Newsreport by Saviour Balzan

Stopping the inevitable

This week’s interview is with Censu Moran.

A very popular former ex-Labour minister who resigned after falling prey to entrapment from a Church newspaper hit team.

If Dr Moran is saying the truth, his advice to the odd brother and sister was far from shocking.

When I myself, participated in an entrapment plot against another doctor who was renowned for issuing ‘unnecessary’ prescriptions to addicts, I can only recall the uncensored derogatory commentaries from the medical profession and fellow journalists. The Press Club had no kind words for us too.

With Dr Moran, the whole world was on mute for a whole week.

Entrapment was not an issue anymore.

Abortion in Malta is one big taboo and no one, not even those with nothing to lose, are willing to voice a whisper on the matter.

Like many others, I do not shoulder a Hezbollah attitude to abortion, and I can say that the Labour party gentry that lost their voices when Dr Moran was cornered with his pants down, conveniently forgot their home grown beliefs on abortion.

To be in favour of abortion abroad, does not relegate you to Dante’s Inferno. In Malta it does and many politicians know this.

Malta remains one of the last places in the world where abortion is simply not discussed. Here it is bad full stop. Beyond that everything else is evil, pagan and heresy.

Of course, this has not stopped people from taking a flight and having an abortion in Palermo, Milan or London.

Will Malta’s stand on abortion, change?

Yes, of course, it is inevitable.

No matter what we say or believe or wish, the influence of the Church is on the decline.
Society is changing, the family as a unit is experiencing fragmentation and the globalisation effect is breaking down ‘values’.

Can we stop abortion?

Yes, if we create a police state and control people’s lives.

And if I had to choose between controlling people’s lives and having a free for all, I think I know what I would choose.

Press photographers, have been arrested by the police once again and the Press Club has come out defending them.

This week, I promise not to be that nasty to the Press Club, though I have every reason to be. The Press Club have a point here.

One better way of tackling the ‘silly’ police is to get all the editors together and decide to boycott every single event organised by the police and the Home Affairs Minister.

But this will never happen, because editors are as distant to each other as penguins are to centipedes.

George Vella, stated in one of those Super One interviews, that he expects an affidavit from IVA leaders.

The declaration he is calling for is all about not accepting jobs in Brussels or other related EU entities, if Malta had to accede to membership.

Well, if Dr Vella wants such a hands on heart declaration from me, then here it comes, "I swear that I will refuse any job offer or opportunity offered or handed out to me linked to an EU institution." And I mean it.

Now, I suggest Dr Vella walks up to all the young budding and ambitious ‘labourite’ yuppies in the Party and ask them to do the same.

Dr Vella is a strong believer "li hadd ma jaghmel xejn ghal xejn," (no one does anything for nothing), which is true in many cases but not in all cases.