Follow up

Due to several mishaps (I am blaming them on a bad bout of prolonged vertigo) following the launch of my blog on Monday, some commentators have sent their contributions to my email address.
I had forgotten to enable the comment option. However, some people just preferred to limit their comments, on “It is all about power and control”, to me and did not want to publicise them.
This because one commentator felt that “local political and other parties scan and record personal expression for their data files”.
Is this paranoia? Or, does it explain why it is usually the same people with a partisan agenda who blog? What do you think?
I had also initially given out the wrong blog name, so my apologies to those of you I sent on a wild goose chase.
Anyway, things will improve as I settle in and my dizziness disappears, although according to an objective critic the vertigo has done wonders for my drawings.
Since I cannot tell who sent their opinions to my email address because they prefered not to comment on a blog and those who just could not access the blog comments, I am reproducing some of them anonomously.

May I be so bold as to make a comment? I liked it v much indeed though I think you are so used to being a balanced writer as a journalist that it did not have the Hansen bite. More you please, less balance.
I look forward to seeing more.
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One can see increasing evidence of Catholic Fundamentalism in certain establishment sections of our society, more concernedly because it seems to be emerging amongst the intellectual and academic gliteratii amongst whom are those expressing their horror that the decision of the censor to ban 'Stitching' might be reversed.
Yet, at the Manoel Theatre, recently all those same persons were present for a production, which included full frontal nudity, blashemy, buggery, clerical rape, homosexual priest rape of a mental patient - mind you it was all done with the utmost of taste.
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Very good but factually incorrect – I am sure we both saw Viva Maria when it first came out.
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Your blog on power and control is disturbing but doesn’t surprise me. I have for some time thought that the Christian church would wish to be as controlling as that other religion about which we have become preoccupied since 9/11.
Religious fundamentalism is more of a risk today due to the economic tsunami still to hit us all, when people will turn to their religious leaders for support and comfort. Religion will be the substitute for retail therapy!! Who was it who said that “religion is the opium of the poor”? Oscar Wilde I think.
I hope your blog will be an article in the Times of Malta.
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Interesting reading (and quite shocking).
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Good Blog. This country is run by the Church not by the State. In fact, you have a Prime Minister who was a former president of the Azzjoni Kattolika, a president who was a Jesuit and a deputy prime minister who is more of a bishop then a Cabinet minister.
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A very good article, I would publish it locally if you can find an editor ' bil bajd'. I totally share your views, brava.