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The Invasion of Atlantis
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Immigration; Posted on: 2010-08-31 16:26:10 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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The report concludes by recommending the cheaper strategy that is always
resorted to by today’s politicians, to make the natives feel guilty for
wishing to preserve the country they love.On 17 July, the Guardian newspaper published a 12 page graphic
comic entitled “The Unwanted,” written by Joe Sacco, a Maltese citizen
who presently lives in Oregon. “The Unwanted,” which can be read here,
purports to describe the cultural, political and logistical problems
being caused in Malta by large-scale illegal immigration from Africa.
Sacco’s parents were socialists, and emigrated to Australia in the
1960s to escape the influence of the Catholic church -- a hugely
powerful institution in Malta, where abortion and divorce are still
illegal. The parental antinomianism appears to have rubbed off on their
son, because his views tend towards the conventionally leftwing, with
other graphic offerings to his name about the travails of Bosnia and
Gaza.
“The Unwanted” does make some effort to understand the concerns of the
native Maltese. Nevertheless, the overall impression is one of
finger-wagging at the smallest member state of the European Union, which
it joined in 2004 at the instigation of the humorously-entitled
Nationalist Party, led by Lawrence Gonzi, who has been Prime Minister
since 2004 (he was narrowly re-elected in March 2008). Sacco’s comic is
the least annoying in a long line of denunciatory Guardian
features, all of which bear typically didactic titles like “Voyage to
Compassion,” “Malta’s Mash of Civilizations,” and “Hysteria is no answer
to the plight of refugees.”
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