ON-GOING VALLETTA STREET THEATRE – flogging a dead horse
Tourists, visitors and the unknowing may well be deceived into thinking that our capital city Valletta stages regular street theatre shows. This is the year after all during which Valetta is the European Capital for Culture – so all nicely falls into place.
The latest manifestation came last Friday when a handful of comedians, actors and musicians followed by an equal handful of followers produced an ongoing comedy session that included the initial oration of a few bad taste jokes of total improbability and was rounded off by a music session at Castile to make it a really entertaining evening.
This was under the guise of a “vigil” marking five months since the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia and as usual, the main amphitheatre was the National Monument in front of the Law Courts.
Information sources stated these represented four so-called civil society organisations, nebulous patches of oozing jelly that like parasitic amoeba have crawled their way into the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia and, as the expression goes, are trying to flog a dead horse by cannabalising it and regurgitating the soggy mess to suit their own individual cravings.
The first such parasitic slime to take the stand to kick off the evening’s comedy entertainment was somebody called Professor Vickie Anne Cremona who apparently is a theatrical specialist at University. In passing, how many hangers-on of this nature is our Malta University carrying, soon to include Simon Busuttil? Who is financing the salaries of these people and what is the country gaining by this low mish-mash of negative resource?
Sometimes I worry deeply about the future of our University.
This Cremona came out with the brilliance of informing her two-score or so audience they were like the French Revolution, a handful of people facing the hostile millions and they should not be afraid. Afraid of whom may I ask? Their only source of fear is that by standing around and listening to such bullshit they are in danger of being classed as being totally mentally incompetent. What a load of bilge and nonsense!
However, the highlight was reserved for somebody who is actually a lawyer, an Edward Debono, and thus again, another highly questionable University product. He demanded “justice” for Caruana Galizia and said the three persons undergoing compilation charged with her murder are just a “screen”.
That was most edifying to hear from a lawyer whose sole profession is that of working within our justice system that includes the Police, the Rule of Law and the whole Judicial System.
I have made a note that if ever I require the services of a lawyer and the only one remaining in the whole wide world is this Edward Debono, I will opt to defend myself!
A whole evening or oral mirth was rounded off by somebody called Alessandra Dee Crespo who said Daphne Caruana Galizia is still relevant because her writings are serving as a beacon. Which writings did she have in mind – the destructive, personal and venomous comments that attempted to belittle and humiliate individuals and their families? Indeed, a great beacon of remembrance.
The whole evening soiree’ was rounded off when the two score or so ensemble ambled off to Castile for a musical and light projection show aimed at urging the Prime Minister and the Government to resign – shall we say it was music that fell on deaf ears?
There is no reason for the PM and Government to resign. They are here to stay to continue administering the country in the direction of sanity against egoism, destruction and treachery.
One final note – are these jokers ever held responsible for the rubbish they leave behind? They should be made to clean up and disinfect the areas they have besmirched. The public should not have to pay for their dirty ways.
ALBERT JEROME FENECH
