Living from writing we are very sensitive to everything that concerns freedom of speech, intimidation, censorship… Personally we fight for the liberalization of satire, jokes, puns, irony, teasing. And it may also be true that words are too serious to leave in the hands of journalists. But still better than politicians.
This is why we were left speechless – this, for example, is a terrible joke when we learned that Adolfo Urso, Minister of Business and Made in Italy, asked for 500 thousand euros from the Foglio and the Riformista (from their directors and the journalists Luciano Capone and Annarita Digiorgio) for criticizing his statist industrial policy and calling him what she considers defamatory “Adolfo USSR”.
Which also makes us laugh a lot.
We invite Adolfo Urso to think again. Reminding him that, incidentally, he is the minister of Made in Italy, that is, of Italian creativity. And what is more creative, peculiar and unique in the world than the Italian predisposition to mockery, the joke, the joke, the joke, from Plautus to Monicelli, from Belli to parliamentarians?
Criticism is the salt of democracy. Irony is the spice of journalism.
And comedy is the essence of Italianness.
And in any case 500 thousand euros is a waste. Minister, we ask you to at least negotiate. Why don't you sign a non-belligerence pact? A pact like the Ribbentrop-Molotov one. Also called «Adolf-USSR».