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.
Picture: mentecritica.net
Posts
