I am not a pro-tghana lkoll troll who writes to defend them at all costs and ignores common sense. My harsh words against them, my open criticism in the media and my actions confirm that I am committed to ensuring that Malta ends up in a far better place than where we are today and the sooner they disappear, the better.

For many years now, I have also been urging others to stand up and be counted and join us in taking back power from the present political class that has let us down tremendously. This is not an easy task but - just as our forefathers faced far worse odds than we do today and succeeded in achieving their goals - I have no doubt that we too will succeed. So it is therefore not a matter of 'if' but of 'when'. And if we use the right tactics and strategies, the 'when' becomes sooner rather than later.

But the encouragement from seeing others rise up is soon dampened when you see them quickly falter and run out of steam - simply because of bad strategies - or being shepherded into narrow avenues out of which they cannot steer themselves.

One such group currently making the news is the self-branded and so-called 'Civil Society Network' (CSN). With all the backing, money, brains and national/international press they have been afforded, they should be well ahead of the field and a beacon for the many seeking solace. Instead, through one gaffe after another, they seem to be getting weaker rather than stronger, with fewer and fewer people attending their activities.

Different people I ask seem to have different ideas of who they are. It is time, then, for someone to ask some simple yet serious questions about them because, frankly, some things are just not adding up.

For instance, while we know the identity of those who those fronting this movement, what exactly are they after?

Are they truly after 'law and order' in the country - a common expression that they often use? Or is it all just an excuse to beat up a government that they simply want removed?

If it is about law and order then, surely, CSN itself should be the very beacon of these things instead of being seen to be breaking the very laws and orders of the land.

If the law says that you cannot take over public monuments and litter them, then CSN should stop doing so. It is not, after all, impossible to simply place flowers, photographs or whatever somewhere else, abiding fully with the very law that you say you wish to defend and showing through your own actions that you do practice what you preach. I risk being misinterpreted, so let me state clearly that I am not suggesting that people do not mourn and show respect for the dead, but they should do so in a way that exemplifies adherence to the law of the land.  

And if the law is such that Valletta Local Council has no say with regard to national monuments, then surely CSN (or anyone else) should not invade a Council meeting and act like a bunch of thugs with all their shouting and intolerance for other opinions. CSN should most certainly stop any of its members/others present from insulting - let alone touching - any members of the press, particularly hostile press. Whether you agree with it or not, CSN does have a perfectly legal right to ask and state anything that it likes. But, worse still, after the incidents, protagonists of CSN were very wrong in trying to justify in writing what happened at the Council meeting instead of condemning it.

Wrong is wrong, whoever does it, and if it wishes to be seen as the champion of law and order, CSN must fully abide by that law or else be seen as nothing more than a mirror of what it claims to be fighting.

Is CSN still demanding resignations from people such as the Attorney General and Commissioner of Police, whom they feel do not fulfil their duty to society? If so, I would like to point out that throwing paper darts at the Police headquarters just looks silly and does not make it happen. Furthermore, as resignations have not been tendered after four whole months of constant international media glare, then it's a pretty safe bet that the resignations asked for by CSN are not going to happen, either. A new tactic (legal) in this regard is therefore required or else wasting more resources on an unattainable goal will only end in failure.

I state openly that I want full and proper closure on this murder, as well as all other heinous murders, as I am sure do all other decent folk. However, yet again, the organisers of CSN are going about this in totally the wrong way.

So I have to ask: are you truly fully committed to finding out who was behind Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder or are you just - distastefully - using it for a totally different agenda?

For instance, your latest event last Friday, for instance, was in incredibly bad taste. You used the people who had gathered to mourn Mrs Caruana Galizia and demand justice for her. Being fully aware of the consequences, your speakers chose to use the photographs of two other unsolved and unrelated murders to arouse people's emotions for all the wrong reasons. Your speakers did so to a plan that omitted to state that, in Malta's psyche, these two old murders of years ago (during times of past, high political, tension) are murders committed on the Labour camp as much as the Nationalist camp. And, of course, you falsely painted the violence as being entirely one-sided...

Finally, you knowingly used a picture of Dom Mintoff - again with the intention of provoking emotions to "symbolise those who support corruption, political violence".

You know full well, just as we all do, that were Dom Mintoff alive today, 'tghana lkoll' would not be occupying Castille right now and neither would our country's name be in tatters.

You did all this knowingly and without the permission of the families involved - deliberately causing them all unnecessary stress and knowing full well that none of them would have approved. You used their pain to foment division, so that a current, criminal murder is transformed in people's minds into a political murder, without a single shred of evidence to back any of your insinuations.

This is all wrong, no matter how you try to justify it.

CSN leaders are not at all stupid and knew very well what they were doing. They also know very well that one does not catch murderers by playing on people's emotions and then trying your hardest to 'implicate' the whole Labour Party or use specific individuals from within - not without any proof to back it all up.

Nor does one protect law and order by breaking them oneself and neither does one achieve resignations from 'tghana lkoll' by throwing paper darts.

No, CSN's leaders are not at all stupid and we all know who they are and what really motivates them. Indeed, one does not represent society as a whole or, indeed, be seen as 'civil' by doing the above and then calling yourselves a network of Civil Society.

So the biggest question must surely be why, then, would they knowingly do all of the above and also fail us all, if not because of an ulterior agenda?