Since the end of last year, I have been trying to contact the Nationalist Party’s spokesperson for Home Affairs, the infamous criminal lawyer, Joe Giglio. He has so far, been avoiding me, and I rather have a verbal reply rather than an evasive and dry written reply. Joe Giglio, who is a criminal lawyer who served Pilatus Bank is bizarrely, the Home Affairs spokesperson for PN.
At the end of last year, the Labour Government proposed changes to the anti-money laundering law that will reduce the power of the Maltese prosecutor and the police in seizing all the assets of suspected money launderers. The law is being rushed in parliament to pass right before Joseph Muscat is recommended for criminal prosecution by the inquiring Magistrate. Joe Giglio is in favour of this law and it will serve him well as a criminal lawyer who defends money launderers, who pay their lawyers with illegal proceeds.
It’s worrying that PN has yet to issue a solid position on this law, but what’s more worrying still is that there are multiple reports by Labour MPs of Joe Giglio agreeing with the Minister for Justice, Jonathan Attard about PN’s silence on this law. Some of the Labour MPs who have complained about this matter are rather the kind of persons who are very unlikely to be in contact with me, and it’s just a testament to the lows that Labour has been hitting in its standards and unprincipled criminality.
Back when I was in the Labour Party and Labour was in the Opposition, criminal lawyers with PN used to represent to ideologically-motivated people like me, the worst representatives of our corrupt system. Criminal lawyers in politics were a class that had taken our government and politics hostage to opportunist and criminal schemes and disarmed the institutions for their personal sake, ambition and power. Individuals like Giannella De Marco and Emmanuel Mallia were glamorised by the press and the media while young and ambitious children from poor backgrounds, like Franco Debono, aspired to become like them. Today, Franco Debono is very proud to have arrived at their level both in social status and in their line of work. This to me represents how corrupt and deformed our society is.
We need a cultural and ideological revival that is guided by strong values. We need young people to aspire to be public servants, artists, creators, capitalists, entrepreneurs, and fighters against organised crime as prosecutors and principled police officers. We need our youth to aspire to be good people, take on good careers and apply their ambitions for the good of society. Our society is so deranged and compromised that we have an Opposition in cahoots with the government over laws that will help, ultimately, organised criminals.
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