The rise and fall of a mastermind
Richard Cachia Caruana rummages around his desk frantically, devoid of any humour.
He is not facing the breathtaking panorama framed by his office window on the top floor of the prime real estate that is Malta’s EU permanent representation in Brussels. Instead, his desk faces the two doors from which employees armed with key-cards slowly come through.
“Is everything all right, Ambassador?” asks a worried young woman. “No it’s not,” he bellows.
A wire has gone missing and he cannot print some notes he prepared for the interview. “I will see where it is,” she responds assertively. “No don’t. It’s too late now.”
Minutes ago, Mr Cachia Caruana was heaping praise on his employees as he introduced them jokingly as the ones who must put up with “the monster”.
“These are the people who are meant to tremble at the sound of my voice,” he said, with a hint of sarcasm. But really, they do. They quiver at the thought of disappointing him.
And the mere hum of the printer as it finally sucks up a sheet of paper is enough for a young man to breathe a visible sigh of relief and wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Earlier, however, another employee confided in me: “We’re all very sad about what happened to PR,” she said, referring to her boss, even outside his presence, by the abbreviation of his official title, Permanent Representative.
“Everyone knows he has his moments. But working with him has been a pleasure. You never catch him on the wrong foot. He knows everything about everything,” she adds.
“And the discipline... Well, where would we be without discipline?
“We know that if we make a mistake we can cost our country millions of euros. So if that’s what it takes for us not to make a mistake, so be it.”
All the staff seem to have been working with Mr Cachia Caruana for years. And as he prepares to clear his desk, they are feeling like headless chickens.
“Somehow, he has remained focused throughout. And he keeps telling us to do the same... We’re trying,” one of them tells me.
Mr Cachia Caruana’s stern exterior quickly melts into charm as he sits down comforted by the notes he managed to print out all by himself.
His disarming nature can mask his mythical status.
But a scar on his left hand (from when he was stabbed in 1994) guides my eyes to the discreet white letters embroidered on the cuff of his starched shirt: RCC.
This is no ordinary man.
As he speaks, messages of support trickle in, mostly from politicians, even some from the opposite side of the political spectrum.
Though not for publication, he reads most of them aloud with childlike enthusiasm.
Despite all his confidence, he is surprised by each one, as if he never expected to receive any support.
He has been receiving similar reactions from other EU ambassadors. Having served since 2004, Mr Cachia Caruana, aged 57, is the longest standing permanent representative in Brussels, so is also known as the Dean.
Even though two other long-standing members are leaving this month, they will have to share a farewell dinner and Mr Cachia Caruana will get his own.
Mr Cachia Caruana’s shoes will not be easy to fill. He is no ordinary ambassador. He spends half the week in Brussels and the other half in Malta, where he deals with Cabinet matters.
As if that were not enough, he is also a master PN strategist, though he abhors that title. He does this job officially only during general election campaigns (usually the ones the Nationalist Party wins).
This explains why this “bad golfer”, as he describes himself, hasn’t played since 2004.
Mr Cachia Caruana, a bachelor, is married to his job, which makes his resignation all the more difficult.
Born in 1955, he joined the Nationalist Party aged 18, driven by the injustices he saw committed by the Mintoff government. (He experienced this firsthand when the government withdrew his scholarship for a PhD in the UK. Naturally, he went anyway.)
“These people believe that if you are Nationalist you are basically subhuman,” he tells me later.
At University, he did not bother with partisan student politics.
Instead, his course elected him on to the international economics organisation Aiesec and his faculty elected him to the students’ council.
He was also chairman of a university newspaper.
Eventually he worked his way to the top of Aiesec, which, in a taste of what was to come, saw him to-ing and fro-ing between Brussels and Malta.
Like many young political activists in those days, life in Malta was not easy and he soon found himself in the filthy police lock-up where he immediately began a hunger strike that would last only 24 hours.
“When I was released, a well-known policeman at the time told me I was the most arrogant person who ever entered police headquarters. I thanked him.”
The accusation of arrogance stuck with Mr Cachia Caruana throughout the years. Although he does not wish to make excuses, he can explain.
In 1981, PN stalwart Louis Galea asked him to fly back to help the PN’s campaign. No one else in the party had studied marketing and he had already proven his commitment by helping set up a PN office in London together with Michael Frendo, who is now Speaker.
Flying back to Malta meant leaving his PhD (a move that would haunt his educator father for 30 years), but as his Dean told him: “In life there are some people you do not say ‘no’ to.”
Aged 26, together with Austin Gatt Mr Cachia Caruana oversaw the flourishing of Eddie Fenech Adami from “the so-called village lawyer” to hero.
The experience, which included ordering huge personalities around, stunted his growth, he says.
“We were given certain responsibilities for which we were not adequately emotionally prepared.
“When you have that sort of responsibility at that age there is a danger that patience does not develop... You retain a certain roughness which more rounded characters do not.”
After running two successful campaigns in 1981 and 1987, Mr Cachia Caruana became Dr Fenech Adami’s right-hand man. But the experience was not all rosy and in 1994 there was an attempt on his life.
He was stabbed in the back – a crime that was attributed to vengeance over the resignation of the Brigadier of the Armed Forces, whose daughter had been caught with cocaine at the family home.
Mr Cachia Caruana narrowly escaped death. The attack left him with scars on his hand and larger ones on his back.
He doesn’t deny the scars are not only physical.
But what he recalls most was the “cruelty” of the Labour Party during the investigation and court case.
Labour accused the government of protecting a co-conspirator in the attack (Joseph Fenech, known as Zeppi l-Hafi), whom he points out was actually a disgruntled Nationalist-turned-stalwart of the Labour Party club bar in St Julian’s.
“The Labour Party launched an attack on the credibility of the witnesses,” he says. Though he found this unacceptable, it taught him some important lessons, which he used during the 2008 election.
Mr Cachia Caruana still retains police protection – something the Sant government had at one point tried to remove. The decision was revoked by the Ombudsman.
Almost two decades after the attack, Mr Cachia Caruana still feels unsafe when he is “demonised” in the press.
“There is a measure of déjà vu,” he says, knowing that people will call him too sensitive.
He claims he is also concerned when others are demonised.
Yet, he respects veteran columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who is a less sensitive type.
“I admire her for having the guts to say what she thinks and express herself so eloquently,” he says, adamantly refusing to judge whether she has ever crossed the line in terms of decency.
(He finds the mere suggestion offensive. It is always better to err on the side of freedom of expression, he says, especially after the stifling of opinion this country witnessed in the past.)
Mr Cachia Caruana is often accused of influencing Ms Caruana Galizia (and other journalists) to try to bring down politicians he does not like – an accusation he vehemently denies.
It is not difficult to see why the connection is made.
The two seem to have practically identical opinions and descriptions for people like Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, who voted against Mr Cachia Caruana in Parliament, partly because of this connection.
“Dr Pullicino Orlando has decided it is not possible for a woman to write articles criticising a man... a Sicilian man I suppose.... and forcefully saying she disagrees with him,” he says, ridiculing the suggestion that he could somehow coordinate a team of journalists in the middle of his 24/7 job.
However, he says he has also been at the receiving end of Ms Caruana Galizia’s criticism, such as during the Libya crisis where the “proud” work he was doing with the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister was being fiercely criticised “unfairly”.
“I found what she wrote extremely offensive. But you lump it.”
Arguably, Ms Caruana Galizia is a player in the backbench revolt seen in recent months, with both Franco Debono and Dr Pullicino Orlando lashing out at her for what they call “personal attacks”.
Mr Cachia Caruana concedes that her blog may be causing damage to the PN. But what she writes under her name remains her responsibility.
“And damage has not necessarily been caused by what was written, but by the interpretation of people who are unable to understand that as politicians they have to be able to take the rough with the smooth.”
“The first thing the MPs concerned have to do is look at the mirror and stop blaming other people for their failures and insecurities,” he says.
“It’s rich for Mr Mugliett and Dr Pullicino Orlando to complain about being victims of a clique when they were both preferred and promoted by the Fenech Adami and the Gonzi administrations”
This prompts him to tell his version of what happened with Dr Pullicino Orlando during the last days of the PN election – an episode he says deprived the Nationalist Party of an absolute majority at the polls.
“In the fourth week of campaigning, a message came that Labour was going to destroy one of our new stars.”
Eventually someone worked out this would be Dr Pullicino Orlando and Alfred Sant was planning to hold a press conference the next day at the planning authority, to talk about some permits.
“[Then PN general secretary] Joe Saliba called for Dr Pullicino Orlando.
“I was present at one of the follow-up meetings. I listened to what he had to say. He assured us there was nothing they could possibly say he had done wrong.”
“Dr Pullicino Orlando can be quite credible in getting his message across. I believed him. So did everybody else.”
The accusation made by Dr Sant was that Dr Pullicino Orlando had played an active part in an application to build a disco on land owned by the MP in Mistra – which would harm the party’s environmental credentials.
“I came to the conclusion that if we did not take dramatic action they would destroy him. I had to persuade the electorate that an innocent person was being unfairly attacked.”
This is where he recalled how credibility of witnesses in his attempted murder case was destroyed.
“My advice was: if you want people to think you are innocent, follow Dr Sant around everywhere. People will understand that only an innocent person would do this.”
But trouble began on the Sunday before the election, when Dr Pullicino Orlando addressed a party meeting.
“I was in the media room at party headquarters and plonked myself in front of the TV. Suddenly Dr Pullicino Orlando came on screen and burst into a flood of tears with great sobs. I looked at the screen and said aloud: ‘There is no way people are not going to believe him.’”
But a woman who stood behind him immediately said: “He’s just like my child. He’s done something wrong, he knows it’s his fault and he’s throwing a tantrum to convince people he hasn’t done it.”
“What I took as absolute honesty and ability to persuade, rang untrue to somebody with experience of raising children,” Mr Cachia Caruana says.
The next day Dr Pullicino Orlando arrived at a press conference where Dr Sant “mishandled him completely”.
But Mr Cachia Caruana only seriously began to doubt Dr Pullicino Orlando’s innocence when the next day Dr Sant released a registered letter in connection with his application for the disco at Mistra.
“From that day on I insisted only party officials should deal with him.”
On Thursday – the last day of the campaign before the period of reflection – Dr Pullicino Orlando sent a letter to The Times where he mentioned a contract.
“Until then he had always maintained there was no contract,” says Mr Cachia Caruana.
The contract was eventually published by Dr Sant minutes before midnight on the last day of campaigning.
“At this stage, people like me were in an absolute crisis. The steady increase we were seeing in the polls every day stopped. We realised that if we were lucky, we had saved the government. But in doing that, Dr Pullicino Orlando was going to get an extremely good result.
“When I met my family that evening or the next day I said: Do not give Dr Pullicino Orlando more than your last vote.
“I have no doubt that if we knew what we knew at the end of the campaign, everybody would have tackled it differently. We were caught in a situation where we trusted somebody who, even if he didn’t lie, didn’t tell the whole truth either – and this misled people.”
Similar behaviour was displayed by Dr Pullicino Orlando in the last six weeks running up to Monday’s vote in Parliament, he says.
“I regret to say Alfred Sant probably summed him up correctly.”
He maintains, however, his advice to the party after the election was that a resignation was “not possible” and the party needed to keep Dr Pullicino Orlando on its side because of the government’s one-seat majority.
He categorically denies having been behind an effort to get him to resign his seat and insists that, as Ms Caruana Galizia testified under oath, it was not him who called her to feed her this line, which, as Dr Pullicino Orlando pointed out in Parliament, she adamantly refused to take.
Now, Dr Pullicino Orlando has brought Mr Cachia Caruana’s shining career to an abrupt end.
“Part of me wants to tell all politicians to go to hell.
“But part of me thinks, from the way things are being handled, that Joseph Muscat and the people around him will damage the country seriously if they get into power. Vindictiveness will also become a way of life.”
Mr Cachia Caruana has not committed himself to coordinating the party’s “message” in the next campaign, as he did in 1998, 2003, the EU referendum and 2008. He does, however, rule out frontline politics.
One thing he will undoubtedly continue to do is give his strategic advice to the Nationalist Party.
So, will he suggest an election?
“If I tell you what I am going to tell the Prime Minister, I would be useless. I would be no better than a columnist.”
After three-and-a-half hours of talking, he is weary, but immediately lights up at the irony of what he has just said.
“That might not be a bad idea,” he says with a mischievous grin.
See also: Stabbed in the back, for the second time
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Neville Debattista
Jun 25th 2012, 14:55
Nothing lasts forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pat muscat
Jun 25th 2012, 09:06
An other 'master mind'........!!!: pop goes the bubble!
Joseph Brincat
Jun 25th 2012, 08:55
SO now we know that we had a
GOD FATHER in MALTA !!!!!!!!!!!
Joe Fenech
Jun 25th 2012, 14:23
Obviously !
Jessica Williams
Jun 25th 2012, 08:10
Dr Alfred Sant summed up a lot of things correctly. Shame RCC with his overbearing self-worth and self-importance character is recognizing it now (because it suits him). Four years to your retirement (61yrs), you deserve to spend them in opposition.
Antoine Vella
Jun 25th 2012, 10:08
No, Jessica, not really. Alfred Sant was wrong so many many times that by 2008 he was no longer credible.
Joe Fenech
Jun 25th 2012, 14:45
Antoine, Sant is brilliant expert who is in tune with reality and the spirit of the people in Europe. To borrow Norman Lowell's expression - RCC "tela' mill-hama tal-partit" .
Henry Mifsud
Jun 25th 2012, 07:06
“I regret to say Alfred Sant probably summed him (JPO with the full backing of RCC & co) up correctly.”
There you have it, right from the horse's mouth that the PN won the last election in the most mischievous manner using lies, lies and more damn lies.
RCC might have studied marketing and he became a spin expert par excellence but he failed miserably in teaching the PN and its leaders to practice the golden cardinal rule of strategic marketing:
"NEVER PROMISE MORE THAN YOU CAN DELIVER BUT DELIVER MORE THAN YOU PROMISE"
Antoine Vella
Jun 25th 2012, 10:13
Alfred Sant had this hobby of making false accusations against PN politicians: Michael Frendo, John Dalli, Joe Fenech, Jesmond Mugliett, Ninu Zammit . . . the list goes on.
It's no wonder that people were heartily fed up of his mud-slinging and were not prepared to believe him about Pullicino Orlando.
This was fortunate for Malta - can you imagine an Alfred Sant government with all the financial problems going on around us? Can you imagine Sant as PM and George Vella as Foreign Affairs Minister during the Libyan war?
Eddy Privitera
Jun 25th 2012, 17:03
Antoine, but now it is not Alfred Sant who is making accusations against RCC and IL-KLIKKA TAL-HAZEN, but GonziPN MPs !
Robert Hero
Jun 25th 2012, 01:58
As usual every argument in Malta ends up party political with little thought placed to the national interest. A small country such as ours has few friends. Look, for example, at the Eurovision song contest. Most of the voting appears to be governed by countries being friends of other countries. The respectable tally of votes Malta obtained was from people who actually liked the entry. What, you may ask, has the Eurovision got to do with RCC Malta's permanent representative in Brussels?
If Malta is to succeed at anything it has to be excellent. Even then there is no guarantee! Let us imagine Malta's Eurovision entry, rather than just being good, was excellent in all respects it may have attracted more votes and who knows perhaps even won the contest.
In his job, such as leading Malta's EU accession negotiations, RCC has always presented an excellent case for this country. He would not accept the well known '' U iva hekk orrajt '' attitude that is endemic in our country, resulting in us never really achieving our full potential.
I would suggest RCC is given the job of organising Malta's Eurovision entry, organising Malta's national football team, etc etc etc.
Joe Fenech
Jun 24th 2012, 23:46
Mastermind? Who is he? Goldfinger????
E. De Marco
Jun 25th 2012, 09:56
Goldfinger is a fictional mastermind, whereas Alan Greenspan, Frederic Nietsche, Peter the Great, Colin Powell & our Richard the Lion Heart, are of course living or dead legends...
E Schembri
Jun 25th 2012, 10:35
Well, he does consider him self as an untouchable!
And his working ethics are no the lines of dictaroship and oppression. At least, that what friends of mine who have worked with him said.
Joe Fenech
Jun 25th 2012, 14:24
E De Marco, are you serious????
Angelo Vassallo
Jun 24th 2012, 22:38
@ EDDIE privitera
Min ma jkunx kapaci u ma jkunx jaf jghati risposta ghad-domandi li jaghmlulu, iwiegeb b’mistoqsija ohra bhal ma ghamilt int EDDIE. Wara kollox jien mhux lilek staqsejt ghax ma tantx jimpurtani x'tahseb int. Jien lil Mario Camilleri staqsejt.
@ Mario Camilleri
Jien minix min Marsaxlokk, tgerfixtni ma xi hadd iehor.
Tridu tiddeciedu. Taf li "dear leader" joseph muscat kien qal li dak li gara fl-1981 kien zball? Taf li KMB kien qal li dak li gara fl-1981 ma kienx zball? IDDECIEDU?
Min ma jkunx kapaci u ma jkunx jaf jghati risposta ghad-domandi li jaghmlulu, iwiegeb b'mistoqsija ohra, ezattament bhal ma ghamilt int Mario.
Eddy Privitera
Jun 25th 2012, 12:43
Angelo Vassallo: Ghandi dritt nirrispondik, bhal ma int tirrispondi lil haddoehor ! IN QED THAWWEG IL-VERITA!
KMB qal li fin-1981 ma hax it-tmexxija tal-gvern, minkejja lin kien rebah l-elezzjoni skond il-ligi elettorali ta' dak iz-zmien, u kienet issir elezzjoni ohra, ir-rizultat xorta wahda kien jerga jigi l-istess, il-PN ikollu l-aktar numru ta' voti, u lMLP kien ikollun l-akbar numru ta' siggijiet !
Ghalhekk l-unika haga li setghet issir kienet li tinbidel il-Kostituzzjoni u l-ligi elettorali. Biex dan isir ried iku hemm ukoll l-Oppozizzjoni. U l-PN dak iz-zmien KIEN IBBOJKOTTJA L_PARLAMENT ghal sentejn shah !
Il-gvern laburista kien irranga biex l-oppozizzjoni terga tidhol fil-parlament, minkejja li KIENU TILFU POSTHOM FIL-PARLMENT SKOND IL-LIGI !!!!!! U meta regghu dahlu, Mintoff beda diskussjoni, l-aktar mal-Prof. Guido DEmarco, biex isiru t-tibdiliet necessarji, kemm fil-ligi elettorali u anki fil-Kostituzzjoni. Fl-ahhar intlahaq il-ftheim li f'elezzjoni, min igib l-akbar numru ta' voti, jinghata bizzejjed siggijiet halli jkun jista jiggverna !!!
Minn naha ta' Dr. Muscat, ghamilha cara li waqt li fin-1981 IL- PL KELLU KULL DRITT BIL-LIGI LI JIGGVEFNA, MORALMENT kien zball ! I
Nigi ghal -lum. Veru li Gonzi SKND IL-LIGI GHANDU DRITT JIBQA JIGGVERNA, IZDA MORALMENT, META TILEF IL-FIDUCJA TAL-MAGGORANZA TAD-DEPUTATI, U TILEF IL- FIDUCJA TAL-MAGGORANZA TAL-POPLU, KIF KULL KONTEST TA VOTAZZONI TILIFHA, GHAD GHANDU DRITT MORALI LI JIBQA FIL-GVERN U MA JGHJJATX ELEZZJONI ?????????????????????????
Ray Spiteri
Jun 24th 2012, 20:47
Tom Peters Economist guru : talent
Quote
Some people are a hell a lot more talented than other people. (JPO Note). Talent is about.........those who score high on the "distinct" scale. And for those with true distiction..........the world will wait in line to acquire their services.
unquote
Ex PN @ Michael Seychell please note.
Mario Camilleri
Jun 24th 2012, 20:41
Taf x'naf żgur, li Franco Debono ċaqlaq il-ħama fl-għadira li l-wiċċ tagħha GonziPNkien jurih b'kalm u sabiħ. Irnexxielu mhux ifarrak partit, imma jesponilu dak li dejjem l-oħrajn riedu jaħbu. Ngħid li għad baqa xi nsiru nafu u hemm s-sorpriżi.
Mario Camilleri
Jun 25th 2012, 07:21
The world is round just like the clock....today you are on TOP and tomorrow you get the DROP :-) more surprises?? cannot wait.
Why not RCC write his own biography so we learn the truth but nothing but the truth and only the truth of the truth until we realize the whole truth????
J. Borg
Jun 24th 2012, 19:51
I cannot understand why all this hype about RCC. OK, i agree that he is a capable person, but if as we are saying there is noone as capable as him....hmmm that rests on the PN for not trained people in the matter.
Edmond Micallef
Jun 24th 2012, 19:38
And about time as well.
This should have happened long ago.
Nobody in indispensible.
Francesca Abela
Jun 24th 2012, 22:33
Well said, nobody is indispensable in life, if he were a good manager he should have a succession p[lan and a deputy who could take over incase anything happened. But when you are invincible you dont need succeession planning, so all this hype that we 'cannot do without him' is utter rubbish. The higher you climb - the harder you fall. Many Civil servants have seen their careers in tatters because of this man who only wanted yes men in posts who suited him, they are certainly not sorry to see him go.
Jonathan Camilleri
Jun 24th 2012, 19:25
Well I kind of know what it feels like, unfortunately, and, even though I have saved myself a few bruises, I can emphatize how bad it feels to be terrified by your own colleagues to whom you have only tried to serve, until you find out what kind of villains they are.
It is at that point when I turn in vengeance and point my finger towards my enemies, naming and shaming them in public. I had remained suffering in silence for years prior to that, without gaining any respect or acknowledgement. And it does change you within, psychologically.
I can write names of people, companies, however, I have been threatened even by my own friends if I retain the naming, so I will post in separate blogs, perhaps through my lawyer, eventually.
Whether or not RCC is guilty of breaching some law, he is surely disappointed that notwithstanding he has done his best, his own colleagues did not stand behind him. JPO might know why he did not back him up this time, and, influenced by the philosophy of Anton La Vey, whom I respect for his brutal way of portraying evil to mankind, I think that when shit hits the fan, you are the loneliest person on the planet.
Notwithstanding this, I am confident that RCC is capable of occupying high positions which are worthy of his experience and qualifications.
Joseph Cauchi Senior
Jun 24th 2012, 19:20
What more proof does one need to realize without a shadow of a doubt that the motion against Mr. Richard Cachia Caruana, Malta’s PR in Brussels was not motivated by personal matters?
Just look at almost all the contents of the comments in this column to see the character assassination, hatred and vindictiveness aimed personally at RCC.
Thanks to the 34 MLPs and JPO and Mugliett, this motion achieved its desired objective!
The BEHEADING of a Maltese citizen!
Should our highest institution of the land be abused in this manner?
Quo Vadis, Malta?
JC.
George Camilleri
Jun 25th 2012, 09:13
Two of the most important institutions/organs of this democratic country, Parliament and the Courts of Law, are already being misused by those responsible up to alarming levels, before this particular saga ever cropped up. All you have to do is observe the slow action of Parliament to introduce new laws instrumental to a democracy in this day and age (access to legal aid during arrest, the whistleblower act, controlled funding for political propoganda, nuff said already!), some recent appalling, if not bizarre, court judgements (which fuels the law of the jungle one can easily encounter in Malta's streets nowadays), the actual reluctance by the Courts to use key tools (such as the sexual offender register) to make Malta a safer country to those who are vulnerable, the incomprehensible and unacceptable amount of backlogged pending court cases....
This could go on all day.
To put it bluntly, as a person who loves Malta as his country, this nation (leaders + people) has a lot more to worry about and a great deal to work on, rather than brooding over a forced resignation of an ambassador.
Thank you RCC for any good you've done for this country. I hope you'll find it in you to continue helping this nation move towards progress if you really always meant that well for the Maltese.
Joe Fenech
Jun 24th 2012, 19:14
Mastermind? So this implies that all the others were there doing .... all !
Joe Fenech
Jun 24th 2012, 19:12
"Talk of Richard Cachia Caruana being irreplaceable was simply further proof of the existence of a clique, Labour leader Joseph Muscat said this morning."
Leaving this case aside: those politicians and top rank people in Malta and in the EU who are making contacts and obtaining results through links made through free masonry and secret organisations need to come out.
Alison Bezzina
Jun 24th 2012, 18:54
No wonder RCC does not consider front line politics. As a brilliant strategist he knows very well that it's the popular jock with the cool car who gets to be most popular, and not the brilliant mind with the great grades and fantastic ideas. The Personal is Political - http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120623/blogs/the-personal-is-political.425603
Eddy Privitera
Jun 24th 2012, 18:32
TGHID KIEN RCC LI GHALLEM LIL EDDIE FENECH ADAMI IWIEGHED LI SE JEQRED IL-KORRUZZJONI BL-GHERUQ U X-XNIEXEL ???
Joe Fenech
Jun 24th 2012, 19:13
Tghdli xejn!
Mario Camilleri
Jun 25th 2012, 01:24
@Eddy,
Strateġista qal li hu, l-istess kif ħalla lil JPO jikkontesta wara dak li ġara fuq il-Mistra.
Eddy Privitera
Jun 24th 2012, 18:29
This 2mastermind" had the cheek to tell Christian Peregin of The Sunday Times, that if Dr. Muscat is elected " vindictiveness will also become a way of life " When this very morning,. Dr. Muscat was saying the prcise opposite, as we cannot afford not to use the abilities of those genuine nationalists who want to help the country to move forward ! WHAT CHEEK RCC. YOU CONFIRMED THAT THE NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE WAS THE RIGHT DECISION OF MALTA'S PARLIAMENT !
Michael Seychell
Jun 24th 2012, 19:02
Eddy the proof opf the pudding is in the eating - and I doubt whether Joe Muscat will be prepared to eat the pudding when there people in the MLP who are thinking differently.
Michael Seychell Tal-Pieta
C Sant
Jun 24th 2012, 19:29
Eddy - Joe Muscat = Bla Bla Bla Bla etc etc etc..............zzzzzzzz........zzzzzz.......
jimi Xerri
Jun 24th 2012, 19:37
"Dr. Muscat was saying the prcise opposite, as we cannot afford not to use the abilities of those genuine nationalists who want to help the country to move forward !"
Was the allure meant to be referring to JPO, FD and / or JM?
Hossam Helwani
Jun 24th 2012, 19:53
@ eddie privitera
are you surprised? isnt that what he threatened to Dr Adrian Vassallo? And if he threatened his own party God Forbid what is in store for all those that are not backing him. Ahh do we need any experience?
Dont we all know what happened when lejber finds opposition? Break and destroy and any one dares speak out the truth burn it down. This newspaper speaks for itself dear eddie privitera!
Eddy Privitera
Jun 24th 2012, 20:02
Michael, as you say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating So you agree that one should not judge Dr. Muscat when he has not yet been elected to government ! I have high hopes about Joseph from my personal meetings had with him.
I am sure that if you were to meet him and discuss with him, you will form a mujch different view you may have of Joseph at the moment ! You can easily meet him if you wish, but I suppose your links with GonziPn make that difficult for you. If you wish I can arrange such an appointment for you.
Eddy Privitera
Jun 24th 2012, 20:05
Hossam Helwani: Only stupid people believe what you have written ! Did Labour did anything of the sort when labour lost the 1998, 2003 and 2008 elections ???????????????? OF COURSE NOT ! This is why I wrote that you are trying to impress stupid people !!!!!!
Antoine Vella
Jun 25th 2012, 10:18
Privitera, vindictiveness is the Labour way - has always been. You of all peo9ple should know this.
Every since Mintoff ousted Boffa from the MLP, he instilled in his faithful followers (the infamous Mintoffjani) a sentiment of rabid jealousy and a vindictive thirst for revenge.
Mintoffians do not dream of making themselves better but of making others worse.
Eddy Privitera
Jun 25th 2012, 17:12
Antoine Vella: Yes I can talk about vindictiveness much more than you can, because I have SUFFERED PN VINDICTIVENESS FOR 9 YEARS - 1987 to 1995 ! I have said this already, but you play the part of the fool who does not see or hear ! And I can prove it !
What vindictiveness did you suffer ??? Can you prove it ? And has there been any vindictiveness between 1996 and 1998 ??????? GonziPN bloggers skip this period !
Joseph Grech Attard
Jun 24th 2012, 18:20
“I regret to say Alfred Sant probably summed him up correctly.”
Why 'regret?' If you do, you are not happy with truth. Why did nobody speak about this before? Why now? Are masks being shed at last? One should be happy that Dr. Alfred Sant, the man who was so brutally assassinated character-wise by GonziPN and you (as adviser), had spoken the truth and hence, someone, including you, should come up with an apology. But, dear me, I must be hallucinating!
Yes, Franco Debono, JPO, etc are right. Our PM is surrounded by a clique, which seeks only the good of themselves, via their Party, to the detriment of tiny Malta!
Our PM surely knows well these verses:
""Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted." Math.23:12; and:
"“He has cast down the mighty from thrones and has raised up the lowly.” Lk. 1:52
Maybe he should teach them to most of his clique, including RCC, of course.
Alfred Cassar
Jun 24th 2012, 18:17
Some people are just so jealous of RCC, that's the only reason they ended his diplomatic career in this way. The only loser in all this is Malta.
Shame on JPO whom I voter in the past but DID NOT VOTE for him in 2008 as I did not believe him in the Mistra case. Jealousy is killing you Jeffrey and is harming the country.
Thanks RCC for all you're done for the country, people who do not have political blinkers in their eyes appreciate what you did for Malta
Denis Pace
Jun 24th 2012, 18:16
Malta has lost one of its biggest assets in European Relations....all because of a personal grudge......
Johnny Xerri
Jun 24th 2012, 18:09
Quote 'We were caught in a situation where we trusted somebody who, even if he didn’t lie, didn’t tell the whole truth either – and this misled people'
so were the 17k hunters who believed that you had negotiated properly on spring hunting.
as for vindictiveness...if certain elements who worked against public interest by serving their party/partisian or else exploited their position to of trust/power to obtain some reward...are weeded out or transfered to less lucrative positions...then yep bring on this vindicitiveness
cesco di luigi
Jun 24th 2012, 19:51
Yes...and what about those who believed the lie of the 25 % income tax maximum rate!!!!!
Angelo Vassallo
Jun 24th 2012, 18:08
@ john muscat
Not exactly john muscat.
Dr. Alfred Sant was PROBABBLY right but not NECESSARILY right. There is a big difference.
Angelo Vassallo
Jun 24th 2012, 18:04
@ Mario Camilleri
Fil-verita` l-unika elezzjoni li kienet MISRUQA fl-istorja ta' Malta kienet dik ta' 1981. Seraqha min halq il-poplu Malti l-perit mintoff. X'inhu ghalik mintoff sur camilleri s-SALVATUR jew t-TRADITUR ????????????????
Eddy Privitera
Jun 24th 2012, 18:24
Int ghalik Franco Debono TRADITUR JEW LE ? Gonzi jridu jikkontesta, Int tridu ?
Mario Camilleri
Jun 24th 2012, 19:02
@Angelo Vassallo, (Marsaxlokk)
Fl-1981 Eddie Fenech Adami kien kien ħareġ b'għajta ta' dak li qed tgħid int illum għax tafu biss tirrepetuh bħal paggagall bla ma tqisu l-kliem, li Mintoff fuq punt "MORALI" u mhux punt KOSTITUZZJONALI, ma kellux id-dritt jigverna pero għax hekk bellalkom EFA, it-teknikalitajiet tal-Kostituzzjoni injorhom, kif l-istess tridu tagħmlu intom. Tant ma kkonvinċix nies EFA dak iż-żmien d'dak li qal, li fis-87 wara dak kollu li ppriċippja l-PN, EFA ġab biss 4785 vot u dan meta skont l-istess EFA u nies bħalek li ma tgħidux il-verita kif ukoll int għax kont għadek l-anqas twelidt u allura ma taf xejn, Malta kienet meqruda, Malta kienet diżażtru, Malta kienet komunista, Malta kienet stat dittartorjali.
Ara Illum - EFA x'qal: Government should seek to continue till the end of its term - http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120622/local/efa.425395
Illum it-teknikalitajiet jiswew mhux il-morali, għax Eddie u intom dejjem kif jaqblilkom titkellmu,
Issa niċċalinġjak jekk għandekx il-ħila ssibli fejn Mintoff aġixxa anti kostituzzjonali u allura kien qed jigverna llegalment Sur Vassallo. Ħa nagħtik sal-eternita biż-żejjed?
Fil-verita l-unika elezzjoni li kienet MISRUQA fl-istorja ta' Malta kienet dik tal-2008. Seraqha min halq il-poplu Malti GonziPN b'1,580 vot tant li ma kellux biex jifforma l-gvern. Ara hawn intesit il-kampanja sfrenata ta' dejjem saħaq fuqha bħala drit sovran ta' governanza EFA, dik tal-maġġoranza assoluta!
Għalija Mintoff huwa persuna li għamel il-ġid Sur Vassallo. Għalikom Mintoff ridtu s-sallbuh u fit-98 għamiltuh l-eroj tagħkom basta ma tħallux gvern Laburista KOSTITUZZJONALMENT jigverna, x'ipokersija!!
Ħalli nfaħħrek EFA x'kien qal, li "persuna għandha kwalitajiet tajbin u oħrajn anqas tajbin" sintendi, dan jingħad sont għal min ikun jaqbel.
Michael Seychell
Jun 24th 2012, 19:07
Angel tajjeb li tfakkar li aktar kmieni din is-sena kien Joseph Muscat stess li ammetta li l-Gvern ta Mintoff fl-1981 kien moralment illegali - aktar u aktar meta wiehed jiftakar li dak inmhar Mintoff kien iddikjara li hu jaccetta l-Gvern biss jekk igib maggoranza tal voti u mhux tas-siggijiet!
Michael Seychell Tal-Pieta
Michael Seychell
Jun 24th 2012, 19:17
Eddy Sa issa smajna biss dak li qall Franco li Dr. Gonzi iridu jerga jikkontesta, izda fuq kollox kif qal Franco stess irid ikun l-Esekuttiv tal-Partit li japprova jew jichad kull kandidatura.
Int staqsejt lill Angelo jekk Franco hux traditur - jien ktibt kemm il-darba li naqbel f'hafna minn dak li jghid u jipproponi hu, izda qatt ma naqbel mal mod kif agixxa l-aktar meta ivvota mal-Opozzizzjoni biex twarrab Dr.Karm Mifsud Bonnici .
Michael Seychell Tal-Pieta
J. Borg
Jun 24th 2012, 19:48
@ M. Seychell
Sewwa qd tghid li moralment ma kienx sew. Pero mhux kif jghid il-partit tieghek...ghax kostizjunalment kien legali u sewwa. Kien il-partit tieghek li kabbar l-istorja u ghamel minkollx sabiex ma jaccettax ir-rizultat. Jien ninsab cert li kieku l-partit tieghek dahal il-parlament dik is-sitwazzjoni ma kienetx titwal....pero ninsab konvint li il-PN hekk kien jaqbillu li l-istorja tiggebbed sabiex jidhru martri!!
Mario Camilleri
Jun 24th 2012, 19:57
@Michael Seychell,
Tiftakruh il-kliem fil-wegħda ta' EFA li kien ser ireġġa lura l-kontijiet tad-dawl u l-ilma fl-elezzjoni tat-98, imbagħad meta tela kien qal li mhux hekk ried ifisser? x'ġara? Morali jew teknikament elettorali?
Tiftakar meta EFA kien wiegħed investiġazzjoni serja għall-qtil ta' Raymond Caruana, x'gara? Morali jew teknikament elettorali?
Tiftakru meta EFA wiegħed il-ġenna fl-art bis-sħubija fl-EU? x'ġara? Morali jew teknikament elettorali?
Tiftakru meta EFA żar il-fabrika tal-VF u wiegħedhom impjieg garantit u fis-sod? x'ġara? Morali jew teknikament elettorali?
Tiftakar meta saħansitra EFA qal riċentament fuq TVM/ dot eu ta' Keith Demicoli, qal li dak li qal hu fuq Alfred Sant dwar it-tifel tiegħu fl-elezzjoni, hija kwestjoni ta' interpretazzjoni. U biha rebaħ elezzjoni!!
Dawn huma ftit minn dak mitkellem fl-ispirtu morali u m'hemm xejn iswed fuq l-abjad bħall-kostituzzjoni
Tiftakru meta u ta' dan għandna l-ittri ffirmati minn id-EFA dwar l-impjiegi, il-kaċċa u l-insib fost affarijiet oħra li ġejna ngannati dawrhom? x'ġara? Morali jew teknikament elettorali? U hawn qed nitkellmu fuq ittri ffirmati minn id il-Prim Ministru. Dih hija TEKNIKA LEGALI U ANTI KOSTITUZZJONALI. Issa jekk tgħidli li dik l-ittra ma tiswa xejn, mela l-PM ma kienx u dan mhux l-anqas, kreddibbli.
Issa int għidt li "l-Gvern ta Mintoff fl-1981 kien moralment illegali". Moralment m'hemmx illegalita sakemm ma toffendix il-pudur ta' xi ħadd.
Moralment ħafna fil-PN ilhom iridu li Gonzi jmur għall-elezzjoni għax il-partit (apparti l-pajjiż) huwa nstabbli fosthom hemm JPO, Franco Debono, Mugliett, Frank Portelli, u oħrajn inkluż it-TOM. Imma Eddie qallu li TEKNIKAMENT skont il-kostituzzjoni għandu jkompli jigverna.
Imma EFA pretenda li fil-81 Mintoff jaġixxi fl-ispirtu morali u mhux TEKNIKAMENT kostitutzzjonali. Żewġ kejlijiet differenti li jintużaw skont kif tkun is-sitwazzjoni.
Dejjem hekk intom, fejn u kif jaqblilkom!
Eddy Privitera
Jun 24th 2012, 20:10
Michasel: Ma tahsibx illi kieku Franco ma qalx il-verita , li Gonzi jridu jikkontesta. Gonzi, jew Gordon Pisani johrog stqarrija li tichad li qal Franco Debono ??
Jien cert li Gonzi jrid li Franco johrog ghal-elezzjoni, ghax b'hekk forsi jahseb li jista jerga jigbor xi ftit voti ta' nies illi jekk Franco ma jikkontestax, ma jivvutawx !
john muscat
Jun 24th 2012, 17:53
So Dr. Alfred Sant was RIGHT from the start. And we call RCC a mastermind?
George Cutajar
Jun 24th 2012, 17:41
Finally we have the truth of what happened back in 2008 in JPOS's Mistra deal.
Can JPOS claim that hijim voting with Labour to oust RCC was nothing short of a personal vendetta ? And yes RCC was very right in telling his family to give JPOS no more than the last vote. In my case and in all elections he contested I never even gave him the last vote and I am so proud of it..
M Grima
Jun 24th 2012, 17:38
“But part of me thinks, from the way things are being handled, that Joseph Muscat and the people around him will damage the country seriously if they get into power. Vindictiveness will also become a way of life.”
This is rich coming from a man who has been a major contributor not only to the political polarisation of this small country, but worse still for treating all labourites as some kind of parasites. And he wants us to believe that he is some sort of victim. Mr. Cachia Caruana, when you talk about vindictiveness you are probably referring to yourself and to the clique of evil PN opinionists you admire.
mario debono
Jun 24th 2012, 18:45
I cannot agree more. Joe Muscat and the people around him will start an era of vindictiveness that will make Lorry Sant look like St Francis in comparison.
C Busuttil
Jun 24th 2012, 17:33
He's the ruin of the PN, he might have won battles for the party, but the end result is that the PN has never been so divided, unpopular and heading for its worst defeat ever!!!!!!!
However to be fair RCC is not the only one to blame there are still others who are using the PN for their personal interest and in doing so they trample on the rights of the normal citizen no matter if blue or red.
M Grima
Jun 24th 2012, 17:24
The bigger they the harder they fall and this guy got what he deserves.
Yes, he got the boot from those of his own tribe!!!
M Grima
Jun 24th 2012, 17:22
Mastermind of what can I ask? Perhaps master of arrogance?
M Grima
Jun 24th 2012, 17:21
Mr Cachia Caruana is often accused of influencing Ms Caruana Galizia (and other journalists) to try to bring down politicians he does not like – an accusation he vehemently denies.
A lot of people seem to think otherwise and this is confirmed by your statement that you admire .........(so utterly disgusting to even mention her name)
pat muscat
Jun 24th 2012, 17:18
Yep, I suppose he thought he was a master mind...playing chess with people's lives; ask JPO,Debono, Mugliet +10 other PN deputies. Moreover his intelligence can also be seen in the 12 million euros- Malta house in Brussels, and in the way he cooked the present mess up to last Monday's vote! A veritable genius!
Paul Borg
Jun 24th 2012, 17:12
GET OVER IT ALREADY !!! ha taghmluh martri u ma nafx ghalfejn. Nintilfu inparlaw fuq ic cucati u hafna retorika . Here's an Idea.....Send Franco Debono to Brussels and everybody will guarantee he will do a 100 times better than RCC. Debono is a fighter not a winer ( jeqred).
Franco Farrugia
Jun 24th 2012, 18:39
Is that what you think? You show you lack the least imagination on what goes on in Brussels!
Joseph Micallef
Jun 24th 2012, 17:04
Are you noticing what's happening? All the resources are being mobiles to conduct a character assasination on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. If Dr. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando reads my post, I wish him all the very best to keep his chin up and carry on speaking for the citizens' voices. You've got a tough task to fight against the GonziPN's establishment but you should believe in "is-sewwa jirbaħ żgur"
Andy Farrugia
Jun 24th 2012, 17:33
Kif rebah fil-kaz tal-Mistra u l-crocodile tears, hux?
Joseph Micallef
Jun 24th 2012, 20:20
Did you read all the article dear Andy? I think he was MASTERMINDED and MANIPULATED by RCC himself!!!! and even RCC was skeptic about the issue.
Frans Aguis
Jun 24th 2012, 17:01
No the PN didn't protect Zeppi il hafi?What do they call 3 pardons nowadays?
Denis Pace
Jun 24th 2012, 18:14
there was no way to get to whoever masterminded the attempted murder...but Labour confuses Right with Convenient.
IT IS SICKENING.
God help us with these people in Power.
Frank Zammit
Jun 24th 2012, 16:56
Was it RCC who advised EFA to claim in parliament that he knew who murdered CG and RC? Was it also RCC who advised EFA to say that we would be taking action against the perpetrators of these crimes if elected to power? Something that EFA never did.
It seems that RCC was a genius when it came to creating myths and untruths. The Real truth is that his arrogance knows no limits. He is now trying to strengthen his arguments by referring to what Dr. Alfred Sant said about JPO. What a cheek, after spending more than a decade demonising Dr. Sant for no reason other than to give the PN that extra edge, he is now saying that Dr. Sant was right and that he was wrong.
Dearest Richard, what goes around comes around. No, I am sorry, but I cannot feel sorry for you
Joseph Micallef
Jun 24th 2012, 16:51
This civil servant knows everything about everything. This reminds me of when I was young... I used to watch Pollon cartoons, based on the greek gods. He resembles HERMES or MINERVA. Who does he pretend to be? My oh my... the mastermind man... mastermind in manipulating and ensuring that the PN wins a general election!!!
T.F. Busuttil
Jun 24th 2012, 16:42
During the grilling Mr Cachia Caruana confirmed that he was the main stratigist of the GONZIPN. The laws of Malta they do not permit that a malta Representative as an ambassador will be involved in poltics. It took too long for this irregularity to be settled. Mr Cachia Caruana and both Prim Ministers EFA and GONZI too the Maltese people for a ride.
cesco di luigi
Jun 24th 2012, 18:46
I wonder what the righteous head of the civil service has to say about this!!!
silvio loporto
Jun 24th 2012, 16:37
If it takes a mastermind to be the representative of tiny Malta,I wonder what one has to be to represent the other big countries..
It's time to move on, no one is indispensable.
Stephen Florian
Jun 24th 2012, 16:20
What RCC has tried to do is called High treason in other more serious countries. Where it not for Wikileaks he would have got away with it.
Franco Farrugia
Jun 24th 2012, 18:40
Then, why isn't he tried by a real Court of Justice, Mr wise-guy?
A Dimech
Jun 24th 2012, 16:19
he smells of arrogance.
If he is that good , he should face the public - like a true politician - and ask to be elected.
M. Bezzina
Jun 24th 2012, 16:16
'Living a Lie'.....Alfred Sant summed up a number of things which in due course he proved to be right!!He wasn't a good politician ...what happened to him???He never got elected again!!
m. borg (slm)
Jun 24th 2012, 16:31
Have never heard the saying "A prophet is shunned in his own country" ?
ANTHONY PAVIA
Jun 24th 2012, 16:32
Had Dr Sant been allowed the space and time to put into practice his management style of politics, Malta would not be in the sink-hole it presently occupies. It will be long years of hard work before Malta's economy will be wrenched away from the suffocating, overbearing and over reliant Governmental share of the economy, and into the real productivity sphere of the private sector.
cesco di luigi
Jun 24th 2012, 18:47
Maybe now it's time for RCC to tell us that A Sant also got it right about the Euro?
m. borg (slm)
Jun 24th 2012, 16:04
"Aged 26, together with Austin Gatt Mr Cachia Caruana oversaw the flourishing of Eddie Fenech Adami from “the so-called village lawyer” to hero." - Richard Cachia Caruana.
William Shakespear : Some are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatnest trust upon them.
There you have it from the horse's mouth, Eddie neither was born nor achieved greatness but had it trust upon him.
If anything this article keeps giving credance to PL's motion of censure/resignation. The man had too many conflicts of interests and as a high grade civil servant broke the ethics law set down by PN itself .
David Bezzina
Jun 24th 2012, 15:43
The Order of Merit is in order !!!!!
victor caruana
Jun 24th 2012, 15:36
And what about his contribution in breaking up the PN???????????????????????
Denis Pace
Jun 24th 2012, 18:15
crocodile tears??
Christian Abela
Jun 24th 2012, 15:36
Living Legend !
M Grima
Jun 24th 2012, 17:39
Yes sure!! Arrogance and spitefulness.
B Attard
Jun 24th 2012, 15:34
Lil RCC kont inhares lejh bhala persuna ta l-affari tieghu . Izda llum bdilt l-opinjoni meta qal li jammira dak li tikteb DCG.
George Azzopardi
Jun 24th 2012, 15:29
wow .. so much truth(or who knows what) is coming out of RCC now!!! Yes, he was a wise bachelor .. wise enough to leave a bunch of headless chickens .. wow again .. how wise he was!!! Wise and selfish too but not keen to see what happens if his replacement was necessary!! Yes now I know how RCC must have loved Malta!!!
Joseph Micallef
Jun 24th 2012, 16:54
Perfectly said George. And this chap believes that PL sees nationalists as sub-humans!! Would you believe it? And yet he sees his sub-ordinates as a bunch of headless chickens!! The cock is speaking. No matter he was always perceived as arrogant!! in a true nationalist style.
Lawrence Fenech
Jun 24th 2012, 15:28
"He knows everything about eveything" and that's what caused his ticket back home.
M Grima
Jun 24th 2012, 17:41
If he is man enough he should spill the beans and he got back home because those of his own tribe were disgusted with his actions.
j brincat
Jun 24th 2012, 15:09
And who cares?
(jb)
T Mifsud
Jun 24th 2012, 20:17
MALTA!
Alex Buds
Jun 24th 2012, 15:07
"These are the people who are meant to tremble at the sound of my voice,"
He does not sound like a likeable person at all.
Mary Ann Borg
Jun 24th 2012, 15:05
Kellu bzonn ghandkom wiehed imqar b'nofs il-hiliet li ghandu RCC fil-Lejber sur Jon Briffa. Issa RCC se jkollu iktar hin u energija jfassal il-futur tal-PN, inkluz din il-kampanja elettorali li jmiss, u kieku jien Lejburist bis-sens kieku ma nihux din l-ahbar bhala wahda tajba ghal Lejber.
ANTHONY PAVIA
Jun 24th 2012, 16:23
Mrs Borg, are you suggesting that Parliament's decision be ignored or even nullified?
m. borg (slm)
Jun 24th 2012, 16:33
Alla jharisna minn dak li ghidt Marry Ann
Mario Camilleri
Jun 24th 2012, 16:41
@Mary Ann Borg,
"Issa RCC se jkollu iktar hin u energija jfassal il-futur tal-PN, inkluz din il-kampanja elettorali li jmiss"..... eh voldieri mhux il-futur tal-pajjiiz, imma l-FUTUR tal-PN u biex tisirqu elezzjoni oħra. Għal darba, qed tgħidu l-verita!!
U sewwa qed tgħid li ser ikollu aktar ħin fil-partit mhux għax kien niqes ta minn dak li kien għaddej fit-tmexxija tal-partit, imma issa għandkom bżonn wieħed tajjeb biż-żejjed biex jiġbor il-partit tal-PN mit-tifrk u l-qasma li jinsab fih. U ngħiduha kif inhi, il-PN taħt Gonzi qatt ma ħa r-ruh u jinsab f'hix jinsab minħabba fih u dan il-ġojjel indispensabbli, għax kif jgħid il-malti......vapur b'żewġ kaptani ma jbaħħarx!
Imbagħad hemm frażi li tgħid "il-kap jien, tikmanda int", din l-aktar li ħadmet fil-PN.
@Jon Briffa,
Biex tirbaħ fuq l-emozzjonijiet tan-nies u tnessi u taħbi l-atwalita u l-preżent hija billi tirrikorri għaż-żminijiet ta' Mintoff, issa drajniha din l-istorja. Is-sabiħa hi li jekk xi ħadd fil-familja jkollu xi membru li ddaħħal il-ħabs, allaħares tibqa ttambar fuqu/ha għax jaqilugħlek il-ħama tal-familja tiegħek. U hawn niftakar fil-frażi ta' Edward Fenech Adami meta qal li "persuna għandha kwalitajiet tajbin u kwalitajiet anqas tajbin"
Filfatt dak li l-ex eċċellenza qal fuq Mintoff huwa l-itess bħal ma jgħidu oħrajn, huwa kliemu, m'hemm xejn provi. Imma dak li għaddejin minnhu, huwa ppruvat.
Joseph Micallef
Jun 24th 2012, 16:55
kompli oħlom. Għandu x'ifassal ta.. ghax hemm bżonn tindifa mil-qiħ fil-PN. Veru għandu l-ħiliet dan is-civil servant.. għax kellu l-ħila jimmanipola lilek.
C Busuttil
Jun 24th 2012, 17:37
Int bis-serjeta ? dan ir-rovina tal-PN jekk mhux l-akbar alleat tal-Labour.
L-anqas b'Nerik, Gorg u Eddie f'daqqa m'ahna ser nirbhu bil-hsara li ghamel dan u l-PM attwali
George Azzopardi
Jun 24th 2012, 17:38
@Mary Ann Borg .. tidher x'int u ma minn zzomm .. taf li min joghla hafna .. jiehu tisbita tajba hux. Jista jkolkom 10 RCC's ghax m'ghandkomx nitfa ta cans!!
Ms Rudi Mcbeal
Jun 24th 2012, 17:43
Which is why certain people dislike him so much, Mary-Anne.
Ma jaqblilhomx li nies intelligenti u kapaci bhal ma hu RCC jokkupaw certi pozizzjonijiet, avolja jekk jaqbel ghal gid ta' Malta - kif qeghda tghid tajjeb int, dawn l-istess nies jahsbu li dak li gara dan l-ahhar jaghti lilhom il-vantagg meta fil-fatt x'aktarx li bil-kontra.
Jon Briffa
Jun 24th 2012, 12:58
How could anyone believe RCC when he is admitting publicly about how the PN and himself easily brainwashed the people in the Mistra case. The PN is the party that boasts about how they are the savers of democracy, but for them democracy only means manipulating and brainwashing easily the people. The journalist should have asked him, that if he is so in favour of democracy, and his entry into the PN was because of the anti-democratic nature of the PL at that time, why didn't he let the issue, for which he had to resign, not pass through parliament but deal with it behind the scenes?
Also, this interview contains more bashing about the past days of Mintoff and than questions regarding the PfP issue.
Joe Vella
Jun 24th 2012, 15:49
Jon can you tell me where in the interview let you to believe that the RCC and The PN. brainwashed the people in the Mistra case. What I read from the interview is that RCC and everybody else was astonished that JPO had lied to them and didn't come clean. Yes,the same JPO, that the PL is so comfortable with today
m. borg (slm)
Jun 24th 2012, 16:06
This is the same like when PN brainwashed people that the 80s we were under a communist dictatorship, of course no one can deny that mistakes were made but they were blown out of proportion and only half the truth was told.
R. Cilia
Jun 24th 2012, 16:44
Joe Vella, was it not in the PN"s interest to find out the truth about JPO before defending him? Apparently not.They had guile to change the situation to favour them!
Lucas North
Jun 24th 2012, 17:44
m.borg,
ma tridx tghid li konna taht xi xempju tad democrazija u liberta hux...
man you guys must have a very short memory... extremely short biex ma tiftakarx 30 sena ilu ta...
issa tikteb fuq gazzetta kif qed tikteb int fiz zmien 80!!!!
Eddy Privitera
Jun 24th 2012, 18:45
Licas North: semmejt is-snin 80. Forsi dak iz-zmien il-PN ma kienx jikteb li jrid fil-gazzetti tal-partit ? Forsi ma kontx tara patafjun ta' ittri u artikoli jikkundannaw lil-gvern laburista f'The Times, Lehen-is-Sewwa, Il-Gens etc.. ?
Imma wara kollox x'ghandu x'jaqsam is-snin 80 mas snin 2000 ? Allura s-snin 60 ma jghoddux ukoll, jekk se noqghodu nsemmu l-passat ?!
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