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This wrote Salvatore
Scarpino in “Il Giornale” on 28 August 2000. “The first and last rule
of the perfect Mafioso is simple: live by force. A clear formula, that
means many things, from imposing “protection” to demanding protection
money on any deal, lawful or unlawful, in a given area; breaking the
law to organize prohibited trafficking to bending the will of institutions
to special interests, all done by constantly resorting to violence,
shooting one of them, threatening a hundred, corrupting another ten....
There is always the exasperation of the “me” in a bestial world: live
by force, hide, deceive and yet behave so that the others know just
how powerful and arrogant a Mafioso is and, therefore, worthy of respect.”
Why do we publish this piece while all the press devotes ample space
to mad cow disease? Since we believe that only a globalized organization
of Mafioso sort could have managed a business ring of such size for
years, avoiding all the checks like those which should be implemented
for cases of food adulteration. Many actions, within the various business
sectors, correspond to the characteristics effectively summed up in
Scarpino’s article.Those responsible justify themselves partly by blaming
the lack of inspections on a shortage of personnel. An excuse that is
partly acceptable, but a comment should be made: if the first cases
of mad cow disease in Great Britain, and afterwards in France, had not
been identified there would not be the alarmism that there is now. We
would continue to eat our T-bone steaks without hesitation, unaware
of the disease. Alarmism is also reserved for the use of depleted uranium,
after four years of total silence on the hypothesis that a correlation
exists between radiation and the onset of leukaemia. Indeed, in 1997,
we published an interview with Ramsey Clark, former US Minister of Justice,
in which the problem was broached. Now with silence surrounding depleted
uranium once again, it is still not known whether it is, as they say,
dangerous. At this point, after so much alarmism, the experts must give
some clear exhaustive answers, as should also be done for BSE, commonly
known as mad cow disease. Let us return to the shortage of personnel,
an excuse put forward by the “inspectors”. In a country in which tens
and tens of carabinieri, policemen and financial police officers end
up as escorts and drivers for ministers and ex-ministers, presidents
and ex-presidents, undersecretaries in office and former ones, all of
whom are closely watched for life, certain excuses cannot be accepted,
more so when there are thousands of unemployed young people with school-leaving
certificates. In the United States, Mr. Clinton, the day after his presidency
ended, went back to being an ordinary citizen, going around in his private
car, like all his government ministers and employees. In actual fact,
a nation is a virtual entity. In Italy its components embrace, perhaps
without realising, the same actions described by Scarpino. It is an
aspect that leads one to consider: there are many similarities, even
if legalized. (traduzione Interpre sas-Giussano)
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