Saviour Balzan's videoblog

I doubt that he was held for 48 hrs :), and what about the other stuff found apart from the joint? So we r in times that if you change party, it entiles you to roam free doing whatever you want and when challenged the pill get sweeter saying it was politically motivated.

what have we come to? .... such a pity we have to resort to these tactics...

GonziPN is cruel in respect to Cyrus's father arrest. We are close to an Argentinian Junta.

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Is this not the same PN that gives amnesties to drug traffickers?!!!

I agree that action begets reaction and if there was reaction in the 1980s, it was a direct result of the actions that took place in earlier decades as Nationalists and Church authorities conspired against Mintoff and his party. Like cowards, Nationalists act behind closed doors. They used to meet Mabel at The Times and my father observed them many a time. Speak of 'zmien it-terrur' (the time of terror)! Fancy keeping someone for hours for having a joint when GonziPN does nothing about predophile priests, and lets the Church treat the nation with contempt. You have to believe in fairies to think that senior PN politicians were not involved. The government should resigned.

Saviour, it is not too often that I disagree with your journalistic comments, however on this blog I have two reguttals that might interest you. (1) This videoblog should always be in English, because it belongs within an English media e-paper and is posted as such online. I fully agree with anyone who complained about this, that if you really wanted to send a message of exposure in this English media, it should be done in English, where it could be seen and heard all over the world, including most comments entered here. You have an alternative in Maltese and I suggest that if you wanted to, you can also videoblog on the Maltese media ILLUM with a translation and let the Maltese comments be posted there. One must remember that while Malta is a bilingual country, the viewers and other interested parties abroad who might be of Maltese descent will have a hard time reading Maltese. (2)My more serious observation is on the matter of your comments about pre-1987 Lanour administration. Please understand that my issue is not because you have referred to this era more than once in your statements, but most important that you fail in your political history accounts to record the full context of events that led to this dangerous way of justice in malta in the 1980's. You always refer to the miscarriage of justice, yet omit to record the lifestyle of criminals and opposing elements that planted bombs and night shootings that were so normal in those days. It is still amazing that most of the criminal murders with bombs and shootings still remain unsolved to this day even after 25 years of a change in government. One must also consider that the handful of police illegal activities that you refer to under a labour administration are but one leaflet of a history book that is full of political discrimination and cowboys style diplomacy that goes back to the 1950's and is still practised today. The accounts are endless and it is your duty as a decent and fair journalist to transmit and expose the facts as they happen.

If Labour lost all sense of decency in the end eighties, where was the sense of decency in the sixties. Everytime the opportunitiy arises you mention the late eighties. If you have the balls that you pretent to have why don't you compare the social, and economic achievments of that Labour governmet with the 25 years of this govenment. I am positive you won't because of the monkey on your shoulder in the form of a huge grudge against Mintoff. Refering to decency again a well informed journalist could at last enlighten us when the PN took over in 1987,officers of the police force were dismissed from their job (rightly so) whilst others who also were party to the trouble of those times times got a promotion.