Kevin Cassar’s piece on Marvin Gaerty is a prosecution brief dressed as commentary. It is one-sided, selects its facts carefully, and arrives at a predetermined conclusion. It deserves a direct response.   Before anything else, one biographical fact deserves to be stated clearly because it is absent from Cassar’s account. Marvin Gaerty did not arrive […]

Il-Prim Imhallef Emeritu Degaetano għandu kull dritt jinterpreta l-fatti kif fehemhom hu b’mod li kull ilma beda jaħsbu misħun.   Madankollu n-nies għandhom dritt għall-fatti kollha. Domt ftit sigħat ma weġibt biex nilħaq nivverifika l-punti kollha.   Il-kommunikazzjonijiet kollha li saru miegħu saru bil-miktub mill-Ministru tal-Ġustizzja ta’ dak iż-żmien, u kienu dwar punti loġistici u […]

Yorgen Fenech is acquitted by a jury by practically an absolute majority. What happens next: The jury system is attacked. The jurors are attacked. The verdict is questioned.   Then comes a full-blown media campaign, even dragging in Melvin Theuma, the man who was granted a presidential pardon, to keep the narrative alive. All this […]