Return of the Jedi
"Like every self-respectig liberal, Patrick is in favour of free speech.
So much so that he gets terribly annoyed every time I happen to mention
immigrants."
Lesson 1 in freedom of speech. It is not absolute, as the libel laws aptly demonstrate. Secondly, it is funny how freedom of speech seems to merely exist only for Guze to dish out his I-look-cool-by-being-racist rants. He gets terribly annoyed when others are terribly annoyed at what he writes terribly to annoy. Guzi, I have all the rights in the world to be annoyed and you can't complain in the same instance when championing freedom of speech. Once again a little degree of consistency would do wonders. Unfortunately the only consistency you're displaying involves a tiny village next to Lija and Attard and technological communication instruments, which I hate to mention again but am compelled to out of a lack of other examples.
"No one is perfect. Malta is full of racist people; most of them keep their
mouth shut to avoid being labeled racist fucks. Me, I don't care of course...
it doesn't make me less of a human being."
What does the above mean? Is Guze actually admitting that being racist is a fault? Where has all the justifications gone? This is a let down. Of course Guze, you're not less of a human. But the same applies to your other buddies, the junkies, the single mothers and the bums. Not quoting the Nazarene today?
"Cos I am the cunt who has to pay so that single mothers keep getting their
allowance and maybe a government apartment to boot [...]The one who pays is the one who tries to do something constructive with his life. And the ones who are
careless with their birth control, the lazy bums, the junkies... they get all
the benefits."
Yes you are a cunt. But not for the reason you mentioned. You're a cunt because you can't decide what you want. If you don't want the government to pay for irregular immigrant's deportation, campaign to let them stay. If you don't want the government to pay for detention centres, campaign to let them free. Simple. And if you're so sick and tired of paying for other people's problems, stop working. Go on. If life as a bum is so attractive, easy and peachy I wonder what's stopping you from adopting it. Is it really the loan? Or is it a deep understanding that such life is not as easy as you say it is?
"If you happen to be someone like me and my partner, who hold steady jobs and
who don't have any way of not declaring our income... bad luck eh... someone has
to pay the taxes..."
Guz, this may come as news to you: most of us pay taxes too. It's not a big deal either. Stop making an event out of the whole thing. What's next a Monty Pythonesque press conference? I can see the headlines: Guze Stagno pays taxes! Wooooooo. Big deal aqqanna (to quote LasPalmas). Why not concentrate on tax evaders instead of welfare recipients. Strong with the weak eh? Bully.
Till Guze's next blog entry...
Disclaimer
The writer of this blog reserves the right to like Guze Stagno and his work (as indeed he does).
posted by Peklectrick at 11:31 PM
5 Comments:
"If you don't want the government to pay for irregular immigrant's deportation, campaign to let them stay. If you don't want the government to pay for detention centres, campaign to let them free. Simple."
It amazes me how in those two proposed solutions of yours, there's only side of the coin: keeping them here - where they don't belong and don't deserve to be. How about repatriating them? Just to be fair.
The real people suffering in Africa are those starving to death in their own homeland, not those playing with their Samsung on the Balzan bus stop.
Kenneth, first of all, thanks for your comment. Secondly the points raised were simply raised because of the previous comment. It doesn't make sense to propose deportation when Guze was actually complaining about its cost.
You say that they don't deserve to be here. Do they deserve to have Western multinationals plunder their resources? Or better still, do they deserve imposition of SAPs from Western financial institutions? Do they deserve usury-like debt? Do they deserve the conflicts fueld by Western armaments?
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Thanks indeed for your comments. Although I do not know you, I can assume from your apparent affiliations that you are in some way connected to Moviment Graffiti (or hang around with like-minded individuals.)
Often I think that you (as a collective group) are all the time bashing the world's situation at the wrong places and times. Case in point, Malta's problem with illegal immigration.
Why is it that we always get to see Graffiti personnel in every imaginable discussion on immigration? If Graffiti aim only at the broader perspective of the problem (and that is, on a global scale), why are they invited/take such an active role in such a narrowly-focused section of the issue? Isn't that called wasting time and opportunies for others who might have concrete solutions for Malta's specific (vis-à-vis the world's generic you focus on) problems?
"It doesn't make sense to propose deportation when Guze was actually complaining about its cost."
The cost of deportation is nothing compared to the cost of maintaining those same persons for their lifetime here! And this is not taking into consideration the free education, health, and everything for their children (they have a tendency of going a bit overboard with the number of children they have.)
"Do they deserve the conflicts fueld by Western armaments?"
Although I still condemn the colonial times and how Europe's superpowers rushed to conquer everywhere imaginable, I still do not agree with the above. Even today after some African countries have gained their independence, the situation hasn't changed much. What has the West got to do with the tribes fighting and killing each other at every opportunity? The problems in most of the African continent today are caused by the Africans themselves!
Unfair distribution of wealth? Definitely, it exists. But what happens when those gaining and spreading this unfair distribution of wealth are Africans too? Don't tell me about the West here... It is Africans living in riches. What about those? Is the West to blame for them too?
Unless the African people change their attitudes, Africa's problem will not change an iota. Not even if all the debt is eliminated and billions of dollars start pouring in the continent. Cowardly fleeing from your country isn't going to help either...
If you insist so much on tackling the root of the problem, these illegal immigrants do not believe in the same philosophy. Rather than trying to solve their own problems, they just seek the easy way out (a one-week journey is definitely worth it if you consider the life-long benefits) and flee! That's just about their motivation for solving their own problems... and then you (plural, again) tell us to involve ourselves in their (self-imposed since recent times) problems!
As we say in Maltese, "għin ruħek biex Alla jgħinek."
First thing: I am not involved in Graffitti. I don't know why you feel the need to involve third parties in our discussions. What Graffitti do is their business and any questions on that front should be directed at them.
Secondly:
"The cost of deportation is nothing compared to the cost of maintaining those same persons for their lifetime here! And this is not taking into consideration the free education, health, and everything for their children (they have a tendency of going a bit overboard with the number of children they have.)"
Reports show that refugees actually give more than they take from a country. British Minister Gordon Brown said that economic growth estimates were higher because of higher immigration, for example.
Re. Africa's wars. You missed my point. I asked whose industry is benefitting from sales of weapons? The biggest industry in the world. Who is gaining from those wars? Who sells them the weapons?
Re. Africa's rich. You're partly right in saying that there is a rich elite in Africa. You're not right that the West is uninvolved though. Who are the elite's business partners. Who is forcing privitisations of public health, education etc? With the consequence of further poverty? Let me answer you. The IMF and WB. With SAPs.
Above everything else, I believe in human rights, which mind you are part of the laws of Malta. So how can anybody say that immigrants should be detained for breaking the law when the government is breaking its own law through the lack of respect for human rights?
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