Levi-Prodi blog gaggers extraordinaire

October 29, 2007 · Filed Under Italian politics · Comment 

Yes, I was a bit slow on the uptake re the Levi Prodi attempts to censor bloggers attempts to tell it how it is with regard to the situation in Italy. But I am not all that surprised that there was something of a time lag between the information getting out and ending up in my view. Incidentally, I found out about this ‘gag the bloggers’ law proposal via the pocket pc version of Google news, which presents news items about Italy in English.

Why am I not all that surprised? Well, I had not visited Grillo’s blog for a few days and I had not seem anything on Italian TV news. Surprise, surprise. It is no surprise, however, how Prodi and co tried to use the ’stealth’ approach with regard to this new law. They knew full well that the reaction would be negative.

Thank heavens for people like Grillo. Without his continual monitoring of what those at the top are getting up to, nobody would no anything until it was way too late. Can’t beat a little open transparent democracy, that’s what I say, only Prodi and co did their level best to be as undemocratic as possible. Freedom of the press was first to go in this granddad state, now freedom of speech is being knocked on the head. Good old Mussolini is probably rubbing his hands in glee, knowing that fascist-type manipulation of information is being so widely implemented in a so-called non fascist state such as modern Italy. The late Mr M is probably quietly chuckling too that the so-called Italian communist party is in on the act too. What a fine situation.

Modern Italy a democracy? My foot! True democracies do not stifle the freedom of the press or the freedom of speech. The European Union needs to step in and put a stop to these peoples’ antics. After all, what democratic government in its right mind attempts to declare war on its own people? Boy, how these people detest critisicm, but boy how they find it so difficult to comprehend that they continually leave themselves wide open to negative publicity.

Prodi’s attempt at government will probably soon crumble, which is, on paper, no necessarily a bad thing. The only trouble is that what is lying in the wings is not all that palatable either. Talk about wolves in sheep’s clothing. They are every which way you look.

I pity the Italian people who will have to vote in forthcoming elections. Voting options: Devil and deep blue sea.

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Heck I’ve been a bit slow - Prodi is trying to gag Italy’s bloggers!

October 26, 2007 · Filed Under Italian politics · 2 Comments 

Those erstwhile politicos who purport to ‘run’ Italy, have come up with a nice little proposal for a law that will effectively ban personal blogs. Obviously Beppe Grillo’s efforts to bring Italy’s public employees to heel has got them all rather worried.

The politicians control just about all the official press here, and the TV. Now they want the Internet to be censored too. Heck, I thought Italy was supposed to be a Republic, a free country, and now this. Talk about despotic regimes - Prodi and his mob are up there with the worst of them. This whole affair has stirred up a worldwide commotion and the proposed law is becoming obfuscated by the recent introduction of Article 7. One wonders whether Italy’s politicians a) really represent the interests of the people of Italy b) realise that they are in the 21st century. The Times also has an article that give some more details of this blatant attempt to end freedom of speech in Italy. The headline sums the situation up nicely.

If anyone sets up a fund to fight this ridiculous proposal in the European Court Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, I’ll be one of the first to donate. This cannot be allowed to continue.

The sheer fact that Prodi is trying to get such a law passed is probably evidence enough of the possible absence of worth of the large majority of Italian politicians. And dear old Bertinotti - the er ‘communist’… Has he ‘the representative of the common man’ come out against this? Well, if you find anything referring to his comments, do please let me know, coz I can’t. But then again, ‘communism’, the ex-Soviet Union type and that practised in China, has always done its level best to stifle the voice of the populous.

And so Prodi, the, er, non-communist (I think he’s a funny sort of socialist) is trying to put a definitive end to democracy in Italy. And this guy was voted in?

Jeepers, can you believe it? Funny country Italy. Beppe Grillo - work your magic, and work it fast. Your country needs you, desperately.

What an appalling situation in this day and age in a western ‘democracy’.


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