Violence and Political Propaganda
The young man who was beaten up in Verona by a group of neo-Nazis for refusing to give them a cigarette, has died. I offer my condolences to his parents and I hope that those who are guilty will pay for the crimes.
The parties are exploiting his death, it is a right wing death, just as the death of signora Reggiani at the hands of a Roma person was a left wing death.
Violence is becoming an alibi to give direction to public opinion and to create still more new monsters.
The problem of violence is rooted in the non-punishability of most crimes, from a destabilisation of the magistracy that has come about during the government of the last fifteen years.
The magistracy has neither the material nor the legal means to intervene effectively. It’s necessary to get rid of the shameful laws, to simplify and shorten the trial process to reestablish a correct relationship between the citizens and justice.
Perhaps the time has come for the country to start to talk about the reasons for which justice has become not applicable and to ask who are the people responsible for this situation.
The citizens can no longer be taken for a ride. On the one hand there’s a call for security, on the other hand the application of the penalties is made impossible.
Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in
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Dear Mister Di Pietro,
I gave my vote to your party for the past elections, and i I'm still convinced that I DID THE RIGHT THING. I was uncertain to giving it to your allies but then during a journey that took me home for election day (since i work in milan but i have recindency in Calabria.) I thought that even in the PD party there're still people who had relationship with "mobs" or are prosicuted. I watched last night's ballarò show and i felt awful hearing the nephew of mobters' friend sayng that he trusted Berlusconi's oath. What's to be trusted in that man, who used all power just to defend his own interests giving a damn about the People who gave him trust. I assume in the end that politics mustn't be trusted by politics but by people. Furthermore I think that Italians have a very short-term memory since they re-trusted the same awful man who's spoiling our contry's dignity. I spent a few years abroad, people abroad seem to think that we are idiots but we are not, we're just blind because powerful persons make us blind, how many people have the possibility and the will to spend many hours in front of the pc looking for news about tainted politicians? Many electors they just don't want to believe what a honest person as Marco Travaglio says, eventhough it is real. In conclusion I can no longer watch Tv because I know it's a big brain washing (except a few 2 or 3 shows) it seems to me, maybe i'm wrong, that even movies are made or shown controlled by power, as the Paolo Borsellino's, story there are many unsaid things.
In the very conclusion i guess that only people like you can save.... can help this country..... poor country to salvation.... Bringing up law to parliament..
Good Job!
Best Regards
Grignani Carlo
Posted by: Carlo Grignani | May 14, 2008 04:27 AM
Unfortunately, violence is rooted in the Italian society from north to south.
We have the largest criminal organisation in the world at one end, and we have a never dead fascist ideology at the other end
The killing in Verona, like many other killing in the rest of Italy will surely go unpunished but I do not agree that the magistracy has not effective means to intervene.
We have plenty of laws that I am sure cover perfectly well the case. Furthermore there witnesses and we have a confession! What else do we need to secure a conviction?
The fact is that more than often the magistracy itself is corrupt or inept. We have enough laws and rules in this country! What we need is people with a bit of gut to apply the rules!
Remember, is not the severity of the law that counts but the certainty of the conviction.
Posted by: andrea ceccanti | May 6, 2008 08:40 PM