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

Illegal immigration is causing us enormous harm both locally in our country as well as internationally with foreigners.

During the last few days this international aspect of the issue took great prominence when the foreign media had a field day denigrating us because it insisted that we left more than 70 immigrants from Eritrea drown because we did not want to bring them to our country and wanted them to continue on to Lampedusa, where only five of them arrived.

It was useless that we denied all this, because just the same the bad impression of our cruelty continued to be given by the foreign media.

With this incident the problem of illegal immigration has now taken another dimension for us.

It is no longer a great social problem for our people, but has now become a great political problem for our country on the international plane.

And while we have the means to curb the problem of illegal immigration in our country if we want to, we do not have the means and the power to curb the damage that the international media is doing to us.

In the opinion of many we have now came to this dire situation because of the fact that we did not manage this issue with transparency, indeed hid from our people to do what the EU wanted us to do, and not what was in the supreme interest of the Maltese people.

We did not explain to the people that the issue of the obligation of granting asylum is a different issue from the obligation of saving from drowning.

Our obligation to save others from drowning is not contested by anyone, whether it is illegal immigrants that are going to drown or not.

But this obligation does not carry with it the obligation to grant asylum to those whom we save from drowning.

The obligation of saving from drowning does not emerge from our membership in the EU, but from international law that binds every civilized nation.

In the case of granting asylum you do not consider whether the person was going to drown or not.

Even the granting of asylum is regulated by an international convention on refugees, and our country had accepted that convention in 1971.

But the Maltese government (of Prime Minister Borg Olivier) had made a number of reservations to the convention, because the small size of our country does not permit us to accept an unlimited number of refugees.

When the Maltese Government

* (of Prime Minister Fenech Adami)

* started negotiating for our country to become an EU member,

* the Union insisted that Malta repeals all the reservation

* to the refugee convention

* otherwise it will not accept Malta’s membership.

And the Maltese Government yielded and thus betrayed our national interests.

Worse than this,

* the EU bound Malta with its Dublin II agreement regulations

* that oblige us to grant asylum

* to the illegal immigrants who come to our country,

* and if they do not qualify for refugee status,

* we have to consider whether they are entitled

* to humanitarian protection,

* which means that we shall have to keep them in our country.

In this manner,

* with EU pressure

* and the weakness of the Maltese Government,

* the Maltese people without knowing because no one told them,

* found out that our country had opened the doors

* to the invasion of illegal immigrants.

And without telling the people,

* they changed the law that considered it a crime

* to enter our country without permission,

* and changed it so that it was no longer an illegal act,

* but became only an administrative irregularity.

Therefore while the law was changed,

* whoever was caught without permission in our country,

* the Court used to order their deportation.

This all happened without anyone explaining to the people what were going to be the consequences –

* thousands of illegal immigrants roaming around our country’s roads.

The tactics of hiding from the people led to the situation where the Maltese Parliament for a number of years never discussed the problem of illegal immigration.

Indeed, it was said

* that there was a national consensus about it,

* when the vast majority of the people

* certainly did not agree with the manner

* of how thousands of illegal immigrants

* were being kept in our country.

To confound the people more,

* they started mixing our duty

* to treat decently the illegal immigrants

* with whether we have the duty to keep them here

* and integrate them into Maltese society,

* as the EU wants us to do,

* and is ready to give us money to do so.

We did not explain to the people that the EU looks at immigration in a totally different manner than what our people consider this problem.

The EU needs immigrants,

* and until it prepares a programme to secure it from illegal immigrants,

* it is ready to accept illegal immigrants to sustain its economy.

We, on the contrary of the Union,

* do not need immigrants,            

* and we cannot accept them.      

Therefore in our case,                      

* we are making a big mistake       

* to implement the same EU policy

* and regulations in this sector       

* when we know that they are not suitable for our circumstances.

We should tell our people that the illegal immigrants have a right to good treatment for their human dignity, and in the first place for life.

But we should also tell our people that the illegal immigrants do not have a right to live in Malta.

Neither does the EU have a right to give them the right to live and work in our country, although it has a right to insist that we respect their human dignity.

We have a duty that as long as the illegal immigrants are here we provide them with food and give them decent lodgings, clothed and health services.

But we do not have a duty to provide them with employment.

Once the illegal immigrants                           

* are in our country without authorization,

* we have a right to put restrictions           

* on their freedom of movement                

* by keeping them in closed centres.         

We are not obliged to see whether the illegal immigrants who find themselves in our country on their way to Europe whether they qualify for the granting of refugee status, or if they do not qualify whether they should be granted humanitarian protection.

We will only be obliged to consider this if the illegal immigrants that come to our country to ask for asylum.

It can be said that none of them wants asylum in Malta when they know that with it they cannot go to work in some bug EU country.

We should also explain to the people what is exactly the European Union’s Frontex mission?

What should the Frontex ships do when they see an illegal immigrants’ boat?

Should they stop it and push it back,

* or should they accompany it on its way to a European country?

If they should not push back a boat with illegal immigrants’,

* the Frontex patrols are not curbing illegal immigration,

* but helping it.

If the patrols by the Frontex ships should stop boats with illegal immigrants on their way to Europe, they would be denying the immigrants the opportunity to ask for asylum.

This is the dilemma of the Frontex mission

* and we need to tell the people straight and clearly

* whether Frontex was set up to curb illegal immigration

* or to encourage it.

Lately we have seen European Union officials object to the Italians that pushed back illegal immigrants to Libya.

Objection was also made to Malta.

The Italians stood up to the Union and threatened to use their veto in the case of every decision that the Union would want to take.

The reaction of the Maltese Government is not known.

What is certain is

* that if it was for the majority of the Maltese people,

we should tell the Union

* that if it really wants to curb illegal immigration,

* we should stop the illegal immigrants boats

* from taking them to Union countries.

Because if the immigrants would know that they will be sent back they will not be ready to continue paying their money and risk their life uselessly.

We need to explain to the people that if we do not want to continue helping the criminal organizations whose business consists in human trafficking, we should send back the immigrants.

As long as we continue to accept them, the criminal organizations will continue to profit from the hopes of the illegal immigrants of finding a new life in Europe.

If we discourage illegal immigration, we also prevent hundreds of illegal immigrants from losing their lives in our seas, notwithstanding that we make every effort to prevent such tragedies from happening.

Also here where moral ethics is considered –

* to prevent occasions in which illegal immigrants lose their lives,

* by discouraging the immigrants from sailing towards Europe clandestinely.

We should tell the people that when we send back the illegal immigrants we do not deny them food and water and essential things that they need for their journey.

We also assure that the means with which they are sent back will be good and not dangerous whatever will be the expense to make sure of this.

The alternative to sending the illegal immigrants back

* is not to keep them in our country,

* but to help them continue on their way to where they want to go in Europe.

We should tell the European Union that if it does not want us to send them back.

It should allow us to help them continue on their way to where they want to go in Europe.

There is no doubt that the vast majority of our people agree that this stance is adopted with the European Union on illegal immigration.

And they expect the Maltese Parliament to sustain this stance for the good and the interests of our people, and not allow the enormous international damage that our country is suffering and the enormous social harm that our people are suffering.

The European parliamentary member, Dr Simon Busuttil – who used to manage the Information Centre (MIC) on the negotiations that were being held between the Maltese Government and the EU for Malta to become an EU member – lately was caught how much he could have been twisting the truth when he was managing the MIC.

In an article that he wrote in a local English newspaper on 15 August, Dr Busuttil criticized one of the points that the Leader of the Opposition proposed to curb the increase in the cost of living.

The proposal that the ex-manager of MIC criticized referred to the products and services that the Government is already importing, as an example, petrol, diesel and oils.

However, Dr Busuttil saw a chance to take out only the first sentence of the paragraph which related to this proposal, which said that: “The Government itself imports products and services that are sold to the public in a different manner.”

And he left out the remainder of the paragraph while accusing the PL that it wants the Government to itself start import the same products and services as used to be done during the time of bulk buying decades ago!

My pint is this. As Dr Busuttil interpreted as suitable for him and his party in Government what the Leader of the Opposition proposed, couldn’t Dr Busuttil have done the same on the negotiations that were held between the Maltese Government and the EU for Malta to become an EU member?

In fact one of the Government consultants who had an important part in those negotiations on the environment and on the issue of hunting and trapping was Mr Saviour Balzan.

Mr Balzan himself uncovered the deceit that was made during those negotiations for Malta to become an EU member when on 7 May 2007 he wrote thus:  

“I would remind Simon (Busuttil) that there were countless untruths about Europe that were presented to the public so as to give the impression that Europe was a bed of roses.”

I had several encounters with Dr Busuttil both on newspapers and also on the programme “Xarabank”.
 

Once Dr Busuttil (who I have nothing against personally) told me:

Ed, why do you always attack me?”

I told him

“I attack you not on what you say, but more for what you leave out and do not say.”

God only knows how many things were not told to the Maltese people prior to the Referendum and which the people are now finding out about. Tell them about these things when the EU apostles come to your town squares.

Thursday 3 September 2009

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