Thank you for your trust in me
Repubblica.it has published the results of a survey about trust in Ministers and in the main political parties in Italy. I am citing the survey to say thanks to those who gave me the top position as a Minister and those who gave Italia dei Valori the top position as a party. I would like to point out that it has not been subsequently reported by any other means of communication after that.
The survey looks at important information for the Government and for the parties, but it has been ignored by the media. That fact no longer surprises me. Newspapers and TV are only partially free in Italy.
Confirmation of this is given by a recent research report from “Reporters Without Borders”: in the classification about the freedom of information, Italy comes at just 35th position in the world, landing up between Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia and below all the countries of the “old continent”. The issue of real information is still today the priority for the country. But unfortunately this is not yet the priority for the government and it is even less than ever for the opposition under the leadership of Berlusconi who has concessions for the radio and TV frequencies in an obvious situation of conflict of interests.
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I too am very much concerned with this new venture by the Italian government to further erode the principle of freedom of speech and the press by putting a choke hold on internet blogs via DDL levi-prodi. I am of the opinion that the intent of this proposal is an attempt to silence Beppe Grillo. According to his blog the proposal was unanimously approved by all Ministers. There was no vote of dissention. Were you there and voted in favour ? if so, my trust in you as a politician of functional democracy is greatly diminished
Posted by: Marino De Menech | October 20, 2007 08:23 AM
Good evening, On. Antonio di Pietro,
Do not listen, or get mad about the previous messages.....of some people who are the troublemakers and parasites, who don't have nothing else to do in theyr lives, just spreading false information and insults. Shame on them, and all them who are layers.....and against the truth.....and the well being of the people!,......and the real values of our Country!
Posted by: V.Annibale | October 20, 2007 05:40 AM
Shame on you Di Pietro!
You mislead Italians pretending to be a paladin of citizens' rights and then your party votes against the parliamentary inquiry on the G8 of Genova, during which thousands of peaceful citizens were savagely beaten by the police and unlawfully detained.
You do this to attract the votes of the members of the Italian police forces, your former colleagues.
You, who pretend to be the one defending the principle of an equal justice, you actually want to cover up the abuses of the Italian police forces.
Shame on you!
Posted by: giuseppe gaibaldi | October 20, 2007 04:23 AM
I would like to know how you voted in the matter of DDL levi-prodi.
This last DDL is outrageous, we'll be asked to pay a tax to speak next?
I'm sick and tired of having my freedom cut over and over again, in the name of security. This is just a bad joke.
In Italy nobody can even connect to the net without giiving credential, all the traffic is logged, and now we hear that to avoid ''bad talk'' we need this law...
Every citizen is innocent until proven otherwise and has the right to speak his mind freely, you cannot cut my hands 'cause I could do harm, this is not democracy, not freedom and NOT EVEN SECURITY.
regards
Posted by: Simone Saba | October 20, 2007 12:01 AM
salve, le scrivo per invitarla a riflettere sul DDL levi-prodi che comprometterebbe la libertà di espressione in italia arrecando al paese un incalcolabile danno sociale ed economico.
Posted by: francesco serra | October 19, 2007 05:49 PM