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summer coming to an end has been a particularly torrid one.
Ozone has presented us with an extra factor, especially in the large cities, as if we hadn’t enough problems already. Problems that we shall have to face up to but, given their nature and number, where do we begin? Not a trifling affair but a dilemma! So what is to be done? Give priority to the landing of thousands of immigrants on our Southern coasts? Desperate, persecuted, clandestine arrivals in search of a future and whose number also includes delinquents, children in transit for other destinations (for reasons that are not very clear), women destined for prostitution, etc. Or should we dwell on the superficial and rhetorical measures taken to confront this emergency? Or on the “Turkey” proposal by Minister Turco (clearly with an eye to the polls) to give immigrants the vote, while she herself votes in parliament against the act that would have given our own compatriots abroad the right of vote? And how can we ignore the burning question of pedophilia, ever more widespread, and not wonder why the magistrates did not investigate the claim made by children, relations and neighbours in the case of little Simone? What steps do the Minister of Justice and the Bar intend to take? Would there not perhaps be cases of negligence here? And is it really worth lingering on the investigation (or inquisition!) by prosecutor Starr into the amorous goings-on of Bill Clinton, that has stalked us right through the holidays? The prosecutor’s doggedness in seeking out the hanky panky details of the relationship between the President and the stagist would make one think that, on the whole, such interest could not be just political. |
However,
Starr does spare us poor mortals certain squalid tales carrying an
abundance of detail. Even the President’s privacy is safeguarded.
So, August has been and gone. Among the news is the suicide of the magistrate Luigi Lombardini. A passing that certainly leaves its mark, that causes much reflection, and upon which it is perhaps better to keep silent. The intrigues,, the motivations are such that they elude any possible evaluation on our part. It does come to mind, however, that which each day that passes, professional ethics becomes an expression with less and less substance. Causing this are the self-declared upright, with their sugary and demagogic pronouncements, often contradicted by a past that is anything but ethical. And there is still more. With their initiatives, the magistrates of a small public prosecutor’s office have leapt into the limelight by causing a diplomatic incident between the Italian State and the Holy See. We are Catholics and Italian citizens, all of this is giving us remarkable moral and psychological discomfort. The very idea that, in a strictly personal and spiritual talk, there could be a hidden listener that invades our private sphere makes us as one might describe “hydrophobic”. What game is being played here? The questions that these events raise are too many and not very reassuring. Pondering on all the themes that we have only brushed past, gives us an unsettling sense of anxiety and only returning with the thought back in time, going over the stories again, can we be consoled. There have been many dark periods like the one we are going through now; the calm follows the storm and it is very true that nothing new ever happens and that the stars are looking on.  |
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