Category: Politics
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The Emperor’s New “Internet Civil Rights”
There seems to be “all-round support for the internet as a civil right” if we are to believe the Times, and we have no reason not to. Lawyer Antonio Ghio described it as “the legal crystallisation of a reality we live in”, which is an interesting statement for many a reason. Ever since PM Gonzi…
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What laws would you sign? International law by plebiscite?
One of the interesting spin-offs of the ACTA controversy is the newly discovered devotion that national representatives have towards what they deem to be “public opinion”. There are undoubtedly a number of factors that have precipitated this state of affairs. Primary among these is the general feeling of misrepresentation that has increasingly gripped the European demos following…
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Fighting the law and winning – Censorship
University Rector Juanito Camilleri has indicated that he would not have reported an undergraduate to police for publishing an explicit story in a student newspaper had the law been clearer, though he sees no reason to apologise. Now that’s interesting. Here is the rector: “Whether it is a fictional story or not is beside the point…
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Fighting the law and winning – The Imagined Evil
Saturday saw 500 or more (mostly) young people don their Anonymous masks and demonstrate their general anti-ism against ACTA and the international conspiracy of (as Edward Scicluna would have it) the monsters behind it. The interviews posted on the Times of Malta (see video on link) website simply confirmed the blindness of the protesters as interviewee…
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Fighting the law and winning? – ACTA
Labour MEP Edward Scicluna was reported to have made the following statement when addressing students at a university debate yesterday. Here, with all the caveats related to “il detto del detto” is how the Times reported him: Edward Scicluna appealed to students not to try and understand the details of Acta but rather to see…
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Franco Bonaparte?
Last time that I hinted at a link between Franco Debono and a historical figure I was told off in private by one of the blog’s more finicky readers. Well, mea culpa if Franco does not quite fit the “Generalissimo” label but the Rebel MP has now taken to quoting another general for his purposes.…