The silent majority
The guilty dog barks first. Ms Marcegaglia of the incinerators has invoked the arrival into the field of the “silent majority”. “The time has come for the silent majority of this country that wants the TAV, the infrastructure, to make themselves truly heard. Because otherwise only the noisy minority is heard and in bad faith.” The silent majority has already made its voice known with the referenda, the festival banquet, the table lavishly prepared with 6 or 7 nuclear power stations paid for by the tax payers for tens of billions and pocketed by the Confindustria, no longer exists. And not even the profitable handling of public water by the assisted industrialists. The bridge over the Straits has become a chimera. What remains are the Great Useless Public Works financed by the State, like the TAV and the Gronda in Liguria. Devastation of the territory and cement paid for by the tax payers. The Confindustria of the State Concessionaires, Benetton-style with the motorways, Marcegaglia-style with the incinerators paid for in the electricity bill with the CIP6, wants just one thing, public money. Without that it would be asphyxiated. In Italy, risk capital is put up by the State, the citizens who pay taxes, labourers, office workers, small business owners, it is they who are the “silent majority”. And Ms Marcegaglia is still asking for money from them. The Confindustria while passing round the plate has a loud voice. “What Grillo has said is really serious: “He said that those are heroes, whereas they are delinquents. The true heroes are the police officers.” That’s false and will find a response in the courts. My heroes are the citizens, like the people of the Val di Susa, who with the weapons of democracy are fighting this system that is rotten from its foundations. Ms Marcegaglia added “We entrepreneurs, the workers, the banks, have to say: that’s enough now, we are fed up. We have to swiftly decide one day when those who believe in the growth of this country, say – that’s enough!!” We all agree with this. We have to say “that’s enough!” to the ragged arsed entrepreneurs who plunder the resources of the country. Yesterday, just for a change, saw the conviction at the first level of judgement, of Sergio Cragnotti and Cesare Geronzi who are sentenced to nine and four years in prison for the collapse of Cirio to the value of 1,125 million euro. Who will give compensation to the savers? The Confindustria? They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.
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The bosses are coming! Ms. Marcegaglia is fed up with the demostrations in Val di Susa. She is rallying "the silent majority" to go parading in the Valley -escorted by soldiers and police in riot gear.
The workers on the sites are wondering why they are not welcome in the valley? Because they're there to destroy a valley the inhabitants want to preserve for their children! How would they like to have their dwellings and places bulldozed to make way for an incinerator?
I read in the "Avvenire" that the reason the people of Val di Susa oppose the project it's because they "fear the new." Obviously the writer doesn't know of the ruinous speculations when they were building the "new" in the sixties. There is nothing "new" in the construction of a highspeed train -especially when it's not needed. The project is obsolete now, imagine how obsolete it will be when they finish it -twenty years from now.
Posted by: louis Pacella | July 7, 2011 07:43 AM
Right on, Beppe! Ms Marcegaglia, who aids and abets the criminal class, is practicing 'projection politics', which is to accuse your opponent/s of doing and being exactly what Ms Marcegaglia and the robbing, murderous band of cutthroats she represents are doing and being. In America, for instance, those who defend the poor and minorities are labelled 'elites' and 'extremists'. America doesn't even have a mechanism for a national referendum -- the powerful gangsters in our country claim that the only votes that should count are in elections, from local governments to the national government, between twiddle dee and twiddle dum of whatever magnitude. In America, we can't see the light at the end of the tunnel -- we don't even know where the tunnel is. But in Italy, if the voters are given the opportunity, they can bring down this form of government, this rottenness as you call it, this system of bribery and blackmail. Americans who would like to do the same in our country, and there are millions of us, wish you and the Italian people good hunting, and to set the example that the rest of the Western world can follow.
Posted by: peppino vallesi | July 6, 2011 04:11 PM