Christian Peregin
Muscat defends Cyrus Engerer: ‘Judge him on his track record’
Labour leader Joseph Muscat has downplayed the criminal case being faced by Cyrus Engerer as a personal issue on which the Sliema deputy mayor should not be solely judged.
Dr Muscat defended Mr Engerer from the start even as the extent of his charges became clearer. Mr Engerer is accused of e-mailing pornographic photos of his ex-boyfriend to his employer to spite him, after their acrimonious break-up.
“People are judged not on single personal decisions, including highly emotional situations such as these, but on their track record,” he told The Sunday Times.
Asked whether he would react in the same way as the Prime Minister if one of his ministers faced similar charges, he reiterated his position that this was a private matter which had nothing to do with politics.
“We think some issues are strictly in the private realm. In the past few years there were at least two clear instances where prominent members of the government and the Nationalist Party were involved in issues which we deemed were of a purely personal nature.
“We responsibly decided this is a red line which should not be crossed in Maltese politics, even though in one case there was an admission to criminal charges.”
Dr Muscat said he was saddened by the fact that Mr Engerer’s ex-boyfriend Marvic Camilleri was “exposed nationally” when this issue looked like it would have been solved amicably within the context of a renewed friendship.
On Friday, Mr Camilleri told The Times he and his employers wanted justice, even though he was willing to forgive Mr Engerer for what he had done.
Meanwhile, Dr Muscat said “far too many coincidences” had occurred since Mr Engerer exercised his freedom of expression to join Labour. Days after Mr Engerer resigned from the PN, the police arrested his father for marijuana possession. A few days later, police acted upon Mr Camilleri’s case and filed the charges against Cyrus Engerer.
Dr Muscat likened this case to the sudden prosecution of former Alternattiva Demokratika chairman Harry Vassallo on minor VAT filing offences on the eve of the last election. “A coincidence for sure,” he said, sarcastically.
“What still remains to be cleared in this case is the casual manner in which the Prime Minister is tackling the fact that his chief of staff phoned the Police Commissioner to ask him to do something that, according to the latter, he could not do. It would seem this was not a unique instance. This has exposed the Prime Minister’s mantra that his government does not interfere in police work as mere lip service.
“We condemn the fact that the Prime Minister has so far shunned our request for public inquiries to shed light on the actions of his chief of staff and the recent coincidences.”
Dr Muscat declined to answer whether Mr Engerer will remain a prospective candidate for the Labour Party in the next election.
Mr Engerer, however, seems to be feeling secure in his new party, writing on Facebook: “It has been a tough week, but I felt an overwhelming wave of support, for which I sincerely thank you. I realised through the difficulties and words of encouragement that there still is a lot to accomplish. Success is ours when we work together in determination.”
He also spoke positively about the Labour Party’s summer barbecue, where he said he met “many friends, all working to bring the much needed change to the country”.
In a statement yesterday, the PN accused Dr Muscat of “playing dangerous games with democracy” after painting himself into a tight corner in Mr Engerer’s case.
The PN admonished Dr Muscat for attacking retired judge Albert Manché who has an “unblemished reputation for honesty and integrity” and for suggesting Labour should have a representative on the inquiry board of a case that involves one of his candidates.
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John Zammit-Spiteri
Aug 1st 2011, 14:37
@ henry mifsud, I shall not bother at comparing me to the noble cobbler trade, I am sure you seek the best, I assume you walk and use shoes and not barefoot like they do in africa due to poverty. Cobblers are respected by me and I still seek my old majsi to repair any shoe which might be too comfortable for my little footsies to discard.
I did not associate you with sherlock holmes, he never existed, I dont know if you knew it , but he never existed and since he was created all plots are imaginary , so that explains why i made the analogy. I tried to answer you previously but for some reason my comment was either lost or considered not fit for this newspaper who went through hell in 1979. I am not that old but I love my age and my age keeps me eyes wide open unlike yours "wide shut" with apologies to Tom Cruise and dear Nicole Kiddmann.
This case is pathetic and it has taught me something interesting , not that I am surprised but being the timing as it is, a person, ( who happens to be under a court judgement) , can actually attract a political party on his side by branding him a victim.
I shall not go into details because it is not my line to judge him or prejudice anything. All I want to say is this , had the leader of the opposition knew about this unfortunate affair , his arms would have been crossed and not accepted. I repeat prudence lacks , since you seem despise age, Age brings about experience and teaches us from the past. I cherish the past as the best teacher, not that I am stuck to it, on the contrary I try to keep the future clean from a party who has a track reckord which is not nice to relate. Just mentioning the thugs who burnt down this glorious newspaper who gives us the opportunity to air our feelings and thoughts. Unfortunately you never knew we were not blessed with this beautiful freedom of expression stemming from human rights, to which we sealed in the EU.
I hope we will never again experience those days of horror and I wish you and all those who believe like you that one day your eyes might be wide open.
Oliver Grech
Jul 31st 2011, 23:07
Talk about using the same measures, Dr. Muscat. Be consistent please!!! Losing credibility once more.
John Zammit-Spiteri
Jul 31st 2011, 20:30
@ kurt psaila
I am wondering which planet are you living in! you compared the Government as to that of ben ali! I think you need to read your history books before you dive your fingers on the keyboard and telling everyone that you hardly ever read anything worthwhile!
The Big difference is that The Malta Government is Electe by the Maltese and since the Maltese People are sovereign they choose what they see fit for government.
Second you consider The Government as 25 years in government. I am surprised you hardly consider the 1996-1998 as non existent, when in actual fact , the sovereign Maltese electorate chose to change with an astounding land slide majority in just 20 months. Since you do not have any decent opinion of the Maltese electorate , I dont think that you qualify to speak about your own Nation. Ben Ali fled the country and he managed to become a dictator with a coup d' etat if you know what it means!
Unfortunately for the likes of some, this rare freedom of speech was not provided to us in the 70's and 80's. We could not say what we wised to say in freedom. You are using this freedom to convey to us what normal decent people throw to be discarded.
Joe Fenech
Aug 1st 2011, 10:26
What you naively call "an astounding land slide" was in fact due to a brilliant politician called Alfred Sant who put the country ahead of power and party. PN would never do something like that. Corrupt or failed ministers, consultants and executives are not removed.
If you knew anything about politics, you would know that a government is never popular at the beginning and the end of its time in office.
Mr Michael Buhagiar
Jul 31st 2011, 17:10
i am sorry but Joseph Muscat has lost all sense of decency and trustworthiness. He should be ashamed of his baby tactics.,... like playing for the gallery. God forbid if ever this youth becomes our Prime Minsiter. Heaven help us.
George Azzopardi
Aug 1st 2011, 21:48
Who has lost the sense of all decency .. J.Muscat. Are you living in Malta!! And why should heaven help? Disgusting people!!! BLaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Joe Fenech
Jul 31st 2011, 16:06
I don't think anyone would be so stupid as to post his ex-partner's nude photos. Could this be a matter of a frame-up?
Mr William Pierce
Aug 1st 2011, 07:26
If it is not a frame-up then he is not fit for public service. Do you really want your representatives sending gay porn around the houses?
Ms D Galea
Aug 1st 2011, 10:10
It is nothing to do with stupidity but plenty to do with bitchy spite ,jelousy,and revenge. Heaven forbid that people behave like that to their ex-partners when their relationship ends.
Re Frame ups, if that was the case, it would not have been reported in the media that the gentleman in question was reassured by the police that the court case "will be over in five minutes".Cases that are over in five minutes are those where a guilty plea is lodged.
Mr Angus Black
Jul 31st 2011, 14:59
Joseph, rest assured that Cyrus Engerer, PL is being judged by his track record.
How would you judge someone (not Cyrus) who has been accused of allegedly entering a premises without permission (break and enter), obtain personal information from the alleged victim's computer (without authorization) and disseminating compromising pictures of the victim's sexual activities to other parties?
The crux of the matter is that Cyrus did not deny the alleged charges giving someone to think that the pending charges are legitimate. The victim, Mr. Camilleri confirmed the allegations and denied ever withdrawing the complaint he lodged with the police.
Our only hope is that Joseph himself would come to his senses and judges Cyrus by his track record.
Wilfred Camilleri
Jul 31st 2011, 14:40
Mr. Muscat's statements get more bizarre every day. Does he really expect anyone but his blinkered supporters to believe that if Engerer was still in the PN fold, the PL wouldn't have tried to make political hay of his misfortunes?
Francis Attard
Jul 31st 2011, 13:03
@Dr.Saliba Francis
Ghadni kif kont qieghed fil-'web-site' tal-'Kulhadd' li fiha hemm artiklu intitolat "Jien konvint li dak li qed jigri lil Cyrus u Chris Engerer mhuwiex qieghed jigri propju issa b'kumbinazzjoni", u f'dan l-artiklu jinghad illi "fost dawk li tellghu b'arrest lil Pietru Pawl Busuttil akkuzat bil-qtil ta' Raymond Caruana, kien hemm l-Ispettur John Rizzo, llum Kummissarju tal-Pulizija", ghaldaqstant nixtieq nistaqsik jekk tikkonfermax jew tinnega din l-allegazzjoni.
Mr Saliba Francis
Jul 31st 2011, 19:24
@Francis Attard.
There is nothing wrong with any police officer escorting an accused person, even if wrongly accused, to court for his case to be heard. The police officers who were criminally wrong in that case were those who previously had tried to frame an innocent person like Pietru Pawl Busutil with a crime they knew he did not commit and who planted false evidence in his farmhouse. Those persons were tried in court, found guilty and sentenced. The present Commissioner of Police was not one of them as far as I know.
Mr Saliba Francis
Jul 31st 2011, 20:51
@ Francis Attard.
Ma hemm xejn hazin billi fizzjal tal-pulizija fil-kors ta' dmirijietu jiskorta bniedem taht akkuza sal-Qorti biex jinstema' il-kas kontrih u jigi lliberat jekk innocenti bhal ma gie lliberat Pietru Pawl Busuttil. Ghamel hazin bl-ikrah min organizza "frame up" kontra bniedem li kienu jafu li kien innoccenti u min ipprova jfixkel u jizvija l-invstigazzjoni billi ibaghbas bil-provi u jpoggi b'qerq l-arma tad-delitt fir-razzett ta' Busuttil. Dawn il-kriminali tressqu l-Qorti, nstabu hatja u gew ikkundannati. L-isem tal-Kummisajari tal-Pulizija tal-lum, John Rizzo, ma jidhirx fost dawk li nstabu hatja ta'dak ir-rejat.
Francis Attard
Aug 1st 2011, 05:40
Sa fejn naf jien skorta pulizija jaghmilha u mhux spettur. Spettur ikun dak li suppost investiga il-kaz.
Mr Saliba Francis
Aug 1st 2011, 13:13
@Francis Attard.
Sew jekk John Rizzo kien "l-ispettur li suppost investiga l-kas", sew jekk kien biss "fost dawk li tellghu b'arrest lil Pietru Pawl Busuttil" l-importanti hu li jien ma naf bl-ebda sehem ta'Rizzo fil-frame up ta' Pietru Pawl Busuttil. Jekk int taf xi haga aktar minni, obzoqha. Jekk le, ghamilli pjacir u titfghax tajn u taghmilx insinwazzjonijiet malafamanti billi tinheba wara l-website tal-"Kullhadd".
Francis Attard
Aug 1st 2011, 14:26
@ Dr.Saliba Francis
Skuzani Dr. Saliba, int hawn qbist il-limiti. Jien la qieghed nitfa tajn u lanqas qieghed naghmel insinwazzjonijiet malafamanti. Jien nistaqsi qieghed OK? Nistaqsi lill wiehed li ma jistax ikun hemm kumment li ma jdoqx ghal widnejh f'din il-Blog, li ma jkunx pront u jirrispondih. Jien m'ghandi ghalfejn nistahba wara hadd ghaliex jien m'ghandi l'ebda faham miblul.
MaryJo Camenzuli
Jul 31st 2011, 12:30
Which track record?
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Mr Karl Consiglio
Jul 31st 2011, 12:12
Ma min rajtek xebahtek
K. Vella
Jul 31st 2011, 11:48
Joseph Muscat, leave the law take it course....I am quite worried your way of interpreting such sensitive issues.
You do not trust anyone and you trust everybody, like the case of Cyrus and you were trapped in this cobweb trust, vengeance and powerplay.
J.K. Sciberras
Jul 31st 2011, 11:47
would I get the same treatment and favouritism from the PM personal assitant? Would I be given the chance for big brother to speak on my behalf with the police? Would the PN acte this was had Cyrus still been its member? Would they have still raided his father's property had not Cyrus switched sides?
seriously people can,t you see the game our Government is playing to distract us from the real problem ie. the state of our economy and what this govenment is NOT doing?
Martin Cassar
Jul 31st 2011, 11:43
Tajba Joseph, Jekk il poplu malta jigudika in-Nazzjonalisti fuq dak li ghamel il-Partit Laburista qatt ma jitla fil-gvern.
mary jane aquilina
Jul 31st 2011, 11:41
Dak track record sa sena ilu kien wiehed minn dawk li rikeb fuq il-karru ta Nikki Dimech, hmistax qabel (fl-istess zmien li beda jigi investigat) fil-Kunsill generali tkellem kontra il-PL u issa!!!!!
Mr G Mangion
Jul 31st 2011, 11:39
J.M we are in 2011, and not in the 70/80's when, iT WAS THEN WHEN THE MLP CAPO used to be the Judge and Jury !! you seem to already trying to go back to those dark Years, No Way !
G.Mangion
John Zammit-Spiteri
Jul 31st 2011, 11:07
This incident teaches us the great virtue of Prudence and the lack of maturity by very eager young politicians who want to teach the elders how things are done! We have experienced this before.
I am really dissappointed at the pl leader to accept in his midst a person under serious charges and undergoing investigations! Is this the example and the message that he is conveying to us, how he will act? Impulsively! The opposition leader is now defending something he should be attacking and declaring as "unacceptible" by any standard. Since he opened his arms too soon without any consultations, the problem which should have been in the basket of the PN is now glaring from the basket of the pl!!!!! And we call this political maturity? So Dr Adrian Vassallo was right in saying the pl has become a movement and is accepting anyone going by in the street! If this is the method to be taken by the pl leader when it comes to defections from the other political party, then I am sorry to say that this is a very serious method which is going to bring about more problems for the future! We are wearing boots which do not fit us !
Kurt Psaila
Jul 31st 2011, 15:41
well do you consider giving a presidential pardon to ppl who tried to kill other ppl along with a huge list of other crimes mature? yes it may have not been a nice thing, but really? this whole fuss is about a picture containing male genitalia? this is pathetic. the fact is that this government who's been in government for 25 years (more than ben ali) is trying to send ppl who oppose him to prison. all of this smells funny and im not eating it
Mr Henry Mifsud
Jul 31st 2011, 16:40
I am crying my heart out, with laughter of course! Earlier on you accused me of being one-sided. Again by your writing you are proving just one point i.e. that you are squarely anti-JM. Whether this can be interpreted that you are in favour of GonziPN, I let the readers decide. But let me just remind you, not that anyone needs reminding, that the turmoil is in the PN arena and it is getting worse. First we had, Niki and Sandra at the PN Sliema local Council who left the PN side and now there is Cyrus. Obviously there are pending law cases which are sub-judice so no one should utter a single word about guilt or non-guilt. Then let's not forget the mutiny of the backbenchers which we haven't seen the end of as yet. Obviously this is a case of 'tardare si, scappare no'. And stillyou blame JM for accepting those from the other side who want to flee a situation which has clearly become untenable. You stated that Dr. Adrian Vassallo was right but conveniently omitted the fact that he joined PM Gonzi and most of his antiquated troupe to vote against the will of the people.Let's call a spade a spade shall we. Elementary Dr. Watson Zammit-Spiteri?
P.S. From your analysis of young JM one can also assume that you are a not-so-young individual with a long, outstanding career either in shoe-making or shoe retailing.
The question is: are you a Bata person or a Gauda one?
Joseph Borg
Jul 31st 2011, 10:53
uuuupppsss...tkellem JM milli jidher ghax jibdew gejjin il bikkejja jeqirdu. Joseph ilni nghidlek jiena tiftahx halqek ghax kif tiftah halqek jaqbzu fuqhek.....heqq insejt bilhaqq li jekk ma tiftahx halqek jghidulek xi haga xorta wahda......Thanks GOD ghanda lill Gonzi jsolvi kollox...thanks god li ghanda il KIT KAT....hasra biss.....li ir-RABAT ilna 3 days minghajr ILMA.....ma hemmx xtaghmel issa nixtri kaxxa kitkat u niekol lilha halli ma nahsilx platti u borom!....jew forsi nohrog bil barmil niprotesta??
u halluna trid!
j brincat
Jul 31st 2011, 10:35
@ John Falzon
You must be referring to Dr Gonzi and his chief of staff, of course!
@Francis Saliba
Quote:
"Nothing will ever satisfy Joseph Muscat and the LP except a return to the bad old days when the MLP was accuser, public prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one.
Unquote: You mean like what happened this week.
Obviously for people like you it suits your purpose to keep living in the past!
(jb)
Mr Saliba Francis
Jul 31st 2011, 17:44
@ j brincat.
The only event that “happened this week” in which someone tried to act as “accuser, public prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one” could refer only to Joseph Muscat and nobody else. People like me prudently await the conclusion that will be reached by the learned and independent retire judge Albert Manche.
You see? People like me do not “keep living in the past” but we know and we understand what happened “this week” much better than you do!
Joe Fenech
Jul 31st 2011, 10:16
Oh , so now the problem is not porn but slander which takes things up a notch.
However, no one in his right mind would do this. I smell a frame up! No one will convince that Cyrus did this.
John Falzon
Jul 31st 2011, 09:36
Birds of a feather flock together.....................
Charlie Borg
Jul 31st 2011, 09:22
Private realm - hmmm. Not when a crime is allegedly committed, it isn't. Joseph Muscat is not showing maturity in this aspect.
Andre Cilia
Jul 31st 2011, 11:14
Did he ever?
j brincat
Jul 31st 2011, 09:19
@Adele Mintoff
So we have kitkat and also a power station which should have been closed a quarter of a century ago but is still today spewing menacing smoke and belching the mysterious black dust. Whether these are compatible with our lungs God only knows!
Get serious, please.
(jb)
Mr Joe Micallef
Jul 31st 2011, 09:59
J brincat we are waiting for your lead "to becoming serious" - in the meantime other "talk your talk"!
Mr Saliba Francis
Aug 1st 2011, 08:12
@ j brincat
Instead of the present "mysterious black dust", during the times of the MLP we had miniature mountains of sulphur laden black coal in the open spaces of Marsa ready to be fed into the same power station so that its chimneys would "spew and belch" copious acid containing "menacing smoke" that most definitely was not "compatible with out lungs".
C Muscat
Jul 31st 2011, 09:15
You are right joseph muscat malta will soon be judgeing everyone and i hope we will see track records to make another good judgement for one and all.
Mr Saliba Francis
Jul 31st 2011, 09:13
Cyrus is behaving like a loose, small caliber, canon ball rolling about the tossing deck of Malta’s political arena. He is making a shambles of Joe Muscat’s reputation as the latter tries unsuccessfully to save this adopted errant loose canon ball from completely rolling off the deck of Malta’s politics and disappearing for ever into the oblivion of our murky political waters.
The fact that in eleven years of hearing cases of alleged corruption Judge Albert Manche did not find a single case to be proven as alleged does not mean that he did not carry out his duty with integrity. The duty of a judge conducting such investigations is NOT to decide on the basis of “some for the NP and some for the MLP” so as to create a false image of impartiality’. In its heyday of governing, the MLP treated the members of the judiciary as puppets and the Constitutional Court itself as a disposable luxury.
Nothing will ever satisfy Joseph Muscat and the LP except a return to the bad old days when the MLP was accuser, public prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one.
BEWARE!
Stella Anastasi
Jul 31st 2011, 08:48
Muscat defends Cyrus Engerer: ‘Judge him on his track record’
I wonder how Muscat would have judged Engerer if he was still with the PN!!!!! I really wonder!!!!!!
A Tonna
Jul 31st 2011, 10:48
Would this have been revealed by the PN if he was still within the PN?
Mr JOSEPH ZAMMIT
Jul 31st 2011, 11:08
Do you also wonder if the PN would have come out with the same accusations had Cyrus remained with the PN?
John A. Gauci
Jul 31st 2011, 11:23
History shows that the PN was never afraid to sack thier own members who had a bad conduct. I invite the PN. secretary to list these persons !
Mr joseph formosa
Jul 31st 2011, 11:40
i agree with you miss s. anastasi this man mr muscat change with the wind, he should tell the maltese people what he got plan if he ever get in power never mind interfering and slagging down the PN.please mr muscat change your image may be you get somewhere
Anthony Grech
Jul 31st 2011, 11:46
While Mr. Engerer was still in the Pn, Gonzi and co knew waht he did (if he did it). And how did Tal-Kuxjenza react at that time?... SHHHHHHHHHHH.......
Adele Mintoff
Jul 31st 2011, 08:39
Josepjh Muscat take a break!!!! Thanks to the PN you can find kitkat in any supermarket today. Huh would have loved to know what you'd have had to say about Cyrus had this happened a month ago. Oh please Mr Muscat get real !!!!!
Miguel Sant
Jul 31st 2011, 09:30
Usual PN apologizing comments..
Mario Grima
Jul 31st 2011, 10:06
Joseph Muscat can't take a break, actually he cannot afford it. The same cannot be said for Gonzi who with the weekly €500 payrise he can take a few breaks. And boy, he surely needs them!!!!
Mr Stephen Borg
Jul 31st 2011, 10:36
With the Kit Kat now available many poeple still do not make ends meet. The health system is still burdened by waiting lists, We still have an obsolete powerstation in this so called "State of the Art Country". The only thing that took place was a reform in public transport, always if you call that a reform.
Lina Ghirxi
Jul 31st 2011, 11:04
This could not have happened a month ago...Cyrus was still with PN!!!!!!!!
Mr JOSEPH ZAMMIT
Jul 31st 2011, 11:06
Yes you are right! But on the other hand, moving one month back as you said, would the accusations had been made by the PN?
You see, instead of protecting colours or political parties, try apply justice where due.
Both parties made mistakes in this matter--shame on them!!
Lina Ghirxi
Jul 31st 2011, 11:10
He still had not defected , none of this would have happened!!
francis Buhagiar
Jul 31st 2011, 11:41
frans Buhagiar.
Dear Adele it is true that can find kitkat in our supermarkets but I can't remember how many times i went to the gov. pharmacy to collect the pills and I find that the pills are out of stock.
Be serious please.
Mr Kevin J Vella
Jul 31st 2011, 13:24
I think Joe Zammit has a point here. I am a PN and cannot (and will not) apologise for what seems to me like an underhanded tactic of the Pre-KitKat era. JM should not have accepted Engerer because Engerer is not even defending his culpability. He seems to be implicitly accepting guilt. Wrong is wrong no matter the amount of good you do. When it comes to the common citizen the authorities have no compunction to incriminate just because I have always been a good boy! What is JM really saying here? That he accepts all under the Labour fold? Or should he accept only those of good standing? Ma nafx. I don't want to imagine what that would mean in practice when JM becomes PM.
Where's AD when you need them? Silent as usual!
Mr carmel tonna
Jul 31st 2011, 08:23
quote: 'the PN accused Dr Muscat of “playing dangerous games with democracy”
Is it arrogance or a silly statement?
Mr d. attard
Jul 31st 2011, 08:21
While chatting, they bump into each other in Mdina and Mr Galea Curmi calls Police Commissioner John Rizzo in the presence of Mr Engerer to investigate the allegations.
Question: Is the mobile number of the Commissioner of Police included in his (Galea Curmi's) list of contacts on his mobile?
If so, Why? Can we, for starters, have a list of calls made between the two during the last 12 months? This should give a clue on how the seperation of powers works...
C Muscat
Jul 31st 2011, 09:13
Tkunx balalu jigifieri titkellem fil-vojt.
Mr Saliba Francis
Jul 31st 2011, 10:52
@ Mr d. attard.
There is nothing wrong in a public officer holding high office in the OPM to include the mobile telephone number of the Head of the Police Department in his list of contacts. In my opinion it would be a gross negligence for Edgar Galea Curmi not to include the Police Commisioner's telephone number among those of other Heads of Departments that he may need in a hurry.
What right have you to demand that you be informed about telephone calls between one government department and another? Separation of powers does not mean isolation and separation of contact.
Mr d. attard
Jul 31st 2011, 11:56
C Muscat, do you have a capacity to bring over your argument beyond foolhardy statements
Mr Henry Mifsud
Jul 31st 2011, 07:50
It's the same old story in Maltese politics. We have a victim by the name of Cyrus Engerer (a bit unlucky in this particular case for him to have such an unusual name) who decides to change allegiance from the PN to the PL. So the PN decides to cover him in mud whilst the PL tries very hard to put him constantly under the shower so that hopefully the mud will be removed in time. Obviously the PN elves try their best to demonize Cyrus whilst those of the PL labour to angelize him. At the end it is up to the individual to resurrect victorious. My humble guess is that he will. I do not know Cyrus Engerer personally but all I can say is that whenever I was present in a public forum for the residents of Sliema, he was there on his own from the Sliema Council. In the most recent of such meetings, when most of the residents present were fuming against the present administration, even though it was quite obvious of their political hue, Cyrus Engerer kept his cool and no one dared to level their attack on him. Why? because deep down they know that he was there for them. So only time will tell as to what stamina young Cyrus has.
John Zammit-Spiteri
Jul 31st 2011, 09:02
mr sherlock holmes mifsud
I am laughing at your one sided discovery of events! I think that this is a very unfortunate case of two very young people who want to show the Maltese Nation that they exist. The stubborn first tried to bully the prime minister and teach him a lesson in politics and without considering the power of the media, decided to show the whole PN, that since he is young he will take the plunge! Of course we have another young one who is showing the pl that he knows it all and he is turning his movement into a whirlwind of change and new followers, little knowing that he opened his arms to a very serious problem , that the leader of the pl should have been slamming the PN, from the opposition benches. And now the equally young inexperienced leader is landed with a very serious problem , because any sensible wise older person would have told politely the first young one to wait and let things settle down and then we will think about it with a very nice dose of prudence. That is how elegant and wise people should act! not like the latter young ones ! mr sherlock holmes mifsud!
Mr Denis Pace
Jul 31st 2011, 10:00
Whai a load of gobwash!
Cyrus Engerer KNEW of police action BEFORE he joined Labour.
The picture is obvious...that is WHY he joined Labour. ...to get a partial media impunity and CLAIM political discrimination/
What baffles me is Jos.Muscat's hypocrisy. First he attacks Galea Curmi's attempt to defend Cyrus, now he is eulogising Cyrus.
What a mess of a nation
Mr charles vella
Jul 31st 2011, 11:25
nicely said Mr Zammit - The PL leader is inexperienced and him being prime minister will result into disaster for Malta... I wonder what our young one what have done when the recession that hit the world's economy 2 years ago would have done, i wonder what he would have done during the arab world revolutions and the war in Libya... What I can say is that JM never offered solutions and never will because he cannot due to his inexperience in politics and how these things work! Our President should be head of the PL - that would offer the best alternative to the PN... With Joseph Muscat there is no alternative... I will not vote PL and not knowing what will happen to my country... At least the PN have values and also have a vision, a vision which we are living today. A beautiful developing country, good roads, and he ones which are not so good are being built from scratch,places to go, cleanliness, tourism, investment and we are all living a good life! Min igerger ghax ma jiftahx ghajnejh u bhal barri jara ahmar biss!
Mr Henry Mifsud
Jul 31st 2011, 15:56
Humour apart (whether dry or not I always enjoy a good laugh even when it is the result of events which originate from me), comparing someone to Sherlock Holmes is quite an honour and at the same time a clear statement of admittance from you that my theory at the end shall be proven right as in all Sir Arthur Conan Dole's mysteries featuring the one and only Sherlock Holmes..
Anyone reading your writing would immediately deduce whose views are one-sided. So rather than one should laugh at what you stated, I think that one should actually cry!
Elementary Dr. Watson Zammit-Spiteri?