Here’s Tony Zarb this evening, apparently overwhelmed by the sight of a hundred women protesting against his great leader.
“Good evening Friends. These went to the wrong place. Instead of Castille they meant to go to Strait Street and travel back to the 1960s. They would have gone to the right place because they have much to keep warm there. These are Traitors of Malta because they belong to a bunch of Assassins who are ready to do anything to seize Power. I’m sure if they feel cold they will find someone to warm them up”.
This mysgonist bigot led the Labour Party-affiliated trade union. He is to this date a major exponent of the Labour Party. And as a matter of background to the foreigners reading this, “Strait Street of the 1960s” refers to Malta’s historical red light district.
This supposed socialist is meant to have gender equality, freedom of association and freedom of speech at the heart of his system of belief. They told me sometimes I’m too rough. That in the emotional heat of the moment I am too ungenerous with my words. Kurt Farrugia, government spokesman paused from his lies about heads of European institutions, to lash out at me for “bullying” his underling earlier today. And adopted as official, the line that I should be silenced because I occupied his office before him.
Perhaps I’m too ungenerous with my words. Well. let’s be nice to Tony Zarb, shall we? After all I co-chair with him the committee for the defense of fat men in public ridicule.
If you want to be a bully, have the old-fashioned misogynistic decency not to bully women for being such. will you? The public act of attacking people for belonging to a group, such as gender, is not the exercise of free speech. It’s the exercise of violence and discrimination. It is intimidatory hate speech. And to serve what purpose? Nothing more than to scare more women from joining them in case this becomes really worrying for Joseph Muscat.
And ask yourself in what democracy is calling a 100 protesters in tents assassins, whores and traitors proportionate. Ask yourself if you can really accuse anyone of hate speech when you speak like that of anyone.