Bus-stop freesheet promotes 1930s-style fascist propaganda

Published: February 5, 2014 at 11:47pm

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The current issue of Malta Now, the freesheet distributed at bus-stops and other public places, carries a big article by Norman Lowell’s companion and political partner, Arlette Baldacchino, about the inferiority of certain races and the credo of fascism (except that she doesn’t call it by its name). It is a propaganda piece for Imperium Europa and it’s presented to the reader as though all this is entirely normal – the public face of Malta.

It is the sort of thing you would expect to read in an archive of 1930s European newspapers – or 1950s newspapers from the American southern states.

Are we really that backward that we can’t understand these things are fit for publication only in minority-interest freaksheets, not freesheets for general consumption? Freesheets given out at bus-stops are for mainstream views, not diatribes by the likes of Arlette Baldacchino about why we can’t mix with certain races and the evils of miscegenation. For the life of me I could never understand why Baldacchino thinks her genes are so superior. If they were dominant, we would be a race of slow-witted midgets. She is around 4’8″ and spectacularly – I mean spectacularly – stupid.

And now we have her Hitlerian fantasies plastered all over freesheets distributed to an unsuspecting public and presented as what passes for normal in Malta (yes, yes, I know…but still).




22 Comments Comment

  1. La Redoute says:

    “We seek to protect our plants and insects as we do our people”.

    The cabbage and cockroach manifesto. How appropriate for Ms Baldacchino and Norman Lowell. You can’t say they haven’t made self-preservation a priority.

  2. Banana republic .... Again says:

    Actually, and unfortunately, that is the mainstream mindset in Malta.

  3. Edward says:

    I guess tourists might see these too right? What a great impression to make.

  4. H.P. Baxxter says:

    What is “ideologically pure”? Like a political virgin?

  5. Joe Fenech says:

    Next time they could have a comic strip inspired by Edwardian children’s adventure-magazine depicting Africans as primitive savages.

  6. Rumplestiltskin says:

    Shame on the publishers of that rag.

  7. Xejn sew says:

    The irony of it.

    She extols the greatness of Hitlerian ideas when if she were born somewhere under Nazi rule she’d probably have been exterminated under their eugenics programme.

  8. David says:

    Aren’t we a free country? If we censor politcial views we may disagree with, isn’t this really fascism?

    • H.P. Baxxter says:

      Oh hello you. Where did anyone mention censorship? This isn’t about not printing that piece, but printing one alongside it to question the ridiculous style, logic and substance. Better still, to print an interview with Arlette Baldacchino.

      In any case, on the off-chance that you might understand this, that piece is extremely incongruous among all the feel-good sandwich-filler articles on what is essentially a free paper for expats. Call it an error in brand positioning.

  9. Jozef says:

    Is that thing legal?

    Where’s Gauci Cunningham?

  10. H.P. Baxxter says:

    I don’t wish to bore anyone with a long missive, but this takes us back to Daphne’s observation about the game of shadows in Maltese social life, where everyone is treated as though they were normal.

    The trouble isn’t Norman Lowell or his views. It’s that Arlette Baldacchino is considered a perfectly normal member of society, and respectable too, and no one has found the courage – as if it needed courage – to challenge her, or Norman Lowell. All we get is over-the-horizon sniping by a few columnists, poo-pooing, or misplaced humour.

    The closest we got was Lou Bondì’s interview with Norman Lowell, which was abysmal, revolving around Bondì’s gushing admiration for black rock n’ roll artistes, and Lowell wishing he were somewhere else. They were both talking past each other, and we got nowhere.

    I expect more of the same for the MEP campaign. Lowell will get his sterile five-minute slot on PBS, as per the rules, with a wooden moderator looking on (Edward Scicluna used to be the star moderator, which says it all). And that will be it.

    There’s a vast intellectual chasm beneath our feet, and it will swallow us up yet.

    • Not Sandy:P says:

      The pseudo-liberal AD activist and Sunday Times columnist Claire Bonello acted for Arlette Baldacchino in a trumped up libel case against Daphne, defending her racist client against accusations of racism.

      There you go.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        How right you are. There you go.

        That’s because Daphne, as usual, is the only journalist – indeed, the only Maltese – to directly engage these people.

      • Jozef says:

        Perhap European Greens need this piece of information.

        But then, the link’s historical.

  11. Fido says:

    If, as Arlette Baldacchino says in her article about the Imperium Europa EP Candidate Antoine Galea that he is “… an environmentalist who lives at one with nature”, he should be proving at all and sunder that he believes in nature and the laws governing it. Within the scientific community, where objectivity is the maxim, race does not exist. What exists is the species. The term race has been exploited to make convenient subjective distinctions based on unclear sets of features and traits. If he is really the environmentalist as self proclaimed , he should at least abide by the scientific community’s objective classifications and not adhere to some convenient odious concepts as projected by Imperium Europa.

    • La Redoute says:

      “He lives at one with nature” implies that he grows his own food fertilised by his own excrement and weaves his own clothes from the chaff, assuming he wears any at all.

      Why WOULDN’T you vote for him?

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