|
|
        
|
|
Berlusconi, Just Resign!
by Alexandra Pereira
2009-05-10 11:02:59 |
| Print - Comment - Send to a Friend - More from this Author |
   
 |
It has become more and more obvious for me that most of my Italian friends are extremely and increasingly concerned with the state of their country and the quality of their democracy. Berlusconi is not just a joker, he is a very dangerous kind of clown – playing unfunny tricks and not managing to control his tongue at any time. Someone, be it the EU or just the Italians who are still awake by now, has to stop this man. He has been destroying one by one all the pillars of Italian democracy. Italians, please, we Europeans beg you… leave your focaccio, your cappuccinos, your fiori di zucca fritti and your prosciutto di Parma, your pasti, antipasti and bevande aside for one minute, just look at what is going on around you, at your revolted and frustrated youth and… do something! I don’t think we can afford those things to happen inside the EU, and in such an unbelievably beautiful and culturally rich country as Italy is. It would be such a shameful waste for Italians and Europeans in general.
 We are all tired of the sex scandals, the bad-taste so-called jokes (isn’t Berlusconi that kind of man whom you feel like punching a dozen times when he says utter rubbish and claims that was a naïve “joke”?), the public accusations exchanged with his wife or ex-wife or whatever and the soap operas about beauty-mistresses-who-become-political-candidates. But there is much more to it. He is not just the international policy folkloric joker. That is actually a cover to disguise an indoors dictator! And THAT’S NOT funny! From the attempts to change the Italian Constitution, the manipulation of almost all Radio and TV stations and newspapers in the country and the light and trivial way how he controls a corrupt parliament, to idiotic laws encouraging popular vigils in order to control the immigrants in Italy, the obligation of all elementary school teachers to write reports about foreign children in their classes, the attempts to submit jurists to regular psychiatric check-ups, the scandals of government members and European parliament candidates chosen because of their competence shown… while having sex with him...
…to the financial scandals, the prohibition of building mosques because allegedly they “encourage terrorism and represent terrorist centers”, violating the freedom of religion consecrated in the Italian Constitution and forcing Italy’s Muslims to pray on the streets (forgetting even parts of the national heritage and history – remember Palermo, for example, full of mosques next to the Catholic churches, Muslim palaces and Turkish baths), to the multiple corruption scandals and the dubious electoral results… that’s just too much and it smells really bad! The whole Europe and the world have had enough of Berlusconi! Adding to that the jokes about the earthquake victims (the latest one being the kind advice he gave to the families: “buy new furniture at IKEA”), and the fact that many Italian journalists and writers have been persistently denouncing that there is no freedom of press and freedom of expression in Italy. Does anyone hear? Even the internet is controlled.
 There is no freedom of press in Italy, and that’s something just proper of a dictatorship! Do the EU leaders, Commissioners and Parliament members worry about that? Who is going to tell Mr. Berlusconi that’s just definitely not the way things in a democracy are supposed to work like? Candidates, anyone: Mr. Barroso, Ms. Merkel, Mr. Brown, Mr. Sarkozy? Oh I know, we’re just too ridiculously busy with standardizing the amounts of salt in ALL the European bread! Well I’ve lately been listening to many friends who call or write from Italy just to complain, more and more often, and I think that mustn’t be a good sign. They need to make their words heard out of the country… because inside the country their words are just choked!
Thus my bid: Mr. Berlusconi, Make Yourself a Very Good Favor: Resign, Quit the Electoral Campaign, Stop Playing the Retarded Clown of Europe and Leave the Italians and the Europeans Alone Once And For All! Or Please Someone Offer Him a Job at IKEA… I’m sure they would be happy to have him around flirting with clients on the kitchen section during his late-eighties! Someone Tell Him That, Unlike His Female Beauty Candidates, He Stinks! And There’s Too Much Botox On His Hairdresser-Colored Ego, Too Much Solarium on His Political Tan! I don’t care if it is going to be his wife or ex-wife or whatever, his mistress miss, his dog, his chameleon, a still dignified part of the opposition (does it exist?), an elementary school teacher writing a report about the PM, a popular vigil in order to control Berlusconi, a Pepsi bomb by the Muslim community or a competent judge who can send him to prison or to a psychiatric check-up, I just know that this state of things has to have an end, and the sooner the better, because the man does not even have enough self-criticism to resign and enjoy his villas and the pleasure of a natural tan with his Italian or Finnish over-18 lovers or whomever and his chameleon on his yachts while leaving the voters alone! Italian youth is seeing their dreams cut in half by a useless government and extremely corrupt institutions – many preferring emigration to living in a country where they don’t feel they are free enough or have the opportunities they need for their futures to smile at them, the opportunities they always wished for and deserve – With No Colored Bald-Head, Misogynist Botox or Fake Political Tan!
Berlusconi Italy |
|
| Print - Comment - Send to a Friend - More from this Author |
|
|
|
Newsletter
Subscribe
Contact
Search
