With the announcement of Silvio Berlusconi wants to change the Constitution to shock the majority has reached the high point of escalation, began three decades ago, and yarn, which leads straight to a dictatorship of one man would envy in a Burmese general.
From a formal point of view it is legitimate. Our Charter provides in Article 138, the mechanisms for constitutional change. But do the majority of strokes affect the very foundations of liberal democracy is a system designed primarily to protect the minorities (the majority already protects itself) and that, as recalled Stuart Mill, one of the noble fathers of this system must put limits on popular consent. Otherwise, with the absolute power of the popular support they could decide, legitimate from the point of view, that all who are called to be Whites shot. But the Constitution did not abolish the death penalty? Who cares? We change the Constitution. With the consent of the people. Elementary Watson. Not to mention that to us the 1948 Constitution that is good, and you do not see a single reason to upset (it is quite another to update it sporadically a few tweaks).
How is it that in a democracy has come to this point? Berlusconi not stopping along the shoreline, allowing step by step, illiberal and increasingly serious illegality. Before the RAI-Fininvest (then Mediaset), which is the opposite of a liberal-liberal framework for competition and kills in one area of \u200b\u200bthe television media, which is one of the nerve centers of every modern liberal democracy. Then a huge conflict of interest that expands from the television sector in the publishing, real estate, finance, insurance and arrives in football. So the laws "to personas, "to save friends from judicial inquiries," ad personam "to save himself, the" Lodo Alfano ", affecting another of the pillars of liberal democracy: equality of all citizens before the law. Finally, a comprehensive, consistent and devastating campaign to discredit the Judiciary not only to put the muzzle (which is one of the goals, but not the only or even the main so-called constitutional reform), but to introduce a system to dual entitlement: impunity substantial "lorsignori", "zero tolerance" without warranty of any kind, street crimes, committed by those who are poor.
Prime Minister, Parliament and the absolute master of the puppets of those who are the chairmen of both houses, the absolute master of the center-right, except, perhaps, the League, owner of three quarters of the television system, with a Head of State very similar to a joist King, Silvio Berlusconi has become the absolute master of the country and feels, and is entitled to everything. Recently had the arrogance to accuse the national television networks, while ensuring that the vast majority (yesterday, in the presence of disturbing ad, have dealt mainly with the snow), for "insulting" and "denigrate" of being "defeatist "(ugly word fascistic memory), to talk too much about the economic crisis and almost almost be the cause (as he, the genius of the economy, had not noticed, even after the collapse of subprime U.S., the enormous bubble in circulation).
Then, not content, has intimidated the directors of the Press and the Courier (which last, however, he deserves it because he almost always endorsed, with too many silences and some adhesions, all of the illegality of Berlusconi) stating that they must "change job" . This escalation
Berlusconi explains the genesis of fascism. What is not stated under the Fascists but the opportunism, cowardice and complicity (or simply for not understanding what was going on) of all those who, without being fascists, they adapt.
But it would be ungenerous to compare the Berlusconi to fascism. Ungenerous to fascism. Who had at least an idea in his head, as tragic, state and nation. While the head of Berlusconi's only his comic and tragic superego, mixed with its shady interests of business.
A democracy that fails to comply with its conditions is no longer a democracy. A democracy that does not respect its basic rules can not be met. At this point, why would an ordinary citizen should respect it, instead of making "on par" with the prime minister? "A robber, robber and a half," said Sandro Pertini when fighting against totalitarianism. Or more to finish it read: "If everything is absurd," cried Ivan Karamazov, "everything is permitted".
Massimo Fini Marco Travaglio
Ps: I have to make a clarification. The Constitution is not emandabile in its entirety. The constitution has some principles that can not be edited or deleted. We, fortunately, a body called the Constitutional Court, the fourth power of the state, which is responsible for defending our main source of law.
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