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Realtà censorship row | Appeals Court decision deferred
Appeals Court hearing adjourned for December 2011.
7 September 2011, 12:00am
Matthew Vella
Matthew Vella
1 min read
The Court of Appeal has deferred the hearing of the Attorney General's appeal of the acquittal of novelist Alex Vella Gera and Mark Camilleri to December 2011.
The Appeals Court is being presided by Judge David Scicluna. Former Appeals Court judge Philip Sciberras was assisting his son, defence counsel Alex Sciberras.
Attorney General Peter Grech filed a 32-page appeal of the verdict of Magistrate Audrey Demicoli, who liberated the two accused of obscenity charges.
In his appeal the Attorney General argues that Vella Gera admitted to having written his short story Li Tkisser Sewwi “on impulse” and “without any form of self-censorship”.
“He was free to write what he wanted without self-censorship,” Grech states in the appeal. “But the author must realise there are others living with him, whose ideas, preferences and tastes are unlike his; a society that must be protected, and its morality preserved.
“And there’s God above everything and above everyone, and God is certainly bigger than the biggest of egos of even more famous writers.”
Matthew Vella, a freelance journalist at MaltaToday, was formerly executive editor at Malt...
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@ David Caruana: Ipprova irkeb mutur minghajr helmit; mjekk suq karozza minghajr ma tilbes seat belt. Ipprova. Ha tara kemm tezisti liberta assoluta. Kemm haw min hu iblah, jew kiesah jew pruzuntuz. Jew it-tlieta f'salt.
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If the AG wants to use God in his argument, then he should produce him as a witness.
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"....its morality preserved."
I do not want any stupid AG to "preserve" my morality. What a load of hogwash!
This paternalistic attitude of the State telling me what I can or cannot read, eat or smoke HAS TO END.
@ Giovann.DeMartino
"ma tistax... tikteb li trid u tghid li trid"
Do you think so? Whatch us!
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Aghmel li joghgbok Manwel! Hadd mhu se jindahallek. Kien haw hafna bulijiet li kienu jahsbuha bhalek. Imsieken! B'dankollu XORTA temmen jew ma temminx ma tistax, f'pajjiz civili, tikteb li trid u tghid li trid fil-publiku. Oqghod attent li dan li stupid crap ma jirrizultax li ma hu stupid crap xejn.
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@Giovann.DeMartino
I CAN AND DO AS LONG AS IT IS FICTION.
GOD WILL NOT JUDGE ME. HE WILL JUDGE YOU AS HE IS YOURS NOT MINE!!
WHAT STUPID CRAP.
I DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD. OK???
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Believing or not in God.....absolute freedom does not exist! If i drove a motor cycle I shall have to put on a helmet, whether I like it or not. I am not free. We arwe not even free how to upbring our chn. We have to send them to school. It is not a question of religion, but a question of civility. L-eziatenza tieghu tidher kull fejn thares Kemm haw min hu pruzuntuz, ghandek tghid. Imbaghad naqra ta' sturdament u tistabat ma l-art. U assio pulikarja!
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Nillimitaw espressjoni ta bniedem fuq twemmin bazwi. Qorti mmexxija minn persuna invisibbli li qatt ma giet ikkonfermata l-ezistenza tieghu. Il-qorti ta kulhad jew ta min jemmen f'alla biss?
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@MR Mumfry...but still in any civilized society no one is permitted to say/write what he likes. Absolute freedom does not exist.
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@ Giovann. Demartino. You are confusing freedom of speech with defamation. Gera's story did not defame anyone; it's a work of fiction. Calling someone a thief is defamation, because it is ruining someone's reputation.
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In a democratic society, it is not acceptable for the Attorney General to allow hsi personal faith to interfere with the laws of the country. Anywhere else, statements like these would have had politicians clamouring for his resignation.
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Tibqghux taqghu ghan-nejjjjjjjjjj billi tippargunaw lil Malta mat-talebani u ma fundamentalisti ohra bhal dawn li kapaci jqaxxru mara hajja ghax tilbes jeans. Tkunux ridikoli.
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The comment by the Attorney General was nothing short of fundamentalism and worthy of a Mullah in a Taliban state. Since when is unproven belief greater than the rule of law and human rights? If his statement had to be dissected as it truly should be, that same reasoning was used in an argument in favour of slavery since it was condoned in the Bible. My question "which God?" is simply pointing out the fact that the Attorney General should be living in a pluralist society where different people define their God in different ways.
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To Our Attorney General:
What if a person doesn't believe in God?
Apart from that, what counts in our courts is the LAW as enacted by our MPs and not what the Vatican or the Church says.
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Tahseb li trid, Manwel. Imma ma tiktibx li trid. Jien nista' nahseb kemm irrid li int halliel, imma ma nistax la nghida u anqas niktibha.
Which God? The One who sooner or later will certainly judge us.
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THIS IS MORE BULL TODAY.
CENSORSHIP IN THIS DAY AND AGE...LIKE THE BLOODY INQUISITION!!
WHAT ABOUT THOSE THAT THINK THAT GOD IS JUST ANOTHER THING TO LIKE OR DISLIKE USE AND ABUSE. WHO IS TO TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD THINK?
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To Our Attorney General:
Which God?
