What is normality?
How disappointed and dejectedI felt after reading Martin Scicluna’s unfair and biased assessment (December 17) of the situation we are living in after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s brutal assassination.
There are so many realities making up our society that one finds it difficult to give a clear picture in a single statement. One reality is sure, though, partisan politics has blurred our vision of the real Malta we are living in. Whatever the exaggerations, fake news and blind faith in partisan politics, one cannot sincerely conclude that we are living in a normal healthy democracy.
How untrue is Scicluna’s judgement when he suspects “that many of those leading the cry for democracy and the rule of law have only one objective: to face a new election”.
Why does Scicluna conclude that all of us see things with either blue or red blinkers? Why aren’t those of us who really want the good of Malta and who sincerely feel concerned about the trampling of our autonomous institutions and the crumbling of the rule of law, not considered as citizens of goodwill really preoccupied about the alarming situation in Malta?
In order to show one and all how normal life in Malta is, after Caruana...