SUBVERSION OF DEMOCRACY IN ITALY

(5 March 2010 - mourning democracy in Italy)


Have you ever had to meet deadlines?

To apply for a job, to pay a fine, to appeal a decision, to file taxes, to reimburse your loan, to vote?

Have you ever been fined for not observing time limits? Or have your requests ever been rejected for the same reason?

Companies are declared bankrupt when the fail to reimburse their loans. Not to talk about the hundred of thousand of US families who were evicted for the same reason.

Our life, since birth, is governed by deadlines, starting from the time limit to declare a new-born baby to the authorities.

And the majority of us have missed some deadlines and paid for it, in many ways.

The same applies for elections for public office. Electoral codes are very strict due to the strategic importance of elections. Even in Italy.

But not for MUGABERLU *

His party failed to submit on time the application for the next regional elections in Latium.

The list was rejected by the judges in charge of the procedures.

His party appealed.

The appeal was rejected.

MUGABERLU’s government issued an “interpretation” decree, with retroactive value in its views, to explain what the law really means (and not what everybody had thought and applied for more than 60 years!)

But such a decree is unconstitutional as, in Italy, Regions have the right to issue their own electoral codes for regional elections. In that case, the central government cannot overrule the regions (unless the regional law is not unconstitutional itself, which was not the case here).

The judges declared, surprise surprise that the decree could not apply to Latium.

MUGABERLU’s party filed again its request to be allowed to participate in the elections, thanks to the same decree. Other judges rejected the request.

And now MUGABERLU declares that his party suffered a violent injustice by the judges who applied the law and calls his supporters for a massive street demonstration. Sad memories of the twenties when Mussolini took the power with the support of part of the population.

Personal laws, as the 20 already approved in the interest of Berlusconi, are an abuse. Calling for popular demonstrations against one of fundamental component of the democratic state is subversion. Such a call by a Prime Minister is a coup d’état.

Italy is at the edge of totalitarism. When will the EU countries, the US react? When it will be too late, as usual? As when Mussolini and Hitler took the power? Democracy in Italy is in danger. Violence may erupt. The Italian democratic allies will be responsible if this happens.


*(see http://aprile25.blogspot.com/2010/03/mugaberlu.html)


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MUGABERLU

By now, Italy has become a real banana republic. And MUGAbe is getting a fair complexion when he compares himself to BERLUsconi.

Think at this:

Nineteen laws approved by the Parliament to protect Mugaberlu and one more in under discussion.

Out of 14 trials:
One was archived;
4 times Mugaberlu was acquitted;
once he was acquitted because in the meantime his government had passed a law establishing that forged accounts, the crime he was accused of, were no longer a crime;
5 times he was acquitted because the time limit had been shortened by his government;
2 are ongoing (and in one his lawyer was already recognized guilty of corruption on his behalf);
One is under instruction.

Mugaberlu continues to control television and a large part of the press. Public TV considers that being public means being the Master’s voice. To the point that they broadcast false information (Mugaberlu’s lawyer was “acquitted” they said instead of saying that he had been found guilty of corruption (and condemned to pay a huge fine) on behalf of Mugaberlu, but that he could not be prosecuted due to the shortened time limits imposed by Berlusconi himself. Worse, the majority of the channel journalists defended the director of information, and the TV CEO, appointed by Mugaberlu, refused to meet the representatives of 150,000 citizens who had called for sanctions against the Director of information.

Mugaberlu’s servants imposed the suspension of any political debate on public TV (there are practically none on his channels) before elections, to avoid criticisms.

The main Italian publisher, Mondadori, that belongs to Mugaberlu, refused to publish a book by Sepulveda , who was under contract with them, as too critical of Berlusconi himself.

Italy, in spite of its ratifying the UN conventions on corruption and the OECD Convention against bribery, made corruption a little more than a misdemeanor and shortened the time limits . At the same time, Mugaberlu and his allies celebrate Mr. Craxi, a former socialist Prime Minister, a good friend of his, who instead of facing the justice went on voluntary exile in Hammamet (Tunisia), a tourists’ paradise, after an (in)famous speech at the House stating that what he had done (corruption officially to finance his party) had been done by everybody (omitting to say that he had also become rich through corruption).

Allegedly to protect the privacy of citizen, as if the majority of citizen would be subject to wiretapping, in fact to protect himself and his combinazione allies, and the Mafiosi, Mugaberlu is pushing for a law that would de fact make it impossible for judges and police to wiretap suspected criminals. His Mafia friends are applauding.

Mugaberlu extended the concept of “emergency”, applicable to natural disasters to facilitate bureaucratic procedures, to “special events” such as the celebrations for a Saint, the World swimming championships in Rome, the 150 years of Italian unity (a date known since 150 years only thus justifying the emergency and urgent measures ) to the point that a small clan of friends of his right hand (the same who said that the Americans were lousy in the rescue of Haiti) Bertolaso made money without any control (now under investigation by the Justice).

The scandals with prostitution (women and men) continue to be revealed. And his taste for young women was confirmed with the presence at the next elections of his personal dental hygienist, Nicole Minetti, he met last December only after the “attack” he was the victim of.

Mugaberlu continues in his attempts to destroy the checks and balances system of the democracy, by attacking the independence of judges, the President of the Republic, the opposition. His concept of democracy is totalitarian: majority has all rights, minority can exist if it agrees with him. His last creation : a retroactive decree that determines what the time limit means for presenting electoral lists. His slaves, apparently to accommodate his last minute wishes to change the lists to be presented, did it after the time had ended (Rome). Or had not presented the minimum number of valid signatures (Milan). But Berlusconi and his advisers changed the rules that had always applied, just to cover the cases of his party, while many other parties had been rejected but no retroactive law was issued to reinstate them.
His coalition applauded a senator who had been forced to resign, not to be kicked out from Parliament, for false statements, for being elected through fraud organized by the Mafia, for being financed by the Mafia.

Pending the approval of another law that would protect him from trials while Prime Minister, he is using all possible delaying tactics to avoid testifying in court, thus hoping to reach the shortened time limit he cooked.

We often hear the Americans, and the Brits and Sarkozy, criticizing, rightly so, leaders (dictators ?) of developing countries for undemocratic behavior. All capitals know what is going on, at least by reading leading newspapers such as The Economist or Le Monde or El Pais, but hopefully through their ambassadors’ reports. Nothing to say about Mugaberlu ? Come on Ms. Clinton, silent for a change ? Wrong time, madam. Soon it will be too late and Italy will no longer be a democracy (is it still one ?). Indeed you are used to get along with dictators such as Mobutu, Pinochet, Argentineans and Brazilian generals, Saudi’s king, and more. So, one more or one less, it does not matter provided you can keep your atomic bombs stored in Italy.

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Icing on the cake for Berlusconi

The “attack” against Berlusconi could not have come at a better time for him and his clique. The real icing on the cake.

It arrives at a time when Berlusconi’s star was fading, when his continuous manipulation of the law to avoid trials, his family affairs, and his links with the Mafia, known since tens of years, were putting him against the wall, finally.

Now, thanks to the attack, he is a victim, although he is the one who created the violent political climate the Italian President, just before the incident, was trying to defuse.

He had just attacked the President, the most respected politician in the country, the Constitutional court judges, and the judges at large, all communists according to him, and of course the Press and the public television he controls.

But contrary to what officially his party was preaching, what even the Pope (usual interference with the Italian politics !) had asked for, the cooling down of the political debate, his lieutenants have today worsened it.

As usual, it is another those who changed side (Berlusconi’s party is full of these who jumped on the winning wagon, see for example in this blog “Culture Berlusconi’s way”) was the originator, a certain Fabrizio Cicchitto, a former left wing socialist, who, after almost thirty years in politics, suddenly, in 1999, became a supporter of Berlusconi. True that, like Berlusconi, he had been a member of an infamous right wing secret Masonic lodge, the P2, that conspired against the democracy. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_Cicchitto).

Today, in Parliament, he attacked the press, political opponents, a press group that has been critical of Berlusconi (L’Espresso belonging to a “Jew” who recently also took the Swiss nationality as a sign of thanks to a country that had saved part of his family and for that he is now being quoted as “a foreign editor”) in an extremely violent manner.

Now the Government is after the Internet (that usual scapegoat) and will pass laws to limit free speech both on the Web and in the streets, limiting even further freedom in the country. And the manipulation of the information, already very high through the control Berlusconi has of practically 95% of television channels will continue. It already started, with Facebook groups created for various purposes such as the support for the earthquake victims and whose purpose was modified overnight in pro-Berlusconi groups without the knowledge nor consent of the friends of the group. Another indication of what freedom means for Berlusconi’s party and for himself : freedom of supporting the Prime Minister.

Italian democracy is in danger, if not almost dead. It is not a joke, it is a tragedy. And the recent attack against Berlusconi may be the icing on the cake for him to create a real dictatorship under the excuse of the vote of the majority of the Italians, which was not even the case.

When will finally European leaders react ? they did when the extreme right took power in Austria. But very little time is left before Italy is condemned to be a “real democracy” like Russia, as Berlusconi often says referring to the achievements of his friend Putin.

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ONCE UPON A TIME

there was a little judge, doing his work diligently.

There was also a very rich man, controlling the Press and the Television, and the Parliament

The little judge was unlucky enough to be called upon to judge a civil case against the main company of the rich man. He did his own work, studied recent judgments where it had been found that the company of the rich man had bribed judges and lawyers, listened to both parties and condemned the rich man’s company to pay 750 million € of damages.

The rich man threatened the little judge stating that soon people will learn “crusty stories” about the judge. And so it happened.

The main TV channel of the rich man had a scoop on the judge to show that he had a “funny” behavior: they had followed him and recorded him walking back and forth in front of his barber shop ! He was waiting for his appointment and, imagine what, smoking a cigarette (forbidden in the barber shop).

Then, when he left the barber shop, he walked rapidly, imagine imagine, and did stop only twice: once at a traffic light and once to…switch a cigarette on. If he had been normal, of course, he would have looked at shop windows, gone to a coffee shop, looked at girls asses. Nothing !

Finally, supreme crime, he was recorded in a park, reading his newspaper, wearing white shoes and light blue socks.

How could such a crazy man dare judging the richest man in the country, asked the latter’s TV channel ?

Regrettably, this is not a fairy tale. It happened last week. The country is Italy, the rich man is Berlusconi, and he is the Prime Minister.The judge is Mesiano. And the Italians lost a little more freedom, just last week. Putin must be proud of his student.

Thus, as of tomorrow, following the example of the opposition party leader, I will be wearing light blue sock….

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UNHCR ? what's that ?

The UN Secretary General and the UNHCR have been strongly criticizing Italy for sending illegal migrants back to Libya where they will stay in “camps” that have little to envy the Nazi concentration camps, apart from the gas chambers of course.

Indeed, Libya is responsible for what is happening, with the crazy approach of Khadafy of opening his borders to all Africans in his “dream” of a unified Africa. And is responsible for not stopping the boats departing from Libya. May-be because they solve his problem of thousand and thousand of Africans he does not know what to do with. And to pressure Italy to get benefits from a possible harder policy on illegal migrants, what he obtained in fact.

Knowing the corruption of his regime, one would not be surprised that one of his sons (Hannibal may-be), is part of the scheme, may-be getting a fee for any boat that leaves Libya.

It has also been demonstrated that the gangs are a joint Italian-Libyan undertaking, with the Mafia clans controlling the flow of illegal migrants boats. But all know that this government, starting from Berlusconi, is very lenient towards Mafia (one of his closest advisor was condemned for Mafia, for example, and his party or its allies are is by far the first in Sicily’s elections….)

And yesterday, an Honorable Minister, Igazio La Russa, a proto-fascist who tries hard, unsuccessfully, to deny his past, responding to the critics by UNHCR, stated that “UNHCR does not count for anything and its attitude is inhuman and criminal”. He went on insulting the UNHCR highly respected representative for Italy accusing her to vote for the extreme left….

As La Repubblica reminded its readers : “(UNHCR) assists 50million refugees around the world, works in 11 countries, and obtained two Peace Nobel Prices”. And Italy, recently, tried to get an Italian as HCR high Commissioner….

But all this is bullshit for Berlusconi’s government. And what would you expect from a fascist Minister of Defense to think about an organization with two Peace Nobel Prices ?

And of course, Mr. Berlusconi kept silent, thus supporting his Minister. Of course, he could not pay attention to this while being with his friend Putin, another Peace admirer, a “real democrat” as Berlusconi himself said.

Will the world one day realize how corrupt, dangerous, authoritarian Berlusconi’s government is ?

DEPRESSION

Yes indeed, depression. This is why I did not write anything since a month.

Depression about Italy, about recent elections, about winning stupidity (read San Remo music festival), about the invasion of the Vatican in Italia public life, about racism prevailing in the current government, about cruelty with terminally ill people. Depression about the Israeli elections, about the attitude of Italy towards Khaddafi, about the so-called justice in Russia. The only bright spots are Obama and the International Criminal Court indicting, in this same moment, the Sudanese president.

Time to react, however, time to assume that I am a resisting minority and time not to stop resisting. The masses supported fascism, they supported Nazism, they supported G W and his breaches in the principles of Law. Fascism, Nazism, GW went. And we are more resisting now than at the time of fascism and Nazism.

La lotta continua (fight goes on)

Rewriting history : the good fascism

Historical revisionism is quite trendy in Europe to try to hide what fascism and Nazism did. The number of so-called historians denying or diminishing the importance of the Nazis gas chambers is increasing in Europe. Politicians are quite active also in this field. Remember Le Pen, the right wing French politicians declaring that the gas chambers (and related millions of deaths) were a simple “detail” of the German history.

People reading my blog, very few so far I admit according to the counters, may think that I am obsessed by Fascism in the Italian Government. True, Mr. Fini, the leader of the main party allied with Berlusconi, Alleanza Nazionale (AN), the heir of the openly fascist MSI, and now Chairman of the Chamber, five years ago went to Jerusalem and, a Kippa on his head, declared that Fascism had been the “absolute evil”. Some members of his party did not accept this statement and contested it openly.

The other day, Mr. Alemanno, the major of Rome, also a member of AN, was in Jerusalem. Of course he wore a Kippa.. He stated that indeed the racial laws, promulgated in 1938 by Mussolini, which forced Jews out of public service and started the repression in Italy, had been the “absolute evil”. Fascism had not been “the absolute evil and I do not f eel I could condemn it”. Yes a representative of the majority leading Italy under the leadership of Berlusconi, goes to Jerusalem to defend fascism.

And the chair of the MPs of Berlusconi’s majority, Mr. Cicchito, defended Alemanno stating that “he had said things that had some basis”. Fortunately the Jewish community reacted. So did the left.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the 1943 armistice between Italy and the allies which marked that beginning of the real Nazi occupation of Italy. There was a ceremony to remember the defense of Rome by partisans and the population at large against the Nazi and fascist troops. And, in the course of his speech, another member of AN, now even Minister of Defense, stated that also the “repubblichini”, those who adhered to the so-called “Repubblica di Salò”, needed to be celebrated because from “their point of view, fought believing that they were defending their homeland”.

The so-called Repubblica di Salò was a bureaucratic political and military structure, created by Nazi Germany to “administer Italy”. After it was created, this so-called Republic was recognized only by Germany, Japan, Switzerland (yes!) and San Marino. It was de facto controlled by Germany and its army was trained there, the Nazis having no faith in the Italian soldiers: indeed these formed a big component of the partisans fighting against Nazis.

It is interesting to note article 7 of the de-facto constitution of the Repubblica di Salò: “Those who belong to the Jewish race are foreigners. During the war they belong to an enemy nation”.

The creation of such a Republic was the start to the Jews hunting in Italy. As mentioned in Wikipedia, reliable statistics collected by Liliana Picciotto Fargion, Jews deported to Germany were arrested by Italian members of the Repubblica di Salò apparatus, 4.44 by German and Italians together and 35.49 by Germans alone ( there are no data for the remaining 32.99%).

The Repubblica di Salò also created the infamous “Brigate nere”, para-military groups used by the Germans especially to fight partisans and famous for the killing of women and kids, burning of villages, torture etc.

So in 2008, a Minister of Berlusconi’s government praises the Nazi-fascist Repubblica di Salò while at the same time the major of Rome, belonging to the new Berlusconi’s party, defends fascism.

And what Berlusconi says? Nothing. What would you expect from him who never goes to the celebrations for the liberation of Italy from the German occupation on 25 April 1945? It is time for the Jewish community worldwide, and for all democrats, to start opposing Berlusconi and his Government. Time for smiles is gone.

Photo : fascist Ignazio La Russa. Defence Minister in Berlusconi's Government. Source: www.gossip.it

Mafia and Fascism

Photo: the killing of Pio La Torre by Mafia in 1982

Since a few years, revisionism is growing in Italy: streets with names of fascists, statues (small) of Mussolini, attempts to put at the same level those fascists who fought with the Nazis occupying Italy and the partisans, non attendance by the Prime Minister (Berlusconi) at the celebrations of 25 April, the day Italy was finally free from Nazism (thus the name of my blog).

The latest case is the worst and indicative of the way Italy goes.

Comiso is a small town in Sicily, near Ragusa. Famous for a US nuclear missile base which was opposed by the left. The leader against the base was Pio La Torre, a communist leader who although in a prominent position in Rome decided to return to Sicily to fight Mafia. In 1982 he was killed by the Mafia. According to witnesses it was due to the fact that he was pushing for a law to seize the wealth of “Mafiosi”.

The military airport became civilian in 2007 and the airport was named Pio La Torre. But in 2008 the right Alleanza Nazionale, those who claim that they are no longer fascists, decided to change the name of the airport and put the old one: “Vincenzo Magliocco”. Who is he ? nothing else than an Italian General who died in Ethiopia in 1936 during the Fascist colonial war.

You take away the name of someone who fought the Mafia and for the poor to celebrate a colonialist arm of fascist war.

Not different from what said Dell'Utri, founder of Berlusconi's party and friend of his, condemned for Mafia, who complained about the name of Palermo's airport: Falcone and Borsellino, two judges killed by Mafia. It gives a bad impression of Sicily, he said ....

This is Italy now, this is what the Berlusconi’s government leads to. Beware, democracy is in danger. Fascism is back

Photo: storiadopostoria.kataweb.it
Source: Wikipedia, Repubblica.it

A baby sitter state

The Independent, in an article dated 18 August, states that a “tempest” of new laws and rules are making Italy “the greatest baby-sitter state” with citizens considered as babies to control and protect.

The author, Peter Popham, shows a better understanding of Italy than his colleague, Italian…of Newsweek.

Indeed, Berlusconi won the elections due to the total lack of communication strategy of the Prodi’s government and also sailing on security: against immigrants, illegal and legal who are however essential to the economy -most are employed by good Italians…who complain, against rapes committed by immigrants while there is more local violence, who want “cleaner” cities and forget the real criminality, the Mafia.

Even the Catholic magazine for excellence, Famiglia Cristiana, the weekly with the largest distribution in Italy (one million copies per week), wrote about the risks of fascism in view of the laws promulgated by the Lega North interior Minister with the blessing of Berlusconi. And they were defined “crypto communists” by Government officials.

Increasing police power is given to majors who are incompetent in this area and take all kind of stupid measures, especially in the areas controlled by the Lega Nord and in Rome, with a hard neo-fascist major. And the Minister of Interior tries to undermine in this way the role and authority of “prefetti”, the government representatives in the field, who report to him. Competent, trained, devoted to the State. Contrary to the lord majors devoted to their local little interests for their re-election.

The Independent points out that Berlusconi claims that he will simplify the governance of Italy, and created a Ministry for that, while he allows his interior Minister to pass decrees that on the contrary increase rules, local laws, decrees that make a mess of the situation. Soon one, before entering a city will have to stop for ten minutes to read panels listing all what is forbidden…. Making me regret the simple posters in Louisiana and Mississippi, for example, reminding citizen that it is forbidden to carry fire arms on the beach or on university campuses.

It is interesting to read what Peter Pohpman* wrote about his article that made the Italian Press and politicians cry wolf: “(…) many years ago I got in love with Italy (…) discovering a country that merged elegance and freedom, beautiful natural sceneries and beautiful art created by man, tolerance a tradition of informal ways of living, the clear result of an ancient civilization, (apparently) mature. If now, on the Independent I talk about the many new laws promulgated in Italy to ban informality and limit freedom, it is because I am very sad in noticing that in this way civilization id regressing, substituted by the big shoes and rifles of a police state.(…). Berlusconi took power thanks to “the security emergency” But the real security emergency is and existential emergency, which lives in the mind of people when it reacts in a panic mode to a world that is suddenly changing. Italy has many serious social problems, but instead of looking for long term solutions (…), those who have the power promulgate hundreds of laws and rules little thought of aiming at giving the impression that they take concrete steps and puts the army in the streets. (…) In Italy, like in the UK, the true victims of a police state are the citizens”.

He said it all.

*A letter to the Director published in Repubblica on 19 August 2008

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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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Verona Caput Fasci

“Verona, the capital of fascism” is the title of a show written and acted by Elio Germano, a young successful Italian actor.

Why Verona ? Because Verona is “the” special town in Italy, the most representative of the Berlusconi’s regime, where the Lega Nord and Alleanza Nazionale (the fascist party) have the power. Daily one reads about racist and fascists type decisions be the municipality.And this has been going on for years. As an example, in 1995, case unique in Europe, the City Council voted a resolution against a decision by the Council of Europe on homosexuality declaring it as “against nature” (sic). Verona is also the city where recently fascist militants killed a youg man who had refused them a cigarette and was guilty of having long hair.

So what Germano did was to read the minutes of meetings of the City Council over the past 10 years. He extracted statements made by the center right majority and put them together verbatim. Here are some excerpts from the show, all real statements made by the Verona’s city governance:

About gays : “they must ler surgeons deal with their attributes so that everybody will be safer”

About abortion : “they had to think at it when they opened their legs”

About women’s equality : “women must go back to their nature, which is that of all animals”

About gays: “we should cut them the balls”

About homosexuality: “ it is the same as pedophilia”

No wonder that Famiglia Cristiana, the most read Italian Magazine is concerned about the rise of fascism in Italy.

Source: Repubblica.it, 15/8/08

Photo: www.flickr.com

Italian Fascists and Israel

Italian fascists prosecuted jews.

Racial laws forced eminent Italians, jews, to leave the country (including a few Nobel pices).

Fascists co-operated with nazis for the deportation of jews, and partisans, and soldiers refusing to fight with Germans, and intellectuals, and..and...and...

A former leader of the Italian neo-fascist party - MSI- is now, Berlusconi's gift, speaker of the House. And, like many former Italian fascists, he is now the "best friend of Israel". Can one believe it ?

The other day a group of Italian neo-fascists killed an Italian who had refused to give them a cigarette. The criminals were not Black, nor Romanians, were not Arabs. They were good Italians.

And Mr. Fini, the house speaker, trying to hide the fascist responsibilities, makes a statement saying that it was worse to burn - as it recently happened in Turin - Israeli flags than to kill a poor guy. A mean and unreal attempt to justify neofascists in Italy. And he pretends not to be a fascist any longer.

Americans, and Brits, and Canadians and French and Polish whose kids died in Italy fighting nazis and their Italian fascist allies should not get fooled: Berlusconi's government is fascist, Fini has not changed, democracy is in danger.

The world upside down (or better Italy)

Now we have a Prime Minister, who leads the "freedom people party", Mr. Berlusconi, who ignores, and always ignored, the celebrations for the freedom of Italy from Nazis in 1945 (a Prime Minister ignoring a National celebration, can you imagine it in any other country ?) and a neo-fascsist, speaker of the House of Representatives, who on the contrary celebrates it in his election speech.

Are they real ? unfortunately they have the power. More than ever before, Italy is unreal.

Resistere, resistere, resistere

"To resist, to resist, to resist as against the Austrian on the Piave river during the first world war".

This is what said in January 2002 Francesco Saverio Borrelli, the Chief Prosecutor of Milan referring to the campaigns against the judges launched by Berlusconi and his allies and to the laws "ad personam" (made to suit one person) approved and being approved by Berlusconi's government.

This year we have seen Berlusconi winning the elections again. And yesterday a declared fascist, member fo Berlusconi's coalition, became major of Rome (see in the picture the fascist roman salutes celebrating the victory). This is democracy, but a false democracy where the one who controls television and part of the press, the richest peson in the country, gets elected in spite of conflicts of interest and many legal proceedings against him, mostly dismissed due to the laws he had adopted by his own governments. Italy is now a Bana Republic, not much different from Putin's Russia (the best friend of Berlusconi by the way).

If you are American, British or even French, if you are a Jew or a human rights activist, if you are an European, if you believe in Human Rights, do not forget that Berlusconi won the lections thanks to his alliance with the post-fascists, do not forget that he tries to assimilate the fascists who fought against the American and British troops during the second world war, who promulgated the laws to discriminate Jews, who sent to concentration camps in Germany Jews, opponents, partisans, Italian soldiers who refused to join the nazist after 1943 with the partisans who fought for freedom from nazism and fascism.

Do not forget that on 25 April 2008, the anniversary date of the end of the occupation in Italy, instead of joining the celebrations, Berlusconi met with a declared fascist, a certain Ciarrapico, he wanted in his lists, the one who publishes hagiographies of nazis and fascist leaders.

This is a sad time for Italy and for Europe. But I will not give up.

Photo: http://www.repubblica.it/ 29 April 2008 ( http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/politica/saluti-romani-alemanno/1.html )