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Fini’s resignation

Gianfranco Fini is not resigning
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Fini’s resignation from the position of president of the Lower House is a litmus test. If he has to leave his institutional role because he represents a party and plays a full-time active role in politics, then the discussion has to be extended to all our employees who hold an elected public office in the interests of the citizens.
Article 67 of the Constitution:
”Members of parliament represent the nation; they are free from imperative mandate.” is very clear. Whoever is elected responds to the citizens, not to his party. A Minister of the Republic, a President of the Council, must act in the interests of the Italian Republic and thus, must resign from the positions of office within the party. In Italy, however, we have serving Presidents and Ministers in a permanent election campaign, in the public meetings and on public TV. All of that is exploiting the ministerial position and with the copious use of public money. Ministries, for those who still don’t know, are abusive seats of the parties. The Minister holds meetings of the party or of a party faction in the offices of the Ministry, he can appoint party members as consultants to the Ministry, he can transform the Ministry into a permanent cafeteria and almost always, if he himself is not the party secretary, he takes orders from the party for every decision he makes. Do you call this democracy? It’s just a caricature of democracy. Our employees (… as the constitution say, this lot should be accountable to us) have occupied the State, they are members of business committees and of mutual aid societies that they have called “parties” and to whom they show obedience. These parties, with this form, without exception, like the fascist party, must be abolished. Anyone who goes in and participates, even in good faith, even without wanting to, is no longer participating in democracy.
There’s another article of the Constitution that has to be learned by heart, article 51: “Anyone elected to public office is entitled to the time necessary for the fulfilment of the respective duties while keeping his or her job.” OK, where do our employees find the time needed to carry out their duties? Absenteeism in Parliament is the norm, anyone who doesn’t present themselves to the Lower or Upper House without reasons of “Force majeure” must be made to resign. The parliamentarians continue to do the jobs that they were doing before: lawyer, actor, administrator, even in this case they must resign. Parliamentarians spend their time issuing press releases, giving interviews, appearing on TV, writing books, so as to gain visibility. They weren’t elected for this. They were elected to work. They are public employees and they have to behave as such, not like “leaderini da strapazzo” {little leaders under strain}, “oracles of the small screen”, “journalist beggars”.
The power to the people has been transformed into “power to the parties”. Democracy has turned upside down. It’s time for change and to return our employees to the nothing that they came from and to which they know they belong. To do that it is enough for each citizen to count for one and that he makes sure his rights are respected. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.

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Posted by: gemininaregh24 | August 16, 2010 10:27 PM

Ever managed to meet one lone italian anywhere ?

In Berlin, Prague, London, Paris, NY, wherever
italians go, they go in groups.

So what ?
Italians are sociable beings and have
lots of friends - nothing wrong with that.

Or is there ?

If you transport this into politics and
business then everything is wrong with it.

Italians are lemmings, and react by groups and
masses in complete disregard to what is right
or wrong, even for their own good.

Ignorance is partially to blame for this, but also
complete media controll by the present regime.

Proof of this will be the upcoming elections
where 1 in 3 italians will still vote for the
thieving politicians of the PDL - the
People of Freedom party.
Never in history, besides the word 'PRAVDA'
has a word, in this case 'Freedom' been
so grossly missused.

The worst that will happen to Hitlersconi is that
he will sooner or later become president of
the bel banana republic.

So whilst we wait for the fourth italian, one
italian in two screws one italian in two, and
the third italian watches whilst jerking off, and it
will be thanks to the lemmings of Italy and not
to Greece nor Spain that the EU will end up
losing the Euro.

Italians would not dream to take their designer
cooking pots into the streets and only poverty,
economical downfall or something 'really big' will
ever shake and change the present and future
situation.

The old joke used to be:

If on a desert island your best
situation would be to have with you:

1 German to organize the organization
1 Swiss to keep the island clean
1 Swede to guarantee for fair laws
1 Englishman to take care of security
1 Frenchman to organize the entertainment
1 Ukranian for improvising things
1 Italian to do the cooking

The new version of the joke is all of the
above except that the Ukranian's task
would be to drown the Italian asap,
and convince the Frenchman
that he is a great cook.

Keyser Soze

Posted by: Keyser Soze | August 12, 2010 12:44 AM

An A+ to Robert Morrison for his understanding of the italian politicians and of the Italians in general. By the law of large numbers though, there must exist a small percentage of brave and qualified Italians that works with honesty. Unfortunately honesty and intelligence, in Italy, are drawbacks and this small percentage counts for absolutely nothing.

Posted by: pinov | August 11, 2010 04:13 PM

Martin Luther King said "I have a dream". His dream was to help the uneducated, the poor and the oppressed but he was shot and killed for his dream.

Italian politicians don't dream, they just sell bullshit and the Italian population eat the shit up with gusto, while they (the politicians) corrupt the country amplifying the true dream of every Italian - getting rich by not working and not giving a fuck about your neighbour, the environment or ethics.

Italy has become a sewer worse than the tin pot nations of the 3rd world - at least those nations didn't pretend to be civil.

Posted by: Robert Morrison | August 11, 2010 03:25 PM

Politicians everywhere have succumbed to the desire to be celebrities rather than act in the interest of their country and the people they represent. But they must never forget they are expendable . See the alternative movie The Expendables on the blog: www.pfieldman.blogspot.com. Also see Welcome to Euroland

Posted by: peter fieldman | August 11, 2010 10:44 AM