The benefit of the doubt?

Kate McMillan, is a freelance commercial and automotive airbrush artist living in Saskatchewan, Canada. She writes at small dead animals, which was voted the Best Canadian Blog in the 2004 Weblog Awards. She is also style editor at Outside the Beltway where she has just posted this entry about tensions with illegal immigration in Malta:

Staying well below the media radar is another European state struggling with illegal immigration. I don't know enough about Malta or the political climate to offer any opinion, but, I will offer that there is a pattern in the non-coverage given to these problems by the western media. The issues facing the Dutch in the wake of the Van Gogh murder, "Action Sweep Out" in Germany and this incident all share a common theme. Times of Malta, Jan.19

Keeping in mind my aforementioned disclaimer, I think that a country only 8 miles wide and 15 miles long, and within rafting distance of northern Africa might be extended the benefit of the doubt for creating strong deterents to illegal immigration. [CIA Factbook: Malta]
Not that everyone is rushing to apologize


UNHCR Country Operations Plan for Malta

United Nations Refugee Agency - Malta Page

Investigating immigrant assaults in Malta from Wired Temples