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| Joseph Fava, Knight Templar |
Now you probably do not have a clue who he is. That's because he is a low profile man suffering from a seriously delusional condition - he thinks that he is this country's political king-maker. The problem is that throughout his life he has always backed the wrong man and for the wrong throne.
This bearded man started off in politics in the 1960s as a fully formed rabidly conservative right-winger, a member of the church's Gunta. Joseph Fava brags that as a Gunta member he disrupted many a Labour Party mass meeting. From there he gravitated towards the PN until he fell out, along with the man he wanted to make king, Josie Muscat. The reason? They wanted to bring down the illegitimate 1981 Labour government by non-democratic means. They called themselves the Front Freedom Fighters with many members who were closet fascists. Finding himself without a king to make in the PN, Joseph Fava defected to Labour in 1984.
The move did not alter his extreme right-wing views. If anything, he became even less moderate and progressive. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher are his gods, he does not believe that gay people should be given more rights and he fully supported the US invasion of Iraq. Calling for trenchant 'vigilance' against Muslims, he believes that the West needs to protect itself from an 'Islamic threat'.
But king makers get itchy and after a couple of decades wandering aimlessly in Labour's limbo Fava scratched where it itched. In 2004, he crossed over again and backed John Dalli's bid for the PN leadership. Presumably the delusional Knight Templar saw the Qormi boy as the anointed one to finally make his delusional right-wing views a reality. I have personally spoken to one sitting Nationalist MP who told me that Fava had approached him to back Dalli.
Where is Fava today? The king maker who failed for the second time to make a PN king is back in Labour. If you have the stomach for it, dip into his two pages of solid text in l-Orizzont on a Saturday. It is the same repulsive extreme right wing ideas and the same violent language verging on hate speech against people in the PN. In true closet fascist fashion he extols the leader in military language. Except that this time it is not Josie Muscat and it is not John Dalli he glorifies. This time he wants to make Joseph Muscat king.
The story of PN defectors continues ...
1 comment:
I think people like you tend to ignore the true meaning of politics. When we talk of politics we talk of ideology; meaning you believe in a vision and have a philosophy of how to go about it.
Now, I believe in right wing ideology and because of people like you and present members of the PN, have stayed away from that party which I once saw as my creed; The Nationalist Party.
Unfortunately during the last 30 years the PN has kicked out anyone whom has followed right wing ideologies. Literally speaking when someone dares arguing in favour of a Right Wing agenda he is harshly critisiced at and made fun at.
I do hope that you publish my comment since I assume that they have to be approved by you before being published, and most importantly give me a valid reason why I; as a Right Winger, should support the Nationalist Party when it no longer is Nationalist.
Ryan
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