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Maybe... I was just trying to hide in shame and hoping no one would notice...
How is it even possible that you didn't throw that corrupt jerk out of the country years ago?
I sincerely don't know. It's ten years since I discovered he isn't suited to be a Prime Minister, pretty much all my entire political life, and it's two years since I know for sure he is completely out of his mind, in a clinical sense of the word, so I really don't know why I got to these now rather obvious conclusions and so many other people haven't. I mean, I'm not a genius or something, I really have no answer if not a serious case of mass brainwashing.
But what you linked is just the tip of the iceberg of the ridiculous amount of crap he is involved in. To sum up briefly, the last scandal is this: on the night between the 27th and the 28yh of May, Mr. B. used his authority and power and forced the police to release a girl (17 yo) arrested for theft, against the will of the judge who wanted to follow the law and send her to a helping community. Berlusconi personally did the call, and gave more strength to his will by saying that the girl was a niece of the Egyptian President Mubarak (which clearly is an atomic lie - the girl is actually Moroccan and identified). The girl got released under the protection of a regional deputy from Mr. B's party (PDL), a former dental hygienist of Mr. Berlusconi. The woman officially took charge of the girl, but then disregarded her and her actions, so much that the girl was later arrested again for participating in a fight against her new flatmate, a 32yo brasilian prostitute.
So much for what happened AFTER the end of May, but what has happened BEFORE? Why is she so important to Mr. B.? He says he can't help himself from helping other people, like a humanitarian organization, but that's clearly another shameful lie. So what?
The girl was asked by the police to tell her story, which she did. We then discovered that SHE called Mr. B. to get help, so she had one of the personal numbers of Mr.B., more precisely of one of the man of his escort. She has the number because she had been a guest of Mr. B. during one of the many dinners he likes to throw.
You have to know, because all this is already well known and supported by facts, that the guests for these dinners are some very close friends of Mr. B., Mr. B. itself, and a variable number (20 to 30) of beautiful girls, each one rewarded with a sum of money for their participation. Some of them are paid more to stay after dinner and have sex with Mr. B. and, presumably, his guests. In some cases, the reward for having sex with Mr.B. was the promise of becoming a candidate for next municipal or regional elections.
So, the 17yo girl was one of these 20-30 girls on two different occasion, and was awarded a sum of 7.000 euro, which is pretty much what other woman was paid to have sex with Mr.B. However, both her and Mr. B. have denied any intercourse between the two of them, and Mr. B. said he didn't even know she was under 18yo until after the two dinners. We will probably never know, but the situation is already terrible as it is.
She was there at the dinner and later, bringing drinks to Mr. B. while he was telling everybody old jokes full of sexual innuendos.
Mr. B. defended himself by trying to empathize with the lowest instincts of men, saying he simply loves women and that, in any case, he is still better than many other, because at least he likes women, not men.
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What else can I say? All this situation is even too clear for anyone with a still functioning brain.
No, one thing I can say: learn from us and never let your mind be fucked up like this.
Media are powerful tools, brutal ignorance is a powerful tool, money is an extremely powerful tool, lies are too, ans so is personal charisma and a corrupted ruling class. Combine two or more of these things together, add an absolute lack of any kind of ethic, set the only ruling valour to money, and all this can happen. And it can happen everywhere, even in very rich western societies.
Also, noticed that what has saved Italy up to now is not his parliament, nor its people, nor common sense, nor intelligence. No, the people behaved like idiots. what saved Italy is its constitution, its strenght, the strong divison between powers, the freedom of its judges, the strong role of democratic guarantee represented by the President of the Republic. Berlsuconi has not yet succeeded in becoming a dictator because formally his political power comes still not from the people but from the President of the Republic and the Parliament.
Mr. B. has already stuffed the minds of his supporters with the idea that he is in charge because he has been chosen directly by the people, that whoever contradicts him is against the will of -all- the people, that the (legally elected) opposition in parliament is trying to subvert the result of the elections every time they disagree, that the parliamen itself is useless and should be reduced or eliminated to let the legislative power in the hands of the Prime Minister, that he is the underrdog against the strong powers govering our lives, that he is different from all the other politicians and that he can solve everything by himself, provided the people trust him, let him work and tell him to do so.
And we are still lucky that Mr. B. is not violent. He just wants power and not being subject to any law.
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What if you give the power to the people, and the people renounce to it by giving it to a dictator? A democracy can end by will of the people. How can you stop people from being utterly, hopelessly, senselessly, petrifyingly, suicidally stupid, without taking away their freedom?
Yes, US, you are the first country after Italy that I have thought of.
