Stop the Championship
I want to express my sincerest condolences to the Raciti family who are mourning the policeman assassinated at Catania by vulgar delinquents. And at the same time I want to give all my solidarity to the Police Forces who risk their lives for little recompense to protect citizens.
Football should be suspended at least for the current season. A few days are not enough to take decisions that can solve the issues. Citizens, rightly, would feel they were being taken for a ride. The football clubs should leave the Stock Exchange. Too many economic interests are destroying the football sector. Penalties for the ne’er do wells who are parading themselves as “ultras” at the stadium must be more severe and above all certain. Too many police officers are hit and threatened with the people responsible not paying any consequences.
Finally the freewheeling words that insult both the work of the Police and the memory of Inspector Filippo Raciti pronounced by the Member of Parliament for the Rifondazione Party, Francesco Caruso: “The life of a police officer is worth the same as that of an ultrà” and by the President of the Football League Antonio Matarrese: “Football cannot close down, the dead are part of the system”. These words serve to justify an intolerable situation.
Matarrese must go. What’s more he should never have stayed after the scandal of the fraudulent games. Football needs new leaders and responsible policies. Otherwise it has no future.
Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in
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Dear Antonio,
About the Italiani all' estero, is ever possible to legislate in order to be a bit more pragmatic on the issue of our place of residence in patria? Can we pay our electricity, water and telephone when we use them and not every couple of months as the various institutions would like? We pay all the year round the "the minimum charges" even without any use; some times these utilities are disconnected and when we go "home" to have those fast twenty days of wanderful vacation time we find ourselves in old houses in the dark with no water and no phone because of their regular disconnection. Can these institutions be a bit more flexible with us? Can you intercede for us bringing some rationale in all that?
Regards
Franco e Luigi Parignani
Posted by: Luigi Parignani | February 19, 2007 03:38 PM
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Finally the freewheeling words that insult both the work of the
Police and the memory of Inspector Filippo Raciti pronounced
by the Member of Parliament for the Rifondazione Party,
Francesco Caruso: "The life of a police officer is worth the
same as that of an ultrà".
Dear Mr. Di Pietro
Let me say that I'm outraged by your words.
I thought that all men were equal, their merits notwithstanding.
So I'm puzzled - to say the least - why the simple plain truth that
"The life of a police officer is worth the same as that of
an ultrà"
is so revolting to you whereas you have no problem - to the contrary - you gladly join the great worldwide chorus that
boldy affirms that
"the life of a innocent victim is not worth the same as that
of his murderer"
as this shameful offence to all the honest, peaceful, law
abiding people were a great achievement in human rights!
This is hypocrisy of the highest rank.
You are not better of other politicians of your country.
Posted by: K. T. Victim | February 7, 2007 09:37 AM