Tag: Rule of Law
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Consistent malignant incompetence is evidence of willful cover-up
Labour’s persistence in selling its false narrative is a bet on people’s exhaustion over corruption and the history of its mafia. Robert Abela thinks that by time, if he keeps harping about having made “huge” and “historic” legal reforms on rule of law, people will forget the widespread corrupt deals that Joseph Muscat and his…
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Why is she still there?
Magistrate Nadine Lia has been forced to recuse herself from a case brought by NGO Repubblika against the police over their refusal to prosecute Pilatus Bank officials. The decision to recuse herself is of course, very damning. Magistrate Nadine Lia decided to preside over a case over which she has an indirect conflict of interest…
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Now, no illusions and no compromises
Yesterday’s announcement by OPEC that it would be reducing oil production should be enough to clear out all the illusions about relying on dictatorial and authoritarian states for energy. How pathetic can you be as a top European leader to make an unfactual and patronising speech about negotiating and trusting authoritarian states, only to have…
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The good salesman
Angeo Gafa has one excellent skill which has exceeded him greatly: he is surely a good salesman who can sell himself as a straight talker who knows what he is doing. Everything that is being revealed about him recently, however, shows that this man is totally unfit for his position. Let’s take a step back…
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Sooner or later, a fraud crumbles: Mafia State
As a rule, frauds are unsustainable. If you govern the country by fraud and fraud is the rule and prerequisite to your politics, the system will eventually crumble. It is astonishing how quickly the emperor is getting undressed lately. These have been a very short two years of Robert Abela’s premiership as the fraudulent nature…
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Some people love being deluded
Today, the Times of Malta Editorial wrote: Much depends on Prime Minister Robert Abela to turn the web of corruption he inherited into a web of hope, even if that means a widespread changing of the guards. Why do some people who supposedly know better keep hoping that Robert Abela will address the collapse of…
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The foreign affairs of a Mafia State
Many in Europe feared a victory for Marine Le Pen in the French elections which would have brought the far-right to power and increased European appeasement of Russia. The influence of the far-right in Europe will most probably increase as the social democrats in Germany, France and Spain keep failing to find solutions for the…
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Undoing the collapse of rule of law
I greatly applaud today’s actions of NGO Repubblika which has initiated a court procedure demanding the police prosecute top Pilatus Bank officials over money laundering evidence. The new police commissioner appointed by Robert Abela has so far failed to prosecute anyone over corruption and money laundering in relation to the Panama Papers scandal and Joseph…
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Varist’s “pathological”
Once again, I make reference to Evarist Bartolo’s comment warning us about the far-right garnering more influence in politics as voters lose trust in the main political parties. Varist’ argument goes that as voters lose trust in the mainstream and traditional parties, the pathological, such as for example Norman Lowell will gain more influence. I…
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The police investigating the police
Just another day and just another fraud in the rent-seekers paradise as the Minister of the Interior has announced that the police will be investigating themselves for failing to arrest a wanted man by Germany after a European Arrest Warrant was issued against him. The man in question, Iosif Galea, was allowed to leave Malta…
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The elephant in the room
One of the biggest questions still lingering after the 2019 political crisis is why Victoria Buttigieg? Last week Philip Galea Farrugia, a past contender for the post of Attorney-General and also a lawyer in the AG office has testified in court saying that not all suspects of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder have been arraigned in…
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Dumbing down rule of law
Some people seem to have a problem with my comment I made on Robert Abela being known as a “tuba” from a very young age. The problem with having a dumb prime minister is that the consequences of his actions may be seriously damaging. I list facts and make assessments based on facts. I don’t…