Back to the pits: with the police, led by their ‘commissioner’, acting as the hatchetmen for the vendettas of Labour politicians in government
Norman Vella petitioned the courts this morning for the return of this property. The police exhibited the evil phone and the more evil iPad, and filed a statement in response.
And would you believe who went to court to speak about this Crime Against the State? THE POLICE COMMISSIONER HIMSELF – cook and servant to the Police Minister and his ‘chief of staff’ Silvio Scerri, who meddled in the case on Sunday by calling the police.
This is obviously not about a photograph (which doesn’t exist), is it. It’s about something else: the punishment of the enemies of the state. Here we go again.
If you voted Labour, boasted about it, taunted me with it because you thought you were so very, very clever, and I now run into you and turn my back (which is exactly what you deserve), don’t call me rude. Call yourself dangerously irresponsible and ruddy thick not to see the obvious.
Basically, what you voted for is just a few steps away from being a criminal organisation which has made itself the law.
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Spot on !
Unbelievable!
I’m leaving on a jet plane. PETER, PAUL & Mary.
I don’t see Nicole Abela Garrett doing her thing now.
Nor do I see Franco howling with rage. Deborah Schembri’s gone missing as well.
To think Karm Mifsud Bonnici was the benchmark of abuse and Austin Gatt was arrogance personified.
We’ve really improved on those two, not bad for a year’s work.
If it turns out that the police did arrest Norman Vella, then the prime minister has a lot to answer for.
Not a safe place anymore, is it?
These people have been operating this way since before March, 2013. It’s a whole network of underhand operators they have.
Kurt Sansone, this is serious.
Ivan Camilleri seems to have noticed, too, though far too late, because he was party to lumping us with this lot.
Kurt Sansone is the three monkeys all in one when it comes to the responsible reporting of this matter … or, incidentally, of any other.
Quoting from the Police Commissioner’s Note:
“Oneru unikament inkombenti fuq il-Pulizija u dan mhux biss kontra izda wkoll u aktar importanti favur il-persuna koncernata.”
Reminds me of Sammy Meilak’s reasoning in his recently published book:
‘Attack on Curia in 1984 benefited faith in Malta’
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131026/local/-Attack-on-Curia-in-1984-benefited-faith-in-Malta-.491950#.UnDzkHC-qzI
Mintoff-Gaddafi-NorthKorea-Muscat-MaltaPolice-style. Insawtuk ghall-gid tieghek.
What scum. The whole lot of them.
Yes, I find the two most impressive sentences are the one you quote and this one immediately after it:
“Kemm ‘l darba l-oggett jigi rilaxxt minghajr l-ezamijiet necessarji, kull parti tibqa’ taht id-dell ta’ suspett li huwa minnu nnifsu kontro senso u huwa fl-oneru tal-Pulizija li tikjarifika.”
Ah, so now the accused has to prove himself innocent, rather than the police prove the accused guilty.
In this case, it is the police and the State who are under suspicion of being politically motivated, not the accused.
I am pretty confident that the court will release the mobile and the tablet. If the police said they had evidence in the form of CCTV images, let them bring that evidence forward. Wasn’t that the basis of their suspicion, as they had themselves stated?
that’s the word for all of them: SCUM of the first order.
What is Saviour Balzan going to say about all this?
He is definitely celebrating with gusto. Norman is an enemy of him.
More importantly, what have Peppi Azzopardi and Lou Bondi to say on all of this?
Nothing.
Nothing … he’s just grateful that all this deflects the public’s attention from John Dalli.
The cry for “xoghol, gustizzja u liberta” will soon become current again.
Wait a moment – was Silvio Scerri present? I mean, did he speak in court? I saw Peter Paul Zammit entering the courthouse and I was rather amazed to see him even attending the hearing. What the hell should he attend the hearing for?
But Silvio Scerri – that’s the pits. The Executive pressuring the Executive eh? Prosit tassew. Dik bidla li veru kellna bzonn.
Scum. The whole lot of them. NOW we’re crawling out of democracy Franco Debono. So much for the rights of the accused. This is what happens in North Korea not in a so-called modern democratic state.
God, we’re fast forwarding to the 70s and 80s.
And I’ll say another thing: why on earth did the court appoint the application for hearing? I’ve filed similar applications in the past and never have they been appointed for hearing. Even in cases much more serious than this.
Are the members making up the third pillar of democracy afraid of deciding something which should be elementarily simple and clear in a democracy?
This is totally insane. Insane.
The plan was that the PM himself would appear for the State. But he sent his “paraventu.”
The Commissioner is not there to defend “the State.” He is there to defend the Prime Minister, against whom Norman Vella has opened a separate legal case.
You don’t have to wear a black shirt to act like fascists do.
The reins of power in Malta are in the hands of `pimps, thieves and scoundrels` gorging themselves on the spoils of war.
He said that prima facie, it appeared that Mr Vella used telephone equipment in a way which raised suspicion that he was carrying out an act of communication in a restricted area in breach of the law (art 257 of chapter nine).
A telephone is not a tablet! And in relation to the case, the police had seized and was still examining CCTV footage taken at the airport…….Huh? VERY EFFICIENT I must say!
Just to watch a few hours of footage since Sunday? Forensic? Mela dan qatel lil xi hadt bih? All you need to do is go in the mobile data, which I`m sure (or am I?) you are able to do. Idiots.
Trid tara u taqra biex temmen:
“The police had to confirm whether or not the law was broken as this could affect Malta’s standing in the Schengen area. If the allegation proved to be incorrect then he would breathe a sigh of relief.” (times of Malta)
Oh, now they are grappling with Article 257 to try to found the semblance of a criminal offence. Incredible. F**** incredible. Here it is:-
257. If any person, who by reason of his calling, profession or office, becomes the depositary of any secret confided in him, shall, except when compelled by law to give information to a public authority, disclose such secret, he shall on conviction be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding forty-six thousand and five hundred and eighty-seven euro and forty-seven cents (46,587.47) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
I have so much to say that I would waste my work day. However, upon reading the report on Timesofmalta.com, it would be extremely clear that the Police are just clutching at straws. It is a defence lawyer’s field day, thought, technically there should be no defence because there are no charges.
Another pearl of wisdom: “The police should check the computer first, then they check the phone logs”.
Yet another pearl of wisdom: “If the police do not do this investigation, all parties remain under suspicion”. So, we take your things, Mr. Joe Citizen, we keep them ourselves, we add to them only-God-knows-what just not to keep you under suspicion. If it were not so tragic, I would be rolling on the floor laughing at the moment. What about the “innocent until proven guilty” basic presumption?
If the CCTV footage is so openly conducive to one concluding that Vella was calling somebody, why not request phone logs? That IS the point. And why calling Ms. Caruana Galizia (if indeed such footage existed because I’m starting to have my doubts). Couldn’t Mr. Vella be calling his wife? Or his friend or his colleague or whoever?
I’m becoming paranoid but really, I mean, really, this is the lowest of the lowest.
I will confess something here: I decided to become a lawyer when I was six because we were in the violence throes of the 80’s and I thought that, being a lawyer, like EFA and GDM, would help me fight injustice. Years rolled on and change came but I still became a lawyer – because I realised that if you know your laws well, nobody would really take you for a ride.
Now, in the golden 2013, our lovely government is trying to spoon-feed us drivel from dawn till dusk and beyond and I am blessed to know that whatever they are saying is a lie, at best. They are thwarting laws, portraying things differently than they really are and generally trying to shove down our throats facts which are mostly blatant lies. All their acts (let’s not forget the Taliana case here, the refused permit to that boxer, and so many other subtleties) are the result of the most profound thwarting of laws.
Fact is that now it’s even worse. People are not being shot at in the streets or beaten to death. No. People are being given what they “voted for” – pjaciri and clientilism. As long as we are not being beaten (as Ms. Caruana Galizia has reiterated so many times) everything is fine. Our basic democratic rights are being trampled upon subtly. The people in the streets will not realise what is going on – until it is too late. Hence, this government will keep on behaving in this manner with impunity safe in the knowledge that the people will not ever revolt because they are too happy to receive their handout here and there.
Now it is even worse than the 80’s and 70’s also because there are no backbones around. I wonder whether our magistrates and judges will decide in favour of democracy, when it will come to that. I wonder whether we will have social and political leaders who have the b**** to really denounce the trampling of our most basic of rights. I wonder whether we will have men and women in our society who will come to their senses and publicly admit: I’ve done wrong. I’ve wronged my country – I was in and voted Labour and now, I’m out and declare I was wrong.
And let’s not be fooled: there is already a sense of lingering fear. There always was, even with the PN in government. Indeed, most of us use handles here not because we do not want to show who we are but rather because we are AFRAID to show that we are of the ideas portrayed here. We my espouse these views in public but having our names here in writing is a tad too much. Verba volant scripta manent. Still, however, now it is even more palpable than ever. People are not publicly denouncing these obscenities because they’re afraid. They’re afraid that they will fall out of grace. People are already talking of “keeping a low profile”. There is only one way to really conquer a man: plant fear in his heart. We’re getting there.
So, at the end of the day, what do we have? A corrupt government hell-bent of using power to serve their own ends and fearful citizens who are afraid to speak up lest revenge be wreaked on them or their families. A recipe for democratic and social disaster.
Fejnu Franco Debono… mela waqa fil-muta?
http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=Spettur+qal+li+r%2Drapport+sar+minn+Kurt+Farrugia+u+Ramona+Attard+%2D+l%2Davukat+Karol+Aquilina&t=a&aid=99851803&cid=39
Here we go again. This could be a repeat of the John Dalli saga.
Some tend to decide a case just by knowing a small part of the facts
while at the same time condemning the police and accusing them of abuse of power , when at the same time the police have much more material in their hands, which of course will not be made public before the appropriate time.
So how about waiting for the conclusion of the investigation before jumping to conclusions.
This of course could be just a tactic, to sway public opinion, in trying to defend a person who, maybe, should be punished.
You were saying?
Vera laqi bla rispett lejnu nifsu u xoghlu.
@ Denis u lejn l-uniformi li jilbes. Mur gib lil Kummissarju De Grey jaghmel dawn il-kummidji.
Prosit Daphne, perfect description. This is one big mess which I would not like to experience as a nightmare let alone a reality.
Scum through and through.
Daphne, your thoughts about anybody who voted Labour, reflect mine to a tee. I honestly cannot be around any ‘switcher’ and act as if everything is normal.
Same here. These days I can only socialise with like-minded people. I cannot stand to be around those who say we needed a change or try to justify why they didn’t go to vote.