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November 9, 2013 at 6:49pm
Posted by Manuel, on the subject of the Nationalist Party’s ill-judged reference to Mintoff’s hypothetical objection to the sale of Maltese passports:
Mintoff betrayed and cuckolded his own brother. He sold Malta to Gaddafi to ensure his own political survival.
Would he have given a rat’s ass about selling Maltese passports for cash? Like hell he would.
The only reason Mintoff didn’t sell Maltese passports is because in his day and thanks to him they weren’t worth anything – to the extent that those of us who had one tried desperately to get another.
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Meanwhile, http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131109/local/is-it-russian-or-what.493998#.Un6CK8u9KSM
Mintoff stabbed in the back and betrayed everyone around him: his wife, his brother, his colleague Paul Boffa, his ministers, his MPs, his employees, his constituents, his country…it was all about him and his survival.
The only person he was afraid of and could not stab in the back was Lorry Sant. And it took us decades to find out why.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Muscat-Destructive-Opposition-is-against-IIP-s-success-20131109
“It’s clear from its destructive attitude that the Opposition doesn’t want it to be a success. But nobody is taking it seriously when it threatens to repeal citizenship… only totalitarian regimes behave in that manner.”
Really, whereas refusing to disclose the details of who’ll carry a Maltese passport is very democratic.
And on he goes,
“Foreigners who marry Maltese, become Maltese citizens themselves, benefit from social benefits, receive free healthcare and their children receive free education. And that is how it should be. And just the same, I want to welcome the rich who are able to pay and invest in our country,”
Perhaps those ‘foreigners’ live here, work and pay their taxes here. What’s telling is how close he is to proposing privileged citizenship, that the rest are just a burden on the country’s coffers.
And that’s all Maltese who happen not to be ‘rich’.
This evening on ONE News, the ticker was ‘L-opposizjoni tivvota kontra l-monitoragg tac-cittadinanza b’investiment’.
Don’t tell me it’s the opposition’s fault if monitoring who gets those passports is a flawed process now.
Minghalih haxixu t-tifel, meta kulhadd nduna li hlief jahbi ma jridx.
Mintoff would have sold his mother’s bones for money, he was such a stingy rat. He was like a certain cabinet minister who shops at Lidl and gets free water from a public fountain.
The two of them were in fact friends.
A very pertinent comment. Let us also not forget that a number of Maltese had even fled the island, with nothing more than their green Maltese passports, to get away from Mintoff’s clutches.
It is perhaps one of the few times that I wished Mintoff was not dead and ‘rotting in hell’ but still alive and sound of mind. It would have been so interesting to have him comment on both the PL’s cash for passports scheme, as well as the PN portrayal of Mintoff as something of an example.
Frankly, Maltese politicians have really gone to the ‘docks’. Perhaps, with a few exceptions, that’s where they always were.
One to read, bearing in mind that Henley & Partners are selling those Dominican passports:
http://www.thedominican.net/2011/11/passport-selling-human-trafficking.html
The budget proposed by the Minister of Finance contains legislative proposals to address electoral promises, for which the Minister promised a number of White Papers. The government has been criticised about this, because it is clear that its use of White Papers is only a delay tactic.
Interestingly, no White Paper was issued about such an important subject as the Sale of the Maltese Passport.
And there were no “Gvern li Jisma'” sessions at the Auberge de Castille.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131109/local/citizenship-jobs-in-financial-services-may-be-under-threat-ad.494011#.Un6YhCcueV4
Can someone from opposition benches (gave up on journalists a while ago) ask for a clear guarantee from the Government that this IIP scheme will not impact our membership of the Schengen Area and the US Visa waiver?
You cannot expect the Maltese government to answer for the US government or the EU Commission. In any case we all know what Manuel Mallia’s facetious reply would be.
Daphne, it would be good to highlight the following extract from the Grenada Citizenship By Investment Act of 2013 (passed in August 2013), which refers to the publication of information – and particularly article 15 on information to be published twice a year – in relation to applications made for Grenada’s citizenship by investment.
It is amply clear that, unlike the people of Malta, the people of Grenada have full right – provided within the law – to access the full details of applicants under the citizenship-by-investment scheme operated in their country. Those details are published in 6 monthly reports.
In Malta – which prime minister Joseph Muscat told us he would make “the Best country in Europe” – Muscat is not permitting the citizens the right to know who is being given the same rights that they enjoy in return for money that they pay to his government via a third party private company.
What, or who, exactly is Joseph Muscat hiding, and why?
“Publication of information
14. It shall be lawful for the Minister, from time to time by Notice in the Gazette to publish information regarding the following;-
(i) the names and identities of all local agents;
(ii) the names and identities of all holders of marketing licences; and
(iii) notice of any revocation of any licence or permanent residency or citizenship status.
Bi-annual Report
15. (1) The Minister shall, every six months on the prescribed dates, prepare a report containing the prescribed information on the applications made, granted and refused under the Act, and shall, as soon as practicable but not later than thirty days after the completion of the report, cause a copy of the report to be laid before the House of Representatives.
(2) The reports referred to in sub-section (1) shall set out information as prescribed in sub-section (3) for the six month period in each year starting on January 1, and July 1 and may be prepared within one month of the expiry of each half-yearly period.
(3) The information contained in the reports referred to in sub-section (2) shall include-
– the number of applicants made, granted and refused under the Act;
– the names, addresses and nationalities of the applicants and any dependants included in the applications;
– the amounts of the investments, as the case may be;
– the names of the approved project, government-sponsored project in respect of which payment was made;
– the aggregate amounts in the National Transformation Fund, at the date of the report;
– the aggregate amounts of funds received pursuant to section (11) of this Act; and
– such other information as the Minster may consider appropriate.”
The text of the Grenada law is published on the website below:
http://thenewtoday.gd/local-news/2013/08/31/act-sell-passport/
Whatever everyone says, I will reiterate my opinion.
Duminku Mintoff, swine par excellence, would never have stooped so low.
He would never have sold off his motherland so blatantly for sheer money. I still believe there was and is a red line he did not have the temerity to cross.
Malta and the Maltese are being reduced to filthy floozies as never before in history.