– Antonio From Petersomeone who knows a lot about the relationships between the judiciary, politics and newspapers, drops the bomb: “Solidarity with Arianna Meloni, she ended up in the media-judicial mincer just like me”. And again: “Arianna Meloni should be judged for who she is, not because she is the sister of the Prime Minister. She is put in the eye of the storm to get to Giorgia Meloni and it is an unjustified criminalization”. But above all, Di Pietro believes that “it might not be the judiciary that investigates, but some other entity such as clips of the services secretsas happened to me”. Do you remember the Striano case?
– Reading the Italian newspapers today about the Democratic convention, you understand two things. First: all the local journalists who work for the most important newspapers are quietly rooting for Kamal and they don’t bother not to point it out. Second: admiration for the American political system transpires, despite it being presidentialist and not proportional, all characteristics that when proposed here in Italy via constitutional reform end up being described as the gateway to dictatorship. Meh.
– On the shipwreck Of Palermomany – especially on social media – have advanced the following reasoning. “But is the sinking of a migrant dinghy worth the sinking of a rich man’s sailing ship?” As if to say: this is what is talked about a lot, but not the poor people on the boats. A false reasoning, as well as pathetic. First: a news story by definition is an event that stands out from all the others. It is no coincidence that “the news” is made by large shipwrecks with hundreds of migrants on board and not by small ones in which five or six people die. It may be cynical, but it is the law of newsworthiness. It has worked like this for centuries. That a superyacht sinks off the Sicilian coast due to a sudden storm is one of those events that happens once in a lifetime, like the Concordia or the Titanic. This explains the reason for so much attention. Those who use tragedy with that malicious attitude of classist revenge (“even the rich drown”) do not want to defend migrants, poor devils, but are only expressing social envy. Maybe, a little, even if they don’t admit it, they enjoy all that champagne that went down with the Bayesian.
– We criticized Fly for sentencing a young woman who had donated 50 euros to Ukrainian humanitarian organizations. Right: freedom first. I don’t understand then why the same reasoning should not be applied to the Ukrainian parliament that outlawed Church Orthodox remained tied to the patriarchate of Moscow, imposing on the faithful to adhere to that of Kiev. If we consider freedom of worship an untouchable value, we should defend it even when our allies limit it.
– Around 2,000 people demonstrated in Jena against the German far-right partyAfD and prevented the speech of the AfD leader of Thuringia, Bjorn Hoeck. In the end, the rally was canceled. Now, the AfD has all the credentials to be a movement that can be harshly criticized. But in a democracy, ideas are fought with other ideas, not by preventing anyone from holding a march. Apparently, the sinister virus of silencing opponents by organizing counter-demonstrations is not an Italian exclusive.
– Refoundation Communist Today he complains about an article of mine, published on Nicolaporro.itin which I jokingly played on a double signature collection proposed by theAnpi and from CasaPound. The former want to dissolve the “fascists of the third millennium”, who in turn propose to cut funding to the partisans’ grandchildren. I find this amazing. And even funnier is the fact that Rifondazione thinks I wanted to sponsor an “obvious intimidation” against the Partisan Association. So, my dears. Let’s come to an agreement. Until CasaPound is outlawed, and it will never happen, accept it: it has the right to demonstrate wherever it wants and to collect the signatures it prefers. So the idea of cutting funding to the ANPI may be debatable, but it does not fall within the category of “intimidations”, since it is also a banal reaction to a censorship operation started by the partisans. And then the writer has been wondering for some time why state funds should end up in the hands of those who now deal more with politics than with historical memory.
– Republic writes: “Ilaria Salt she is back in prison, but the right should not rejoice: this is not the beginning of the news you would like to read”. But where? But who? Who would have thought? We have always criticized Salis’s curriculum, her political choices, her illegal occupations and the rest of the gang. No one, except for the screamers on social media, active on both sides, has ever dreamed of wanting to see her back behind bars. Never. Such a generalizing attack that is not very close to reality, if we had written it, would have earned us three disciplinary proceedings at the Order.
– Ilaria Salt he goes to prison Saint Victor and she agrees with us. Or rather: she agrees with those who claimed that the campaign conducted against “the prisons of the Budapest regime” was sacrosanct but short-sighted, dictated more by aversion to Orban than by an analysis of the facts. Let’s be clear: it is a good thing that the new MP was able to return to Italy. And it was unfair to see her tied with ankle shackles in court. However, we pointed out, for weeks we have been drawing the horror of Hungarian prisons, the deprivations and denied rights, forgetting that in Italy the situation of the homeland’s prisons is similar. If not worse. Over the years, the Belpaese has been condemned by the ECHR much more than Hungary for various violations: torture, unfair trial, inhuman treatment and excessive length of trials. Today Ilaria discovered that we were right. Those who accused Orban of every infamy have pointed the finger at the Hungarian speck, forgetting however the beam in the Italian eye.
– Ilaria Salis suggests: “We need to limit the use of prison for those awaiting trial.” Right.
– Then he adds: “We need to decriminalize small crimes against property committed out of necessity, those who steal from supermarkets because they are hungry and have no work, those who occupies a house because they can’t afford a roof and the bodies that manage public housing don’t assign empty homes”. In practice, as soon as she was elected, Ilaria Salis proposed to decriminalize a crime that she herself admitted to having supported. Remember? “I confess! I was active in the housing movements”. And again: “Whoever enters an uninhabited house takes without taking away from anyone, except from degradation, racketeering and property developers”. They will shout at the proposed laws ad personam?
– Finally, the icing on the cake. So: denouncing the unworthy conditions of prisons is sacrosanct; being indignant about suicides is absolutely right; asking to reduce the use of imprisonment preventive equally; but imagine a society without prison It’s science fiction, as well as silly.
“I believe we need to move toward a society that goes beyond prison…”, says Ilaria Salis: “The goal must be reintegration into society, instead of concentrating a lot of people in a single place where even if you enter clean you come out a criminal”. If you really intend to eliminate cells, go and tell the relatives of murder victims, the unfortunate person from whom a thief took everything, the poor defrauded people and the victims of rape. And let’s see what they think.