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Norman Lowell
Born (1946-07-29) 29 July 1946 (age 78)
Valletta, Malta
Political partyImperium Europa

Norman Lowell (born 29 July 1946) is a Maltese Nationalist writer and head of Imperium Europa, a Right political party. He is also a retired banker and artist.[1]

Politics

Main article: Imperium Europa

Imperium Europa advocates Europe as their homeland. The party's remit is to unite "all European natives" (i.e., European-descended peoples, born in Europe) under one flag, hence the name "Imperium Europa" (European Empire), leading to "a Europid bond forged through Spirituality closely, nurtured through High culture, protected by High politics, enforced by the Elite." In his formulation Lowell combines Cosmotheism and the ideas of Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium.

Lowell contested the first European Parliament elections that were held in Malta on 12 June 2004, obtaining 1,603 first-count votes from a total of 250,691 votes cast (0.64%).[2] Lowell again contested the European Parliamentary elections in Malta on 6 June 2009. He received 3,559 votes,[3] out of 322,411 cast,[4] for just over one percent of the vote. In the 2014 MEP elections Lowell again doubled his votes to over 7,000, this time surpassing the Green Party's leader Arnold Cassola.[5]

In May 2019, Lowell once again contested the European Parliament election. This time, he obtained 9,693 votes from a total of 270,022 votes cast (3.59%).[6] This result makes Imperium Europa the third most popular party in Malta.[7]

Campaigning heavily against illegal immigrants, Lowell was the party's candidate in the 11th and 12th Districts in the March 2008 parliamentary election. He obtained 84 votes on first count from both districts, obtaining 0.03% of the overall votes.

Political descriptions

Nationalist

Books

Lowell is the author of Credo: A Book for the Very Few,[8] Imperium Europa – A Book that Changed the World, Aristocratic Manifesto for Imperium Europa (Arktos, 2019), and Jesus the Usurper: Murderer of Christ.[9]

Dionysian Action Painting

Lowell is an artist in his own abstract style, which he labels "Dionysian Action Painting".[10] He describes it as an ancient Greek art form based around "intoxication, frenzy, ecstasy, barbaric instincts". He says it captures feelings, rather than figures, and is the sublimation of the beast in man into art.[11][better source needed]

Controversies

On 27 March 2008 Lowell was sentenced to a two-year jail term, suspended for four years, due to his conviction on three charges of racial hatred, and one charge of insulting the President of Malta. He won the case relating to insults hurled at the President of Malta on grounds of freedom of speech but was also ordered to pay a fine of 500 Euros for racist terminology against Jews. Judge Quintano ruled that while a politician is free, this freedom is limited by the fact that Jews make up a part of the Maltese society and that no matter how small that part is, such talk constitutes racial hatred.[12]

Speaking outside the courthouse, Lowell told reporters, and a small crowd, "this is a sad day, a very sad day for the Maltese. The lights of freedom have been extinguished. We are going back to the medieval ages. The media will be the first victims of the establishment since they have to be extra careful on how they report items."[13]

On 10 January 2006 Lowell filed a civil libel suit against Malta Today editor Saviour Balzan. Lowell contends that two of the publication's articles, one entitled "Norman Lowell organises BBQ", and another entitled "Lowell’s neo-Nazis hit out at press after arson attack", as well as an editorial entitled "Get the bastards now, before it is too late", constitute a "coordinated, strategic, and orchestrated" effort to undermine his public reputation.[14]

On 30 April 2019, during a meeting of his party, Imperium Europa, Lowell compared Auschwitz concentration camp to the "Disneyland of Poland". When asked whether he denied the Holocaust happened, he said: "How can one deny something that never happened? ... This whole hoax is the biggest lie since the Virgin Mary."[15]

References

  1. ^ "Biography". Times of Malta. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  2. ^ "Malta Elections". Archived from the original on 2006-07-11.
  3. ^ Times of Malta "Norman Lowell doubles vote but does not surpass AD," (8 June 2009 - retrieved on 10 June 2009).
  4. ^ Department of Information - Malta "European Parliament Elections 2009 – Votes Cast," (10 June 2009 - retrieved on 10 June 2009).
  5. ^ Times of Malta Cassola: Lowell's electoral performance 'a concern for the country'
  6. ^ "Electoral Commission of Malta". electoral.gov.mt. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  7. ^ "Imperium Europa proud to take title of third largest party - The Malta Independent". www.independent.com.mt. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  8. ^ Lowell, Norman. Credo: A Book for the Very Few. JPS Books. ISBN 9993200190. [dead link‍]
  9. ^ Lowell, Norman (February 12, 2020). "JESUS THE USURPER: Murderer of Christ". Amazon.
  10. ^ "Dionysian Action Painting". imperium-europa.org. November 15, 1997. Archived from the original on June 5, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  11. ^ "Topic: Dionysian Action Painting". vivamalta.net. March 16, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  12. ^ Malta Law Courts.
  13. ^ "Norman Lowell gets suspended jail term". The Times of Malta. March 27, 2008. Retrieved March 22, 2009.
  14. ^ Xuereb, Matthew (January 11, 2006). "In the law courts". Imperium Europa. Retrieved March 22, 2009.
  15. ^ "Norman Lowell Denies Holocaust After Calling Auschwitz The 'Disneyland Of Poland'". lovinmalta.com. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
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