I usually keep my opinions for myself, but i urge all of my Italian readers to go and vote today or tomorrow: abstention will not help if we want to get rid of that awful government.
italians, please listen to regine!
When will we be free of it? I feel that I’m carrying a weight on my back. I feel a leaden atmosphere around, it’s sickly, it imprisons thoughts, it’soppressive.
Basta! Enough!
italians, please listen to beppe.
similarly: tagesanzeiger has an incredible slideshow of the most incredible berlusconi statements, in german however. these translations are mine:
“i am the jesus christ of politics”
“only napoleon has been more succesful than i have”
incredible.
i knoww, i just said incredible 3 times. but i mean, how megalomaniac is a politician allowed to be? [via blattkritik]
Letter to George Bush
Perhaps I’m getting bigheaded, but I want to write to George Bush.
“ Open letter to George Bush.
I’m just a comic and you are a great president at the head of a great and powerful nation. Furthermore, you are also a great friend of our former President of the Council with whom you have many points in common: the Atlantic vision in place of the pacific one, great riches, the exportation of democracy with or without weapons, the personalisation of politics.
Allow me, very humbly, to ask you for an account of your behaviour in relation to Italy and the Italians.
Prodi has won the elections. Heads of State of many nations and the President of the European Community have sent their congratulations to him.
You are almost the only one who hasn’t done this.
And, in this situation, our former President of the Council does not recognise the election result thanks to your support.
You continue to not recognise Prodi as the legitimate winner, elected in free elections.
They were elections managed by the Minister of the Interior as a member of the Government in power.
They were elections in which voting went on according to a liberticida (liberty killing) election law guided through Parliament by your friend and in this case, your voice as a defender of democracy has not been heard.
You are not showing yourself to be a friend of our country and you are probably not even acting in the interests of your country.
If you don’t recognise Prodi, why should Italians recognise you? I believe and hope that your behaviour is simply a temporary institutional distraction. If this is not the case, Italians should ask themselves a few questions.
Why should we allow American Military Bases to be in our country?
Why should we tolerate the presence of American atomic weapons at Ghedi Torre, Brescia and at Aviano, Pordenone?
Why should we allow CIA agents to move around our country as though they were visiting your great ranch in Texas?
Why should we provide finance to a country that at this moment is hostile to us by buying American products, eating in American chains, supporting American companies in Italy?
I’m sure the Italians will know how to find the answers.”
Vik (guerrilla radio)
italian blogger from Milan