Security First

One of the main arguments that brought Berlusconi again to power was “security”. A traditional subject used by the right and exploited to an unbelievable point by Berlusconi’s allies, former and current fascists.

The Italian economy is collapsing, taxes were not reduced as promised (one was canceled but the money will come from other sources, still from taxes), but promises are made to the Vatican to finance the catholic schools, and the first urgent laws the new Government presented concerned the security: against illegal immigrants, against Roms (including finger printing of kids….), against “legal actions against the 4 highest ranking officials in the State, the President, the Prime Minister, the Speakers of the two houses” and to suspend legal proceedings for crimes not affecting the “security”.

Guess what, both these “special commas” have nothing to do with the security of Italians, but with the legal proceeding initiated since years against Berlusconi. And in particular one, for corruption of judges. Imagine, a Prime Minister soon to be condemned for corrupting judges : and it is not Zimbabwe…it is Italy, it is not Mugabe, it is Berlusconi. In fact the proceedings concerning this crime have progressed to the point and in such a way that it is expected and likely that this time Berlusconi will be condemned. Thus the urgency. And people take it.

What is the most distressing is to see how the allies of Berlusconi, and members of his party, act or better do not react. They are like zombies, no dignity, no nothing. Only interest : keep their well paid job.

And what is even more distressing is that the popularity of Berlusconi is growing while people reduce spending, do not go on vacation, cannot pay their rents, the Italian Central Bank publishes negative economic forecasts, inflation is increasing. At least the Romans gave people “panem and circenses” (bread and games) to make them stand the situation. Now Berlusconi gives people illusion of security, his own, but they do not realize it….and they are happy. Damn it, is democracy still a valid option with people narcotized by stupid TVs ?

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Bush apologizes for saying the truth ?

There must be something wrong again in the world. Bush apologizing to Berlusconi just because a biography of the latter stating that he was “hated by many”, seen as a “"regarded by many as a political dilettante who gained his high office only through use of his considerable influence on the national media...". It also stated that Berlusconi was "one of the most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for governmental corruption and vice".

The biography went on to say that Berlusconi was appointed to the prime minister's office in 1994, "however, he and his fellow Forza Italia Party leaders soon found themselves accused of the very corruption he had vowed to eradicate."

Hated by many is an understatement.

That he gained office though his control over the media is a fact

That he is controversial, there is no doubt, just today people demonstarate all over Italy against him.

That he is believed to be corrupt, is a fact: while in the past he managed to be released during law cases mostly due to the good techniques of his lawyers who managed to get the civil suits brought against him to last so long to decay, a judgment, almost certainly negative for him is expected in the fall. And his corruption is such that he is trying to pass a law to give him immunity for actions undertaken while he was not a Prime Minister, a Constitutional error according to more than 100 professors of Constitutional law.

So why is the White house apologizing ? for a change, they were not lying. Bush never apologized to the America people, to the parents of soldiers who died or were wounded in Iraq, to the world, for lying about Iraq. And the Italian People were not offended.

The world upside down…… and indeed Berlusconi can "far le corna" (see picture) if this is what his best allies think of him....

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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.

Logic

Mr. Bossi, a key partner of Mr. Berlusconi, is among others very negative about immigration. And what is funny, (or indicative of Italian politics) is that his constituency is composed by small business owners in Northern Italy who depend upon immigrants (often illegal to pay them less) to continue producing and exporting.

Mr Bossi divorced his first wife, which is a sin for the catholic church, and lives with a second wife. But he is one of the active supporters of the "family values"....

Recently he stated that Muslims should pray and preach in Italian in the mosques there so that they can be understood by the Italians. Funnily enough, he had nothing to say when the Pope reintroduced the mass in Latin, a language that fewer people in Italy understand as compared with Arabic.

Logics in Italian politics !

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 )