” Given that you can hear a bit of everything and so much incredible idle chatter, I would like to say: if someone instead of going round the houses were to think that I or someone in my party has done something less than legal, let him say so explicitly, and he will get a libel action. ” The words of Pierluigi Bersani talking about the Penati affair.
Do I think so or do I not think so? Right I think so. My lawyers will be happy. Right now I have only three libel cases and yet they have to do more work. I have decided that I think so, come what may. I think that Penati didn’t keep the money for himself and that he gave it to someone. It’s a hypothesis that is more than plausible that he took the money to someone in the party. Perhaps someone with whom he had a close relationship,, someone he trusted, who had helped him in his political career. It’s an hypothesis, oh dear, but how can I stop myself from thinking it? The Supervisory Committee chaired by "precog" (the one who has foreknowledge of crimes before they are committed) Luigi Berlinguer will find guilty anyone who thinks ill of Bersani. Minority Report for a Minority PDminusL. It’s the “precrime” applied to politics.
Bersani then underlined the need for double vision: “ In the PD there is no moral issue. What exists is the need to always have four eyes open. And that is even more relevant for us because luckily we have an electorate that is very demanding on this issue. ” The poor man must have serious eye problems. He’s practically blinded. Penati was his right hand man, but the lack of good vision has prevented him from seeing him at work in the episodes of corruption and complicity in the Falck area at Sesto San Giovanni and in the sale at three times its value of the package of shares in the Milano Serravalle motorway, belonging to the Province of Milan to Marcellino Gavio. For years, the former mayor of Milan, Albertini, had been calling attention to the Milano Serravalle motorway, even to the magistrates, but without being able to find anyone to listen. Is it not strange that no one has put forward a denunciation, and no one has investigated? Who was on the provincial council that approved the concession? Did anyone oppose the decision? What a lot of questions and what a lot of suspicions on the umpteenth mess-up at the expense of Italian tax-payers. Thinking is dangerous. Bersani knows that. That’s why he announced libel actions. Bersani the four-eyed precog will be the first politician to bring a class action against thinking citizens.
Anyone who even vaguely might think that Bersani or someone in his party has done something less than legal can write to Pierluigi Bersani and declare themselves guilty of bad thoughts. Send off your email.