1./ In Malta one of the great political con-tricks of our time is reaching its climax. The nation's so-called progressives championed woke identity policies but appear to have used them as a veil to disguise corruption, mafia-links, money-laundering, violence and even murder.👇 
2./ It's a story with lessons for us all including whether we shouldn't be more alert to politicians who use the language of "kindness" and "inclusion" to guilt-trip and silence critics. Take the example of these two Maltese virtue-signallers: Joseph Muscat and Helena Dalli.👇
3./ There's nothing the former Maltese PM and Equalities Minister liked more than sounding off on homophobia or transphobia. One local journalist wasn't buying it. Daphne Caruana Galizia claimed many in the Cabinet were really crooks using woke policies to distract attention.👇
4./ She pointed out when Malta joined the EU in 2004 Muscat became an MEP and official liaison with the notoriously corrupt nation of Azerbaijan. After he was elected PM in 2013 financial links with Azeri firms mysteriously mushroomed. Then he began to sell EU passports.👇
5./ Malta raised €162M but refused to say which countries applicants came from. 400 would later be revealed to come from Saudi Arabia. The EU Commission expressed concern but did nothing because Malta was seen as a shining example of the modernising benefits of EU membership. 👇
6./ One key way Malta garnered EU plaudits was by pioneering Gender Self-ID, by which any man who says he's a woman has to be accepted as one; no questions asked. This catapulted Malta to no 1 country in Europe as rated by the LGBT lobby group ILGA. Muscat was pleased as punch.👇
7./ Daphne Galizia ridiculed Gender Self-ID; a policy pushed through by Helena Dalli. Dalli is now the EU's Equality Commissioner on a 250K+ salary. Here she is advocating Self-ID for the whole EU. She sounds terribly sincere. But should we really take her at face value?
8./ At the height of the Self-ID campaign she appointed a notorious enforcer with a reputation for street violence as a "civil rights advisor". In the 80s he'd worked for a disgraced Minister who was later found guilty of breaching an employee's human rights.👇
9./ Helena Dalli was one of Daphne Galizia's main targets in her blog. Here she is criticising Dalli's public support for Meinrad Calleja, who'd served time for cocaine trafficking linked to the mafia and who stood trial accused of murdering a politician.👇
10./ Daphne lampooned Dalli for the contrast between her hifalutin policies (all inclusion and kindness) and her real life nepotism; getting her sons appointed to plum jobs working for other Ministers, including her mate Chris Cardona, who soon became Daphne's bête noire. 👇👇
11./ Daphne was killed in a car bomb just a few months after that post while investigating a hugely corrupt deal to build a power plant in Malta with Azeri money that involved gangsters and political backhanders. Cardona was central to the deal.👇theguardian.com/world/2020/aug…
12./ Daphne Galizia was the sort of journalist every journalist starts their career wanting to be. She was threatened, spat at, and her dogs shot. Dalli's ruling Labour Party even ran accusatory billboards with her face on them. She refused to give up.👇newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
13./ When she was assassinated Daphne was driving to her bank to try to access her accounts which were repeatedly frozen in libel cases against her by Chris Cardona. She'd accused him of visiting brothels in Germany while on state business. 👇independent.com.mt/articles/2017-…
14./ Cardona is now accused of involvement in Daphne's death; most recently by those who admit to planting the car bomb. They say he attended a party months before the killing where he discussed with them Daphne's security and offered €150K to kill her.👇newsmalta.com/2018/10/08/chr…
15./ He's not the only close Cabinet colleague of Helena Dalli accused of involvement or massive corruption. Muscat's chief of staff, Keith Schembri, another target of Daphne's, has now been charged with money laundering too on a vast scale.👇theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…
16./ Dalli has never condemned any of her former colleagues. Even when Panama Papers exposed yet another Cabinet colleague, Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi's illegal activity the most Dalli could muster was "I would have done things totally differently". 👇riskscreen.com/kyc360/news/ma…
17./ Vultures now circle around ex-PM Muscat himself but when he and his wife were accused of stealing millions from the Maltese taxpayer in the Panama Papers, Dalli was happy to put her reputation on the line to defend them with a weepy column.👇timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…
18./ And after Daphne was killed Dalli blew an unforgiveable smokescreen claiming the journalist was a victim of "femicide". Daphne wasn't killed because she was a woman; despite misogyny. She was exposing corruption among Dalli's closest colleagues.👇 timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…
19./ Nor did she condemn those who attacked Daphne, days after the murder. Gender Self-ID champion, Deborah Schembri warned journalists they should not abuse their freedom of speech lest "Those who may feel they don't have legal remedy may take the law into their own hands.” 👇
20./ Maybe Dalli felt constrained since one of her own sons co-hosted a TV show that viciously trolled Daphne. The co-host was Mr Kindness Joseph Muscat's top aide, the MP Glenn Bedingfield. They asked listeners to track her whereabouts and send photos.👇 timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…
21./ Muscat put Helena Dalli forward to be an EU Commissioner at the height of the scandal. There was barely a murmur of EU criticism. That's changed. In Parliament last week critics argued the Labour Party's top brass must have known of the plot to kill Daphne Galizia.👇
22./ Yet Malta's credentials as a darling of the European woke "left" meant the debate almost never happened. It was opposed tooth and nail by proponents of Gender Self-ID including Maltese Labour MEP Cyrus Engerer. Who he you might ask?
23./ Before becoming an MEP he helped Dalli draft the Bill that introduced Gender Self-ID in Malta. She kept him in the job despite his being given a 2 year suspended jail sentence for distributing revenge porn after he was dumped by his boyfriend. How very "progressive".👇
24./ It's becoming ever clearer Malta's elite used newly fashionable woke ideas to whitewash their reputation and distract attention from their party's corruption. Some may have been willing to kill opponents. Yet they've been held up as a model to follow by LGBT lobbyists.👇
25./ The Malta debacle proves why we must examine proposed laws fearlessly. The fact another country has introduced them is irrelevant. We must ask what the proponents' real motivations are and what might they be hiding. Above all, like Daphne, we must refuse to be silenced.
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