Girdles, Stockings, Suspenders

Italy unietnica and other nonsense

briefly interrupts the forced break that I had to take from the internet and the PC in general (if not from reading, television, the world outside the four walls of the house), to outsource a consideration that can not leave unspoken .
E 'on the radio, for three weeks, I learn the most current events, A midst the radio. Full of good programs that I downloaded in the first podcast and now I can listen in real time (allowing workers and plumber).
Middle reporting, comment, fun, irritating. But always with a certain decorum. Or rather, with a certain respect for the listener. Just because, I think, makes it necessary for the radio to listen or pay attention to what you hear. While other media are content with the mere presence of the user, who suffers them, still waiting for both the screen for the viewer to act ...

But it was not what I wanted to write (and I can not get lost in digressions because the time allowed is less). I have already spoken of the bill on security, I wrote what I think in terms of reasonableness, effectiveness and usefulness. I stressed that certain data held by the advocates who are wrong or at least manipulated. But I have not spoken of the media in support of the bill, neither of advertising slogans dedicated to it.
One struck me in particular. I toppled off the chair, you can say. The slogan reads: "No ethnic Italy. Following the designation "The left wanted a multiethnic Italy, not us." Signed: Berlusconi, Prime Minister.

Now, a first inconsistency, which we call the first nonsense - and because, such foolishness, it was given little importance, and because, in my opinion, is really a meaningless choice -, ; is the use of imperfect tense in the second statement, "wanted." The left wanted a multiethnic Italy. That is, the Communists have tried, but we did not want, and then did not materialize. so willed there where is power to do His will . As if to accommodate the fact that different ethnic groups (with) living side by side was not a condition of the country, the result of a series of historical processes, cultural and social, but a proposal that is acceptable or not. and ask no more.

The second nonsense is the way it is expressed a similar idea idiocy: in the form of slogans, in fact, as something that can be shouted in the streets and wrote on the walls. "No law x", "No to the measure y", "No to SUVs in the city", "No to garden gnomes" and so on. But the fact is that this slogan denies something undeniable and beyond the control of anyone. It 's like a fine day in the House are beginning to say "No rain", or as if you opened up an electoral list by the motto "No to the plants with green leaves. " Or as if the entrance of a restaurant did a fine show of himself holding a sign with the image of a molecule of oxygen imaginary crossed out in red, with the inscription "I can not get here, maybe next to a ' another sign that reads "No entry for dogs and Jews" (or maybe it was another story ...?).

However, one undeniable truth is that Italy, like every country in the world, is multiethnic no return. And fortunately.

The third nonsense is perhaps less obvious, but for this more serious.
We know that the prime minister can not really define a huge fan of the Constitution. But the Constitution is there, and Article 3 says very clearly that in Italy are prohibited discrimination, no less, on race. (Now I can go to browse and write the full story, but it is not hard to find, is just the beginning).
We also know that the Premier is full of smiles and pats on the back for the friends of the international community. But Silvio is a friend so loving as wits. And maybe he does not remember who recently signed a piece of paper called Charter of Fundamental Rights, in which Italy recognizes the need to comply with, among other things, the religious, cultural and linguistic diversity. It is committed to doing everything possible to make this happen. As a true multi-ethnic society.

not want to sound catastrophic. A few voices against the current developments have already raised, for example with regard to medical-light (which disappeared from the bill) or the cars reserved for immigrants in the metropolitan area of Milan,
The real problem however is the fact that it already can conceive of such proposals, and that even if it will be discussed and we contemplate the possibility of giving way to ITER which could turn them into law.
a multi-ethnic intolerance and civil degraded should be the ultimate contradiction. But in Italy we know how to impress. The Great Puppet Master knows how to move the wires to carry the show and let everyone be amazed every time.

I do not think, as the League, condescension and encouragement to follow the impulses of this nature, racist instincts (it must be said), is a sign of a masterful "grassroots." Unless the term has acquired a new connotation and means now "throw and wallow in the mud for good. " It could also be. It is certain that under this flag, you are making major changes: words heavy and strong racist aspects have become simple folk of a certain kind of citizen; drift xenophobic and aggressive, first restricted to the most extreme bands Carroccio, is become a real policy, to which Berlusconi has given its final blessing. "No ethnic Italy. (Amen). "

But Italy is not alone. Is not autonomous and independent. It is not an island, nor does it basks in a splendid isolation. Italy is a member of several international organizations, has signed binding treaties and declarations and must abide by resolutions shared.
Italy, in the person of Mr Berlusconi has repeatedly violated (eg by signing bilateral agreements with Libya) and continues to violate (returnee to potential asylum seekers once they were already in territorial waters) these treaties and declarations .
If the sanctions and punitive measures are valid for countries like Iran, North Korea and Iraq, why should not also apply to us? Indeed, a fortiori apply to us, who are among those who first waved the flag law.
all may seem far away, almost carnival, this comparison between Italy and Iran. But the system of two weights and two measures may not prevent the decision belongs to us for much longer.

Let me conclude with a final comment.
When you violate the law and the dignity of the weakest and most defenseless, when you open the gates of the kind of cultural and institutional fabric of a nation, we speak of immigrants. But that will not do nothing but prepare the way for the questioning of the rights of all. E 'already happened.