Tuesday, July 27, 2010

"LEGGE BAVAGLIO" or "THE LAST INSULT TO THE DEAD IDEAL OF DEMOCRACY"

Considering that I totally ignore where the server for this blog is located -could be in Italy, could be in a civilized country- I’m writing this post now, so it won’t be affected by the new law, that’s about to be voted for (and presumably approved), that will gag the liberty of speech for the internet contents in our country (otherwise known as “comma 29 dell’articolo 1 della Legge bavaglio”).
First, what Berlusconi and his government (and I use his because he actually owns all of it) are trying to do is criminal not in the strict sense of the Italian law, that is pretty much an intellectual exercise of who’s the smarter burocrat and can burn the other one back with a tiny and obscure procedural detail, but in the sense that they are using a power they took without authorization from the people of Italy (yes, our electoral system is a joke and an insult to democracy) to pursue their own private interests.
Now, the People finally are starting to get tired of this blatant lie that calls itself “The Cabinet” and, voice by voice, they are adding up in the internet, turning what was just a murmur into the beginning of a roar, scaring the crap out of the Prime Minister who, being nothing but a fascist, can come up with nothing else but crass censorship.
Second, the fact that outside of Italy the reaction to this news is a mild “really?” it’s hard evidence that we already are living in a dictatorship without realizing it and, to paraphrase an old song , “the joke is on us”.
WAKE UP FOR FUCK’S SAKE! THEY ARE TRYING TO GAG US! THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY FROM US OUR VOICES AND OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH! STOP WATCHING TV (HIS TV!!!!!) AND GET YOUR ARSE MOVING!
This concerns all of us, not just journalists or writers!

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