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| The Tricolor in recent years, too wrapped coffins of dead young man on a mission of peace! When we say: enough! |
detachment, there is a distance between the sidereal and principles as they recite their declination in daily practice, with people or institutions that are close to them, with varying degrees of responsibility but the same negative impact on public opinion , are concerned only with their personal facts: that it is indecent "amusements" of easy enrichment of tax havens or smaller local harassment does not matter as long as first and foremost the personal pleasure it is claimed, the private gain, interest group or party!
were right, the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano to defend, in a speech on Nov. 4, national unity and values \u200b\u200bon which it is based. But his appeal had resonance in these days when the country is suspended by a slender thread angle between the "bunga bunga " Berlusconi and the "plug " Fini that does not decide to pull out? A plug that also the country, caught in the grip of crisis, has already gone a long time.
Sunday, November 7, the Tricolore will be on display everywhere (apart from the sad exception of some irreducible Mayor League, which has still not clear that the only thing that dervish is ashamed of the support given by the League to the government in office) : and I will explain the , at his side, as always, will explain also the flag of peace. But I'll do it without rhetoric, without joy , I will think that men and women who are victims of all wars, especially those of today, and not as "models" or "heroes" to celebrate, but as luck guys, want to cry! Boys in which a policy is unnecessary muscle has taken away the joy of living: yes because I think that each of them would have just wanted to live!
I could stop here, but I think the beginning of this reflection can usefully continue to read what he wrote Don Renato Sacco Mosaic for Peace, because of the holidays of the November 4.
In praise of dissent
November 3, 2010 - Renato Sacco
The Assembly applauds a middle-aged man who - embarrassed or intimidated by the proximity of the powerful - is unable or unwilling to distance themselves from the request in mo 'stop' I have a girl to be placed between these ... stands ...". And the answer is "I can". Who is that man? And who are those who applaud?
I think it may be our picture. Each of us when, out of fear, subjection, convenience or interest, we prefer to indulge, instead of giving consent to express dissent.
The powerful always need consent. Otherwise, their power collapsed. This applies at every level, political, economic, military.
There is the risk of giving consent, though seemingly far away, in what is happening in Iraq: the massacre of Christians in the Syrian Catholic Church on Sunday 31 October, and then all of these killings and other violence days.
An agreement made perhaps of silence, because the news media are others.
An agreement given to war to export democracy. Consensus more or less veiled the great deal of gun lobby made in Italy that has managed to sell in Iraq, in 2009 alone, more than 3 billion euro. All security and police?
few years ago in a place in the hands of terrorists have been found thousands of Italian small arms, with the serial number of counterfeit, almost a confirmation that there were 'stolen' the local police, but it was a large supply ... somehow ended in the hands of terrorists. But the consensus is strong arms, also because it brings a lot of money.
Just the Iraqi friends asked me recently: "Why so many guns? What weapons are in the hands of terrorists? Prosecutor Who? ".
Maybe there is a tacit consent to the project of dividing Iraq into three parts, Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites, thus eliminating the minorities.
The consensus is sometimes quiet, bordering on indifference.
And we are also asked to consent to war oratory in recent days, close to November 4th, the anniversary of Victory Day and Armed Forces and National Unity. How much rhetoric! Milan have also placed, as last year, no less than two warplanes in Piazza Duomo! Who gave the permission?
Which consent is sought with gestures like that?
consent to the wars of today, calls for peace missions, using the memory of World War I, the more than 650 million dead killed in what the Pope at the time called it "a useless massacre."
Yes, he used the very word 'massacre', the same used to describe and condemn what has happened in that church in Baghdad on Sunday.
It is tragic that the power to use the dead of World War I, perhaps calling them heroes, when they were just poor people forced to make war against their will. And you do not remember instead of the popular opposition to the war was very extensive and the declaration of war, the army also grew. Over 5 million 500 thousand mobilized for World War I, 870,000 were reported for insubordination. More than 15%.
And we know that those who did not obey orders to attack with the cry 'forward Savoy!' was also shot on the spot. Power, let alone the military does not allow dissent ... Beware
then any form of consent given to the power, not to be accomplices. Also reminds us of the promotional campaign of Mosaic of peace.
And finally, just thinking about the November 4: There is a very different thing between us and those who have been forced to make the first World War.
They could not object. Cadorna had ordered immediate executions and reprisals. They could not refuse to give consent. Us.
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