When Daphne wrote, “There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate,” she wasn’t exaggerating. She wasn’t being dramatic. She was stating fact.
And look around—how desperate does it have to get before we call it what it is?
We’re living in a country where the Prime Minister, with a straight face, tells us “the institutions are working.”
Meanwhile, Bill 125 passed — and most of the country didn’t even blink.
Apparently, it’s now dangerous for the powerful to be questioned. So they passed a law — not to protect us, of course, but to protect them … from us.
From scrutiny. From accountability. From justice.
Let’s be real: Bill 125 is a disaster.
It strips people of the right to request an independent magistrate-led investigation—replacing it with a cosy little club of gatekeepers who’ve already proven they can’t be trusted to act. That’s not efficiency. That’s not progress. And it is most certainly not socialism.
This government likes to throw that word around like it’s a birthright. Like waving a red flag makes them champions of equality. But there’s nothing socialist about silencing people. There’s nothing socialist about selling off public land to private developers. There’s nothing socialist about shielding the powerful while the rest of us scrape by. This is not socialism. This is spin.
You know what socialism looks like?
- It looks like affordable housing that real people can afford — not luxury apartments forinvestors and their tax advisors.
- It looks like transparency — not ministries hiding behind “ongoing investigations” until thenext election.
- It looks like a healthcare system where millions are invested for the benefit of the public— not flushed away in a fraudulent deal with Vitals and Steward.
- It looks like a free press, not a government that bullies journalists and blacklists critics.
- It looks like truth-tellers being protected — not blown up in broad daylight while the statelooks the other way.
Socialism isn’t about control. It’s about care.
It’s not about winning elections. It’s about earning trust.
It’s not about handing out favours. It’s about standing up for fairness.
And that’s what Daphne fought for.
She fought for a Malta where justice didn’t depend on who you knew. She fought for a country where corruption wasn’t normalised or ignored. She fought for light in dark places—and she paid with her life.
Her legacy isn’t a memorial plaque. It’s a question that refuses to go away:
Who’s benefitting, and at whose expense? We’re told to be grateful. To stay quiet. To let the “experts” handle it.
But here’s the truth: We don’t need more strongmen. We need stronger citizens. People who read. People who ask. People who push back.
Because Daphne’s legacy is not silence. It’s resistance.True justice doesn’t trickle down – it rises from the courage of those who dare to speak.
So no — don’t tell us to calm down. Tell them to clean up.
When they try to shut us up, we bang our pots and pans. Because when justice is ignored, even the kitchen starts to riot.
Because this is not justice. This is not progress. And this is not socialism.
Malta deserves better – and it starts with remembering who we are, and who she was.
The crooks are still everywhere we look. But so are we. And that’s where hope begins.