Republic's editorial today ... the problem is that a large part of the Italian people will not see anything wrong with fist Iron Berlusconi, on the contrary, it will be very pleased and will tell you that those troublemakers of the universities they deserved their own.
If the dissent is a crime
of EZIO MAURO
front of a protest against the school reform that expands in all over Italy and involves students, teachers, principals and even rectors, Pr esidente Council has responded by announcing that the University will send the police to prevent the occupation. Berlusconi's capacity to criminalize all forms of opposition to his leadership has now come this far, to militarize a project of educational reform, to transform the birth of a movement on offense to make the university concerned an issue of public policy, bringing forty years after the law enforcement successes in the universities without any incidents and clashes, but almost foreshadowing.
Someone should explain to the Premier that the public debate and dissent are proper elements of a democratic society, not attacks on the totem of the supreme power to decide without any limit and any conditions, which transforms the legitimate autonomy of the government in command and will. As if the government of the country was also the only party member to "do" politics in the Italy of 2008, with an outline of subjects. And as if the students were customers, not actors, in a school where Education is a service and not a right.
If there was a calculation, the phrases seem to think Berlusconi on purpose to burn the University, in confusing a bonfire rival school children (perhaps with the different media of some disorder) and the protesters of the Democratic Party, on Saturday. But more than the calculation, has the instinct, and above all the true figure of Berlusconi's power, that is the intolerance for dissent.
Someone should explain to the Premier that the public debate and dissent are proper elements of a democratic society, not attacks on the totem of the supreme power to decide without any limit and any conditions, which transforms the legitimate autonomy of the government in command and will. As if the government of the country was also the only party member to "do" politics in the Italy of 2008, with an outline of subjects. And as if the students were customers, not actors, in a school where Education is a service and not a right.
If there was a calculation, the phrases seem to think Berlusconi on purpose to burn the University, in confusing a bonfire rival school children (perhaps with the different media of some disorder) and the protesters of the Democratic Party, on Saturday. But more than the calculation, has the instinct, and above all the true figure of Berlusconi's power, that is the intolerance for dissent.
Witness the attack on the newspaper and the RAI done by a premier publisher, owner of three private television stations and with the political control of the three networks, so no sense of decency, as in September the space dedicated by the six major news in the government, its leader and the majority ranged from 50.17 percent to 82, 25. Maybe Berlusconi wants to militarize the free residual printing. Or perhaps "save", as he will with the banks.
( October 23, 2008 )
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