Matthew Caruana Galizia: I’ve Been Thinking About What The Home Affairs Minister Said On The Police, Thugs And A Couple Of Eggs
Since yesterday, I’ve been thinking about what the Minister of Home Affairs said, that police are being attacked by thugs in 2024 because activists threw eggs at them in 2019.
Normally I don’t bother. But this was different. It’s so lazy in its logic that it shows they’re not even bothering, the propaganda equivalent of pot noodles.
Is there any evidence to back the Minister’s claim? Zero.
What there is evidence of is that when organised crime attacked words with car bombs, civil society responded not with violence but with more words, banners, chants and yes: eggs.
That when Silvio Valletta was getting drunk instead of doing his duty, it wasn’t the government that removed him from his position within the police, but pressure from protestors.
I think the Labour Party has to finally realise that it was a grassroots, civil movement that brought change, and that they were brave to stand up against those with guns and bombs, with words, their presence and some eggs as their only weapons.
All it takes is to imagine what the country would be like today if they hadn’t dared to do that. The ones to blame for the Party’s and the country’s problems are not those who exposed its corruption but those who perpetrated it.
There are many things the police need: better working conditions, better salaries, modern offices, good leadership and an efficient justice system. These problems won’t be solved through deflection onto others.
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