Bulgaria should exert a particular fascination on our Prime Minister, because when he go there is always has some anti-democratic statement to issue. Maybe because in the past the nation was famous for being the most faithful to the Soviet line throughout the Warsaw Pact. And in fact he wants to govern just like Stalin, without opposition and surrounded by the cult of personality. After the bulgarian edict of 2002 to expel from italian television journalists Santoro and Biagi and comedian Luttazzi, now he has some exciting new "Bulgarian" ideas .
The day before he had said he is too kind and just, and he does everything to be loved. A tender statement perhaps born of the kindness of opposition politician Massimo D'Alema, who when Berlusconi has difficulties runs immediately to his aid as he always did. C'est l'amour.
But after a day as the good cop here is that immediately returns the bad cop: he will write new rules for the judiciary, who persecuted him for years (he says), even if it means changing the Constitution with his majority. Only he is anointed by the people. The judiciary, the President of the Republic, the Constitutional Court, the free press, the television programs he doesn't like are not elected by the people and therefore should not dare to obstruct, criticize, or even put him on trial in the presence of cases of crime. Not that he wants Prosecutors submitted to the executive power, although many countries do it, he just wants that they stop bothering him with this old-fashioned concept of equal justice for all. A concept a little strange to Italy, in fact.
And besides the many countries that have put the judges under political power are his best friends: Putin's Russia, dictatorships like the Libya of Qaddafi and the Eritrea of Afeweki, with which he does make very good business. And all this business with questionable people, including Ahmadinejad's Iran, it is precisely the reason why now even the American right, so friendly with him during the Bush era, would gladly see the fall of Berlusconi.
He is really surrounded on all sides by people who do not like him, but it's a little his fault. The Italian opposition has always done everything possible to help him, but he was caught with girls paid to be nice and helpful with him, he has friends who have other friends a little too friendly to the Mafia, he corrupts judges to take publishing houses already acquired by other, so what can be done? even D'Alema with all his good will cannot hide all this.
His main television in the meantime followed the judge who sentenced him to a 750 millions compensation for Mondadori corruption trial, and having absolutely no sensible reason to attack him, search obscure meanings while the judge make a simple walk and smoke a cigarette. New frontiers and new systems of television mafia-style intimidation, even worse than simple defamation normally used by the newspapers on his payroll. Things that happen when the owner of a company ordered to pay a large compensation is also the owner of 3 national television and the premier of the country.
"I am kind and just, I just want to be loved", said the maniac turning on the electric saw to dismember his victim.
Francesco Defferrari
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