Comments on: Mad Men: the Maltese version. Episode 4: Democracy and Free Speech

By: Claude Sciberras

Claude Sciberras — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:05:16 +0000

In reply to Claude Sciberras. ok found it... :o) i read your posts backward. its not an "attakk ahrax" imma qlajtilhom mhux hazin.

By: Claude Sciberras

Claude Sciberras — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:58:02 +0000

Daphne, what exactly was this “attakk ahrax fuq tfal ta 3 snin”? All I recall was some jibes about the names and another article in which you said that the twins sat in economy when their parents went club class on Emirates. Is that the attakk?

By: Grezz

Grezz — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:11:40 +0000

In reply to ‘Angus Black.

Thankfully, there are always internet clips to jolt people’s memories:

“The events which characterised Black Monday will be recalled in an online documentary to be uploaded on timesofmalta.com today.

The 20-minute feature puts the spotlight on October 15, 1979 when The Times building in Valletta was torched in the most violent political attack against a media organisation in Malta.

Socialist thugs had gone on the rampage in Birkirkara, attacking Eddie Fenech Adami’s home and family before proceeding to Valletta.

The 30th anniversary documentary is narrated through the eyes of five of the protagonists of the day – former editors Victor Aquilina and Charles Grech Orr, former managing directors Ronald Agius and Wilfred Asciak as well as Mary Fenech Adami.”

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091015/local/black-monday-anniversary-video.277449

By: 'Angus Black

'Angus Black — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:11:02 +0000

In reply to Grezz.

“Look at what they did to The Times, burning it down…”

Unfortunately they have also infiltrated The Times quite successfully. Memories at The Times are also fading fast. Shame!

By: kev

kev — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:30:43 +0000

In reply to Harry Purdie. Indeed, Purdie, it's getting very, very scary. Only Basil Rathbone can save us now.

By: kev

kev — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:25:37 +0000

In reply to kev.

Iva… m’ilux, fuq Super One, in-nannu tieghi hekk kien irrefera ghal Bulculuvier – “dak f’hiex jihfem!” qal, waqt li ddefenda lil Strickland…

By: old-timer

old-timer — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:08:57 +0000

They thrive on hate and envy. You can see these two vices on their faces

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:19:28 +0000

This is getting scary, Daphne. Reminds me of ^The Hounds of Baskerville’.

By: Grezz

Grezz — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:25:58 +0000

Regarding Gino Cauchi’s comment of yesterday about you (which I have only just read), one can hardly expect better from someone brought up in with old Labour ideals, where anyone who dared speak up against the Labour government of the time, or who thwarted Labour in any way, was silenced.

Look at what they did to The Times, burning it down, at how Fenech Adami’s home was ransacked and his family attacked, how the Curia and the Law Courts were attacked – The list is endless.

For some people, it must be normal to think that way, and to think that the government has a right – or duty – to silence people that disagree with it or that thwart it.

Gino Cauchi, we’ve had 24 years of relative peace and prosperity, and are thankful for them. I am glad that my children know what it is like to have a peaceful childhood, free from Labour thugs driving through their hometown menacingly, and free from the near-daily tension that came with Labour being in government. Sadly, it looks like the peace of mind won’t last much longer.

By: bookworm

bookworm — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:51:41 +0000

The only comparison I can think of when you write about ‘Mad Men’ and the Maltese version thereof, is that they’re both entertaining.

The difference is that at least the men from Madison Avenue strive to achieve something positive (notwithstanding their very often non-democratic ways), while the Maltese ‘Mad Men’ in question present to me an idiosyncratic symptom of an allergic nature (a case in point would be JPO) and never learn from their idiotic exposure.