Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has put up the comment below on facebook.
To accompany it he uploaded this graphic from the film based on Pink Floyd's, The Wall.
"It
is so much easier to conform, to abide by 'the rules', to
unquestioningly follow ... "Non-conformists do not have an easy life.
Martin Luther King was assassinated for peacefully militating against
racial discrimination, St. Francis of Assisi was beaten up by his father
when he started acting 'differently',
"Columbus faced mutiny for
insisting that the world wasn't flat, Gandhi suffered for labeling
imperialism as being intrinsically evil.............but they acted as
catalysts for change."
So is JPO now seeing himself sharing the same historical stage as Martin Luther King, St Francis of Assisi, Columbus and Gandhi.
Be still my heart. Which Floyd song do I need for this moment? 'On the turning away'? 'Comfortably numb'? 'Marooned'? 'The final cut'? ... Someone stop me, please.
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You forgot Norman Lowell, Arlette Baldacchino, and every crackpot on every roundabout and piazza corner in Italy.
They, too, believe themselves to be unique, daring and different.
And all, too, are middle-aged or plain old.
Issa m'ghadux jikkwota lil Sidna Gesu Kristu. Issa jisserva bi Francis ta' Assisi. Dan mhux , skond hu sar non practicing Catholic?
Waqt li nirriferi lil JPO ghat- talba ta' Francis ta' Assisi li tibda "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith...." infakkru li anke ix-xitan jaf jikkwota il-bibbja meta jaqbillu.
The delicate sound of Tander?
Wish you were there?
A momentary lapse of reason?
A foot in the door?
Money?
Not now Jeffrey?
Sorrow?
Lost for words?
High hopes?
What do you want from me?
Is there anybody in there?
Pullicino Orlando tried to be a catalyst to change Mistra Bay into a mini-Paceville.
This was the reason why he wasn't selected as minister - being non-confomist had nothing to do with it.
A momentary lapse of reason.
How about 'Comfortably Dumb'?
I've just read his comments in times.com where he claims that he won the last election for PN. Actually, had Alfred Sant not got his timing wrong, he would have lost the election for PN.
kemm hu sabih tara n-Nazzjonalisti jiggieldu bejniethom!
haqqkom.... :)
X'ministeru ried JPO? Tal-ambjent?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
The great men mentioned by JPO lived a life of non-comformity at great sacrificy even the ultimate. There is no comparison to a flash in the pan, here today gone tomorrow politician. This is a case of putting bigger men behind for a larger shadow.
Is he really comparing himself with a saint?? ara vera wiccu w s.... l-istess!
If JPO had any insight left , he would, by now, be aware of what is clearly evident to everyone else in Malta., ie that he has well and truly 'lost it'.
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