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A BIG thank you to those employees at the PN bunker at Pieta who were kind enough to send me SMSs and emails of solidarity. It is good to know that I still have some friends at the Pieta bunker.
The man is certainly praying that I run away or simply stop writing.
Joe Saliba, the man who could not muster all the votes when standing as a candidate for the executive has libelled me.
Just in case Abigail Mallia the rising star on the Commission has not realised; the European electoral disaster is partly the fault of the secretary general. I would imagine that the man who believes he is the body and soul of the PN is in disagreement. The man who is about to employ his own brother Piju at Pieta, chose to nominate Godfrey Grima to analyse an election disaster without discussing his name with the Executive. Well done Joe.
For my sins I still have some friends in the Administrative Council – true they are all very scared and unwilling to take a position against Joe Saliba.
I can understand their stand. In politics one does speak ones’ mind.
Many have not forgotten the arrogant and autocratic attitude Joe Saliba has instilled at the Pieta HQ since he took over as Secretary. It is not only someone like Gejtu Cuschieri who has stopped working for the PN, there are many more.
Many do not recognise the Party. Joe Saliba’s attitude and manners has led many traditionally faithful PN soldiers to leave. Not in a million years did they expect the former Peter Serracino Inglott creation to wield such an iron fist.
In my reportage last week I did not refer to the administrative council as having been responsible for the leak of the Dalli story to the MLP. Either my English is limited or else Joe Saliba is in dire need of visiting an English language school.
Neither did I say that Lawrence Gonzi was the leak and though I think that Tonio Borg is an ineffectual deputy Prime Minister I still believe that he would not have have offered himself as the PN’s Mata Hari. And to the men on the council who supported John Dalli in his campaign, I too cannot see them turning on their party and flirt with the enemy.
It is not in the style of true Nationalists. Neither is it of Jean Pierre Farrugia or the not too impressive Jason Azzopardi Or the octogenarian APAN rep.
Even Joe Saliba with his Cinemacittà charisma would not have committed such an error.
And what about the others, well the problem of space precludes me from discussing them one by one, but rest assured that I will be referring to the leak(s) in a court of law.
Joe Saliba knows that there are very few at Pieta HQ who will counter his arguments. Indeed he knows that there are very few who appreciate him, apart from Dr Gonzi, who owes him rather a lot.
Indeed he may think that he has many admirers, in truth he has very few. He has inculcated such an air of insecurity that he has made everyone around him scared and uncomfortable.
The only time the Pieta clan will question him is when they cast their vote for him when he stands for the next Executive. If the same people that have a right to vote are not purged or removed by the time they come to vote for a new secretary general, Joe Saliba will not be the PN’s Secretary General of that I am sure.
Today the PN has been converted into a sort of boy scouts’ association. He has shamed those honourable Nationalists who have worked so hard for their Party.
Mr Saliba goes on by suggesting that this newspaper wishes to harm the Nationalist party. But this is ludicrous, one can only say this if they continue to believe that Joe Saliba is the Party. Joe Saliba is not the Party.
My style of writing has not changed. Pity they did not say the same when I was busy bludgeoning Alfred Sant and his acolytes.
In saying so one fails to appreciate that the other shareholder of this newspaper was and still is a Nationalist. And that the editorial content and policy is not dictated by me and me alone.
Indeed when Mr Saliba was making a fool of himself as Wenzu Mintoff’s bodyguard, a major shareholder of this newspaper was working in the PN premises serving the interests of so many genuine Nationalists who longed for a better political future.
When Lou Bondi’s factotum Joe Zahra the former freemason, the former Lorry Sant bodyguard and private investigator was arraigned in court, NET TV opted to bury the news. They did the same when MaltaToday replied to the PN’s libels.
PBS plucked some courage and pointed out that Joe Zahra was a Where’s Everybody consultant.
Strangely Super One and L-Orrizont were less forthcoming. The criminal proceedings against Lou Bondi’s former right hand man are serious.
So before I turn to my favourite subject of the week, allow me to remind our readers of this Joe Zahra. This man was one of the late Lorry Sant’s acolytes, when Malta was under the threat of absolute autocracy. He specialises in spying on people’s lovers or cheating husbands and wives. So much for patronising comments from Lou Bondi about our so called gutter journalism.
Joe Zahra comes from an era where simply hanging on to a Nazzjon was a guarantee to being beaten up.
Zahra was there side by side a politician who shamed Malta and the Malta Labour party.
Why Bondi turned to Zahra for his services eludes me and many others?
Perhaps the fact that Bondi was in Toronto when we were in the street fighting Labour could be an explanation for his bad judgement.
Mr Zahra a former police sergeant was crucial in many of Mr Bondi’s productions. Namely his timely decision to secretively film a freemason ceremony of which he was a member.
It did not stop there. The controversial Satanic mass, which has been queried by so many for being unconvincing saw the rather active involvement of Joe Zahra.
And yet despite all the allegations, no one from PBS top brass has ever investigated these serious allegations.
Just imagine it was Saviour Balzan or some other third rate moron.
Mr Bondi when questioned over Mr Zahra’s colourful past usually responds in his inimitable arrogant style.
Before I return to my favourite Sunday topic, I could remind Mr Bondi of one small incident with Mr Zahra. In my investigation on George Grech, a story that Mr Bondi saw fit to rubbish, I was approached by Joe Zahra who offered me negatives of George Grech on a cabin cruiser!
Once again, RCC has attracted much attention from our readers. Purchasing a Lm9 million property in Brussels is no mean feat, when our economy is in shatters.
Anyone who knows RCC will appreciate his habit of controlling the life that surrounds him.
Whether it is a specially prepared meals on flights, the journalists with briefs and the way people are dressed, in short everything.
These are not bad things in themselves. Indeed his work ethic puts to shame the cub scouts at the Office of the Prime Minister.
When abroad the former personal assistant has this important angle to him, he loosens up and I fondly recall his comments about the Cabinet ministers.
For example he had this to say about Tonio Borg: “He was a good minister before, now he is worried about his constituents.” My notes read February 2002.
RCC’s brain is definitely up for grabs. His comments were indeed revealing and poignant.
RCC’s comments about the other ministers are too hot to handle in an August summer edition of MaltaToday, and I will reserve them for a more appropriate time.
I conclude with another memento on when I asked him on one occasion why the government had tolerated and awarded a post to a prominent person when it was rather evident that he had been leaking information to the Labour party. He told me, that it was better to have a person urinate inside the house than outside it..
Pretty smart, I thought.
A last sincere word, solidarity to Daphne and Father Noel of The Independent in their legal battle with Godfrey Grima. I wish them luck.
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