The leader ‘Boycott the cause, not the symptom’ (August 23) was symptomatic of the defeatist response which has marked Maltese reactions to the destruction of, in this newspaper’s own words, Malta’s “social landscape, its social fabric, the concept of neighbourhood and the very identity of a community” over the last 30 or 40 years.

To make the argument that to consider boycotting the Gasan and Tumas groups for their part in this destruction as “trivialising the matter” is to miss the point completely. It is to allow these greedy developers to walk all over the people of this country without the slightest resistance.

The leader would only make sense if it had argued for both boycotting the cause and tackling the government and “failing public institutions” for their iniquitous treatment of Malta’s cultural heritage. Only supine Maltese would see it as either/or.

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