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WE SWEAR TO FREE MALTA FROM THE SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND DICTATORIAL ILLEGAL EUROPEAN UNION RULE

  

TELL YOUR PARLIAMENTARY DEPUTY THAT YOU WANT MALTA TO REGAIN INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

 

The European Union ordered that in 2011 the Maltese and Gozitan people pay it €68,000,000

€186,000 daily stolen from your childrens mouths

 

The decisions were not taken in the national interest

 

By the CNI Chairman

 

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The Government is going ahead with the agreement with the European Union about the Malta Shipyard. 

 

The two shameful decisions, 

* that the Shipyard is to be sold to foreigners, and 

* that the Shipyard work force is to be drastically reduced, 

* were not taken in the national interest.

 

It is not in the national interest that the number of those who retire from work early increases. 

 

Our country needs more people to continue working as much as possible, not to retire early from work. 

 

Neither is it in the national interest to reduce the number of tradesmen. 

 

Our country requires that more people be trained in trades, not to have less in future. 

 

And certainly it is not in the national interest that strategic pieces of our country’s land, such as 

* the docks, 

* quays, and 

* the Shipyard workshops, 

do not remain the property of the Maltese people by being passed on to foreign owners. 

 

As a prostitute that sells its body, the Maltese Government is selling Malta’s body.

 

It was no plan at all

 

Today’s despicable decision about the Shipyard are failure certificates for the European Union and the Maltese Government plan decided seven years ago for the restructuring of the Shipyard. 

 

About that plan, on 19 January this year, Engineer Lawrence Ciantar, who trained in the Shipyard and for a long time managed the Power Station and EneMalta Corporation, thus wrote in the newspaper “Il-Ġens Illum”:

 

What was called a restructuring programme was nothing else except an exercise in the reduction of workers to reduce the current expenditure. 

 

No investments were made in modern tools and machinery to increase the efficiency and quality of work. 

 

No training was given to the employees in new technology, and particularly in management. 

 

The reduction of apprentices entries, so much required for the Shipyard to continue developing, strongly weakened the Shipyard potential for the coming years.


When the country needs so many more youths to train in trades, the entry of apprentices in the Shipyard was reduced. 

 

This fundamental mistake, the reduction in the intake of apprentices, did not only occur during the last seven years. 

 

In “The Malta Independent” of 23 June 2008, Roger Mifsud, a journalist who for some time was an editor of “The Times”, stated how, even in 1988, Prime Minister Fenech Adami had told him that he was going to reduce the number of Shipyard workers, by not allowing the entry of new workers to replace those who retire.

 

They dismantled most assets

 

Even journalist Godfrey Grima told “Il-Ġens Illum” on 21 June, that the reduction of tradesmen 

“was perhaps the biggest mistake that dismantled the Shipyard from the best assets that it had. The Government here appeared that it neither has imagination, neither vision, nor the ability to create a better future fort the Shipyard.”

 

This great mistake, this great lack of imagination, of vision, of ability, the Ministers are showing them by the irresponsible decision that they took on 9 June, to drastically reduce the number of Shipyard workers.
 
On this point, Professor Godfrey Baldacchino told the “Ġens Illum” on 21 June: 

“The Prime Minister mentioned the possibility of a reduction of the workforce as a possible solution”, for the loss made by the Shipyard, even when the Shipyard has work. 

 

But, he continues to say: 

“If there is work to be done, to reduce the number of workers I do not think is going to help. If it is the productivity or output, or gross revenue per person hour that needs to increase, therefore the labour force does not necessarily have to decrease, but has to be employed in a different manner, and perhaps also increased, according to requirements.”

 

For many, what the Maltese Government and the European Union have decided about the Shipyard, 

* is nothing except the implementing of a plan to put the Shipyard in disarray, 

* does not allow to continue to be a big enterprise, and 

* shed its workers. 

 

Because it is very strange how during these last few years, 

* the Shipyard was allowed to be managed in the most inefficient manner, 

* which cost great amounts of money to the Maltese people, 

* on the dishonest pretext of the workers fault.

 

The challenge for an inquiry

 

On the pretext that he does not want to put the blame on anyone for the loss incurred lately by the Shipyard, the Prime Minister ran away from the workers challenge to hold a public inquiry about the management of the Shipyard. 

 

But the Government cannot get away from the greatest blame that it has. Professor Baldacchino asked: 

“How can the workers be blamed, when the responsibility for the management was put in “professional management” hands, that is then guided by and answers to the Board of Directors?” 

 

He continues to say that: 

“Once the Shipyard is no longer managed by the workers, as it was between 1975 and 1997, it is certain that the workers cannot be accused with the present situation of the enterprise.”

 

However, the bad consequences of the sham manner in how the Shipyard was managed by the incompetent management and used by the Government are going to be suffered blamelessly by the workers who are going to lose their employment, and the whole country that is going to lose great human resources, which are the tradesmen. 

 

It’s not in vain that many have criticized in the strongest manner the anti-national decision about the Shipyard, agreed between the Government and the European Union.

 

Criticism of the decisions

 

Engineer Lawrence Ciantar, on19 January last, insisted that the 

“Shipyard had and still has potential to be commercially viable, with competent workers and with the required equipment to carry out great works.”

 

Journalist Godfrey Grima on 21 June stated that the Shipyard has such a great potential that there are a number of investors ready to buy it and that 

“no one would invest millions without having a level of profit that he can take back.” 

Godfrey Baldacchino, on 21 June, insisted that 

“The future of an enterprise such as the Malta Shipyards should not be bad.  There will probably be a strong demand for its services, and for many years.”


Journalist Roger Mifsud, on 23 June compared the reduction of the workers from the Shipyard with an abortion that the Government decided to do, to do away with the social burden that it has the duty to carry in the interest of the nation. 

 

He criticized the Government for the lack of consultation with whom it was obliged to consult in Malta, before deciding about the Shipyard. 

 

He asked whether there were other reasons for the sale of the Shipyard that are not being stated.

 

CNI condemns the decision taken by the government with the agreement of the European Union. 

 

CNI is not ready to give its consent, because it does not want to be the executioner of the national interests.

 

Eddy Privitera asks:

 

How can you be European?

 

In Malta, like other EU countries, the EU apostles spread propaganda that for things to be done properly, “you have to be European”. 

 

As if being English, French, Italian, Maltese etc, is not enough, “you have to be European”.

 

This fib has been promoted even in Malta to impress the workers and their unions, that in the EU things will start to be made properly and in a democratic manner, that the workers will start to be informed with what is happening in the enterprise where they work. 

 

And this is their right because this is stated by the EU regulations.

When we came to reality we have seen how this is not implemented in practice, with the greatest example, the selling of the Shipyard to foreigners. 

 

And we have seen other cases, such as those of Sea Malta and other factories that have suddenly closed down.

But many workers believed the propaganda of the EU apostles, and are now becoming aware that they have been deceived.

 

It the EU gods really believe in information and consultation with the people that are going to be hit by some decision that is going to have a series impact on their living, these European Commission gods would insist that the governments have to totally inform their people about the treaties that are going to have a strong effect on the people’s sovereignty. 

 

An after giving all information, these people should be consulted by means of a referendum.

 

In fact the EU make everything possible for this right of information and consultation shall never be given to the EU peoples. 

 

And when it is given, as in the case of Ireland, the EU would only be ready to accept a YES vote for that which it wants to do to continue on its way for a single European state. 

 

For this purpose the EU forgets that there exists that which is called democracy. 

 

We ask: is this what you have to do to be called a “European”?

 

Does the EU make miracles?

 

As far as I know, miracles are made by persons of great holiness, and by means of miracles the Catholic Church declares them saints after many years. 

 

Today, I am convinced that certain people that haven’t the slightest sign of holiness, but are rather blinded by sheer arrogance, are capable of making miracles.


I am referring to the European Commissioners. 

 

You will be amazed what quality of miracles are made on certain people who normally consider these Commissioners more like devils than saints.
 
We the Maltese are fortunate because these Commissioners succeeded in making a miracle with some of our Maltese brothers. 

 

I know a person who both prior to, as well as after we became members in the EU, looked at the EU as a bull looks at the red cloth held by a matador in his hands. 

 

Suddenly this person became an-EU apostle preaching the good wisdom with which this corrupt and anti-democratic institution that exists in Europe is enriched.


If Saint Paul saw the light and converted while he was on his way to Damascus, this person surely converted, thus so suddenly, while he was on his way home late at night, on 13 June.

 

Are they ready to give a ‘free vote’?

 

When that new treaty which probably will take the place of the Lisbon Treaty, for another time, be presented for ratification before the Maltese Parliament, are the two sides of the House ready to give the Maltese people the right to say whether they agree or not with that treaty by means of a referendum?


If they do not have the courage to really be “near the people”, as they frequently preach, at least do they have the courage to give a free vote to all the Parliamentary deputies? 

 

And that this free vote would be a secret one so that it really will be secret?
 
We believe that in case that this free vote is given in a secret manner, there will be a good number of deputies that say NO, as the peoples of Europe shall say if they are given the chance.

 

Thursday 3 July 2008.

 

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

 

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