Egregio Dr. Feltri,
I am an assiduous and passionate reader of his intelligent articles and for this reason I consider it appropriate to submit some considerations regarding recent judicial decisions that I consider, to say the least, disconcerting.
So far I have never understood whether the illusions of youth or the disappointments of maturity were worse. Lately, however, I tend to privilege the second hypothesis, especially in the light of my experience as a lawyer, which has allowed me to ascertain how much the institutions included the judicial one are often imperfect and fallible.
To realize it, just examine some sentences that appear not only scandalous, but even dangerous.
For example, the Court of Brescia acquitted a Senegalese citizen who had beaten his wife, claiming that the requirement of the habitual in the violent behavior of the accused was missing.
Even more incredible is the case of a judge of Ancona who opposed the expulsion of a Cameroonian citizen. The latter, despite having recorded an obscene video in which the state and the police derides, insults Premier Meloni and alludes disgustingly to the minor daughter, was “pardoned” because he apologized.
We are faced with a paradox: by certain Italian judiciary, it seems that the simple fact of having apologized also in a generic and not direct way to the recipients of the offense is worth more than the gravity of the accomplished gesture. The state and its institutions are thus reduced to caricatures, unbalanced by anyone who is willing to pronounce the apologies.
An intelligent journalist has rightly observed that what is demanding from preschool children “apologize and promise not to do it anymore” is becoming a saving for certain adults immigrants, who thus benefit from a sort of permanent irresponsibility.
Last but not least: a professor who pronounced the words “you are an idiot” by addressing a student was sanctioned with a censorship by the Headmaster. Well, our judiciary in all three degrees of judgment has declared that legitimate and necessary sanction.
It can also be discussed on the opportunity to use terms such as “idiot”, although recurring in common language, but the real knot remains the progressive emptying of the educational authority. In this sense, the merit of having raised the issue of respect for the teachers must be recognized to the Minister of Education, Prof. Valditara, the merit of having raised.
Unfortunately, this is a “vox clamantis in the desert”, especially in the judicial field, where it seems that the role of the teacher is no longer protected or recognized as an authoritative figure.
With esteem,
Prof. Fulvio Bianchi D’Urso
Dear Fulvio,
Thank you for your letter. I console myself that there are still attentive, ironic and intelligent readers who are indignant in front of the theater of our justice, which more than a power of the state seems to have become a branch of elementary schools. With the difference that in elementary school children, at least, have some common sense.
You have hit the point: in Italy certain sentences are not only questionable, but scandalous. And the worst thing is that they reveal a precise cultural tendency: ideological goodism, son of the left and his cheap catechesis.
Let’s take the case of the Senegalese acquitted because he had beaten his wife “only once”. Only once, do you understand? As if domestic violence was a points collection of the supermarket: five slaps and withdraw the sentence. But I say, are we kidding? In reality, there is nothing to laugh here: there is to cry for a humiliated woman twice, first by the man who strikes her and then by the state that explains that it is too little to indignation and punishing. It is the triumph of the culture of “minimizing”, which often accompanies the crimes when the culprits are not Italian.
Then the masterpiece: the Cameroonian who delves on the premier, insults the police, vomits crap on his minor daughter, and is “graced” because he apologized. Can you be more ridiculous than this? For certain Italian judiciary, the state and institutions are worth less than an “ops, I was wrong”. This is not right, it is farce. But be careful: the problem is not just the judges. It is the culture behind us. It is the progressiveness from the social center that, for years, has instilled the idea in the country that those who offend the state, if they are foreign, must be understood, pampered, forgiven. If, on the other hand, you are an Italian who dares to raise your voice against the system, then they make you black. Two weights and two measures, always in favor of the “different”, provided that it makes comfortable to the rhetoric of inclusion.
And we arrive at the school: a professor tells a “idiot” student. He doesn’t hit him, he doesn’t threaten him, he doesn’t discriminate against him. It recalls it with a word that we all used at least once. Result? Three degrees of judgment to sanction that the teacher was wrong. But are we out of my mind? Here it is not a question of defending a term, but the principle: the professor must have authority, he must not live with the fear that every word will become a judicial case. Otherwise it ends that the children command, the teachers suffer, and the school becomes a circus. Indeed, it is already.
The red thread is one: the left, with its goodism, has poisoned justice. He taught the judges that we must always forgive, understand, relativize. Do not punish, but justify. Do not condemn, but to dialogue. All in the name of a facade humanitarianism, which only works with offenders, exclusively to them is applied. Because with honest citizens, with those who work, with those who pay taxes, the state is inflexible. It does not forgive you a fine, it does not season a mistake to you: you can tell you. Instead if you split your wife’s head or insult the premier, they reward you with clemency.
It is the same logic that we see in the processions: those who scream anti -Semites are defended as “uncomfortable boy”. It is the same logic that justifies any illegality of the “poor migrants” and that criminalize every police gesture. It is the same logic that transforms the criminal into a victim and the victim in culprit.
The result is under everyone’s eyes: a country where the state is no longer respected, because it is the first not to respect itself. The institutions are not afraid of the offenders, they make people laugh. And we citizens are left alone, at the mercy of judges who seem to have exchanged the courts for reception centers.
Dear professor, you ask me if these judgments are scandalous. I say: No, they are devastating. Because they undermine the very idea of justice. Because they make us live in a country where if you are a respectable citizen you come crushed, and if you are a delinquent, a smile and an excuse to get away with it. This is not right, it is not civilization. It is barbarism disguised as progress.
And the cultural principal is always the same: the left of goodism, of the easy forgiveness, of the excuses on command, of respect denied to those who represent the authority.
A left that has bred generations of judges and intellectuals convinced that the state is always guilty and those who insult him is always a victim or hero. That’s why today, thanks to them, Italy has become a country where justice is reduced to a ridiculous show.