I confess to laziness and inertia: I should have been at the Libyan solidarity demo in Valletta this morning. I don't have a defence: I preferred my weekend rest to showing a minimum of solidarity with a people standing up to one of the most dangerous thugs to walk the Earth since Hitler and Stalin.

Would I have joined my friends Lou Bondi and Daphne Caruana Galizia in protesting at Moviment Graffiti's cheap, childish, hypocritical, myopic and generally revolting little stunt? Their stunt cheapened not only Graffiti themselves, if cheapening what is now obviously worthless is even possible, but diluted, even if only very slightly, the cause they were pretending to uphold.

Very probably I would have, because the right to protest brings with it the right of others to react to the protest. Graffiti's members have every right to show themselves up as silly little children who totally fail to understand even the simplest of realities, but they will now have to resign themselves to the consequences.

These self-appointed exponents of the Left have exposed themselves as naive fools (at best, you may think worse of them) who are bereft of any intellectual credentials or critical faculties whatsoever. They are mere squealing nonentities who are only capable of being offensive without the merit of their offensiveness achieving anything.

I hope they're pleased with themselves: given that these types revel in feeling oppressed, they're probably ecstatic.