Maurice Mizzi (The Sunday Times of Malta, June 21), along with his criticism of the current Ornis chairman, states: “It is important that a good chairman should never show any bias towards one person or group of people”. Obviously, as it suited him fine, he never uttered a word when Ornis was set up and chaired for a number of years by Saviour Balzan, the ‘No to spring hunting’ main spokesman whose bias towards hunting and hunters has always been very evident.
Mizzi often gets up on the wrong side of his bed and decides to regale us with his anti-hunting diatribe and nonsense. He criticises a democratic referendum. calling it undemocratic and “the biggest joke since the dawn of this century” simply because the result democratically attained by a majority was not what he expected.
Unlike his freedom to blabber nonsense, he expects politicians, chairmen or anyone of substance to refrain from making their opinion known unless of course it is against hunting. Ironically, among his other definitions of what is undemocratic, he mentions the polluting of our soil and water table due to hunters’ pellets. How arrogant, coming from a man who states that “unlike most hunters” he goes to work and pays his taxes, to have thrived on selling most vehicles in Malta ever since their introduction here.
He might feel the guilt when reading a recent article penned by environmentalist Anne Zammit on air pollution (The Sunday Times of Malta, May 3) that states: “Transport is a primary source of air pollution that leads to hundreds of millions of euros in health costs and preventable death.”
He might even feel worse knowing that “a study by the World Health Organisation has concluded that air pollution in Malta leads to the death of about 230 people each year and costs the Maltese economy €550 million (over five per cent of GDP) a year.”
But no, he would rather live comfortably in his villa away from the choking exhaust fumes in the middle of prime hunting land lobbying to end “disgusting sport in spring” and criticising hunters simply because they deprive him of his beauty sleep. His gibberish never fails to amuse us. One time it was a hoopoe picture picked up from the internet he said visited his garden, now it’s a picture of a collared dove on his fingers which he identifies as a turtle dove.