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A Republic founded on blackmail

A Republic founded on blackmail - Marco Travaglio
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Good day to you all. I want to talk to you today, perhaps for the last time, I hope , if there’s no more need, otherwise we will come back to the Marrazzo case, because the Marrazzo case is not important just for what has happened, but it is important also for what it recounts even going beyond the facts that happened that day, I think it was 3 July this year, in Via Gradoli 96. Anyway, it shows us how important it Is to have newspapers with the freedom to write news freely and I’ll explain that in a minute, meanwhile it shows us how important it is that the unfettered newspapers give an account of the details, even the tiniest details of these happenings in a very professional way without being pressured. Thirdly, it shows that not all those whose names are written in the official Register of Journalists in Italy, are performing the same job, and furthermore it shows us that in Italy, for a few years now, there is a “defamation unit”, for calumny, for creating dossiers, that inevitably is oriented in a certain direction, because in that direction it knows, or at least it hopes to find fertile ground, money, jobs, favours, in exchange for information that could badmouth some political adversary or someone who is believed to be a political adversary. I’ll take things in order.

The importance of the freedom of information

The first thing is the importance of the freedom of information that is not conditioned: have you seen how many viewpoints the Marrazzo case could be told from? The Marrazzo case, as soon as it exploded, is told from the most obvious viewpoint and the most titillating and appetizing for the pathological and voyeuristic curiosity of the public that buys newspapers and watches TV, that is that the President of the Region of Lazio, whose face is known on TV, a civil defender on the programme “Mi Manda RAI Tre”, goes with transsexuals and all the aspects, his wife, his family, the offspring, the drama, the monastery , the transsexual, the place, the official blue cars etc. etc.. This is the aspect, the only aspect on which Berlusconi’s newspapers and the newspapers that run alongside Berlusconi, have concentrated on. According to me, it’s the least interesting aspect, or rather, it’s the aspect that should interest the citizens the least, because for the citizen, the sexual preferences of the Governor of Lazio, should not be of interest, unless the sexual preferences of the Governor of Lazio are influencing the way the Governor of Lazio is governing: in that case, the citizens have every right and in fact the duty, to take an interest in his sexual preferences and to insist that they do not influence his choices. If they irreparably influence his choices, the citizen must insist that the governor goes, thus the “trans” aspect on its own is not what must interest us. And we would know nothing about it, if a series of really serious crimes had not been committed by a group, a band, a gang of Carabinieri who broke into that house, and filmed a scene that should have stayed within the walls of that house and that should never have been released, because it was a matter that related exclusively to the privacy of the governor.

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Comments

The only legitimate public concern in the private behaviour of politicians is the opportunities for blackmail such behaviour may provide, which will corrupt State governance and poison the public well.

Posted by: Russell Smith | November 7, 2009 11:05 AM

Travaglio, I am sorry, but your argument is this time sophistical.
You write well and this hides the sophism but Public Figures, leaders have no right to hide sexual aberrations of which they have become acquiescent dependents in their Private Life. I would not call a Party of Transsexuals a private occasion anyway. It is only the guilty or those who have something to hide, of which they are ashamed of since they know they are doing wrong, who need Privacy.
The sexual obscenities, exploitations, abuses plainly visible in the streets of our Nation show the inadequacy and corruption ( in their Private Lives ) of our leaders, including your Governor of Lazio. One's acquiesced with and unstruggled for Private Life informs one's modus operandi and View of the World and of reality.

Posted by: Attilio Louis Ferreri | November 5, 2009 09:27 AM

I have had a Comment censured. Please note it is, together with the Travaglio's Article on post 169 of Ferrarii Clan./ Sir laurence Gradner # -: A Study

Posted by: Attilio Louis Ferreri | November 5, 2009 08:57 AM

This is a typical case in which Travaglio, reputed as a wise anti-crime journalist, is confusing issues by deploring the Carabinieri's severity and action ( ALLELUJAH!) against the Governor of Lazio's personal, intimate commitment to a sexual aberration such as that of transexualism. But were are we going to draw the line separating the normal from the normal? Are we going one day to have to accept a Priest or a Pope who may be a sodomite, a transexual, a transvestite ( say dressing up as a nun), a drug-pusher, a drug-abuser, an abuser of nuns, a paedophile provided he were so in his Private Life? I would allow him, in a move o charity which would be wrong though, Mary-five-fingers ( but that would also be a breach if he were to not consider it a transgression and not struggle against such an addiction ), provided he did so in his Private Life? The Carabinieri have been investigating a Public Figure's sexual aberrations. Travaglio is already claiming harasment and blackmail. But why? This is Bullshit Travaglio! Could both Travaglio and Beppe Grillo be perchance Mafiosis in their Private Lives? If being a transvestite is a normal thing why does the Governor of Lazio bother about it being known or object or even Travaglio himself?
The Public has every right to know the intimate details of any aberration public figures suffer from, whether they are doing anything about their problem or just acquiescing about it. How can one trust any Italian when even Travaglio is a bit of a shit and by implication even Beppe Grillo?
I am sorry to have to disagree with Travaglio as I do not believe a Governor of Lazio should be an unreformable, active, ongoing transexual leading parties of transexuals and who knows what else. This is a typical case in which Travaglio, reputed as a wise anti-crime journalist, is confusing issues by deploring the Carabinieri's severity and action ( ALLELUJAH!) against the Governor of Lazio's personal, intimate commitment to a sexual aberration such as that of transexualism. But were are we going to draw the line separating the normal from the bnormal? I am sorry to have to disagree with Travaglio as I do not believe a Governor of Lazio should be an unreformable, active, ongoing transexual. I am not a saint, would not want to be one anyway, as I love the ongoing struggle between good and bad, and also have my fantasies under the psychological bombardment of the Mafia's advertising world in which everything is up for sale, for a price, but I check myself, daily, keep in touch with suitable referential witnesses ( i,e, biblical, fictional ones, whichever ones ) which my integrated Civilisation, one which I am committed to defend, has wisely determined to be normative in the course of centuries ( I am sure that libertine ages have already existed when these aberrations were tested and proven to be detrimental to the life of healthy societies) and do not change definitions of mental aberrations, distortions of reality, psychological illnesses to suit my ego or because these have become fashionable since the days of the French Revolution and the so called Enlightenment. Transexualism is sick! Travagliio claims it is not affecting the Governor's duties. How does Travaglio know? Does Travaglio believe the thousands of sexual workers on the Italian streets, including all the sexual-nut-cases are an ornament or distinction of our National Image?
Does Travaglio believe that the LET IT BE attitude now a norm in Italy is right? If I were the Governor of Lazio or of any godforsaken Province of Christian/Catholic Italy, I would like to have all these sexual workers compelled to attend a medical regular check-up. How can a Governor who is an umitigated, unreforming, mental sexual case of some sort exercise the authority to ask for his dependents to act any better than he does not even try to do? Cone on Travaglio, go back to the Tratturi of your anscestors as a shepperd where you would be better of to be. What count is not just being able to speak or write but the vision you hold of reality. Poor Italy!

Posted by: Attilio Louis Ferreri | November 5, 2009 08:55 AM

MM well, they are no worse that US politicians

Posted by: Hayley | November 4, 2009 01:46 AM

MM well, they are no worse that US politians

Posted by: Hayley | November 4, 2009 01:46 AM

Italian politicians are taking a week off from their cushy jobs in Parliament. They say they have nothing to do. In Italy? Politicians have nothing to do? The country is sliding into the Meditarrenean. The public debt is drowning the country. Cuts everywhere. A million people out of work. No loans for small factory-owners. And Brunetta is nowhere to order them back in Parliament. There is a pandemic flu and half of the population is worried sick about it. The country needs their leaders to hold discussions about it, show concern, start considering whether or not the H1N1 is a national emergency. After all, this flu is making headlines around the world. Media frenzy? Maybe. But should the flu get out of control (hope not) let the record show the politicians were at work.

Posted by: louis pacella | November 3, 2009 03:57 PM

Italian politicians are taking a week off from their cushy jobs in Parliament. They say they have nothing to do. In Italy? Politicians have nothing to do? The country is sliding into the Meditarrenean. The public debt is drowning the country. Cuts everywhere. A million people out of work. No loans for small factory-owners. And Brunetta is nowhere to order them back in Parliament. There is a pandemic flu and half of the population is worried sick about it. The country needs their leaders to hold discussions about it, show concern, start considering whether or not the H1N1 is a national emergency. After all, this flu is making headlines around the world. Media frenzy? Maybe. At any rate, better safe than sorry and should the flu get out of control (hope not) let the record show the politicians were at work.

Posted by: louis pacella | November 3, 2009 03:51 PM