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Truly, it is with my greatest respect to all lawyers, although sometimes some of them do not deserve it, that I write about what Dr Anna Mallia wrote in your newspaper, about the scanning at the law courts.
It is not very often that I agree with this lawyer, but I admire her writing, because she speaks her mind without insulting anybody.
Another lawyer, Dr Toni Abela, created a story just for nothing, because as Dr Mallia had said, there is another door available for him from where he can enter his place of work. But to say ‘no, I am not going to enter from a side door but from the main door and I do not want to obey any legal notice’, I ask who does this Dr Toni Abela think he is? He is just another lawyer like many. What’s wrong about entering from a side door. Even judges have their own side door. After all, the slogan of his place of work is ‘the law is for everybody’. I believe that a legal notice is a law, or has got the strength of one.
A few years ago I had the misfortune of visiting that building very often, and each time I used to be frisked manually by a court employee; he used to enjoy it too. I complained then, but not of being searched, but because of being humiliated and discriminated. At that time there were two entrances, one for the lawyers, and a few feet away another entrance for us, the second-grade ordinary citizens. Is that what Dr Abela wants to see?
I agree with Dr Mallia that there should be some male and female security personnel for the court’s security, but nowadays to save some money, everything is in the hands of private companies – everybody want to have a taste of that pudding, millions of liri are being shed that way, but who cares? Dr Mallia also said that the roads surrounding the law courts have become another Guantanamo Bay because of security cameras, and people are constantly monitored by the DG. Dr Mallia, at least these cameras are guarding the courts, but what you will say about having a surveillance camera above your doorstep monitored 24 hours a day, guarding a white painted line on the road, so that if you drive on it you get fined Lm10 for the Local Council’s vitamin pills? Is it possible that you never saw these cameras, they are all over, we had one in Mosta square; I say ‘had’, because they removed it some weeks ago. I too was a victim of what you called paparazzi, but they are more modern, they call them ‘processors’. When I had been a victim, it was only because I use the square very often, and everybody else was in their same eyesight. God save our privacy.
Joseph Muscat
Mosta
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