"Despair most serious that can take over a company is to live honestly doubt that it is useless. And this despair envelops my country for a long time." This reflection Corrado Alvaro, Calabrian writer of Saint Luke, wrote at the end of his life. And I'm not afraid to say it: it is necessary that our country asks for help. I say this and I fear that I point the finger of blame for such a statement. Who thinks this is an exaggeration, you know that Italy is a country under siege. In Calabria 35 out of 50 regional directors were indicted or convicted. And everything happens in complete compliance. In silence. What other country would admit it?
What other states would be considered poison, daily meal in Italy is from small towns up to the management of the provinces and regions, there is no place where corruption is not considered obvious. Injustice now has a taste that disgusts us, we do not suck, no upset stomach, or pride. But how did this happen?
The only doubt that every effort is useless, who cast their vote and then their views have been in vain, takes strength to be honest. Drown, strangle and bury the law. The right which establishes the rules of civil life, but also the right that transcends it: the right to happiness.
The meaning of "is useless" takes away hope for the future, and now more and more people are leaving their homeland to live in the North or in another country. Away from this shame.
I do not want to give up such an Italy in Italy that forces its young to go away out of shame and hopelessness. I do not want to live in a country that should ask the OSCE, the UN, the European Community to send observers in the more difficult during the last election campaign to ensure the correctness of all stages of the vote. It would take a check that this is not longer able to exercise.
What we can assess the naked eye, are the reversals, the turnaround, the scandals in which to restore dignity to the public what a politician, perhaps, should be done by hand, even though the law can remain where it is. But we can not carry out a policy which leads the Italian really looking in the mirror because the mirror that we can reflect only the most superficial layers of reality. We are outraged politicians like the defendant Sandra Lonardo Mastella exile that is recycled to support, this time, no longer the Democratic Party candidate for governor but in the PDL Campania, Stefano Caldoro. For Fiorella Budget, which Napoli had plastered posters of the PDL at the last minute but was removed from the list of the party and accepted the nomination nell'Udc. So on the posters is the symbol of a party but she is a candidate for another. There
outraged by the story former regional director of the Greens and the Daisy, Roberto Conte, despite a candidate for re-sentencing at first instance in two years and eight months for Camorra criminal association and, furthermore, this time in the PDL. We are indignant because the economy undersecretary Nicola Cosentino, on which hangs a warrant of arrest, maintains its position without thinking of leaving his post as Secretary and Regional Coordinator of the PDL. We are outraged
why is it that a senator can be elected in the Overseas with the votes of the 'Ndrangheta, as happened to Nicola Di Girolamo, also involved, according to the indictment, the mega-scam Fastweb. We are outraged, finally, because organized crime is allowed to run local luxury in the heart of our capital, as the Cafe de Paris Via Vittorio Veneto.
listen stunned the anti-Mafia parliamentary commission that says, about these last elections, there are some politicians from the center of attention in the lists.
And now, the center did not give answers. This is Ottavio Bruni candidate in the Democratic Party in Vibo Valentia. Her daughter was found at home with a fugitive of the 'Ndrangheta. This is Nicholas Adam Cosentino candidate in the Democratic Party, Why not indicted in the investigation. Diego Tommasi candidate Pd Cosentino and involved himself in the investigation of wind turbines. Luciano Racco Reggino candidate in the Democratic Party, which is not investigated, but the name sticks out on the wiretapping under the boss Coast Siderno. The boss Tommaso Costa gave to the investigators, their electoral support to Luciano Racco on the occasion of the 2004 European Racco candidate on the list who saw "United Socialists" of the southern district. All intercepts are deposited in the process "dead letter" against Costa clan and those for the killing of the young merchant Siderno Gianluca Congiusta.
To all this we can not remain indifferent and angry because we do evaluations that go beyond - or are the first - the right policy assessments on the appropriateness and the ability to vote for professionals who do not change the flag depending on who is the majority and the opposition. Transform, recycle, to maintain its position, the ancient practice of Italian politics is not simply an aberration. It is now considered a habit, a kind of vice, the possibility that every voter must unwillingly to reckon with the hope of making mistakes. Hoping that this time will not happen. It is almost a betrayal that is forgiven with a shrug as that of a husband too careless slipping in the sheets with another woman.
But you can barter their expectations and dreams for the lightness and the cynicism of someone else?
Henceforth it is assumed that the policy has failed a course, does not have ideas and projects. Yet people continue to expect more, continues to demand more.
Where did the pride of the political mission? The responsibility to speak on behalf of an electorate? Where is the awareness that words and promises are responsibilities that we assume? And the knowledge that a party, a political group, without a clear focus, it's nothing? And yet this has become, In most cases, Italian politics: no, colored pins to pin the collar of his double-breasted. Without more credibility. Empty containers to fill with words and sometimes even more with those. Sometimes he is now unable even use words.
When politics becomes this, the gangs have already won. Since none of them can give more certainty - a certainty of a job, a salary, accommodation. Certainties that are paid, of course, by obedience to the clan. It's terrible, but it comes to having to do with who provides the answer. Who pays you the mesata, the lawyer. This is not the time for moralizing, no matter if you have to mess hands.
Only when the policy will cease to look like the mafia - not cruel, yes, but less strong and solid - only when it ceases to be identified with favors, trading, vote buying, bartering of morality, only then can you give a ' Alternatively real winner.
Even in countries dominated by the mafia can be an alternative.
already are dealers who do not bend, they are already those who resist, every day.
After all, what more than anything else we need to understand is that the gangs are an international problem and must be tackled internationally.
Italy can not do this alone. Criminal organizations are changing political structures of countries around the world. In the U.S. considers the Italian criminal cartels among the leading causes of pollution in the free world market. Knowing that Mexico has now become a narcodemocrazia we may be, if it is not already become a democracy in capital Camorra and Ndrangheta.
Here, however, still believes that the crisis is only a problem at work, at a slowdown in demand and supply. There still has not really understood that the crisis is to seek alternative criminal economy. And not just the militarization of the territory. Confiscation of assets are not enough. We must curb corruption, collusion, the backroom deals. We must put a stop to political blackmail, and how to search for a cancer throughout its proliferation.
would be sad that citizens, Italian voters, should turn to the UN, the European Union, the OSCE guaranteed a right to see that every Western democracy should be considered normal cleaning and regular elections.
should be normal to know, in this country, that voting is useless, that the vote not to offer you 50 € for a training course or to pay bills. That politics is not just an exchange of favors, a sly way to get something without paying the power would be impossible to achieve. That remain in Italy, live and participate is necessary. That happiness is not a dream as a child but a horizon of law.
© 2010 Roberto Saviano / Agency Santachiara
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