No wonder Il-Guy and those other freaks from the 1970s and 1980s are so relaxed about it
Yesterday Manuel Mallia, the hot criminal lawyer whose face was most recently seen on a birthday cake (see previous post), made a star guest appearance on TVHemm.
Host Norman Vella asked him whether the incoming Labour government’s plans to lift time-barring on corruption cases would allow investigation of the corruption cases of the 1970s and 1980s.
Mallia’s response, after lots of that old-fashioned legal defence beating about the bush, said that he doesn’t think the removal of time-barring can go that far back. He didn’t say the truth: that the removal of time-barring can’t be applied retroactively AT ALL.
I hope somebody was recording this, because it’s yet another of Muscat’s BIG LIES EXPOSED.
Muscat said clearly, several times and most notably on Xarabank when he was with the prime minister, that a Labour government will remove time-barring COMPLETELY on corruption cases.
He gave the impression that the removal of time-barring will be RETROACTIVE. But new laws cannot be used to prosecute or investigate suspected crimes that took place before that law was enacted.
So time-barring, whether it’s increased or removed altogether, will apply only to corruption cases which take place AFTER the law is changed.
It was the prime minister (a lawyer, let’s not forget) who – caught between the rock of live television and the hard place of knowing that this is a legal minefield and not really possible – said that yes, in principle he agrees but he can’t see how it can be done when even murder cases are subject to time-barring.
There’s a reason for this: in situations where many of the witnesses have died over time and memories of events become blurred, people can’t really get a fair trial.
But really, what liars the Labour Party are. Joseph Muscat lies with perfect confidence about something as serious as this, and his star candidate, a defence lawyer, squirms under a live television grilling because he knows it can’t be done.
That was always going to be the danger inherent in having somebody groomed for years as a Super One propagandist entering politics and becoming party leader and then prime minister.
Lying about people and situations, manipulating facts and lies of ommission are all part of the Super One system and training, and they are also taught that the lies are justified as a means to the end of winning the great war for Labour victory.
This is what we are seeing here now: the ultimate supremacy of a Super One reporter. So help us God. And believe me when I say that this is not a throwaway remark.
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It is most definitely not a throwaway remark.
What gets me is the way that the Labour Party rubbishes the PN’s electoral programme costings as being unaffordable, but then thinks nothing of suggesting that Eur600 million be spent on building a power station, LNG terminal and gas tanks that we are not just unnecessary but actually dangerous and environmentally unsound.
“Giving the impression” is all that Muscat does. The “change” that people would like to see is completely removed from the realms of what is possible and from what Muscat will actually accomplish (or saying that he will do).
The problem is accentuated by the fact that the general media has little interest in presenting a critique of what is being said. In addition, people with an opinion, like yourself and Andrew Borg Cardona, are labelled as being the mouthpieces of government propaganda.
Therefore, both of you have no credibility whatsoever in the eyes of that cross-section of the electorate that is going to send Malta back to the 1970s and the 1980s.
Top this with the fact that Labour leaders past and present always appeal to popular emotions whereas the Nationalists to logic and rational thinking.
A recipe for disaster.
Ironically, as I said in another comment I made before seeing this post, a couple of hours later, Manuel Mallia was on Super One with his buddy Jose Herrera, berating GoNzIpN for not making the draft Whistleblower Act retroactive.
He was on 903 after that, sitting alongside Herrera.
Herrera can’t stand him.
Muscat’s hero is Mintoff. Enough said.
http://tvm.com.mt/live
Click on Wednesday.
FF to 2:50.
5 minutes of Mallia’s pearls of wisdom.
The PN organisers are failing miserably to show the PL’s vote catching calls for what they really are.
WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!