to protect, so don’t come playing neutral.
I’m not saying there aren’t normal people attending football games, but then you’ve got the majority who are thick in the head and behave like Dr. Debono’s clients.
At the first sign of a police officer, their blind rage took over their ‘reason’, and kicking and punching is the only thing they could think of.
They could have come up with a better reason to kick the poor police officer in his privates, but their intelligence is so limited that “it was nothing personal” is the best they can come up with.
Football is a gentleman’s game played and followed by hooligans.
Rugby is a hooligans’ game played and followed by gentlemen.
@john
Very well said…
Napoleon couldn’t bear being alone in a room with a cat. He said its blank stare made him a little scared. Lots of cats in Malta.
Here are a few quotes from Napoleon for Franco Debono to digest between one chapter and another of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
An army marches on its stomach.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Sourced from BrainyQuote.
“Councillors, he said should also focus on the role and performance of Paul Borg Olivier as General Secretary.”
In my opinion, if I were Paul Borg Olivier or Lawrence Gonzi for that matter, I would gladly retire from politics and go back to my private practice, rather then work with a peasant politician.
Who wants to work with a back-stabber?
For a coverage of the debate at Intercontinental follow this link
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120208/local/live-gonzi-muscat-debate.405768
If one researches “Stockholm Syndrome”, will soon find out that in kidnap cases, the hostages often sympathise with the kidnappers after being detained for a period of time.
Franco Debono suffers from a similar syndrome having spent so much time defending the indefensible, that he now thinks as illogically as the criminals he defends.
This is not to say that he is a criminal – far from it, but some of the warped thinking must have rubbed off them and on to Franco’s thinking capacity.
I fail to understand why The Times of Malta nearly always mentions Franco Debono by name whenever he is a defence lawyer but does not treat other lawyers in the same way. Also, how is it that in the eyes of The Times Debono is “a prominent criminal lawyer”?
“Prominent” criminal lawyer: I’m sure he’s well chuffed that he’s referred to like that. Someone tell him that that’s not necessarily a good thing.
Qazzez lil kulhadd!!
Dnub ma giex fi zmien Dr. George Borg Olivier ghax kieku kien ikun irid jidher hu fuq il-palk bid-dokumenti ta’ l-Indipendenza.
@ Mister
Any time you want to come back to Ta’ Qali, you can be my guest in the VIP stand. Ask this blog’s moderator for my e-mail address, and get in touch with me.
I would also be able to get you through to the main stand, where you can meet our supporters.
You can witness first-hand that they are not the stupid, ignorant, sheep you make them out to be. I am not being sarcastic, this is a genuine invitation.