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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 23 MARCH 2014 21 action to protect an institution from 'vilification' – and I' ll resist the temptation to comment on the many occasions this same institution has vilified others, without facing any consequence – while taking no corresponding action to safeguard the interests of the real victims of the crime. No, not just the animals – those were victims, yes; but ultimately only the means used to impart a message that was clearly targeted elsewhere. The true victims of this episode are all the people who were justifiably outraged and dismayed, as was very obviously intended by the perpetrator. For this we have his own word… including all the notes he left at the scene of the crimes, and even the two signed statements released by the police. All this evidence points towards a totally different set of motives which have nothing whatsoever to do with Catholicism. So to prove the charge of 'vilif ying the Catholic religion' in court, the prosecution will have to demonstrate how the entire sequence of crimes was all along intended to be interpreted as an insult to practitioners of the Catholic faith. Exactly how they intend to achieve this, when the suspect has already admitted and explained his motives, is just another mystery to add to this increasingly surreal concatenation (geddit?) of inexplicable events. Even if they succeed – let's face it: it's the Maltese law courts, anything is possible – the most that can be thrown at the offender is a term of imprisonment between one and six months. That's an awfully disproportionate sentence for people who genuinely vilif y Catholicism – especially when you consider what constitutes 'vilification' at law – but at the same time it's a merely nominal sentence for a case which has infuriated and exasperated the public, yes… but which also seems to def y all logical parameters of criminal justice. As things stand, the court has ordered a psychiatric evaluation, and – given how the prosecution has already plotted a collision course with the inevitable – perhaps this is just as well. Meanwhile, equally inevitably, everyone seems to have spectacularly overlooked the most compelling evidence to emerge from this bizarre picture. The Enemalta connection. Never mind Catholicism, which is a new kid on the block any way. There are older, darker, more ancestral powers in the universe… and they have very visibly left their paw-prints all over this case. Think about it: it cannot be a coincidence that while all this animal ritual nonsense was going on – allegedly perpetrated by an Enemalta employee – Enemalta itself was engulfed by one scandal after another. Otherwise, we shall have to believe that corruption on a grand scale went unnoticed by the authorities for years… and only suddenly came to public attention the moment a dead cat was found crucified in Mosta. Coincidence, my foot. That's clear evidence of a Satanic pact if there ever was one: those cats and dogs were not merely 'crucified '… they were obviously sacrificed as part of a dark alliance aimed at laying a demonic curse upon the state energy corporation, with spectacular effects we have all seen over the past two years. And it is a curse that has spilt out onto other, remotely connected sectors, too… for instance, those areas which were administered by the same minister at the time. Can anyone be surprised, then, that Arriva buses suddenly developed this 'habit' of occasionally bursting into f lames? Did nobody notice the distinct smell of brimstone in the air every time this occurred? Or the smouldering hoof-prints in the tarmac? And was it not recently that a bus was taken out of service altogether, after experiencing supernatural phenomena that could only be attributed to (what else) a ghost? A technically very capable ghost, I might add. A ghost who knew how to hotwire a motorised vehicle, for instance; and how to fiddle with the electronic systems, so that the headlights magically came on by themselves. Must have been the forlorn spirit of a disgruntled ATP employee… if so, perhaps he could haunt my car instead. I'm having some trouble with the electric windows… In any case: how can the emergence of so many otherworldly phenomena possibly be explained – all at the same time, and all affecting related sectors of public administration – if not through the mounting evidence of a premeditated ritual cursing of Enemalta and all its extended tentacles? And yet, faced with so much evidence, all they can come up with is 'vilif ying the Catholic faith '. May the spirit of Elune protect us all… How can the emergence of so many otherworldly phenomena possibly be explained if not through the mounting evidence of a premeditated ritual cursing of Enemalta and all its extended tentacles? Download the MaltaToday App now