'Missing' persons

Jeremy J Camilleri

Sep 3rd 2008, 21:21

Yes A Mangion, whilst your interest in Mintoff's personal traits is obvious..I shall have to ask you again....

But the question still arises........just who went missing?

Clearly you either overlooked that, or well, you're just trying to avoid answering...

A.Mangion

Sep 3rd 2008, 21:02

yes, there were millions in malta's coffers. there was also a four year old wage freeze, miriad military corps with thousands of workers under military discipline on minimum wage, a triving black market because of the shortages in all commodities, a suspended constitutional court, a foreign interference act, oh yes we were living in the golden age.
mintoff is known as a skinflint personally. this trait just overflowed into his political life.

saviour cachia

Sep 3rd 2008, 19:24

@MJGatt
Mr. Gatt i bet you belonged to some of the spare but affluent people living in Malta in the Sixties, or else you would not have distorted the facts the way you didand trying to erase the shameful episodes that occurred in Malta in the 1962 and 1996 general elections.
By 1970, the local Church realized that Mintoff was right and fortunately we started the road to a development in democracy at least we did arrive somewhere though still the electoral law needs more fine tuning.
How can we deny the bold steps taken by Mintoff in the seventies in introducing a series of social measures, and finally even when Malta witnessed a change of government(1987) , the Nationalist Party found million in the coffers. I already said that Mintoff was human and had his faults, but what Mintoff did in those years remained milestones in the international politics. I presume you voted for Malta's membership in the European Union. What kind of membership, as second class citizens?, gauging by the fact that divorce is allowed everywhere in UE, except Malta. Perhaps we are the only members in the UE, which cannot distinguish between civil rights and religious belief.

Jeremy J Camilleri

Sep 2nd 2008, 18:11

Yes yes, A Mangion and M J Gatt....you can rave on and on about Mintoff .....

But the question still arises........just who went missing?

M J Gatt

Sep 2nd 2008, 16:58

@Saviour Cachia----- The labour party was thrown down the gutter in the sixties because people believed more what the church was preaching rather than what Mintoff was telling the Maltese people. He tried and in a way he succeeded in leading as the Latin says DIVIDET et IMPERAT. Now one other thing. Mintoff and KMB redressed the unbalanced situation of governing with less votes than the opposition. How democratic: how kind. Yes he did that after more than FIVE years. Do you remember the GERRYMANDERING? Oh sorry. But the election result was perverse!!!!! We still remember those episodes which made us a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. Progress my foot.

A Mangion

Sep 2nd 2008, 16:08

"but Mintoff ALWAYS returned with cold, hard CASH for Malta, even NOW."
if I'm not mistaken the $250,000 mintoff got was for him personally not for malta. it's true about returning with cash but only until the British base closed down. then our blood brother turned into our worst enemy (mintoff's own words)

" those honourable leaders of the North "
if I'm again not mistaken neither Chavez, nor Castro or Mandela are from the north.

Does "Karin Grech" count??????????
if again i'm not mistaken the MLP remained in office for a further 10 years after Karen was murdered. plenty of time to make SOME sort of headway towards getting her killer.
If you want to know how presigious these pseudo award is
read what is happening to those two servants who claimed they were beaten by hannibal gaddafi muammar's son. Justice indeed!

I.Scicluna

Sep 2nd 2008, 13:52

@ Alex Caruana Carabez - Does "Karin Grech" count??????????

Some people are unbelievable! Mention ONE other politician that worked so hard for PEACE in the Med and in the Region. THAT is why il-Perit was awarded this prize that is SOOOOOO painful to people like yourself. You can preach all you want...until you are BLUE in the face, but you can never take away the INTERNATIONAL standing that Mintoff had and that NO OTHER will ever have. Some "politicians" returned to Malta with a terrier for their troubles, but Mintoff ALWAYS returned with cold, hard CASH for Malta, even NOW.


The International Committee for the Al-Qathafi Award for Human Rights has awarded its Prize for 2008 to Dom Mintoff. 'In their appreciation of those honourable leaders of the North who have stood by justice and right and who defended the causes of oppressed peoples, especially in Palestine and Iraq, the International Committee of Al-Qathafi Award for Peace of 2008 is awarded to the European leader and former Prime Minister of Malta,'...

saviour cachia

Sep 2nd 2008, 11:47

@ Alex Caruana Carabez
Can you please tell us who is going to apologise for what we labourites had to be through in the sixties, thanks to the Roman Catholic Church and the big ride the Nationalist Party had in those circumstances. Mintoff is human and he erred, but Mintoff brought to these island a new fresh of breath and later on when in government from the 70 to early eighties certainly did raise the standard of living of the working class people. Come on, do justice to history and do not keep reminding us what happened in the eighties while trying to oblierate the plight we labourites had been through in the sixties and the forced emigration at the time.. I do not condone violence and do not agree that a party with the biggest number of votes in its favour should be denied the right to govern. But Mintoff and later Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici saw to it that by 1987 this unbalanced situation was redressed. Things have changed much to the better nowadays. The MLP attitude is very postive..so let us look forward in the best interest of our country, a firm member of the European Union.

Jeremy J Camilleri

Sep 2nd 2008, 11:19

Come on now Albert Dimech.. be a man...Put your money were your mouth is....