Marie Louise Coleiro Preca wrote an article in the Times of Malta praising Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici and defending his legacy saying he represented social justice and workers’ rights. The article employs Labour’s textbook propaganda tactic of the “dichotomy prerequisite” in political criticism: an approach based on the notion that there are no fundamental truths in Maltese politics, only two opposing sides with distinct narratives. This is relativistic perspective was employed against Daphne Caruana Galizia by the Vice-Rector of the University of Malta in a pseudo academic paper.
Bullshitters and propogandists all use the same readings, texts and ideas to convey their garbage. It’s easy to detect and understand.
The Labour Party may very well try to rehabilitate Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici with its propaganda and monuments but in history we do have absolute truths. Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici led a non-democratic government that was out of control with corruption that was rampant more than ever, an economy in recession, heightened industrial action across all sectors, political violence, thuggery and much more. This was the time when you had to go to ask Minister Wistin Abela for a permit to import a colour TV while his thugs could murder people with impunity.
There were many disaster under Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici’s watch but he will be mostly remembered for the botched rescue of the Egypt Air flight which left up to 58 hostages dead.
If the Labour Party had honest historians, the best form of propaganda to save Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici would be the actual truth: Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was Dom Mintoff’s lackey and he presided over Mintoff’s disaster as a favour only to make things much worse. This was his political legacy.
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici is not interesting for his politics and he can definitely not be celebrated as a Prime Minister. Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici is interesting for his personality and his personal life. The years he did as Prime Minister are only a small aspect of his very complex personal life. Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was a gay Labourite from a family of conservatives and Nationalists. He lived most of his life by himself without desiring wealth and material gains. In many ways he was a socialist and lived like one, but this contrasts with his political history which abetted Labour’s authoritarianism. I am sure that the man was deeply in love with his master and this is what enabled him to break all the rules he applied to his personal life to act as a tin-pot dictator in the name of his master and most beloved.
This is the truth. Save us from your propagandistic horseshit.
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