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Silvio Berlusconi, some days ago, at a dinner at the White House
Berlusconi: “Questo è ciò che può fare il troppo amore” “This is what too much love can do!”
That’s Amore!
On Friday the so called “Lodo Alfano” has been approved by the Italian Council of Ministers. The Government bill takes its name from the Minister of Justice Angelino Alfano.
Basically, the future law is a shield that protects the four high offices of the State from Law.
If the Prime Minister, the President of Republic, the President of Senate or the President of the Chamber of Deputies breaks a law he won’t be arrested (even if in the act of the crime) or judged by any court, for the length of his entire mandate.
Obviously, looking at all his pending trials, the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be the one who’ll take more advantage of the future law.
What a shocking surprise.
He said “Either I work as prime minister or I dedicate my time preparing for court appearances. One cannot do both”.
Another proof of freedom of press. Censorship? In Italy? No way.
Italians do not even know what censorship is, or what it means. In fact most citizens take for granted that censorship is the shadow of journalism and journalism the shadow of censorship.
On Saturday evening, guest of the TV show “Che Tempo Che Fa”, the Italian journalist Marco Travaglio did something atrocious and unpardonable, he did his job. He informed.
Result: a ruckus.
Forgetting that in Italy freedom of press and information have been abolished, off-the-record, Travaglio talked about Italian President of the Senate Renato Schifani’s relationship with people sentenced for mafia.
Italy has a new Government, brand new Ministers ready to serve the national cause, the State and the Country. And thanks to the wiser and wiser statesman Silvio Berlusconi Italians witnessed Mara Carfagna’s appointment as the Minister for “Equal Rights”.
Equal rights, hmmm? No doubt, she is the right woman for the job. Yes, in February 2007 during the seminar “Woman, Life and Family” she stated that the State has no reason to recognize homosexual couples “since they are constitutionally sterile” and for those still unaware of this: “to love each other the essential requirement is being able to beget” (1). Pure wisdom isn’t it?
During an interview she described herself as an anti-feminist, as she believes that liberty depends not on independence and freedom but on rules, on discipline. In fact it is common knowledge that discipline plus rules equals liberty. (2)
Now who is that nut or fool who still thinks that, maybe, this nice and wise woman is not the rightest person to care about equal rights?
Tomorrow is the thirtieth anniversary of Giuseppe -Peppino- Impastato’s death. A young man and a journalist who believed in justice and freedom of speech as weapons for a social change.
He is one of the names in the list of innocent victims of Mafia, a sadly long list that reminds the whole Italy and the State that they also have a part of responsibility in these murders.
A Country divided in half, where Centre and North wrongly think that mafia and all its regional relatives are just a South Italy problem, a State that too often forgets about organized crime and a public opinion that closes its eyes in front of reality, this is Italy.
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