From my article in The Sunday Times today:
“Fundamental human rights are there to protect powerless individuals from the hegemony of the state. Muscat is using rights that are meant to protect us from the state in order to protect the state from us. Because if he committed crimes connected with the VGH contract, he had done so as a state official, abusing constitutional powers, obstructing justice, unlawfully monetising for personal gain the power he was lawfully given to administer in the public, not his, interest. Human rights are there to protect us from that conduct, not to protect its perpetrators.
“His use of the constitutional court is, therefore, immoral and a logical extension of his habit of using institutions, particularly the courts, to serve his interest.”