L-Orizzont mourns a lost world

Published: November 30, 2011 at 11:40am

Yesterday, L-Orizzont completely ignored the news of the prime minister’s visit to Libya (presumably on the assumption that its readers will get the information elsewhere – good going for a newspaper) and instead carried the following letters to the editor, which have a ring about them of having been written by the editor himself.

TEFGHUHOM FI GWERRA
Sur Editur,
Kemm huma bravi l-pajjizi membri tan-NATO mmexxijin mill-imxajtna Stati Uniti tal-Amerika.
Tefghu lis-Serbja u l-Kosovo fi stat dejjiemi ta’ gwerra

STRATEGISTA,
Siggiewi

DINJA AHJAR
Sur Editur,
Id-dinja kienet ferm ahjar qabel is-sena 1989 milli wara, ghax hlief gwerer militari u gwerer finanzjarji m’hawnx. U l-guh u l-faqar dejjem jikbru daqs qatt qabel.

PLATO
Tas-Sliema




12 Comments Comment

  1. oldtimer says:
    November 30, 2011 at 11:55 am

    Plato, han saqsik – sejjer il-ballu ta’ Jason li se jsir go Villa Arrigo?

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  2. Jozef says:
    November 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm

    ‘Imxajtna Stati Uniti tal-Amerika’

    Terzomondisti prima maniera.

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  3. ciccio2011 says:
    November 30, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    Isn’t it amazing that a strategist and Plato find the time to write to the Editor of l-orizzont? Commies, the lot of them.

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  4. Observer says:
    November 30, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    Next…

    Id-dinja kienet ahjar b’Gaddafi u f’Malta kien hawn il-gid u x-xoghol….issa ergajna sirna kolonja tan-NATO u tal-UE

    HELSIEN
    Birgu

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  5. kev says:
    November 30, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    Agreed, this is highly esoteric stuff for the likes of Running Commentary. The only option is to ridicule. Bravi.

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  6. ghaqal?? says:
    November 30, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    My hunch is that those letters are authentic…yes there are people in the street who still think and talk like that.

    [Daphne – My hunch is that they’re not authentic, not unless L-Orizzont has corned the market in readers who can express themselves in a single concise sentence. I’m not questioning that people who think this way exist. I know that they do. People who WRITE that way are another matter.]

    Such people think highly of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Fidel Castro. They are their idols and would go down with an acute depression if one of them loses ground in one way or another. There are still people in Malta who would gladly break into chanting el pueblo unido… and bandiera rossa. I know a couple of people….I mean they exist. Not joking.

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    • Dee says:
      November 30, 2011 at 9:52 pm

      @MsDCG; those, I am sure, are 100% authentic. That is how they express themselves on a daily basis on ONE radio, during the phone-ins.

      And it is not just the callers who express such sentiments either.

      What is scary is that often it is highly-educated people who utter such anti-west, anti-American, anti-Semitic,anti-Nato and anti-EU sentiments.

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