Recently, I’ve seen a couple of young people mocking the Opposition leader Bernard Grech for worrying so much about another 200 kilograms of cannabis resin that has been added to the local market. Apparently, for the Opposition Leader this is a serious issue. The youngsters of course are making fun about this because access to cannabis is not an issue and there’s always much more than that amount available in the market at all times.
The Opposition is demanding for the Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri to resign over last weekend’s break-in at a base of the Armed Forces of Malta in Safi where robbers stole up to 200KG of cannabis that was being stored as Court evidence. The Brigadier was suspended following the incident and the Home Affairs Minister tendered his resignation. The Prime Minister did not accept it.
No one thinks that the quiet and submissive Byron Camilleri had anything to do with the robbery, but I don’t think that the majority have a good opinion of him and it’s not because there’s another 200KG of cannabis in the market. Minister Byron Camilleri has failed to do his job properly because he has left our enforcing, security and defense authorities in a state of total dysfunction: a dysfunction which is imposed willingly by the Prime Minister himself who wants to ensure that these authorities are not used against the members of the Labour Party, including himself. The result of this dysfunction is that we don’t have a proper functioning Police Force, and neither do we have a proper functioning Armed Forces.
The massive robbery that took place in the weekend is something you would see in a Banana Republic. Clearly, it was a well-coordinated inside job, as the robbers even knew exactly where to cut the fence for a clear drive in and out of the base. The drugs were apparently also unguarded and no one present in the base stopped them, despite the fact that it would take you some time to load up to 200KG of cannabis.
The incident has revealed that our Armed Forces have been turned into a joke, and we are now compelled to admit to our very grave and serious national security deficit. The Brigadier is not the only one responsible for this crisis. There’s a whole chain of command and a line of political officials and executives who are indirectly responsible for this crisis, starting from the very incompetent Permanent Secretary Joyce Dimech, the imbecile head of the Malta Security Services, and ultimately the Minister himself who has repeatedly shown that he is not a serious person.
The problem here is that these are very serious matters that affect directly the national security of the nation. It’s not the cannabis that’s affecting the national security, and I feel a bit stupid I have to explain this: it’s the fact that our institutions and our authorities are led by clowns who are turning the state into a circus, now even at the expense of our security.
There’s a limit to how much you can abuse and distort the law and institutions to protect the political abuse of power until this distortion starts threatening national security itself. Once you create a system of impunity for organised criminals, the risks to national security can only keep increasing. This is why the Minister has to resign. Minister Byron Camilleri has been part of a process which has disintegrated our institutions.
However, the reality is that even with the Home Affairs Minister’s resignation, nothing will change. The Police will keep protecting and covering up for organised criminals while the Armed Forces of Malta will remain in the decrypt state it is now. The intelligence and security services will remain to be a circus of Labour Party imbeciles while the state keeps depending on foreign intelligence services for national security matters and intelligence gathering.
The situation is quite sad as it is. And also dangerous. The Minister’s replacement will also probably be much worse considering the Prime Minister needs a loyalist as Home Affairs Minister to ensure further impunity. The Nationalist Opposition must undoubtedly put pressure on the government and demand the resignation of the Home Affairs Minister, but at this stage it should be able to recognise the importance of becoming a genuine political force capable of winning the next election.
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