Watch: Pack Your Bags And Leave Malta Now, Activist Kristina Chetcuti Urges Youths At Daphne Vigil
Maltese youths should be encouraged to leave the country as soon as possible to seek out solutions to the island’s woes, activist Kristina Chetcuti said last night.
Addressing a Valletta vigil held in honour of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Chetcuti accused former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of introducing a culture of “anti-morality”, with financial profit viewed as the ultimate goal.
“After five years with no semblance of justice, why isn’t this square packed with people?” she questioned.
“I think it’s because we see everything cloudy,” she continued. “Current 20 year-olds have spent the last ten years believing that it’s okay to snatch what you can and even to explode a journalist so long as you profit. Ten years of moral ugliness without any shelter from the bling will kill your soul.”
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“As a result, the nation is becoming frustrated and a recent survey found that the Maltese are the angriest people in Europe. We didn’t need a survey to tell us this because we are all living this anger, frustration, hopelessness, helplessness and sense of impunity.”
“The nation also prefers to live a virtual life; on Facebook and Instagram we can easily give off the impression that we are living in heaven on earth and we can start to believe this ourselves.”
Arguing that the nation’s future depends on the new generation, Chetcuti said it’s useless bemoaning the persistent lack of presence of youths at protests.
“I believe we must do our utmost to encourage them to explore lands beyond our shores. We must tell our youths that they shouldn’t come here to protest with us, instead we must tell them to pack their bags and leave Malta now. Leave, travel, work, see, speak and live… please live and don’t just exist.”
“That’s the only way we can one day exit this vicious cycle.”
“That way, the new generation of citizens and leaders will return with new, fresh, romantic ideas. Tasting beauty and finding shelter from ugliness is the only way we can learn to be intolerant to injustice in our society.”
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