A call to arms

To begin with, I'm sorry for my bad English, but I hope you'll appreciate my efforts not to force you to read in Italian (they're the idioms I know better, anyway).

As you surely know (…and if you don't, you'd better!), Gianfranco Fini is Italy's vice-prime minister, and probably about to inherit the vacant throne of the Foreign Office at the moment prodigally heated by mr. Berlusconi's semi-goddish buttocks.

We all must consider that this lowlife, being the real leader and spokesman of our miserable country (it's well known that Berlusconi's obsession with power is only fueled by his private affairs and his need to stay out of jail, which puts the actual helm of the ship in the hands of neo-fascist Fini and racist Bossi), will soon be the one that all EEC has to deal with.

So it's greatly important to always keep in mind what this man represents, despite any kind of good-old-days-trashing policy he's pursueing (and succeeding, it seems), for example trying to rebuild his political virginity by saying that Mussolini has not been 20th century's best statesman (as he used to state when he wasn't part of the majority) or attending the celebrations in Auschwitz (what an under-shit of a hipocrit he is!).

Fini is indeed a very intelligent political man, surely one of of the few real politicians we have in Italy at the moment, and he knows very well the tactical schemes that have to be followed in order to convince the public that he's not a fascist debris, and that Alleanza Nazionale is not just another European fascist party.

But that's exactly what they are. And the Italian voters seem to be too dumb to see behind his smiling mask (at least when they're not consciously supporting him, being that the Italians are now more than ever right-oriented). My strong fear is that, when this mask falls and his real rotten face comes out, it will be too late for us to even rise up and make a stand.

So my hope is that the other European countries - and I know that your country has already given signals of integrity (for example denying the other old-time fascist mr. Tremaglia, minister for the Italians abroad, the permission to celebrate the anniversary of Marcinelle mining tragedy) – will always sleep with one eye open, because in Italy our (...well, not mine, anyway!) evident need for a new fascist regime is blurring the lines and it's becoming more and more difficult to call fascists with their real name.

So please, always boycott and protest against Italy's right-wing politicians in any occasion, in our mutual interest, anytime they make their show in Belgium attending the EEC institutions to feed their hunger for power. We all are risking our freedom and democracy, and what's at stake is too valuable to leave it in the hands of these criminals.

arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)