What a great way for a trial (criminal) lawyer to control the situation
I’ve been telling you for ages, right, that with a Labour victory on the cards since 2008, the race for the Police Commissioner’s neck has long been on.
It’s not so much that they’ve got it in for John Rizzo because of anything he’s done or not done. It’s just that this is a power-and-spoils game for Labour so all the top posts are seen as being up for grabs even when they’re not.
Top policemen have long been jockeying for position to get the boss’s job as soon as Labour is in government.
The knives are now all out, and you can tell that it’s official because Malta Today is carrying out the negative part of Labour’s campaign even in this regard. John Rizzo got slated by them today.
And in The Sunday Times, the Police, Justice, Army and Broadcasting Minister said that he does not rule out replacing the Police Commissioner.
We all know what’s coming next: Police Commissioner Neil Harrison, whose wife Audrey the MEPA officer was on those Labour billboards, in Labour’s advertising campaign, and giving testimonials about how she switched to Labour.
Unless some other top policeman knifes him first, of course (metaphorically speaking, it goes without saying, though with this lot nothing will surprise me).
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Now I know that John Rizzo is a Labour-leaning guy, but he got the job because he merited it.
I have to disagree, there were better candidates for the job, but the PN administration for some unfathomable reason chose him. I can tell you that this decision surprised and annoyed many people.
John Rizzo had best not take his exercise too close to the bastion wall.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130325/local/police-commissioner-s-denial.462802
i feel as if i’m living in Mintoff’s era again. Our country is being run by people who have no idea how to do things properly or don’t care – in short a bunch of hamalli – how very embarrassing. Well we knew this would be happening, so let the freak show go on.
I remember ever so vividly the first revolutionary weeks of old Dom’s regime commencing in mid-1971.
Memories of what happened then are coming back to haunt me – and so many thousands of others who had the misfortune to be ‘alive and kicking’ at the time – now that il-ginger has stepped on the podium.
Mrs Caruana Galizia,
Eddy Privy from Mosta is really getting into my hair. His socialist anti-Nationalist ramblings for the past 30 years or so have been dull and boring.
Now that the “power is theirs” (apologies to Star Trek) he has turned very militant, vociferous and anti-democratic, such as telling Dr Gonzi to shut up because he lost the election by 37,000 votes. He forgets the meaning of the opposition in a democratic parliamentary context (or rather, he never knew it anyway).
One of the comments that is replicating itself like amoeba all over the internet comment boards of news websites, from Eddy Privy, is that it’s only right that the Movement’s government should install PL people in all chair and CEO positions, and at the helm of all government institutions (including the police and army). He carries on to say that the PN had also stuffed all the top positions with PN die-hards.
We all know for a fact that this is NOT true.
With your army of spies and informers, can you please give us a list of the corporations’ and government organisations’ leadership positions which were occupied by non-PN sympathisers.
I really need to bash this idiot over the head with this list, and he reads your blog, so hopefully it somewhat takes the bounce out of his step.
Not even an overdose of Viagra will do anything to Eddy Privitera now.
Miskin kollox mejjet.
The list will write itself because I presume they won’t sack one of their own.
Mr Eddy Privitera himself got one of the best jobs on the island when he was employed as a Gaming Inspector at the Dragonara Palace Casino in 1964 when Dr Gorg Borg Olivier was Prime Minister. His post was better paid than that of the Prime Minister himself (we all were well paid at Drogonara, I was one of them.) Eddy retired while occupying the post of Games Manager, which is top notch in maltese gaming, This was at the time when Dr Eddy Fenech Adami was PM.
Eddy Privitera, I don’t intend to start a debate, we have been good colleagues all along and I wish to remain so despite of the fact that we always had different political inclinations. However, the facts and truth must always be told.
Your ex-colleague
Philip Camilleri
As for the young man who seeks a list of labour personnel
who were given high ranking post by nationalists administrations, I can go back to the 1960’s when the first Governer of the Central Bank of Malta was Mr Lino Spiteri
who was appointed by Gorg Borg Oliver’s government.
In those days the distinction between Labourites and Nationalists was not an issue. Meritocracy was.
In 1971, when Mintoff became PM, he started giving ‘jobs for the boys’ which is what JM is doing right now. Worst still, under Mintoff, the nationalist, or their children, were not given new jobs with Government or para statal organisations.
The PN also did give some jobs to nationalists , but never made other people resign their posts so that they may be filled by others.
Don’t believe them when they say otherwise. We know the truth. We lived the reality.
“The Police, Justice, Army and Broadcasting Minister”, what a strange and sinister portfolio. What a daunting mess … though not to a Fearless Leader.
The Security Services should always be under the responsibility of the Prime Minister and not under any minister since it is a very delicate and sensitive department.
Besides, if I’m not mistaken, when an extraordinary meeting with the head of this department is called every now and then, only three persons are to attend this meeting. The Prime Minister, the Foreign Affairs Minister and the Opposition Leader.
Can you imagine the present incumbent handling the Libyan crisis? We’d probably be harbouring the dictator and his family right here.
“The Police, Justice, Army and Broadcasting Minister”
That is the role of control freaks – they want to control everything and everyone. Control the police, the army and then start brainwashing minds. Reminds me of George Orwell’s 1984
Not even the Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda had such a wide-ranging portfolio.