Barbarism and injustice

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2018-09-18T17:20:01+02:00Tue, 18th Sep '18, 17:20|

Owen Bonnici’s intellectual faculties have never moved the earth. In Maltese we have a very specific word for the shallow well-meaning: baħbuħ. His party militants have thrown him on the frontline of a battle he has nothing to do with. And his party bosses have shot him in midair as an alternative target in place [...]

Eddy the troll

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2018-09-18T16:57:16+02:00Tue, 18th Sep '18, 16:57|

Eddy Privitera paid a brief visit to this blog. He fired empty taunts and was sent packing. He thought his plan worked and went to Times of Malta with a letter saying that I’m like Daphne Caruana Galizia who had also banned him from her blog. I should not need to explain that banning a [...]

The world is watching

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2018-09-18T16:07:46+02:00Tue, 18th Sep '18, 16:07|

When a heckler comes screaming in your face, as one did to mine today, saying you should be ashamed of yourself for protesting, it is easy to be disheartened. The sight of a woman 'exercising her right' of vandalising the protest site wades deep into your deepest roots of doubt. But remember we're not alone. [...]

The alibis for the fugitives

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2018-09-18T15:27:32+02:00Tue, 18th Sep '18, 15:26|

This document which you see before you certifies by the hand of a police officer that the government, using its employees, ripped away a protest banner bearing an image of the flag of Malta, an image of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the word ‘Ġustizzja’ written in bold type. They also dragged away flowers [...]

Oops they did it again.

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2018-09-18T09:02:56+02:00Tue, 18th Sep '18, 09:02|

The protest site in Great Siege Square has been wiped out again in the dead of night. We weren’t sleeping there to guard it because we have children and homes and jobs to go back to. Joseph Muscat also had a home to go back to so he had government employees strike down the flag [...]

Damage to wreaths at ‘makeshift memorial’ in Northern Ireland treated as ‘hate crime’ by police

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2018-09-17T20:20:00+02:00Mon, 17th Sep '18, 20:20|

Damage to poppy wreaths at Narrow Water in County Down is being treated as a hate crime by Northern Ireland police. Eighteen soldiers were killed in two IRA bomb attacks at the site near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in August 1979. BBC reported that the damage happened on Saturday afternoon and the wreaths have since been [...]

Pat Azzopardi Preziosi: The situation is seriously desperate now

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2018-09-17T11:23:03+02:00Mon, 17th Sep '18, 11:23|

Guest post by Pat Azzopardi Preziosi People hold up photos of assassinated anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and torches on mobile phones during a vigil to mark eleven months since her murder in a car bomb, in Valletta, Malta September 16, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi At 2:35 pm, exactly 11 months ago today, [...]

Blame it on the Usual Suspects

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2018-09-17T10:01:58+02:00Mon, 17th Sep '18, 10:01|

The government needed a pretext to push activists and protesters away from the Great Siege Memorial. They waited for the 8th September when no one would have made a fuss if they spruced up the place to have the Victory Day bacchanal and then said this is it. Because they did not want to work [...]

Government respects protest memorial

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2018-09-17T09:53:49+02:00Mon, 17th Sep '18, 09:27|

This morning, government employees wrapped the hoarding around the Great Siege memorial but they only covered the three unused sides facing the back and side of the memorial. The front facing the law courts has been left untouched sporting the protest banner demanding justice. The Maltese flag, the image of Daphne Caruana Galizia and messages [...]

The Sunday Times: Agora

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2018-09-16T12:13:16+02:00Sun, 16th Sep '18, 12:13|

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "It is our duty to defy the illegal acts of authoritarian government. We cannot allow anyone to shut down the agora for the sake of their own vanity, and to protect the illusion of their unassailability. At 7pm tonight, come to Great Siege Square, step into the [...]

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