15 August 2008

Modern Fascism

After populist, leftist, extremist, justicialist, (these are labels that have been attached to me personally), another term has been invented for those who are not aligned to the servilism of the government: catholic-communist.

This is the latest attack that the Berlusconi IV regime has raised against Famiglia Cristiana, guilty of having criticized certain initiatives of this government farce.

The technique is always the same: evoking anti-berlusconi-ism and communism. These accusations come into play every time there is a democratic discussion of the choices adopted by the majority. No dialogue. This is the political line of the current government. This is the new approach of modern fascism. Famiglia Cristiana has right on their side.

Below, I am publishing the article published in Famiglia Cristiana.


“Il Presidente spazzino nel 'Paese del marciapiede'” {The street-cleaner President in the ‘Land of sidewalks’}

”It is the ‘Land of sidewalks’ the one that is taking up the last days of this summer of poor holidays, characterized by the roughly 50% collapse in hotel bed-nights in the holiday resorts. After various conflicts between Maroni and La Russa, the soldiers arrive on the sidewalks of the cities, bewildered young people assigned the tasks of the police that they don’t know how to do (not even as though we were in Angola), and the beggars are sent away without distinguishing those connected to the begging racket from the true ones.
In Rome, mayor Alemanno, who in other fields displays ideas that are much more advanced than the anti-fascist prejudice gives him credit for, is even chasing away the poor people dressed with a jacket and tie from the big bins of “leftovers” outside the supermarkets. They call them waste products, but there you can find fruit and vegetables that are not sufficiently beautiful for displaying on the sales shelves. And so if we want to safeguard the aesthetics, why don’t we do the “bargain corner”, thus covering up a ritual that hurts the consciences with a gesture of compassion (here too is aesthetics)? In the IKEA shops that is done, and no one is scandalised. Quite the opposite.
But from the sidewalks even the prostitution disappears (will this be the real event?) and it would be ungenerous not to credit the government with this for having given to the mayors the powers for protecting the decorum and the safety of its own citizens. However, this is as long as the “creativity” of the mayors does not create institutional problems with the Police Chiefs and the Prefects and as long as it doesn’t shine for measures that are as ridiculous as they are useless; and that the Government doesn’t indulge in offloading its responsibilities onto others, as with the belated and imprudent declarations (attacked by the August sun?) from Meloni and from Gasparri, who asked our Olympic athletes not to take part in the parades so as to protest against China (the strong gestures, if they are able to do them, let them do themselves, the usual crafty politicians who always want to occupy the stage without paying the price!)


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Is it too much to ask the government to banish the suspicion that when the right is in government the divisions get bigger so that the rich get richer and the families get poorer?”

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