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So our dear friend, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, has chosen to ignore EU criticism, (I hesitate to use the word condemnation, even if it was referred to as racial discrimination), of the Roma fingerprinting. Opposition leader, Walter Veltroni, called for an immediate end to Roma fingerprinting, not that Maroni gives a damn, because he now says the fingerprinting will continue.
Even better is the reason put forward by Belusconi, (our millionaire around whom there is a continual cloud of suspicion and doubt). He claims the fingerprinting was needed to ensure Roma children went to school and were integrated! Nice one Silvio – that has to be worthy of the BSOTY award, (Bull-shit of the year award), even for him.
I guess they also destroy Roma communities around Rome to encourage the kids to go to school and ensure integration - guess police beat up Roma to achieve the same ends.
Mention has been made of plans to fingerprint all Italians citizens and residents – I guess that’s being done to ensure they all go to school and feel integrated. It’s almost cosy enough to be a children’s bedtime story – who knows? They’ll all be living happily ever after next.
The EU has called on the European Commission to see if the move violated European law – I guess by that we can deduce that the European Union does not know its own laws.
But then, hasn’t discrimination been the Roma peoples' lot for a long, long time? Didn’t Hitler gas them? And wasn’t he just one in a long line of persecutors, (the current ones being Berlusconi and Maroni).Don’t people look suspiciously on them, just because their culture is different?
Yes, we do need to look at our own selves before we shout abuse at the Italian government – he difference is, they have power.
And so do you – lobby your Euro MP – send e-mails for goodness sake!!
How long do you spend on the internet each day just buggering about wasting time? It’s easier today than ever before to find addresses and send e-mails. If you use Outlook Express, demand a read receipt.
How many thousands, millions, sat by idly while the Nazis wiped out Jews, homosexuals, handicapped people and Roma? Has not reached that stage yet, but when governments can ignore a Union of which they are members, how long before we see the shadow of Mussolini fall across the landscape, and our consciences, yet again?
Get off your arse and do something – do a search and write to who ever you can think of – sign any petitions you can find.
See ya