When sense is lost

The event that shocked the nation, the revelation by the prime minister that two judges were being investigated over claims that they had accepted bribes, brought with them just one consolation. The matter was not politicised and with one exception journalists and commentators, realising the gravity of what is at stake, kept their comments within the bounds of common sense.

But this has now been followed by a deeply disturbing article by the leader of the opposition and by associated footage on Super One TV on Thursday night.

The aim? To throw mud at anyone who is part of government, or who works for the government if they are not great admirers of Alfred Sant.

The preposterous and seriously libellous claim is that certain people, myself included, are part of this network of hbieb tal-hbieb that have led to the current disaster in the courts.

We are all apparently people who know each other from school. Rubbish! I know none of the current administration from my school years.

We are supposed to be part of a network that bolsters a system of corruption. Rubbish! I am not part of any such network.

We are all supposedly paid in some way to contribute to media which are biased against Alfred Sant! Absolute rubbish! I write for The Times and for no-one else and the only thing that inspires me to write against the current Labour opposition is the erratic behaviour of the leader of the opposition himself.

One of the many great problems we face in this country is what we have inherited from those terrible Labour years, when anyone who was not overtly Labour felt the brunt of Labour's heavy-handed attitude with those who did not cooperate.

Ask the doctors?

Ask the bank staff?

Ask the university students in those frightening years?

Ask the many who attended demonstrations?

Indiscriminate attack is the order of the day in the Labour media. Now if this media found real corruption and exposed it we would all applaud. But why do they pick on honest individuals, whom they know to be honest?

The answer is simple and frightening! Honest individuals are the biggest threat of all to the Labour Party.

As they relentlessly throw mud at anyone not red, they want to create an illusion that everyone blue is bad, so the good ones must be eliminated first.

These are not the tactics of a modern social democratic party at all. No wonder EU membership frightens the MLP so much.

They want to take us back to a bad world where we were just brainwashed by one set of media, where the police were controlled by politics, where thuggery ruled.

Up till August 15, I consoled myself that despite the disastrous news from our courts, we have a prime minister, a police commissioner and a leader of the opposition that we can be proud of.

Sadly, on August 15, the article written by Dr Sant and the associated footage relayed on Super One News at 7.30 p.m. showed that all common sense was lost. The public is set to be duped and to lose... again.