The usual bullies are all over Facebook warning people not to even dare to think about fresh protests in Valletta. The fascists are unhappy activists called people to join them in Valletta to remember Lassana Cisse, our own black man killed by trigger happy uniformed officers.
We’re still waiting for justice for Lassana and the men charged with killing him are out on bail. Protest is perfectly legitimate, and yet the threats and insults never end.
Consider how Xandru Cassar and his friends have been targeted for the most vicious hatred because they dared point out the government was obliged to bring ashore migrants it was illegally imprisoning on water.
But Xandru Cassar and his friends are right to celebrate that the government has given in. The government will never acknowledge it, but the collapse of the government’s resistance would never have happened without their determination to fight until they win.
Anġlu Farrugia called us ‘immature’ for protesting last November and December practically every day until we saw Joseph Muscat out of office. Joseph Muscat, Keith Schembri, Konrad Mizzi, Chris Cardona and their supporters will never admit how they felt about our protests.
But Melvyn Theuma did. Today. Look at this.
If you were one of us every lonely 16th of the month for the two years after Daphne was killed, if you went and braved the hecklers and the assaulters in the street to place a flower at the protest site in front of the court, if you joined us in the streets last November and December, read this with pride.
Your voice scared the killers. One of them admits it. Take a moment to realise that those that are still on the run hope and pray you’ll stay at home.