When the inevitable happens

Unkindly to everyone, the Attorney General Borg Barthet has kicked the ball back into the government’s court and although everyone is expecting the Commissioner of Police not to be reinstated, one shouldn’t be surprised if he is.

What is Isabelle Azzopardi’s version of the facts to the far-reaching implications of having the Commissioner of Police without a job?

His demise would release a hornet’s nest and many central figures would get stung in the process.

And here, one must also question the Attorney General. Unlike Isabelle Azzopardi this newspaper has never stated in the media that we have faith in the institution called justice.

We believe that there are far too many interests and fingers in this delicate pie.

When we look at the life history of the Attorney General, we are not particularly impressed.

We could detail compelling reading from the Ali Resaq affair to the demonisation of ‘innocent, but presumed guilty’ persona.

But we will not pontificate over the AG, we leave that to a political historian or slapstick aficianado who will have to patiently unravel the truths from the lies in this ocean of sex, security services, tapping and lack of discipline.

As in all things in this small insular republic it will come as no surprise to read the AG’s decision.

No, when has the AG taken a decision which is remotely out of line with government policy?

Attorney General apart, the return of George Grech as Commissioner will pave over a stigma for this accident-prone government.

After having made a fool of himself, all that Mr Grech needs is confirmation to go back. But it is not somewhere that he belongs.

If the Prime Minister agrees to re-appoint George Grech he cannot blame us for treating the police with disrespect.

For George Grech, we have to remind him that he is not Bill Clinton; he was not elected to the post by the people, he does not have a Clintonian vision of things, and he does not share his charisma.

We do not believe that someone who insists and alleges that he has great problems with hormones should lead the Malta Police Force. And more, we do not believe that someone who lied on Radio 101 on the 18 August and on Bondicini on the 18 September should be reinstated.

Purging Manwel Cuschieri

Listening to Manwel Cuschieri literally brings back memories of Lord Haw Haw in the dark ages of the last world war.

Mr Cuschieri is not only overly melodramatic but also dangerous.

He incites people to dislike and scorn the adversaries in politics and his vocabulary is carefully selected and intended to hurt. He is not only a metaphorically ugly man but one that we read about in novels that are usually without a readership.

He is a shame on the Labour party and not worthy of his vice presidency. That he is popular is proof of the quality of his listeners or the gullibility of his followers.

If the Nationalist party have shades of Manwel Cuschieri spouting verbal diarrhoea, then that is wrong too but this is not the point.

Mr Cuschieri is dangerous because he recycles dung and makes it his own.

He does not prove anything he says, he sows doubt and he portrays a doomsday image of Malta.

His political indoctrination calls for serious objections.

While the Broadcasting Authority seeks retribution on programmes laden with adverts, it ignores the quality of such garbage.

No matter how much one disagrees with the Nationalists one cannot accept such diatribes that spout on unabated.

Respectable personalities within Labour argue that they need people such as Manwel Cuschieri to keep consolidated militant Labourites together.

If this is the only excuse, then surely there are better ways of getting the message across and keeping the flag flying.

When will the Labour party understand that Manwel Cuschieri in the long term is a liability?