Marija Falzon, Birkirkara
Real rabble-rousing on blogs
Austin Sammut's column this week referring, Marie Antoinette-like, to "the rabble" contained the usual Nationalist Party double standards.
He certainly did not use such snobbery when referring to the bile, vulgarity, hate mongering, swearing and more that has been posing as a blog in recent weeks. There the rabble is certainly present, both in the blogger's own rantings and in those of family and friends who seem to enjoy real rabble-rousing.
The language of one particular blogger is certainly more colourful than anything heard at the demonstration, where people were incidentally expressing frustration at the re-emergence of fuel and other poverty in Malta and not mere domestic frustration.
What does Dr Sammut expect them to do? Eat cake? On broken plates?
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Charles J. Buttigieg
Mar 19th 2010, 08:06
@ Ian Galea
‘When you can’t beat them join them’; is that your attitude? Mud thrown here and there? Are you so blind not to see the blatant corruption, abuse of power, the scandalous sexual habits and other atrocities happening day after day around us? My objection is not for exposing the illicit life of public figures or to reproach them publicly, my objection is for being selective and for acting maliciously to comply with a political agenda.
Public scrutiny goes part ‘n’ parcel with democracy and freedom of speech and thought, but I ask you –Do you see any journalistic value in the nauseating puerile comments on the vital statistics of a member of the judiciary not to mention the unscrupulous innuendoes?
Charles J. Buttigieg
Mar 18th 2010, 19:08
@ Peter Vella
What are the charges against the public person that make her so much different than other personalities in public office? The whole crusade is a vendetta against the police, the judiciary, the people employed in the left wing media, the PN dissidents and anybody who dares cross her path. All you need to do is oppose her and she’ll come on like a ton of bricks.
I would take her seriously if she embarks on a widespread witch-hunt and not a selective one to satisfy her political agenda. How can a blogger be taken seriously when they find faults and ridicule their political opponents for petty stuff like the wardrobe of Ms Joseph Muscat, Marlene Mizzi’s umbrella, the colour and style of Jason Micallef’s wardrobe and then give a Nelson’s eye to blatant corruption, abuse of power, sexual habits and other atrocities committed by those who do not pose a threat to her and her protégées within the inner circles of Gonzipn?
Ian Galea
Mar 18th 2010, 21:58
Simple Charles J.Buttigieg ... organise your own blog and make public all these " blatant corruption, abuse of power, sexual habits and other atrocities committed by those who do not pose a threat to her and her protégées within the inner circles of Gonzipn" !! Otherwise what you allege is just mud thrown here and there!!
laurence schembri
Mar 18th 2010, 14:48
Maria Camilleri, on e of them have come to the surface in the name of Antoine.
Antoine Vella
Mar 18th 2010, 14:04
Maria Camilleri
"....how fed up the rest of us ex-NP voters are.'
The Labour elves are back.
Charles J. Buttigieg
Mar 18th 2010, 19:24
How do you account for the slide from 53% to a miserable 4o% and still sliding?
Maria Camilleri
Mar 18th 2010, 11:14
It is definitely the lowest form of propaganda: feeding on the ignorant masses (instead of educating them), twisting the truth instead of using hard facts and encouraging class divide, whilst at the same time and in the same sentence deriding the use of class distinctions used by another Party,
It is so shallow and petty that this ultimately result in the loss of votes for the NP as opposed to a gain. But of course, it seems like their advisors are too arrogant to see beyond the party core and realise how fed up the rest of us ex-NP voters are.
Peter Vella
Mar 18th 2010, 11:10
What Ms Falzon is trying to do (and failing) is to discredit the seriousness of the allegations made in the nameless blog concerning a person in a public position that should be very much subject to scrutiny. Ms Falzon may disagree with the style and the way these revelations were made, and she has every right to do so, but one cannot just dismiss their seriousness. We await with great interest the outcome of the court cases and the delibartions of the Commission for the Administration of Justice.
Kenneth Cassar
Mar 18th 2010, 13:53
Ehm, Maria Falzon is not actually trying to discredit the allegations. So she couldn't be failing in that respect.
Peter Vella
Mar 18th 2010, 16:59
Her purpose is to discredit the allegations, it is clear to me.