BIG SHARKS BITE BACK – go for the small fish because they are vulnerable and defenceless – the ways

Consider bullies and the dirty and cowardly act of bullying. School bullies do not tackle children older than themselves or those more powerfully built then themselves. No, they go for the younger and weaker; they go for those with vulnerable disability and exploit that.

The motives and the messages of a bully speak much; they are people who are and feel inferior and seek to compensate this inferiority by making a noise, attracting attention to show their ‘strength’.

Nations do not act differently. When Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler wanted to show the world his strength, he did not primarily attack the United States, or Russia or Britain – no, big sharks bite back. In true bully profile he attacked Poland and then Czechoslovakia because these did not have the armaments to retaliate and fight back.

Italy’s Fascist Benito Mussolini followed in his master’s footsteps to show his and Italy’s strength. Mussolini attacked weak Abyssinia, showered the country with poison gas and initiated the first attack on – of all days – Christmas Day, a day in which most defences are on relax and a day on which nobody expects a war to begin.

So, those are the prototypes of bullies and bullying. Do not tackle the sharks because they are powerful and bite back. Go for the smallest fish because they are weak and their fight-back capabilities are extremely limited.

Now, consider two modern-day bullies, Vera Jourova and Sven Giegold, the former a supposed EU Commissioner for Justice (apparently her own interpretation of Justice) and Sven Giegold, an obnoxious nobody of a busybody from Germany.

Their recent actions have declared war on Malta, the small fish, and they have done so in a most cowardly and bullying manner.

Jourova’s track record is worth studying. In 2006 she was accused in her home country the Czech Republic of having taken a bribe of two million Czech Kroner (no euro then) from one Ladislav Peta, the Mayor of a town named Budisov in South Moravia for securing EU subsidies for the reconstruction of the Budisov Chateau.

She denied the charge but spent a month in pre-trial detention (what we call preventative arrest). Her trial dragged on into 2008 when everything suddenly came to a halt after the country’s Police abruptly stopped the trial and declared her innocent.

I have no comment on this.

Within recent years some enormous money-laundering offences by leading EU banks have come to light, including that of the Danish Danske Bank which is being termed as the biggest money-laundering scandal ever to hit Europe.

The Danske troubles come on the heels of a string of widely publicised scandals that shook the European financial sector and exposed deep compliance flaws in European banks.

In the meanwhile, the Swiss banking watchdog Finma said it had concluded its investigation into the involvement of it national Swiss banks in major corruption scandals.

The world-renowned Credit Suisse was charged with having breached money-laundering rules and failing in compliance checks regarding a FIFA corruption scandal that earlier had led to the resignation of FIFA President Blatter and General Secretary Platini in a scandal that not only shocked the football world but the whole world.

The Dutch bank ING was fined €775 million for its poor money-laundering controls which had enabled some of its clients to money launder for many years.

The Latvian bank ABLV had to close down after a series of facts came to light when the US accused the bank of aiding money laundering. Estonia has faced similar troubles.

German banks have often been charged with being as amongst the laxest in the operation of money laundering controls.

However, although this turmoil has been ongoing for years and still is, our bullies Jourova and Giegold have chosen little Malta over which to flex their muscles – and they did so in the most cowardly and despicable manner.

They did not approach Malta and the Malta Authorities directly but went boo-hooing to the international media – and not the tabloid media, but media which they know carry weight, Britain’s The Financial Times and the Sunday Telegraph.

Giegold, who I guess as a kiddie must have seen a lot of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood cowboy films where they marched into crowded bar salons and ran criminals out of town, has taken it upon himself to try and run HSBC out of town in an attempt to damage Malta and its financial sector.

Commissioner Jourova – in my opinion certainly NOT FIT to be a Commissioner – did not have the least modicum of professional decency in her actions. In a meeting with Malta’s Finance Minister Professor Edward Scicluna a few days earlier she refrained to inform him that the EU Commission is to issue a “strong warning” to Malta’s FIAU, but instead went and spewed the information to the Financial Times.

A dastardly and cowardly action.

So there it is. Two typical bullies – not tackling the big sharks swimming around Europe but throwing their weight about against little Malta

What despicable specimens of humanity.

Certu Monica Scerri kitbet:

“Il veru bniedem ahdar tal gangala il vera kerretta tal hmic umbrell jilqa l bzieq”

Bravu iehor, certu Gino Agius, kiteb:

“Min dejjem kien cancer fi socjeta. Toni ahjar tibda thafer dik il hofra”.

ALBERT JEROME FENECH