Yes, OK I have not written anything for a long time I know; but I’m back again, and feel just as strongly as ever about human rights.
It’s a personal opinion, but seems to me that Italy, (part of, and the government especially), is falling back into a fascist state of mind, if not state.
The current inflammatory rhetoric, combined with violent acts by both individuals and councils, (presumably backed by the government, or at least not opposed by the government), reminds one of pogroms down the ages.
I do not intend to go into every recent report about victimisation of the Romas in Italy; but the latest finger printing of Romas indicates how far this has already gone. The excuse given by the Interior Minister, Maroni, (and supported by Berlusconi’s government), is that the move was needed to fight crime and identify illegal immigrants. Are the general population so dumb as to believe this? If, (and that is one hell of an “IF”), this is true, how come the population as a whole is not being finger-printed? Are the Roma people the only ones to commit crimes? Maroni did say Red Cross representatives would be present – no comment.
Yes, there is a long-standing of European distrust of “gypsies”, ( don’t equate the word gypsy with Roma), but moves like these have not been seen for a long time – like about 6-70 years? A poll, (size unknown), reports that 68% of Italians want the Roma deported – who cares many of them have Italian citizenship? Frightening isn’t it? Even more so given Italy is a member of the EU, and has a long rich history. I will not enlarge on which country or countries would produce a similar vote on such issues.
Want to do anything about it? If you live in the UK write to your Euro MP:-
http://www.writetothem.com/
Sign the petition on the everyone group page.
http://www.petitiononline.com/08041971/petition.html
To quote one British newspaper reporter “For anybody not swept up in the wave of anti-Roma fury, the campaign has a strong whiff of Mussolini and Hitler about it).
Before I go check this video out:-
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://thumbnail.search.aolcdn.com/vsthumb7/tn/CF/52/CF52CB00CD9A7EB19FA361.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.truveo.com/EC-warns-on-Roma-fingerprinting/id/230894490&h=90&w=120&sz=3&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=idUlR5X8HUIlLM:&tbnh=66&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3Droma%2Bfingerprinting%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7HPID
Not so long this time before I am back again
One final reminder of what happens when civilisation turns mad and a country’s citizen’s pretend nothing’s happening.
See ya
It’s a personal opinion, but seems to me that Italy, (part of, and the government especially), is falling back into a fascist state of mind, if not state.
The current inflammatory rhetoric, combined with violent acts by both individuals and councils, (presumably backed by the government, or at least not opposed by the government), reminds one of pogroms down the ages.
I do not intend to go into every recent report about victimisation of the Romas in Italy; but the latest finger printing of Romas indicates how far this has already gone. The excuse given by the Interior Minister, Maroni, (and supported by Berlusconi’s government), is that the move was needed to fight crime and identify illegal immigrants. Are the general population so dumb as to believe this? If, (and that is one hell of an “IF”), this is true, how come the population as a whole is not being finger-printed? Are the Roma people the only ones to commit crimes? Maroni did say Red Cross representatives would be present – no comment.
Yes, there is a long-standing of European distrust of “gypsies”, ( don’t equate the word gypsy with Roma), but moves like these have not been seen for a long time – like about 6-70 years? A poll, (size unknown), reports that 68% of Italians want the Roma deported – who cares many of them have Italian citizenship? Frightening isn’t it? Even more so given Italy is a member of the EU, and has a long rich history. I will not enlarge on which country or countries would produce a similar vote on such issues.
Want to do anything about it? If you live in the UK write to your Euro MP:-
http://www.writetothem.com/
Sign the petition on the everyone group page.
http://www.petitiononline.com/08041971/petition.html
To quote one British newspaper reporter “For anybody not swept up in the wave of anti-Roma fury, the campaign has a strong whiff of Mussolini and Hitler about it).
Before I go check this video out:-
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://thumbnail.search.aolcdn.com/vsthumb7/tn/CF/52/CF52CB00CD9A7EB19FA361.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.truveo.com/EC-warns-on-Roma-fingerprinting/id/230894490&h=90&w=120&sz=3&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=idUlR5X8HUIlLM:&tbnh=66&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3Droma%2Bfingerprinting%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7HPID
Not so long this time before I am back again
One final reminder of what happens when civilisation turns mad and a country’s citizen’s pretend nothing’s happening.
See ya
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