Joseph Muscat lets the side down again – but strangely enough, he thinks the opposite is true, as do the dunderheads who support him
Basically, thanks to the actions of our overfed prime minister and his money-grubbing Police Minister, we’ve been made to look like a nation of a*rseholes who have a problem with Africans so bad that we can’t bring ourselves to do the decent thing and help an injured woman, four pregnant women, and a five-month-old baby.
On the BBC site (link to full report below):
MALTA REFUSES EUROPEAN DEMAND TO ACCEPT AFRICA MIGRANTS
The Maltese government has refused to allow a tanker which rescued 102 African migrants to dock in Malta.
It was earlier told by the European Commission that it had a duty to admit the passengers on humanitarian grounds.
The Commission said the EU state had a humanitarian duty to take in the migrants, who were saved from a boat off the Libyan coast.
Among those aboard the tanker are an injured woman, four pregnant women and a five-month-old baby.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23589900
Nice going, Joseph.
http://www.euronews.com/2013/08/06/eu-commission-says-malta-has-humanitarian-duty-to-allow-african-migrants/
Even more shit coming our way from the International community.
So sad that we are telegraphing that we hate blacks.
Little Joey, you are doing a super job.
As always, up to your lips in a pool of shit, begging that no one makes a wave.
Too late. Take a deep breath, and hold it for five years.
And there he was, during the electoral campaign, pretending he was a Barack Obama…
Joseph Muscat you are a legend you have made the Maltese proud you have shown the world and not just Europe that we are not anymore a puppet in someone else hand this is not a matter of dark skin people or yellow people or any other colour of skin these are illegal immigrants ILLEGAL, our ancestors fought hard for us so to gain Independence and Freedom, lives were lost to be who are we today if these illegal immigrants want that they have freedom in their own backyard fight for it.
I totally agree.
Speak for yourself Charlie! Joseph Muscat has not made me feel proud. He has made me deeply ashamed.
ashamed of what rumplestiltskin???? ashamed that at last we have someone who has the guts to stand up for our rights??? ashamed that someopne is looking after our land our family our children and grandkids ??cos in a few yrs time we will lose all what is ours .its already started …this is nothing to do with politics THIS IS FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS AND OUR COUNTRY …if u pity them so much and want them to keep flooding in than one simple answer to that ,leave ur door open and hopefully they wont chuck u out of ur own home !!!
Well Miss Marlene, with rights you have duties.
The story also made it to the US news, which is quite something, given that US news channels are typically inward looking and focus on national news.
The image portrayed of Malta is one of immature brats, as Italy has agreed to take in the migrants.
Here is the link in the Times of Malta: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130807/local/standoff-ends.481104
My political leanings are well known. I have the honour to say that I always stood up and was counted even at the Time of the Tyrants. And I had to suffer for my beliefs….but….where is the PN today? Does it still exist? It has never been so silent.
We may have won the battle but we are well on the way to losing the war…..
http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=It%2Dtanker+MT+Salamis+se+jmur+lejn+Siracusa&t=a&aid=99849626&cid=19
“Call us harsh, call us heartless…” This is what our PM told BBC (last paragraph).
I am not part of that “us”.
Culturally speaking, history always judged Malta that we are one of the most friendly and helpful race in the whole world. This is even written in the Bible when the ship on which St. Paul was shipwrecked on our shores.
In 2013, this strong reputational asset which surely helped us moving forward, is being tarnished. I beleive these official statements on tweets, fb or through any other means by our current Government are at best pleasing a few local politically-oriented people, but at worst, we are damaging our long-history of a country which can offer understanding, help and tollerance.
As a country we have eventually always won arguments but only through the proper channels, formal dialogue and being good in persuation.
What is happening now? It clearly shows that we are not anymore helpful, sensitive to the humanities matters, lack solidarity, understanding and tollerance. The worst is that we seem to be taking a decision on a unilateral basis and we face the consequences after. We don’t seem to have any diplomatic powers, not even havng brains, art or skills in lobbying, discussing, arguing and persuade.
Do you see this going on or am I just imagining or misunderstanding anything?
My conclusion so far is that unfortunately the present Government lacks maturity and that is the only explanation to these official statements, decisions and actions.
And it is a real shame that on this, which ranks right there at the top of this government’s worst sins, the Opposition has only issued a statement of support for the government’s stand; in Malta only NGOs and AD have spoken up for the humane treatment of the rescued people.
While Malta would do its compassionate duty, [Joseph Muscat] added, it would not leave its doors open wide and “welcome boats from Libya and elsewhere as if nothing happened”. (Qijsumagaraxej)
The PM has made a big mistake.
Malta spiccuta mhux ghal gol-hajt imma qeghdin gol-hajt.
jekk dan huwa l biza ta ‘gol hajt’ , nipreferi nkun qieghed ‘go hajt’ milli gon nar jahraq!
ghax dan l hajt mhux daqstant hazin.
turisti baqaw jizdidu
ekonomija baqet ghaddejja
petrol u diesel s’issa naqsu
[Daphne – Kemm int injorant. Lanqas taf taghraf is-sinjali ta’ problemi. L-aqwa li naqaslek il-prezz tal-petrol u diesel, li se jergaw jitilghu ghax dawn huma l-effetti ta’ ‘demand u supply’ u mhux decizjonijiet tal-gvern.]
U ghola l-gass!
We have been bullied into submission by the EU since 2004. We have had politicians who voted in favour of Berlusconi’s push back policy three years ago only to stand up against this in an attempt to take political mileage with MEP’s like Roberta Triccas lobbing at EU level against Malta’s interests and David casa collecting signatures in petitions in Brussels.
May I remind you that this is not the Europe we voted for in 2004. We voted for an EU presented by Günter Verheugen as a democracy but that went on to force the treaty of Lisbon upon us in spite of sovereign states voting against it. The Europe we live in now is governed by non-democratically elected bureaucrats who were not voted in by the people and effectively can not be removed. They Ignore referenda and keep bullying nation states into repeating their votes until they obtain the desired outcome as happened in Ireland.
The point I am making here is that the EU is not a superstate, it is a dictatorship that has now even forced a fiscal Union upon us and forcing us to pay for greedy and now bankrupt states that have abused the system. Many conservatives have labelled the EU as the EUSSR whereby it focused on complete control of its citizens even to the extent of poverty and repression. It has not allowed the Greeks to exit the Europe to avoid the embarrassment at the cost of desperation for millions of Greek citizens!
Standing up to the European Union on issues of multiculturalism, obscene liberal policies and in favour of the National interest is not bad and standing your ground on issues that can have adverse collateral damage on our well-being in the foreseeable future is a good thing!
The EU you “voted for” is the EU you got. Curse your own stupidity if you believed otherwise.
Of course, National Socialists would bang on against the EU and its humanitarian policies which do not tally with their own warped sense of “national pride”.
At last they are waking up.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130807/local/Immediate-debate-on-fuel-audit-Busuttil.481109
I sparingly agree with Joseph Muscat and definitely not with the legacy that inspires him. However on this issue I do think that this would have created a precedent if he allowed them to reach Malta. And presto it might well become another method for the illegal immigrants to get to Europe.
These might even come in the thousands such as had happened in Italy with the Albanians in the early 90s (and tiny Malta is not Italy).
The EU was quick to wash its hands on all this and take the way of less resistance.
One point worth mentioning in my opinion is that commissioner Malmstrom’s country (ie Sweden) has never helped Malta by taking immigrants. Is there a message in this?
[Daphne – Has Malta ever ‘helped’ Sweden by taking any of its immigrants? This is not a one-way street, you know.]
Daphne, may I be allowed to say that your point is not a fair comparison since the immigrants in Sweden are there because Sweden has for many years enjoyed a very good standard of living; hence the immigrants went there intentionally (same as in France, Turks in Germany, Italy etc).
[Daphne – Malta has a good standard of living, Jack. The reason immigrants don’t want to come here is because it’s way too small. When you’ve grown up on a rock 17 miles by nine and by force of circumstance it becomes your whole universe, your mind discounts the full horror of your predicament to stop you going nuts (and sometimes, it doesn’t, judging by the way so many people have cabin fever). But nobody else does that. They are shocked that anyone European can spend a lifetime so restricted.]
While most of the immigrants reaching Malta do so in desperate circumstances as their preferential destination is definitely not Malta. Also, if I am not mistaken, Malta is the 3rd most densely populated country in the world but the commission is conveniently not taking act of this.
[Daphne – Here we go again, with that rubbish argument. Don’t use it, because it makes you sound stupid. Malta is effectively – for these purposes – not a country but a city. The comparison that must be made is with other cities: London, New York, Rio, Rome, Berlin. The countryside and great sweeping wastes and fields do not count. People do not live there and they can’t live there, because they must be in towns and cities, where they can work and have access to the means of material existence. Sweden may be much less densely populated than Malta, but effectively, the reality is otherwise. The people live in towns and cities and not in open spaces. Stop and think about how ignorant your comment sounds – what are you suggesting, that Sweden takes bunches of Africans and plonks them down in the middle of nowhere because there’s ‘space’?]
Well, aren’t we entitled to an opinion? I don’t understand why you are getting so worked up and exited about this.
[Daphne – Have all the opinions you please. Just don’t expect to be admired for them, or for your failure to make sure they are educated, intelligent and informed. And while the correct spelling is ‘excited’, you use the word incorrectly in this context. I am not excited about this. I am demoralised at the thought that I lived mired in ignorance and vulgarity.]
What I am saying is that we hardy have space for us let along sharing the resources with others!
[Daphne – A stupid argument. We are members of the European Union. Anyone of those 500 million+ people can come and live and work here for the rest of their lives if they want to. And you can go and live and work anywhere you like, to. The resources available to you have not been solely those of this tiny rock since 2004. You have the entire European Union at your disposal. Wake up to the fact before your life passes you by.]
After all you yourself have chosen one of the nicest spots in Malta (rightly so) to live in away from the Maltese let alone the immigrants.
[Daphne – I don’t live ‘away from the Maltese’, but smack bang in the middle of a functioning agricultural/farming community which, incidentally, has a rather large number of African immigrants because of the nature of the work here. And you can do the same – it’s not all villas, you know. There are hardly any of those.]
I cannot see you living happily in Albert Town Marsa rubbing shoulders with the immigrants. But please take this in the right spirit as I subscribe to most of you r points, so I cannot be that stupid couldn’t I?
[Daphne – The reasons I wouldn’t live there have nothing to do with immigrants, and everything to do with ugliness, noise and pollution. They are roughly the same reasons I left Sliema all those years ago, so it’s not Marsa in particular. For years I spent more time in Marsa than I did anywhere else, because I worked on Timber Wharf. African people don’t bother me. Unfortunately, many Maltese people do, because they are rude, aggressive, obnoxious, crass and worst of all, acknowledge no boundaries except their own. As for your last remark, ‘I agree with much of what you write therefore I can’t be stupid’ is a non sequitur.]
Oh come on! Your answers make you sound like a puritan (Holier than the Pope type).
[Daphne – Far from it. It is precisely because I think far too rationally that I am not in the least bit religious. You will never catch me saying that we are being invaded by Muslims who want to take over our Roman Catholic culture, for example.]
Your writing tone and style in these responses are far from moderate and balanced putting you in the same league of Norman Lowell (but on the otherside ).
[Daphne – Oh indeed. Well, I hardly expect somebody like you to distinguish between the sanity, rational powers and linguistic abilities of the two, so I won’t bother. No, of course my answers are not moderate. I’m dealing with irrational extremists here.]
But in any case keep on doing what you do best possibly with less insults (if possible) as you are doing a good service to democracy.
[Daphne – The insults are part of it, Jack. The art of the sophisticated insult is not to be sniffed at. It’s so much easier to say fox l liba, but the two kinds are not in the same category. It takes a lifetime of education to construct a really good insult.]
Oh by the way, you got me on the ‘excited’ bit, thanks for the lesson but speed typing has never been my forte, one to you
[Daphne – Thank you.]
No but we teach their children English. But after all this is over I doubt very much this will be the case.
I’m sure the Maltese media will try to portray this as a successful show of force and getting Europe to ‘smell the coffee’. What’s worrying is that most of the population probably won’t even try to see foreign media to see what the real perception of Malta’s actions is.
What went largely unnoticed, make that ignored, is his propensity to shove responsibility onto others and just how pathetically hollow his method is.
The impression on Al Jazeera was that Malta would take centre stage and lead. Barely three weeks and he’s forced out of bed again.
Meanwhile, a hundred men, women and children were escorted safely to our shores at 3.00am. No doubt still counting his sheep then.
Time for radical proposals, integration, citizenship. I doubt Labour can take it.
Sit back and watch the movement disintegrate.
disagree with you on this one. both medical and material provisions were sent on board the vessel so it is not a matter of doing the decent thing. the decent thing was done. are we villains in the eyes of Europe? yes we are in the eyes of those who have political correctness as their false religion. no we are not in the eyes of those who are trying to stem the flow of this river of humanity which is flooding Europe from Africa thanks to unscrupulous smugglers. apparently it is well known from which areas in Libya these boats are sailing. there is no political will to stop it at their end. we need to stop it at ours.
The boats of the Maltese smugglers are apparently also well known. But are the Maltese authorities doing anything their end?
Some more flattering headlines:
http://www.ilmessaggero.it/PRIMOPIANO/CRONACA/immigrazione_migranti_abbandonati_malta_italia_siracusa_nave_salamis/notizie/312883.shtml
Our Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior need to be congratulated for standing firm.
However, this is a Pyrrhic victory – actually a stab in the back by Italy.
Italy should never, ever have taken these Invaders – it’s navy should have picked them up in the first place and dumped them back to Libya.
This is a worrying precedent – it gives the wrong signals to these African economic leeches.
They now know that, one way or another, someone will pick them up and take them in.
For Italy, these 100 or so Blacks are a drop in an ocean – for Malta, it is another matter.
From what is happening and the arrival of another 86, immediately after this Salamis affair –
it is now clear that Malta is the target of the International Manipulators.
They have decreed that: MALTA MUST BE DESTROYED AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
There is nothing to thank Italy for – they have stabbed us in the back – ala Taliana!
It is just like President Obongo, taking a few Blacks from off our plate – and thus encouraging others to flood us.
This is nothing but the Rodents’ plan to destroy Malta and our People.
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Absolute paranoia.
And by the way, leeches are those who opt – and I use the word advisedly – to live on welfare. The great majority of the immigrants find work the minute they can and often doing jobs which the Maltese refuse and for less pay than they should.
U kemm taħseb li hi importanti Malta? Taħseb l-President Obama u nies oħra tal-istess importanza tiegħu għandhom il-ħin biex jagħmlu komplott biex jiddistruġġu lil Malta? U għaliex?
X’importanza għandha Malta llum? Jekk trid tiddistruġġi Malta faċli – kull ma trid tagħmel toħroġ avviżi lit-turisti li jgħidulhom biex ma jersqux lejn Malta għal xi skuża jew oħra. U l-iskużi issa qed jipprovduhom nies bħalek.
All this talk of “tiny Malta” is utter rubbish.
Does anyone seriously think that larger countries are creating ghetto villages in the countryside for their immigrants to live?
Berlin alone has a huge problem with overcrowding and present homeowners are not allowing development of new buildings because it would detract from the value of their property.
As a result immigrants (legal and otherwise) and young people leaving home are being squashed into smaller and smaller dwellings at ever higher prices.
In “tiny Malta” we have a huge amount of empty property and it’s (still) a buyer’s market. We are flooded with magazines on our doorstep every day trying to get us to buy or rent property at very reasonable prices.
So let’s cut the bullshit about how tiny we are and how we cannot possibly afford to cram in a few hundred people.
It’s not the size that matters, Malta. It’s how you use it.
Min ikumenta kontra dak li amel joseph muscat ara vera ma jsfx xinhu jajd ta.. few hundred people??? Lol ejja hal qormi nd ull c those few hundred people applying for work every day.. umbad tkelmu !!!!
[Daphne – Thank heavens for them, Jeff, because you would have nobody to pick up your rubbish, sweep your streets, wash your windows, wait your tables, busboy in the kitchens at the restaurants you go to, haul your beach bed around, deliver your drinks…]