The State’s money has dried up and the payments to the local authorities are no longer arriving. To survive, the presidents of the regions and the mayors of the towns are mortgaging the property of whatever they are administrating. Ugo Cappellacci, the son of the psycho dwarf’s accountant, president of the Region of Sardinia has straight away started off well.
With the decision number 24/24 of 19 May 2009, the Sardinian Regional Cabinet approved the renewal of new concessions along the Sardinian shore, in favour of private structures for beachgoers. Basically it has sold the territory of the Sardinians, who for the next six years will even have to pay to go and swim in the sea in their own land.
In Europe the beaches are almost all free and equipped. In France there are tens of kilometres of free beaches, public toilets that are looked after and free showers, surveillance by the police and the fire services, and “bike sharing” to limit the traffic. Things that we Italians cannot even imagine…

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“I have seen things that you humans, Italians, Sardinians, could not even imagine. I have seen clean beaches, perfect and free. With showers that are completely free for bathers. I have seen the sparkling of towers with enormous beach lifeguards with a focaccia who looked after the safety of the citizens. I have seen things that you cannot even imagine. And all these things will vanish like tears in the rain. All these things are over. It’s the moment of the great speculation.
By now there are beaches full of stuff. Full of deck chairs, full of umbrellas, full of children. Full of sellers, of folk from Morocco, from Senegal. Full of anyone. Even the boutique owners pick up their stuff, close their shop and go and sell. It’s all an orgy! You pay two euro an hour for car parking, you pay for anything. To get a swim in the sea you have to do kilometres on foot in the brambles, and get across motorways. You get there, you spread out your beach towel and there’s not even a square metre where you don’t pay anything. It’s all been changed with a law. Here in Sardinia you have paradise on earth and you let them snatch it from beneath your eyes with the Cappellacci law. The Cappellacci law, my God! Just in the ten days since they were installed the regional cabinet has done so much mad stuff. Cappellacci, what do you expect Cappellacci to do? He does “cappelle” {cappelle=hats}! He has done this decision that has made 40,000 hectares of public beach in concessions for 6 years, not a fortnight. Do a fortnight and that way you see how they behave. Six years! Just imagine the beaches, the territory. Anything. What will happen here? The time of liberty is finished. Free beaches, from the moment they are called “free” the beaches are no longer free. Why add an adjective to free beaches? The beach is the beach. It’s not free. It’s that we have added “free” to justify the fact that they are not free. Because we are a semi-free country. Like our beaches.
Good 168 to you all!