I wonder what the meaning of the word “Justice” is today. This is perhaps the most important question that we have to ask ourselves. Is Justice for all or is it reserved only for those who can afford a famous legal team and after year upon year, arrive at the time limit of the Statute of Limitations? Or the Justice of the untouchables, that will never see prison, whether they are parliamentarians or the police officers accused of carrying out beatings during the G8? Perhaps the Justice of the poor souls, often people from outside the European Union, who have a lawyer assigned to them and a conviction that is more or less certain? How many types of Justice exist in this wretched and impenetrable Nation? The Justice that is administered by income or by caste? The capitalist Justice where income is an element that is always in favour of the accused, incontrovertible proof of innocence? The Justice of the 250,000 laws in which even Kafka himself would get lost? A Justice that makes up for the Vanished Politics that for twenty years, when it can, has alternated with Finance in administering Italy?
A Justice that applies laws created by a Parliament where serried ranks of convicts are seated? A Justice system that applies laws with no discussion notwithstanding who it is that was the inspiration for the law, whether it’s an Andreotti, a Dell’Utri, a Cosentino, a Berlusconi? A Justice system that never casts doubt on the spirit of the law and depends uniquely and religiously on it? A blind Justice system administered by bureaucrats? Or a Justice system that interprets the law where the Judge is sovereign in making decisions? The law is applied or interpreted? To decide between Good and Evil does it have to be the Parliament, even if it is made up of corrupted people and mafia people? Or perhaps the Judge and his conscience? If the law is unjust, is the one applying it a Just Person? And the people have the role of “the stone guest”? Get Up, Stand Up for your rights!