UPDATED WITH SOLDIER’S COMMENT TO THIS SITE: With soldiers like these, you really feel safe
A few posts back, yesterday, I asked: Are soldiers allowed to join racist groups?
This was after I noticed that there’s a member of the Armed Forces of Malta listed as in the Facebook group which I wrote about in the main header post up above.
“He might not know he’s been added,” somebody argued in his defence. Oh yes, he does – and he’s an active participant. Here is what he thinks about the situation:
Ray Borg
Ghoqodu attenti nies min caruana galizia ghax qed tataka lin nies ta dan il group ghax ghadom kif informawni li lili gabitni fuq il link taghha bil profile photo tal fb u tikument li jien razzist u min ghawn qed niringrazja caruana galizia li ghamlitni popolari ghax qed nikonsidra nohrodx ghal elezjoni
He’s thinking of standing for election, eh? With what – the Nationalist Party, Imperium Europa, AD or Labour?
The man doesn’t even know that soldiers are barred by the Constitution from being members of parliament.
UPDATE
Ray Borg, who’s loving the attention and can’t see it’s the wrong kind, has now posted a comment on this site:
Dear Dephne first of all thanks very much for publishing my photo , than thanks again because you make me popular among maltese people by your writing im considering to go for elections , but i need an adviser can you please be my adviser but you have to cover your face because i don t want to lose popularity again with ugly face you have
Regurds
RAY
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I stand corrected! However this also says a lot about the training the AFM are offering.
you want to know which party im going to contest i to tell you dear the party s name is daphne caruana galizia party hahahhah
The army should fire his pathetic ass.
Not quite Sandhurst or Brittania College material, is he?
What is it with these people? They post their photos on Facebook few several million people to see, then get all tetchy because you’ve “dared” upload the same photos onto your blog.
Ray Borg’s Maltese spelling is atrocious. Is he a service man?
He’s a member of the AFM, with no knowledge of his rights and duties there.
I don’t remember the AFM running a recruitment drive for graduates. Do you?
You don’t need to be a graduate to know about rights and duties.
That’s what you get in a democracy.
Votes should come with an intelligence test. And the nice thing about such a system is that people standing for election like this ray would logically not need to be tested.
My ancestors are SPINNING in their graves.
As infantile as Borg’s Maltese sense of humour may be, you clearly missed the sarcasm in his claim to stand for elections.
[Daphne – How do you know it was sarcasm?]
Do you actually think he knows what sarcasm is?
He surely took a stand to defend the “group” of racists.
For that alone, he should be asked to hand back his uniform and any arms he has, and face the law where it deals with racism.
There’s another AFM personin the group:
Mario Brincat
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Madonna santa. This Ray Borg is a really uneducated person. Minn tat-tielet dinja (in the educational sense not economic one) kif insibhom jien.
Eh, Mr Borg, should Daphne cover her face – what about yours? And by the way – she did not make you popular. She named and shamed you – try to understand simple English please.
Regurds. Hahaha.
Is there a minimum IQ requirement to join the army in Malta?
There is a low IQ threshold. It is normal that those who do not make it to that limit join the Partit Laburista.
@ E.Caruana Gailizia .. I wish I could laugh, but I think I’d better cry. So sad, isn’t it.
What a crying shame that members of the Armed Forces stoop so low in both their language and their actions. Is there no decorum, no pride left? I hang my head in shame and despair.
Considering the standards set by some of our “honorable” members of parliament in recent months with their wanton pettiness, shameless opportunism and bigotry, I am not surprised that public life has now attracted the likes of this buffoon.
isnt it a bit of an institution assasination attempt when one soldier fails and the whole force gets it!! For all we know disciplinary proceedings have been initiated.
Let s have some faith as there are sandhurst graduates, defence college graduates, fort benning graduates, Irish Defence Forces College graduates who know exactly what they are doing and will deal with the problem in accordance with the provisions afforded by military law
“isnt it a bit of an institution assasination attempt when one soldier fails and the whole force gets it!! For all we know disciplinary proceedings have been initiated”.
Fails is putting it very mildly. Too mildly considering the seriousness of the offence. As for disciplinary proceedings, again considering the seriousness of the whole thing, we (the public) should be informed every step of the way through media releases and press conferences. That is what happens in more civilised states.
The duty to protect the image and good name of the army falls on the army itself.