Miracle ? no sir, yu’re wrong

Newsweek, in a surprising article dated 89 August, talk about miracles allegedly made by Berlusconi during his first 100 days in power (this time…).

But, apart from the “emblematic” cleaning of garbage in Naples, I already commented favorably myself sharing the however the questions mark of the author, all what he quotes has nothing of a miracle.

A law to protect himself from well advanced judicial trials cannot be a miracle. Attempting to destroy the judicial system for his own personal interests is not a miracle, is danger for democracy, everywhere, including in Pakistan. But the author does not mention it.

Putting 3000 soldiers in the streets (about 700 at any point in time) when Italy already has more than 400,000 police and other security personnel is pure bullshit. Useful as propaganda but diverting the attention to small larceny while the plague is the real crime, the Mafia, the N’drangheta, the Camorra who increase daily their grip on Italian economy recycling their capitals.

As the Independent recently pointed out, Berlusconi is destroying the state thanks to the Lega Nord Ministers who give more and more power to unprepared lord mayors on security matters and more funds to the rich regions sinking even more the corrupt South thanks also to the absolute absence of the neo-fascist former Alleanza Nazionale too keen to stay in power and unable to face the blackmail of the Lega Nord essential for them to stay in power: suppressing a tax that was the main source of income for a the all municipalities without knowing how to compensate the lack of resources; dealing with his own legal problems instead of giving priority to the economy which is collapsing; staying silent on Georgia (he phoned his friend Putin, the same one he had once declared that he is a “real democrat”…)

In spite of the title of the article and six long paragraphs praising Berlusconi, the author, a certain Jacopo Barigazzi, ends it with these two sentences: “Italians like him (Berlusconi) now, but what they really want is economic stability. Cleaning up trash and harassing immigrants won't be enough.” So why such a title?

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