Why create a movement? Simple! Because it’s already there! If you remember, millions of people came out into the streets for the two V-Days. The first was to have a clean Parliament and the second was to have freedom of information. Millions of people who came out into the “piazza” from everywhere. In Piazza Farnese, together with the families of mafia victims, in Piazza Dante in Naples against the rubbish in Campania. Citizens who, by using the local MeetUps, have produced the Five Star Civic Lists. So there are around forty well-informed people to be found in thirty councils of important cities like Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Treviso, Ancona, and Livorno. There are hundreds of thousands of Italian citizens who have created a forum and have worked for eight months to do the Citizen Primaries, if you remember. They worked on the economy, on energy, on health. And then we took these Citizen Primaries to Prodi who immediately put them in a drawer.
The parties no longer exist. They are like Wile E. Coyote, have you noticed? To make them collapse it’s enough to tell them to look down. In fact, as soon as Wile E. Coyote realises that he is suspended in emptiness, he falls. Just as all these caricatures have fallen. From Topo Gigio Veltroni to the psycho-dwarf. They are caricatures, cartoon characters. From the “smemorato di Collegno”, Mancino up to the President of the Republic ,Morpheus.
Minister Tremorti is scraping the barrel. He doesn’t know what to do any more. He is even getting hold of gold bars from the Bank of Italy. He seems like “il Duce” fleeing Dongo with the treasure.
In September the manual workers will be leaving the factories. Who will welcome them? The anti-riot police!
The public debt is an abyss. It is increasing by 18-20 billion euro a month. This State has failed. It is in “default completo”. It’s enough to get a threat from Totò Riina and the threat of creating a “Party of the South” and straight away four billion euro are offered to Sicily, while in Abruzzo the earthquake survivors are still living in tents.
The Movement is the voice of millions of people who have no voice in the TV News, or in TV, but they will be the voice of the Italy of tomorrow. The Italy of honest, transparent, clean people, who don’t want nuclear power stations, incinerators, rubbish tips with toxic poisonous waste. An Italy for respectable people who don’t want power for its own sake. But who want to do something to change this state of things. People who are continuing to see State slaughters, like the one in Bologna, covered by State Secrecy. And if there’s still State Secrecy, it means that it was instigated by the State.
I want to see the people governing this Country to be amusing. People who can make you laugh, who can play with their children, who can go out and do the shopping. Not people who are protected by body guards, Army and anti-riot Police.
I want to see a Country where, if someone shouts out the truth and speaks the truth, they don’t have to see the Police coming into their house at 6:30 in the morning because in a TV programme they asked questions of our employee “avvocato Pecorella”, about why he defended a mafia assassin, the assassin of Don Diana.
I want that whoever wants to participate in person in the construction of his or her own future has that possibility. To go into the town council to decide things about the territory, about the quality of the environment, about their own life, the air, the water. A country in which a referendum is not stuffed in a drawer, like the popular laws, that just stay written on paper.
A Country where we live now that is without an Opposition, where the Parliament has been deprived of its authority. Where the ones who are governing are two business committees: the PDL and the PDminusL. I can guarantee that this Movement will not delegate anyone. It’s a first person movement. First person plural: Us, the citizens.
In the Autumn, by means of the Internet, I will start the Regional Five Star Lists and straight after that the Movement. A Movement of direct democracy. A virus that cannot be stopped because it is marching on through its ideas and its programmes. And above all with its joyfulness. Because laughter is contagious. Very contagious. Thus “a bout of laughter will bury you all!” Buon 168!