I am glad that Mr Michael Falzon thought it necessary to “clear the air” regarding his putting his foot in the mouth over bird-shooting. However, notice his way of doing that – simply declaring that he himself is right and that all others who dared show criticism to his erroneous stance on bird-shooting, are wrong.
He describes such criticism as “malicious spins and lies,” and that these were merely “three reactions that all went off hopelessly at a tangent.” Wow, how’s that for blatant cheek? A Maltese proverb about the world’s oldest trade comes to mind. Speaking of such spins, lies and malice, doesn’t it wreak of what the Nationalist Party has been doing viz. Dr Arnold Cassola, Alternattiva Demokratika and indeed the whole Green Movement in Europe?
Falzon speaks about “respecting other people’s choices.” Wrong again, in this context: that’s exactly what the problem with hunting is about – hunters are respecting nobody’s choice, but their own, and that is why we need to further curb this so-called, self-styled sport which is shared by even a few MPs from both sides of the House.
One personal point to check with Mr Falzon, when he says: “as if he (that is, me) was not going to vote that way (that is, Alternattiva) in any case!”
Mr Falzon must have been too busy reading other much more important things whenever I wrote in, on the various media, including electronic ones, in favour of the Nationalist Party! But those were other days. The Nationalist Party doesn’t need more people to push voters away from it, at this particular moment! And Michael Falzon gets ten out of ten for having done just that!
Franco Farrugia
Guardamangia
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