Strike one to educate a hundred - Marco Travaglio

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"Good day to you all.
The day before yesterday, Silvio Berlusconi gave an interview to the Spanish newspaper “El Mundo” in which he stated that Judge Gandus who pronounced Mills to be guilty of having been corrupted by Berlusconi, is a left wing campaigner and thus there are doubts about her impartiality but, he adds: “I am absolutely certain that I will be absolved when the trial restarts.” And anyway if and when that trial should restart it will not be Judge Gandus presiding because as soon as she has written the grounds for the decision in the Mills case which will have to deal with the role of the defendant for having corrupted Mills, that is the defendant Berlusconi, she will become incompatible. Then he added: “unfortunately a part of the Italian magistracy is politicised and it has used and still uses its power as a weapon in the political battle against its adversaries, in particular against the only person in the Centre Right who can have the upper hand with the Left. The politicised judges have tried to overturn the democratic result and they succeeded in 1994, with the accusation from which I was naturally completely absolved, after 10 years of trials.” It was the famous story of the corruption of the Finance Police. Then he gives the usual imaginary facts about the trials he has been through and says: “Conclusion: I have always ended up innocent because, fortunately, the impartial judges are in the majority.”

Naturally, since we are dealing with one of the greatest fibbers in the world there’s no need to underline how many fibs there are in these affirmations, however one fact is interesting: we have often talked about the results already brought about by the campaign of recent years against the magistrates that are dealing with the powerful people to apply the law in an equal manner for everyone, for them as well as the poor souls. They have been exterminated. Di Pietro was obliged to leave the magistracy with the well known blackmail of the dossiers in the Brescia trials, Clementina Forleo has been thrown out of Milan after having dealt with Unipol, Luigi De Magistris has been thrown out Catanzaro after dealing with criminal political-judicial filth in the region of Calabria, the Salerno magistrates have been thrown out after having put their noses in those affairs; so basically, we have always used a slogan that we borrowed from Mao and the Red Brigades: strike one to educate one hundred, strike two, three, five, seven, ten, fifteen to educate all ten thousand of them."

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One may wonder about all the news on new concentration camps in the US: are those for criminal bankers? Or for poor people? Who do you think will go there?

Installations: Civilian Inmate Labor Program - Army Regulation 210–35, 14 January 2005
Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations
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Posted by: marco saba | March 11, 2009 01:10 AM


Beppe per favore, potresti fare attenzione alle traduzioni spesso sono approssimative, capisco il poco tempo ma un minimo di attenzione non sarebbe male

Posted by: Matteo Iagatti | March 10, 2009 12:19 PM


The amazing thing about politicians is their ability to make
us believe bullshit. They say it's an art.

They also say bullshitting is in harmony with the art of salesmanship and who better than politicians embodies such a spirit? Yes, no one.

But there is a difference, however: a salesman bullshits one customer at a time; a politician millions of people at a time.

And, if you're a talented enough bullshitter, like to sing and ham it up, it's possible to become Prime Minister of Italy, like Silvio.

Granted, Silvio has a few legs up: TV stations, newspapers, publishing houses reaching millions of Italians, with to which to bury them in bullshit everyday, all day long.

Not that I'm going to shed tears for the national media-less politicians, but you've got to feel a bit sorry for them.

What chance have they got against Silvio? However, if it's any comfort, at least none of them can bribe their bookkeepers for $600,000, like Silvio did.

They could impeach him, though.

Silly notion! How would they know? They don't speak English.

In any event, even if they could impeach him, it would not be suitable for an Italian Parliament, with many not-so-honurable members led by a "teflon" knight.

Posted by: louis pacella | March 10, 2009 02:51 AM


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