GUNFIGHT AT THE SLIEMA PN CORAL – Adrian Delia has now become Malta’s Steve McQueen/Clint Eastwood;
Just as Edwin Vassallo declared Daphne Caruana Galizia to be Malta’s new “Our Lady of Sorrows”, I am hereby pronouncing Adrian Delia to be Malta’s new Steve McQueen/Clint Eastwood and will now take his place in “The Hall of Fame”.
Those of us old enough to remember them recall the cowboy western films of the 50s and 60s and the heroes Glenn Ford, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood and many others playing the tough, rough, outstandingly honest and righteous cowboy.
The hero would ride into town in the morning, a town run by a corrupt Sheriff and Deputies, a town filled with vices and scandals, a town run by bullies with the poverty-stricken community afraid to act or speak out. Our hero would head for the main saloon bar.
You remember the saloon bars too, crowds of men playing poker, a few dancing girls and a black man playing honky-tonk music on a piano. As soon as our hero walked in, guns strapped to both hips, his hat jauntily slanted to one side, he would stride to the bar and order a whisky. The saloon bar would fall into an ominous silence; the honky-tonk piano would stop playing.
The end of the day would see him riding off into the sunset, hat still jauntily slanted, having cleaned up all the corruption, having had the Sheriff arrested together with all his Deputies, having run all the baddies out of town and with the community celebrating and dancing in the streets.
Enter Dr Adrian Delia!
Yesterday he strolled into the Sliema Coral and headed for the Sliema PN Saloon, walked in and propped himself up against the bar. Emulating the scenes from the past, he called out his challenge to the Sheriff (i.e. our Commissioner of Police).
“Come and get me”, he bawled out. “I’m not afraid of you or anybody. I have nothing to hide. You know where I am. Come and get me if you dare”.
Well, well – it’s obvious that our Adrian Delia has been having too many late nights and his brain has fuzzed up. He is seeing himself as some saviour-hero, the man appointed by God to put Malta back on the path of righteousness. However, before he can do this, he has to clean out all the “baddies”.
Besides pumping up his hip-gun holsters and challenging the Sheriff (i.e. our Police Commissioner), he explained who the baddies are.
These are three bad men who invented an Electrogas Power Station (when the previous oil-powered station was doing perfectly well, polluting the air, causing cancer, turning the population into paupers with enormous energy prices and providing commissions for the select) merely so that they can launder €5000 a day!
These are the baddies that have ruined Malta internationally (as Kazakhstan lover Ana Gomes will testify), are causing the population to starve with hunger, are causing thousands to sleep on pavements and in playgrounds (with winter coming!) while they are building up their accounts and having a jolly good time.
Well Dr Delia, carry on with your dream fantasy world of myths and fabrications. Your rating has already plunged abysmally and you and your advisory cronies are doing their level best to plunge it even more abysmally.
However, some day when you awake and come to your senses, please know that everybody (well almost everybody) is having a f**k**g good time and making the best of these good times following 25 years of standing still.
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ALBERT JEROME FENECH
