Before reading this post scroll down to the video at the end and watch it. Done? Now if the video does not raise a thousand different questions in your head all culminating in one massive WHY then you can leave this post. You’re incurable. If you do have these questions see if any of them are like my own (questions and reflections) and feel free to comment.
1. The Gut (tee-hee Gatt/Gut) Reaction: Not carcades. Not again. The ultimate proof that whether we are dealing with the price of corned beef or whether we are voting on a civil right it all ends up in carcades, taunts and revelries. Min hu missierkom?
2. The Recoil Reaction: Why is this news? Your meninges start to cogitate quickly and you wonder whether you had not already known that Agostino Gatt is dead set against divorce. Is there anything new? Will his wife do a Kate and tell us that she too forewent pre-marital sex? Do we care?
3. The ONE TV Agenda Reaction: So the Labour organ deems it fit to stir some of the proverbial faeces Austin’s way by telling us that Austin will be punching the air in celebration should the NO vote carry the day. Better still. Which makes you wonder: what does LABOUR have to gain out of this? Well, Labour are telling us to tsk, tsk (titkaza – onomatopeia) the Minister for putting conscience before principle. They insist on reminding us that Austin will vote NYET even if the people vote a resounding YES. But then again so will Adrian Vassallo – and anyone entitled to a “frijvowt” granted magnanimously by the paladin of progressives. So again … what’s the news?
4. The His People Retake: You will have noticed the constant use of “Austin u n-nies tieghu” – his people. These are the chattel of the 21st century, political slaves at the beck and call of their masters. The term “nies tieghu” is not used disparagingly mind you. While the PL propagandists might be trying to claim that Austin’s clan has a mind of its own they are only reinforcing a truth that exists across the PLPN constellation. “Their people”, “his people” – they are in his thrall and will follow him as the mice and rats followed the piper. Another stark reality unveiled unwittingly by a PLPN station – because they don’t see much farther than their nose when it comes to gaining mileage.
5. The What Mileage? Conclusion What Mileage? indeed. Labour has no official position on divorce. By telling us that Austin Gatt and his immediate entourage of yes men and automatic vote club will be happy clapping their way into the night should the NO vote prevail they just chose a random picture that could very well apply to many other politicians in the field. Is this Labour’s attempt to continue to sell the lie that it is (as a party) on the side of the YES camp. Would it were so the YES camp would definitely recover some of the unfair advantage the NO camp has from the automatic votes of many mice and rats. Unfortunately it is not so. Muscat’s pussyfooting has sold the conscience frijvowt nicely to the masses. It’s Automatic for the People.
So there’s nothing wrong with Austin and his Faithful Rats to clap and cheer if their position wins the day on Saturday. It’s part of the Game as we are used to playing it. What ONE has done is serve us a picture of the usual PLPN divide reasonings bang in the middle of a campaign that should have been anything but.
Carcade anyone?
One reply on “Divorce and Their People”
My reaction was that a ‘no’ victory will leave a few thousands distraught, for immediate personal reasons, and many more thousands overwhelmed in the realisation of the mindset of the people who shape their todays and tomorrows. A carcade in these circumstances would simply add salt to the wound when any result should, in my opinion, be followed by a deafining silence … a carcade will be as bad as a bishop talking of the suffering of others (that obiously he has no inkling about) after the ‘Le’ carries the day… The biggest issue that may result as a consequence of a probabe no vote (the carcade carrying old people to vote is perhaps even more significant) is that new divisions, at so many levels from family to church to political parties, will continue to fester at our social wounds for many years to come…the referendum, however, has brought to light the mice and their methods that nibble at our governance…this is indeed a great plus and a big weight off the shoulders of those who have carried, for so many varied reasons, that weight not knowing the who or the how. we now know it and this is indeed a great opportunity to change the political landscape of Malta for the better.