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Plan B: don’t end up in prison

Plan B: don’t end up in prison - Marco Travaglio
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Good day to you all. We have got to the final solution, to the last match:” il Cavaliere” has ordered, has given to understand to his allies, starting with the leaders within his Majority, and in his party, thus to Bossi and Fini, with all the group heads to meet up as soon as possible in the week and to sign that they are swearing not fidelity, but impunity for Berlusconi himself: whoever disagrees is out of the Majority. If the Majority doesn’t go along with this measure, then there will be new elections: it’s not easy to understand the reason why il Cavaliere is so desperate, given that it was thought that his trials were all destined to fall because of the Statute of Limitations. But evidently there’s something that he knows and that we don’t know, because he has talked of nothing else and he’s thinking of nothing else since the Lodo Alfano was thrown out.

This is it: the coup d’état

I really don’t want to fool around today, because I believe that we are right in the middle of a coup d’état : the impression given by the President of the Lower House, Fini , last night was anything but joyful, in his really great interview that he gave with Fabio Fazio, according to me it’s a clear demonstration of the tension and the seriousness of the moment, we are facing one who is unbalanced or alternatively, a delinquent of such proportions that he can no longer control himself. A person who knows that he has done so many wrong things and so he knows that he has to give it everything he’s got, getting a written law that says that he must not be put on trial, because this is the meaning of what is happening this week: his crimes no longer exist by law, with the signature of the allies, so as to avoid someone feeling ashamed, going red and afterwards discovering the consequences of what they are doing and pulling back. It’s a dramatic moment. Perhaps even more dramatic than the many that seemed dramatic to us in the past, because in the past there was an attempt to cover up with a film of Vaseline, of hypocrisy the laws to save Berlusconi from trials: there was always someone else who was willing to sign them, there was always some fictitious general reason to justify what was being done and yet this time, no, this time, this unpunished man this walking shame is going round threatening his allies saying: “I’ll sign it, I’m presenting it, my lawyers are writing it, we will sign it and you too will sign it and it’s written that I must not be put on trial even if the Constitutional Court has just said that that I have to be put on trial like all the others, even if the law says I have to be put on trial, even if the Constitution says that I have to be put on trial,, even if the magistracy says that I have to be put on trial. Now let’s do a coup d’état, we’ll come together like the governments in exile, practically, the clandestine governments who give themselves their own rules, outside those valid for the country where they live and they take shelter in some hiding place, preparing the insurrection.

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SI PUO' ESSERE COSI' SFACCIATAMENTE AL DI SOPRA DELLA LEGGE?SE E' INNOCENTE CHE SI FACCIA PROCESSARE.TANTO E' INNOCENTE.POSSIBILE CHE CI SIA UNA MASSA DI ITALIANI CHE DORME SU QUESTE COSE E CREDONO AD UNA MAGISTRATURA DI SX CHE NON VUOL DIRE NULLA PERCHE' LA LEGGE E' SEMPRE LA LEGGE.

Posted by: MASSIMILIANO GREGUOL | November 11, 2009 03:18 PM

Stefano Cucchi, 31, is picked up, in a park in Rome, by the police for possession of 20 grams of hashish.

He is taken to jail. Stefano is denied the call to his lawyer and his parents.

His parents don't see him till five days later. But not in jail. They see him in a hospital.

Their son is laying on a bed. Dead.

Bruises visible all over his body. His face beaten to a pulp. His parents ask what happened.

They are told he fell down the stairs.

With no one to blame who do the authorities blame? The victim.

A politician, Giovanardi, head of a drug committee tells Italians Stefano was killed by the use of drugs, he wan an anorexic, he was a zombie and a larvae of a man. So he died.

It was concluded by this heartless politician.

What has happened to Stefano in jail has happened to at least a dozen other people.

A Tunisian Immigrant, on a hunger strike protesting atrocious prison conditions, was left to languish in his cell till he died.

After the massacre of political dissenters in Genoa, the Italian government seems to have given the police the go ahead to bash people at will.

But it's the most unfortunate in society and the political dissenters who pay the highest price. Echoes of Iran.

Posted by: louis pacella | November 10, 2009 11:47 PM

We live in a world where politics has become just another business, unfortunately a corrupt business. Too many political leaders have forgotten why they were elected and believe they have a right to a privileged lifestyle above the rule of law. But remember politicians are only the tip of the iceberg; they are merely the visible part of power. The reality is that our nations are controlled by a highly discreet political and economic elite with powerful financial interests who pull the strings behind the scenes to make sure that they do not lose either their privileges or power. Politicians are merely their puppets. As Uraguayan author Eduardo Galieno said."Los Politicos mejor intencionados terminan presos de la maquineria que los devore."
Berlusconi has merely gone somewhat further in his delusions of grandeur, followed perhaps by Sarkozy. Just over two hundred years ago the French decided enough was enough and heads rolled. The people, now suffering from a financial crisis caused by the greed of the aristocrats holding financial power, are not far from reaching a similar limit of patience with political leaders. Beppe, you do a fantastic and risky job in putting pressure on those who will resist change at any cost. I hope the Italian people will support you.

Posted by: peter fieldman | November 10, 2009 11:16 AM

"you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time"

who said that? i think he clearly had never been to italy. Berlusca is doing a great job at the latter.

even if he did end up in prison it wouldnt be the prison you and i would end up in.

Italian prisons are a joke. they are, to put it bluntly, shit holes. ran by idiots and under educated egomaniacs who given a uniform think they are above the law they are supposed to serve.
italian prisons are unlawful according to european union law. what do the italians care.

berlusconi has his own agenda and its not helping the italian people and the economy get back on its feet.

as long as the masses are unable to read and write and are glued to his tv stations and kept ignorant hes a happy man. Forza Italia, what a sick joke that was.

Posted by: Pat Kerr | November 10, 2009 10:54 AM

Bandits and Berlusconi

http://mgiannini.blogspot.com/2009/06/italy-and-fundamental-laws-of-human.html

In a country which is moving downhill, I would add clearly like Italy, Professor Cipolla writes that "the fraction of stupid people is still equal to å; however in the remaining population one notices among those in power an alarming proliferation of the bandits with overtones of stupidity (sub-area B1 of quadrant B) and among those not in power an equally alarming growth in the number of helpless individuals (area H in basic graph). Such change in the composition of the non-stupid population inevitably strengthens the destructive power of the å fraction and makes decline a certainty. And the country goes to Hell."

Posted by: M.G. in Progress | November 9, 2009 09:49 PM