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Qabel ma konna xejn

Tismagħom jitlewmu dwar festi nazzjonali u tibda taħseb u tehwden int ukoll bla ma trid.

Jgħidulek li qabel ma sirna indipendenti konna dejjem niddependu mill-barrani. Biex ksibna l-kostituzzjoni tas-64 konna xbajna telgħin u neżlin Londra nittalbu bis-sassla. U l-kolonjalist jitnejjek bina bejn bid-‘divide and rule’, bejn bil-‘language question’ bil-Malti lingwa tal-kċina u bejn bil-poteri tal-‘gvern’ Malti jingħataw u jittieħdu skond il-bżonn.

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Jgħidulek li sakemm ħadna r-repubblika fis-74 konna għadna Monarkija. Indipendenti iva imma b-wiċċ ir-Reġina tifkira ta’ passat servili ta’ ‘l fuq min 260 sena kolonjaliżmu.

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Jgħidulek li sakemm ma konniex aħna li ma ġeddidniex il-kuntratt mal-qawwa Ingliża (jew forsi ma ġeddewx huma), il-barrani kien għadu parti intrinsika fil-ħajja tagħna. Konna għadna niddependu fuqu u fuq l-infiq tiegħu. Għadna imwaħħlin maż-żejża. Jgħidulna li dakinhar ħadna rajjna f’idejna meta ħlisna mill-barrani. Dakinhar, jekk temminhom, il-Malti seta’ jibda jgħix u jkun hu biss responsabbli (u ħati) tan-nisġa tad-destin tiegħu.

Jgħidulek li mingħajr l-indipendenza, mingħajr ir-repubblika, mingħajr il-ħelsien ma konniex inkunu n-nazzjon jew ‘ġens’ li aħna. Kważi kważi iridu jiddefinixxu lil pajjiżna b’dawn it-tlett avvenimenti.

Jgħidulek dan kollu… imma allura qabel… ma konna xejn?

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Freedom Xejn

A happy freedom day holiday to y’all on the island. Why the photo you ask? Well no disrespect and all but this geezer is everything and all about Freedom Day in 2011. He was there on the original freedom day when Malta celebrated the non-renewal of a contract by its wise and sage leader. He stood behind and smiled as il-perit climbed what must be Malta’s ugliest monument ever and lit the torch of freedom.

He probably was smiling at home in Tripoli or some other Libyan palace when a few years later il-perit would bargain a constitutional PLPN entente of reform – adjusting parliamentary representation in exchange for the neutrality clause.

He must have smiled again when il-perit’s Malta kow-towed to most of his wishes in all forms of subservient arse-licking including most importantly the early warning system for any menaces from the north by Mintoff’s follower (sic – successor).

He smiled again when the government of Work, Justice and Freedom (act II) shot into power and quickly reassured him that “if we want everything to change, then everything must be the same“.

God knows if he was smiling yesterday from afar as the progressive, modernist leader and purveyor of European values told the assembled crowd of nostalgics that “we won’t take sides”.

Freedom? What freedom?

Chained by PLPN yellow politics? That’s Freedom xejn. (no freedom).