Good morning Director Feltri,
the new MEP Ilaria Salis, whom all of Europe envies us, has admitted and claimed to have occupied properties. I mean, she even boasts about it. But the worst thing is that her mentor, Nicola Fratoianni, leader of the Italian Left, goes after her claiming that occupying is right and that it should no longer be considered a crime. Someone has lost the light of reason… Or am I wrong?
Gino Belfiore
Dear Gino,
these are rather worrying statements not only for their contra legem content but also and above all because the authors hold public positions and represent citizens within the institutions, therefore it is assumed that they set a good example rather than clearing and normalizing certain crimes, an act which also constitutes a kind of exhortation to commit crime.
It’s true, the right to housing exists. But there is no – and this must be clear and indisputable – a right to occupy someone else’s house, that is, someone else’s property. Perhaps these communists would like a world without private property, in which everything belongs to everyone. However, such a society would be without order and law. History teaches that the countries that started from these noble ideals and from the concept of a just society where everything belongs (at least in theory) to everyone, ended up all too quickly destroying the individual by denying him any essential rights, transforming him into number, object, gear, tool. The State, embodied by a single person or a few, has taken everything, including human beings, who have been stripped of everything material and immaterial that they enjoyed. Even the right to life.
These are totalitarian, ruthless and dehumanizing regimes, from which the left that speaks every day of “fascism alarm” and criticizes Giorgia Meloni, accusing her of having an ambiguous attitude towards fascism, has never distanced itself.
I recognize the risk of the so-called illiberal drift feared by the Italian left, yes. However, not in the Meloni government, but in the words of Salis and Fratoianni and in the incitement made by them to trample on the right to property in the name of the non-existent right to occupy, that is, to take other people’s property by force.
Which then “right to occupy illegally” is a contradiction in terms. It cannot exist and this short circuit cannot be resolved by making the occupations not abusive but lawful. However, there is the insurmountable limit of the protection of property rights which cannot be undermined without turning our legal system, our economic system and our freedoms upside down.
And then you can imagine Fratoianni if someone entered his house and took up residence there, telling him: «Move out. Am I exercising my right to occupy”?
In truth, the radical chic mentality can be summed up in this assumption: what is yours is mine and what is mine is mine.
Yet I want to give Salis the benefit of the doubt, we owe it to him. Let’s put it to the test.
So let’s try to occupy the Salis family’s home in Monza and see if they would welcome us by making room for us or directly packing our luggage to make us more comfortable and make it easier for us or if father and daughter would call the police, even though the young lady seems allergic to the uniform, as far as we know from his criminal records and previous convictions. Indeed, it is probable that the MP would punch us, a practice to which he seems inclined, precisely because for these democrats, other people’s property can be touched, but their own can never be touched.