Minister Bondi attacks “Repubblica”: a danger for democracy

Repubblica’s reply: only two remarks about Minister Bondi’s shabby invective. Only in Italy Culture’s Minister may define a newspaper “a danger for democracy”. Press freedom represents clearly, in his idea of democracy which doesn’t foresee counterpowers and public opinion, but only liegemen, a danger. Citizens are warned. About Bondi’s charge that we ignore replies, we’d like to remember him that Law, at moment, doesn’t force us to publish any Minister’s letter

EMPIRE’S END
Politician Romano La Russa (brother of Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa and, like as his brother, coming from former post-fascist party AN), says to policemen: “guys, they are 4 tatterdemalions (referring to protesters against Berlusconi), exert yourselves or we do it”

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Excerpt of post "earthquake victims, the protest, the rage"

We were in Rome and we were not few ones. More than two thousand. But in Rome were only earthquake victims, because other ones were completely irrelevant. Many people of all ages. People who, even if deeply debilitated and tired, have braved oppressive heat, fatigue, fear. It was clear from the beginning that they wanted us not. They tried to block the spontaneous march to Montecitorio. They didn’t like banners which said, in perfect L’Aquila’s dialect "Berlu$coni we don’t want to see you in L’Aquila again” They ignored us. They trampled us. They have given us another earthquake, the eathquake of an hot afternoon on asphalt, the earthquake of refusal. Some citizens were received by a deputy of PdL, a certain Giorgio Straguadagno (“Extra-gain”): Latin wisdom, nomen omen. He says that no tax for earthquake victims was foreseen nor they will give money for reconstruction to local authorities. Everything remains in the hands of Civil Protection. Straguadagno finally said, "because you don’t have money to operate independently from central government, you may ask nothing. Or this one, or nothing." Rare example of democracy and freedom. Congratulations Mr Straguadagno! Earthquake victims? Meat for the slaughterhouse. One minute of silence for those dead on earthquake, so a day of pain, disappointment and deep regret ended. All of us are perfectly aware that, with this decree, the city of L’Aquila will die. We were back in L'Aquila just in time for the arrival of Berlusconi. Citizens committees were alerted, but Emperors don’t want to be challenged. The Emperor simply has overflown us by helicopter. He wasn’t among people who wanted to question him, who wanted to know where his promises were gone. However we had to bear sarcasm, sneers and insults from policemen.

That’s all folks. But ain’t no stoppin’us now. We are alone, but we expect everyone at G8.

A group of policemen blocked us in front of Finance Guard’s school. One, civil dressed, looking at me with his sardonic sneer said that I was pathetic and made comments on my "buffers" (breasts).

This is one of the groups of dangerous extremists, terrorists perhaps, waiting for the Empereor. Such a deployment of policemen to face this group.

”The final user”
Even if statements of this girl would be true, and they are not true, the premier would be, according reconstruction, the final user and therefore never punishable by law
Niccolò Ghedini (lawyer and premier deputy) about charges to Berlusconi of induction to prostitution

Here we go again. A new scandalo that is concerning Silvio Berlusconi, his romantic and bucolic parties, and a new woman. At least this time she has a proper age. But apparently she was paid to participate in several occasions in parties done in Palazzo Grazioli, the Rome Residence of Premier Silvio Berlusconi. And it seams several other girls were paid to be present at these parties, it was a common practice.

http://www.repubblica.it/2009/06/sezioni/politica/berlusconi-divorzio-8/berlusconi-stampa/berlusconi-stampa.html

Here an excerpt of an interview to Gaetano Saya, founder of Italian National Guard

on your personal website, last February, you wrote: "Thousands of foreign prostitutes recorded and not expelled. Thousands of Gypsies who steal with total impunity. Millions of illegal immigrants who wander with impunity in the cities. Thousands of foreigners who deal, steal, rape, kill. An increase of about 80 percent of strikes and occupation of public and private offices. Hundreds of armed assaults against private property by foreigners. Attacks against property of the state. Groups of young subversive people acting outside the limits of Parliament. Deputies and Senators of italian Republic who instigate to armed insurrection against the powers of the state, Minister of Internal Affairs who claims secession. An huge number of magazines and politic TV-programs which encourage to revolt. Clowns and quacks who outrage and defame Ministers and Government. The use of freedom threaten everywhere the Power and the Authority (...) People are under age, the Nation is ill; other ones have to cure and educate them. We must repress, repression is our beliefs. Repression and Civilization."
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So, dear Foreigners: new guards “to serve the Nation”. And Conducator, after having militarised Abruzzo, under the dictatorship of civil protection (in tent city it’s severely forbidden to distribute leaflets in which are described inefficiences in reconstruction), divide his squads: padanian ones on northern Italy and Italian National Guard on the rest of Italy.

Bye Bye Italy

When someone, by judgments based on the reversal of reality, wants to reverse people’s decision and wants to substitute who was elected by people, this is called subversion and subversive will."
Silvio Berlusconi

Here in the picture: a group of subversive judges, certainly Communists; they were guilty of subversive armed troop's constitution and of armed insurrection against temporal power of the Papi

Are we really sure that Berlusconi is not a new Mussolini and Italy is still a democracy? I don't understand why nobody here in Italy are protesting, rebelling. Italians seem to be mentally dead, ready to accept everything the Leader declares. I'm so disappointed and sad. There's no way out.

In the media empire of Berlusconi, you can hear and read only his distorted vision of the results of the elections. According to the version of Berlusconi the fault for the decline of PDL are the following: of his wife Veronica Lario, the soccer player Kaka' and of Sicily.

It' s a nightmare! A real nightmare.

We see that his allies start to understand his egocentricity and Gianfranco Fini starts to dissociate himself from Berlusconi. We also see several critics coming up from the newspapers near to the Vatican thaughts.

For sure Barach Obama can help to make the difference. The US of George W. Bush has been too compliant with Berlusconi and failed to understand that this man, part of Propaganda 2, was bringing back fascism in Italy.

The spotlight, that European journalism has set on Italy, projects a number of grim shadows on the dignity of the Prime Minister, as well on the Italian citizens, as a whole.

But along with that, it also provides an excellent opportunity for Europe to develop the right vaccine to the propagation of a new sort of infection; this infection is a restyled fascism whose powerful veicle is the full control of media.

As any infection, it should be stopped at its beginning otherwise its rate of propagation will be hardly be confined, and eventually will lead to new strains of hate on a wider scale than just Italy.. 

Europe should consider Italian situation as a "lesson learned", and as such should start developing its contermisures in the media and communication industry to ensure that no concentration of media is allowed and to secure that Internet maintains its role of free and neutral communication mean.

fabrizio

Italy needs to jump into the 21st century with a premier who is conscious of the times, for instance, chauvinism is now considered a BAD thing, and that not going to your own child's birthday yet making the time to go to some young model's birthday, etc.