Schoolyard politics
Too coincidental to be a coincidence, wouldn’t you think? Well, that was my personal opinion on our long awaited bouts of vandalism on our sites of heritage. It seemed only a matter of time that our “victimised” (boo hoo!) government would be bullied like a teenage boy for not giving the big boys his lunch money.
It strikes me as quite amusing, and I may also come to admit that a cynical grin never fails to appear when I think that our present government is working on the precise conduct of the dog-eat-dog institution in a schoolyard bustling with hormone fuelled teenage boys.
On one side of the schoolyard we have the so called conservation groups, ready, and set in their camouflage, combats and Wellies, with their double barrelled rifles hoisted over their shoulders and the excuse of tradition always on their mind, in the case that any courageous journalist would be daring enough to approach these “men that withhold our culture” – the school bullies.
On the other side we have two men, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and Environment Minister George Pullicino, debilitated and hapless under the treacherous tyranny of hunters and trappers eyeballing them like ravenous Rottweilers. Stuttering pitifully in the only way men of white collar decadency know, they desperately try to decipher the incomprehensible Pandora’s compromise between the hunters and environmentalists – the school geeks.
Now that our nation has pitstopped to a raging standstill on the subject, I personally feel obliged to ask one question to the above victims of schoolyard bullying… were the votes of these hunters worth risking your positions in government for? Politicians represent their people, not whom they fear.

Erin Stewart Tanti
Ta` l-Ibragg