Dear Director Vittorio Feltri,
On TV we were able to witness the shameful scene involving a criminal who attacked a policeman who intervened to quell a fight in Locorotondo.
If such atrocities occur, the blame falls on politics and the heads of institutions, who with their liberticidal laws have deprived the police of all authority and defense.
What saddens me most is to see that these shameful scenes are happening despite the fact that there is a right-wing government in power, fearful, unfortunately, of receiving criticism from an unspeakable left.
Thank you for your comment.
Mario Lenzini
Dear Mario,
What struck me about this episode is not only the violence itself, exercised against a soldier who represents the State and acts in defense and protection of citizens, but also the circumstance, far from irrelevant, that some people filmed the scene with their cell phones in order to publish the video on social networks. Once again, no one felt the need to intervene, to take sides with the victim, to be indignant, to protest. I am disgusted by the indifference of which we have become capable. Observing reality through the filters of cell phones has accustomed us to such acts of oppression, they do not touch us, they have no effect on us, they have become normal, we film them to add them to other equivalent content that circulates on the web. We are anesthetized. Cold. If such events do not shake us to the core, what the hell can generate a reaction in us?
It is unfortunate that we are witnessing an increase in episodes of ferocity and lack of respect towards women and men in uniform, which is symptomatic of a general intolerance for rules, for the State, for legality. Trends that should not be underestimated. Added to this are the attacks against doctors, nurses, teachers. In short, against anyone who embodies any form of authority, anyone who is a reference. Once these figures were considered, treated with education and kindness, today they are targets of hatred against which one can freely vent one’s frustration without any fear even of the consequences of one’s conduct.
We can no longer deny it: there is no longer any form of deference towards institutions. We have taken a dangerous path. In short, this constitutes a human, civil and social drift, which we must remedy, under penalty of an escalation of increasingly serious violence.
I do not believe that the government is afraid to act, to intervene, in order not to receive criticism from the opposition. By now the accusations of fascism and racism slide off the exponents of this majority, they are not surprising, if anything they are just laughable. But what should be done?
Punishing certain criminal behaviors, which happens, unfortunately is not enough. It is also necessary to educate, but families do not do it anymore, they have renounced their role, their duties, and teachers live immersed in a climate of fear, since they themselves, for a bad grade or a reprimand, are beaten by parents who are evidently convinced that educating is equivalent to inflicting harm, while it is a matter of pursuing and doing good for the child. Over-protecting and over-spoiling children have determined such educational shipwreck, such educational poverty, which translates into coercion, abuse, bullying, brutality. Whoever beats up a policeman is as guilty as those who, despite having this task, have never educated him about the meaning and value of a uniform.
The rudiments of civic education are missing, the awareness that the State is not the enemy of the citizen is missing, the awareness that, if you live in a society, you have to adapt to certain rules is missing. If you are not willing to do so, go live alone in the jungle.