Wiretapping bill - Knight unpunished and the rule of silence (Giorgio Bocca)
down the mask. What he wants, which claims the majority in power is total impunity, the silence about his theft and embezzlement. At the time of tangentopoli the ruling majority was content to spend his thefts in self-government. Remember
craxi Biffi Gentili's thesis? If politicians are called upon to administer the big cities, big problems with skills of technocrats because they do not have to be paid as such? And if you are not because they want to avoid that autofinanzino? Today the majority in power no longer has need of these fallacies. Claims the right to steal through politics as a normal, have the right to prey. At the time of the Socialists tangentopoli craxiani but also those of other parties had hid the theft by means of political accounts "protected" ie secret in Switzerland to Singapore to Hong Kong. And having put the booty they had taken to secure the taste to take the piss their fellow citizens with the absurd thesis that the self-financing of political parties was not only a necessity but a duty of who was responsible for administering the state and democracy.
Today in Italy Berlusconi theft was discovered through politics, of course. As soon as you can steal and one suspects that it is an anthropological mutation occurred, that the ruling majority is convinced that the use of politics to steal is not only normal but commendable and that the institutions have a duty to protect him. Italy is a country-time of the mysteries, secret societies, conspiracies under the auspices of the Masonic Knight Arcore authoritarian democracy is becoming a declared and compact in defense of his vices and his theft. Why oppose the gag that is required of information? Mussolini had no reason to abolish the crime and to cover the scandals of the regime? Is there a more efficient way to wash your dirty linen in secret without the newspapers put them in the streets? The entrepreneur Anemone refuses to respond to the magistrates investigating his business is not the black sheep, the exception but the norm of Berlusconi's companies to do everything comfortable that the owners, without paying duty.
Confirmation of anthropological mutation comes from the fact that politicians caught with his hand in the cookie jar show more amazing what a shame. Their corruption was normal, candida, a good father thief family. One was enough to pay for a bachelor pad in the center of Rome, another had left a free hand to building firms after the earthquake in exchange for a review of the toilets in her house, say the operation of the toilet and the bathroom. For others the chance to have some whore at the expense of the state, in short, the great crisis of Italian politics, although the risk of an authoritarian democracy, of a dictatorship in disguise, would be soft in the banality evil, small defects in small temptations of so-called ruling class.
an Italy without mysteries with a blunt head of government, schiettissimo. What do you want? What claims? The least a man of action rather than the thinking of not having control, of not having the inconvenience and if you raise the head of a horse no one be allowed to require him to pull on a cow. What he discovered the Knight? What I had discovered before him, all men do authoritarian, that the controls are annoying and sometimes unbearable. In a word: that democracy is more complicated and tiring of the dictatorship. (The Australian - June 12, 2010)
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Brief For Vote Of Thanks
Ddl interceptions - is why we must stop it (Roberto Saviano)
Gag Law is a law that protects the privacy of the citizen, by contrast, is a law that protects the privacy of power. Not intended as privacy of the men of power, but in their business, rather malaffari. When discussing wiretaps must always rely on a premise as natural as necessary. Privacy is sacred, is one of the pillars of law and of civil society.
But here we are faced with a law that protects the privacy of individuals, their dialogues, their intimate talk. This law is consistent with the mechanism that the media knows how the above information and information in Italy. Publish interception only when there is a trial creates a huge void that concerns precisely that segment of information that can not be made public domain. This seems to be the real goal: to prevent the press the immediate use of data which then, after some time, it would make more sense to publish. In this way, the information conveyed will remain forever maimed, mutilated, unintelligible. The aim is to prevent the story of what happens, this masking with the interests of protecting the privacy of citizens.
anyone have even minimal experience in the mechanisms of interception in the world of organized crime are known to be registered hundreds of details, stories of betrayal, unnecessary to the investigation, and no effect publication. The terror that has political power and business is to see which items published instead in a few words can be shown how to build the mechanism of power. Not only how to configure a crime. For example, the investigation in December 2007 that led to the interception of famous Berlusconi SaccĂ has seen an infinite amount of interception of private details, of which many were aware but none has been more than that necessary to define the context of a trade-off between politics and Rai.
The same majority that approved a decree that truncates the name of freedom of information in defense of privacy through the Supervision Rai decides to publish in the end credits of the guests and the remuneration of the conductors. The gesture seems crystal clear. It 's the opposite. And not only because in a market economy, the fee is determined by the market and not by an ethical calculus. In this way, the competitors will know what the Rai Rai is charged, then the mechanism will benefit the non-state TV. Mediaset will be aware of the fees and take steps accordingly. But the great news is that much to offset the tragic passing of the law on wiretapping is that the reader, the viewer understands what is happening when you become a citizen, which claims to be informed. Thousands of people are angry and determined to show their dissent, the desire and hope to be able to prevent this law mutilated forever the relationship that exists between newspapers and their readers: the desire to understand, know, get a feel. We do not want to be deprived of it. Send messages to newspapers, to show gagged, gestures are not easy, granted. Gestures which are not allow to be committed. Are the premise of the commitment. The intent of action is often the action. The state not only in the name against the possibility of criticism, but worried that what is happening destroy an essential tool for knowing the facts. The law gags, is opposed by thousands of voices. Items that show that not everything is finished, all is not determinable from the schedule that is given Italians every day. Every person who now takes part in this civil battle, is allowing the story to save the country, to give opportunity to journalism - and not to the jackals of blackmail - to resist. In a word, is defending democracy. (The Republic - Roberto Saviano / Agency Santachiara -12 June 2010)
Gag Law is a law that protects the privacy of the citizen, by contrast, is a law that protects the privacy of power. Not intended as privacy of the men of power, but in their business, rather malaffari. When discussing wiretaps must always rely on a premise as natural as necessary. Privacy is sacred, is one of the pillars of law and of civil society.
But here we are faced with a law that protects the privacy of individuals, their dialogues, their intimate talk. This law is consistent with the mechanism that the media knows how the above information and information in Italy. Publish interception only when there is a trial creates a huge void that concerns precisely that segment of information that can not be made public domain. This seems to be the real goal: to prevent the press the immediate use of data which then, after some time, it would make more sense to publish. In this way, the information conveyed will remain forever maimed, mutilated, unintelligible. The aim is to prevent the story of what happens, this masking with the interests of protecting the privacy of citizens.
anyone have even minimal experience in the mechanisms of interception in the world of organized crime are known to be registered hundreds of details, stories of betrayal, unnecessary to the investigation, and no effect publication. The terror that has political power and business is to see which items published instead in a few words can be shown how to build the mechanism of power. Not only how to configure a crime. For example, the investigation in December 2007 that led to the interception of famous Berlusconi SaccĂ has seen an infinite amount of interception of private details, of which many were aware but none has been more than that necessary to define the context of a trade-off between politics and Rai.
The same majority that approved a decree that truncates the name of freedom of information in defense of privacy through the Supervision Rai decides to publish in the end credits of the guests and the remuneration of the conductors. The gesture seems crystal clear. It 's the opposite. And not only because in a market economy, the fee is determined by the market and not by an ethical calculus. In this way, the competitors will know what the Rai Rai is charged, then the mechanism will benefit the non-state TV. Mediaset will be aware of the fees and take steps accordingly. But the great news is that much to offset the tragic passing of the law on wiretapping is that the reader, the viewer understands what is happening when you become a citizen, which claims to be informed. Thousands of people are angry and determined to show their dissent, the desire and hope to be able to prevent this law mutilated forever the relationship that exists between newspapers and their readers: the desire to understand, know, get a feel. We do not want to be deprived of it. Send messages to newspapers, to show gagged, gestures are not easy, granted. Gestures which are not allow to be committed. Are the premise of the commitment. The intent of action is often the action. The state not only in the name against the possibility of criticism, but worried that what is happening destroy an essential tool for knowing the facts. The law gags, is opposed by thousands of voices. Items that show that not everything is finished, all is not determinable from the schedule that is given Italians every day. Every person who now takes part in this civil battle, is allowing the story to save the country, to give opportunity to journalism - and not to the jackals of blackmail - to resist. In a word, is defending democracy. (The Republic - Roberto Saviano / Agency Santachiara -12 June 2010)
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Sports Quotes The Pope
Camilleri: "Risk fascism we are ready to disobey" (Alberto D'Argenio)
Writers antibavaglio. Laterza: "Unable to make books of inquiry"
LONDON - So, back to Fascism. The protagonists of reading against the gag law on wiretapping-have no doubt: it kills the public consciousness and with it democracy. Sunday Schedule in a packed theater Quirinus of Rome, "Readings for the freedom of the press" organized by hundreds of publishers with booksellers and writers will continue all week throughout Italy. "The law on wiretapping not only touches newspapers and journalists, but also publishers who publish books of inquiry, which are also potential beneficiaries of the bill," said publisher Joseph Laterza, one of the organizers, Marco Cassini (Minimum fax) and Stefano Mauri (Mauri-English).
open with readings of the songs is Andrea Camilleri, who brought the appeal to students that the Chancellor of the University of Padua, Concetto Marchesi, delivered December 1, 1943 leaving the university for not submit to fascism. A speech (reading the vibrant Sicilian writer) that ends this way: "Liberate Italy from the bondage of deceit." Camilleri to Step that perfectly defines "dirt and filth of the attack on the freedom that has now been in other forms." We call for the information - said the father Montalbano - although with the gag-law there is just nothing to write about because judges can no longer work, "leaving the mafia and the clique free to trick us into silence." Camilleri then went on leave from the public with a terse "good luck". And also of great interest the speech of Pericles to the Athenians, Paul Rossi was able to read on television and yesterday brought by Rosetta Loy.
on stage Stefano Rodota, that "when you lock the knowledge of the facts is impossible to act and endangering the democratic life: it is typical of totalitarian regimes compel its citizens to read foreign news sites of their own country ". Thus spoke the political scientist Giovanni Sartori, who called it "shameful" gag-law: "It is the ultimate resource for creating a false, stupid and uninformed public that knows nothing about the world and know almost only false things Italy ". And Marco Travaglio was among those who have mentioned the failure of the law. As Massimo Carlotto, for which "does not remain that civil disobedience. "Who was not there, as Dacia Maraini, entrusted to others their own reflections. The evening was closed by Gianrico Carofiglio, judge, writer and senator of the Democratic Party:" The gag was the same as that quoted Camilleri program of the P2 lodge. No coincidence that there were also enrolled members of the government. " (La Repubblica, June 1, 2010)
Writers antibavaglio. Laterza: "Unable to make books of inquiry"
LONDON - So, back to Fascism. The protagonists of reading against the gag law on wiretapping-have no doubt: it kills the public consciousness and with it democracy. Sunday Schedule in a packed theater Quirinus of Rome, "Readings for the freedom of the press" organized by hundreds of publishers with booksellers and writers will continue all week throughout Italy. "The law on wiretapping not only touches newspapers and journalists, but also publishers who publish books of inquiry, which are also potential beneficiaries of the bill," said publisher Joseph Laterza, one of the organizers, Marco Cassini (Minimum fax) and Stefano Mauri (Mauri-English).
open with readings of the songs is Andrea Camilleri, who brought the appeal to students that the Chancellor of the University of Padua, Concetto Marchesi, delivered December 1, 1943 leaving the university for not submit to fascism. A speech (reading the vibrant Sicilian writer) that ends this way: "Liberate Italy from the bondage of deceit." Camilleri to Step that perfectly defines "dirt and filth of the attack on the freedom that has now been in other forms." We call for the information - said the father Montalbano - although with the gag-law there is just nothing to write about because judges can no longer work, "leaving the mafia and the clique free to trick us into silence." Camilleri then went on leave from the public with a terse "good luck". And also of great interest the speech of Pericles to the Athenians, Paul Rossi was able to read on television and yesterday brought by Rosetta Loy.
on stage Stefano Rodota, that "when you lock the knowledge of the facts is impossible to act and endangering the democratic life: it is typical of totalitarian regimes compel its citizens to read foreign news sites of their own country ". Thus spoke the political scientist Giovanni Sartori, who called it "shameful" gag-law: "It is the ultimate resource for creating a false, stupid and uninformed public that knows nothing about the world and know almost only false things Italy ". And Marco Travaglio was among those who have mentioned the failure of the law. As Massimo Carlotto, for which "does not remain that civil disobedience. "Who was not there, as Dacia Maraini, entrusted to others their own reflections. The evening was closed by Gianrico Carofiglio, judge, writer and senator of the Democratic Party:" The gag was the same as that quoted Camilleri program of the P2 lodge. No coincidence that there were also enrolled members of the government. " (La Repubblica, June 1, 2010)
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Interesting Facts For Triple X Syndrome
Saviano but I disobey (Gianluca Di Feo)
interview Gianluca Di Feo Roberto Saviano on the new Act to wiretapping 'the Parliament.
I disobey. Roberto Saviano has no doubts: "I will try to continue working as if this law did not exist." Why does the text approved in committee on wiretapping Justice "is a real labor of inquiry castration" and above all a gift from the mafia "who can communicate easily and hide the mechanics of their power."
Four years since the release of "Gomorra," the writer does not see reducing the strength of organized crime and feels "the growing fragility of the judiciary." It receives a climate very similar to that which preceded the massacres of 1992, those spectacular attacks against symbolic targets, men and monuments that have changed the history of Italy: "Even if today the boss decided to raise the bar could make a shoulder to the country and choose how to widen. I think the words of Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone who has evoked a "snowball." In a Roman Saviano terrace you can enjoy the sunset checked after the umpteenth time this spring's dark, dark eyes roam chasing any movement but it is curious anything but distracted always try to look beyond and understand the evolution of moral and economic crisis. playmobil puppets on the table that gave him a small fan, a gunman and a policeman to the teeth with only a truncheon, almost a metaphor for the Italian situation.
If the text of the law on wiretapping will not be changed, the gangs will be more advantaged by the limits on plays or a ban on publication?
"The biggest advantage is the ease of communication. Today, with most animals held for them is increasingly difficult to transmit orders and then manage organizations. Take in prison interviews with family members, the oldest system used to continue to operate. Bidognetti boss in meetings with partner Anna Carrino continually touched his face as if he was stroking his beard. He wanted to tell her: "Please refer to Sandokan." When the woman began to cooperate, he told the judges that it took a dozen interviews to understand what the meaning of that gesture. If the law passes, they will have more of these problems. "
Similarly mafias can communicate even in silence, with the ostentatious signs in the area.
"And that makes it even more important interceptions. The thing that impressed me most is that sometimes there are performances that do not require an order: it happens, as if it were a rule that is in things. I remember ' Federico Del Prete murder of trade unionist in 2002 in Casal di Principe: there was no need for a meeting between heads but only a tacit, when he informed the leadership that was ill-born who went to kill is not that it took bother to seek permission to Sandokan and Bidognetti. It becomes essential to rely on listening to wiretaps and bugs: allows you to understand the context in which certain actions then becomes automatic. "
These dynamics are described in" Gomorrah "and many other books. How can a parliamentary committee that deals with justice in ignore them? To what extent there is bad faith in granting a benefit similar to godparents?
"There is a segment where incompetence and bad faith can be the same. The incompetence is: they want to create a rule for certain benefits while ignoring the effects in the fight against the Mafia. But bad faith is not a direct help to the criminal. Although it is declining because the contrast to the clans as "military force" has only beat them in and seize the assets most striking. This action is important but so is cutting your arms without hitting his head and without eradicating the body. And the excuse of military conflict in bad faith and incompetence can overlap.
So just to protect politicians and other white-collar workers, ensuring their privacy at all costs, it gives an assist to the mafia?
"But the issue of privacy should not be underestimated. I am convinced that the issue of wiretapping today things are not going well: I feel that we need to find new rules, but can not be imposed from above and use the expression again militarily. A democracy needs of shared rules: judges, journalists, lawyers and legislators should sit around a table and develop effective proposals. Because even if there is a protection of privacy must make distinctions: the comments are really something personal, the other is call the manufacturer on the night of the earthquake Abruzzo says, "I'm laughing." That must come in the acts and must be disclosed: the context shows that led to the crime. That is to say that the border of privacy is labile and is especially common sense, which many newspaper editors often do not seem to have. This creates distrust in the reader. "
If the law gets passed, in many newsrooms you begin to rely on civil disobedience. What do you think?
"I can not advise but I know what I'll do. I disobey, I will continue working as if this law did not exist, sorry for the lost opportunity to create new shared rules. Why teach the lesson of American journalism that is the ability to set rules, avoiding the easy shots and gossip shortcuts Photo effect, which makes them strong inquiries. But I think the law is being formulated as a castration is real labor of inquiry: the will to disobey my answer. And I hope that my disobedience is supported by investigators from the police, by All such bodies with which converted from four years: I hope that my "extended family" will help me to disobey. "
Journalists and writers can disobey and challenge the arrest. But the law introducing heavy fines for publishers, creating a deterrent to publication. In these conditions, the Web can become an island of freedom?
"The Web is free. I'm on Facebook I have a new life: my page has more than half a million supporters, what I write there comes to most readers that a national newspaper. The Internet is powerful as a tool to spread the truth but lacks authority. The Web is a communication tool while newspapers are an instrument of democracy: they create debate, have an editorial staff, rely on the loyalty of the player. In 50 years it will also be the Web tool but today is not mature. For this gag news and daily means silencing the most authoritative sources ".
She now has a personality, a celebrity: he feels the weight of attention on her private life?
" I'm used to it: I have seven people escorts who keep what I do 24 hours a day. But for security reasons I must keep hidden life of my family. In this sense I understand when you invoke the right to privacy because it coincides with me with the right to life ".
In market news today is worth more to talk about good or evil Saviano?
"When you saturate the market should speak well to speak ill, but not Saviano, anyone. I do not want to venture in comparison to where I feel inferior to Diego Armando Maradona, a legend in my youth, and even Barack Obama: when he spoke too positive, and attack it should change. It is part of the game, but in my situation that I regret is that I am not a politician, I do not represent my constituents. I am a writer and I'm representative of my word and just. "
But last autumn when she took the stage of Piazza del Popolo in defense of press freedom, has taken a political position.
"Yes, but in the Platonic sense of the word: politics as public art, which unfortunately does not consider the Italians or the division of the pie. I'm not up on stage with the flag of a party and I always wondered sharing positions even of my electorate's center. The President Gianfranco Fini when I defended by claims of Emilio Fede said he did so many of my readers in the name of the PDL. "
So you will have a position "political" only on certain topics?
"Yes, in that sense I do politics, in the sense of the battle of ideas. I feel lucky and privileged I have an autonomous space to do so. Typically, those seeking the battle of ideas must pay the duty, if not the shame of militancy in the party, which means having to come to terms with administrative minutiae, lists and organizational troubles. I am reminded of a passage of "The Betrothed" in which Father Christopher has to face troubles and problems of African newspapers while Charles Borromeo can think about good and evil. At this time the battle of ideas is the space where I feel free. "
you feel more free without a" party Saviano "but we also feel stronger? After Piazza del Popolo were not reduced the scope for communicate your ideas?
"We are reduced because I have become obnoxious to certain political parties. But I still talk to their electorate and I am convinced that this is the element that most annoys them. I remember when I went to the University Roma Tre: outside posters were blacks with white writing "Saviano hero" and "O" turned into a Celtic cross, and red posters that read "Saviano my friend." It was really fun because I was not allowed to have this union. It seems rhetorical but sometimes the truth is, rhetoric has been the law, the idea that at least one thing - the contrast to the mafia - can not be divided. "
shares the Elio Germano's words from the stage in Cannes that he dedicated the award to Italy "in spite of its ruling class"?
"A dedication absolutely right. It is important to refer to that part of the country that wants to do and do well. And it is right to point out that the limits of the entire ruling class: politicians, businessmen and women but also of culture. "
Four years to the publication of "Gomorrah," the gangs are more or less powerful?
"There were thinning of the branches of the military criminal groups, in economic terms there was no great contrast because there was a European conflict. No, I would not say that today are less strong. "
And the judiciary is more or less strong?
" I feel as a scholar that the judiciary is the weakest because the media campaigns against judges and pm's have caused the loss of authority: the climate for them is not the best. And on the other hand, the current internal battles between the judiciary are losing the helm: entire prosecution split for these reasons do not work well. The weakness of the judiciary I hear a lot: than when I wrote "Gomorrah" I feel a crisis of effectiveness and confidence. "
Italy is the home of the courses and claims history. Which phase of our past, recalls the crisis we are experiencing?
"There are two historical moments that help me in trying to understand the present. The first floor on the skin feel, I have not experienced first hand. He's the one that preceded the massacres of 1992. When I talk to prosecutors and investigators feel the same fear, the fear that the boss could give a shove to the country, raising the bar and establishing conditions for the near future. I think of those phrases written in prison by Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone who warned family by a "snowball" as if to say at this time of crisis, whatever we do the consequences would be enormous and we stop them and redesigning the way destiny. "
And the second reference?
" The climate of post-unification 150 years ago. Interior Minister John Nicotera by former partisan, the issue of the South: the South was occupied not unified. I now feel so much the desire of a part of Europe, even before the League, to rid the South of Italy and see a Southern ruling class, with few exceptions, disoriented if not corrupt. The South seems divided between conniving and resigned, who is in it and who is honest but lost hope. " (La Repubblica, May 27, 2010)
interview Gianluca Di Feo Roberto Saviano on the new Act to wiretapping 'the Parliament.
I disobey. Roberto Saviano has no doubts: "I will try to continue working as if this law did not exist." Why does the text approved in committee on wiretapping Justice "is a real labor of inquiry castration" and above all a gift from the mafia "who can communicate easily and hide the mechanics of their power."
Four years since the release of "Gomorra," the writer does not see reducing the strength of organized crime and feels "the growing fragility of the judiciary." It receives a climate very similar to that which preceded the massacres of 1992, those spectacular attacks against symbolic targets, men and monuments that have changed the history of Italy: "Even if today the boss decided to raise the bar could make a shoulder to the country and choose how to widen. I think the words of Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone who has evoked a "snowball." In a Roman Saviano terrace you can enjoy the sunset checked after the umpteenth time this spring's dark, dark eyes roam chasing any movement but it is curious anything but distracted always try to look beyond and understand the evolution of moral and economic crisis. playmobil puppets on the table that gave him a small fan, a gunman and a policeman to the teeth with only a truncheon, almost a metaphor for the Italian situation.
If the text of the law on wiretapping will not be changed, the gangs will be more advantaged by the limits on plays or a ban on publication?
"The biggest advantage is the ease of communication. Today, with most animals held for them is increasingly difficult to transmit orders and then manage organizations. Take in prison interviews with family members, the oldest system used to continue to operate. Bidognetti boss in meetings with partner Anna Carrino continually touched his face as if he was stroking his beard. He wanted to tell her: "Please refer to Sandokan." When the woman began to cooperate, he told the judges that it took a dozen interviews to understand what the meaning of that gesture. If the law passes, they will have more of these problems. "
Similarly mafias can communicate even in silence, with the ostentatious signs in the area.
"And that makes it even more important interceptions. The thing that impressed me most is that sometimes there are performances that do not require an order: it happens, as if it were a rule that is in things. I remember ' Federico Del Prete murder of trade unionist in 2002 in Casal di Principe: there was no need for a meeting between heads but only a tacit, when he informed the leadership that was ill-born who went to kill is not that it took bother to seek permission to Sandokan and Bidognetti. It becomes essential to rely on listening to wiretaps and bugs: allows you to understand the context in which certain actions then becomes automatic. "
These dynamics are described in" Gomorrah "and many other books. How can a parliamentary committee that deals with justice in ignore them? To what extent there is bad faith in granting a benefit similar to godparents?
"There is a segment where incompetence and bad faith can be the same. The incompetence is: they want to create a rule for certain benefits while ignoring the effects in the fight against the Mafia. But bad faith is not a direct help to the criminal. Although it is declining because the contrast to the clans as "military force" has only beat them in and seize the assets most striking. This action is important but so is cutting your arms without hitting his head and without eradicating the body. And the excuse of military conflict in bad faith and incompetence can overlap.
So just to protect politicians and other white-collar workers, ensuring their privacy at all costs, it gives an assist to the mafia?
"But the issue of privacy should not be underestimated. I am convinced that the issue of wiretapping today things are not going well: I feel that we need to find new rules, but can not be imposed from above and use the expression again militarily. A democracy needs of shared rules: judges, journalists, lawyers and legislators should sit around a table and develop effective proposals. Because even if there is a protection of privacy must make distinctions: the comments are really something personal, the other is call the manufacturer on the night of the earthquake Abruzzo says, "I'm laughing." That must come in the acts and must be disclosed: the context shows that led to the crime. That is to say that the border of privacy is labile and is especially common sense, which many newspaper editors often do not seem to have. This creates distrust in the reader. "
If the law gets passed, in many newsrooms you begin to rely on civil disobedience. What do you think?
"I can not advise but I know what I'll do. I disobey, I will continue working as if this law did not exist, sorry for the lost opportunity to create new shared rules. Why teach the lesson of American journalism that is the ability to set rules, avoiding the easy shots and gossip shortcuts Photo effect, which makes them strong inquiries. But I think the law is being formulated as a castration is real labor of inquiry: the will to disobey my answer. And I hope that my disobedience is supported by investigators from the police, by All such bodies with which converted from four years: I hope that my "extended family" will help me to disobey. "
Journalists and writers can disobey and challenge the arrest. But the law introducing heavy fines for publishers, creating a deterrent to publication. In these conditions, the Web can become an island of freedom?
"The Web is free. I'm on Facebook I have a new life: my page has more than half a million supporters, what I write there comes to most readers that a national newspaper. The Internet is powerful as a tool to spread the truth but lacks authority. The Web is a communication tool while newspapers are an instrument of democracy: they create debate, have an editorial staff, rely on the loyalty of the player. In 50 years it will also be the Web tool but today is not mature. For this gag news and daily means silencing the most authoritative sources ".
She now has a personality, a celebrity: he feels the weight of attention on her private life?
" I'm used to it: I have seven people escorts who keep what I do 24 hours a day. But for security reasons I must keep hidden life of my family. In this sense I understand when you invoke the right to privacy because it coincides with me with the right to life ".
In market news today is worth more to talk about good or evil Saviano?
"When you saturate the market should speak well to speak ill, but not Saviano, anyone. I do not want to venture in comparison to where I feel inferior to Diego Armando Maradona, a legend in my youth, and even Barack Obama: when he spoke too positive, and attack it should change. It is part of the game, but in my situation that I regret is that I am not a politician, I do not represent my constituents. I am a writer and I'm representative of my word and just. "
But last autumn when she took the stage of Piazza del Popolo in defense of press freedom, has taken a political position.
"Yes, but in the Platonic sense of the word: politics as public art, which unfortunately does not consider the Italians or the division of the pie. I'm not up on stage with the flag of a party and I always wondered sharing positions even of my electorate's center. The President Gianfranco Fini when I defended by claims of Emilio Fede said he did so many of my readers in the name of the PDL. "
So you will have a position "political" only on certain topics?
"Yes, in that sense I do politics, in the sense of the battle of ideas. I feel lucky and privileged I have an autonomous space to do so. Typically, those seeking the battle of ideas must pay the duty, if not the shame of militancy in the party, which means having to come to terms with administrative minutiae, lists and organizational troubles. I am reminded of a passage of "The Betrothed" in which Father Christopher has to face troubles and problems of African newspapers while Charles Borromeo can think about good and evil. At this time the battle of ideas is the space where I feel free. "
you feel more free without a" party Saviano "but we also feel stronger? After Piazza del Popolo were not reduced the scope for communicate your ideas?
"We are reduced because I have become obnoxious to certain political parties. But I still talk to their electorate and I am convinced that this is the element that most annoys them. I remember when I went to the University Roma Tre: outside posters were blacks with white writing "Saviano hero" and "O" turned into a Celtic cross, and red posters that read "Saviano my friend." It was really fun because I was not allowed to have this union. It seems rhetorical but sometimes the truth is, rhetoric has been the law, the idea that at least one thing - the contrast to the mafia - can not be divided. "
shares the Elio Germano's words from the stage in Cannes that he dedicated the award to Italy "in spite of its ruling class"?
"A dedication absolutely right. It is important to refer to that part of the country that wants to do and do well. And it is right to point out that the limits of the entire ruling class: politicians, businessmen and women but also of culture. "
Four years to the publication of "Gomorrah," the gangs are more or less powerful?
"There were thinning of the branches of the military criminal groups, in economic terms there was no great contrast because there was a European conflict. No, I would not say that today are less strong. "
And the judiciary is more or less strong?
" I feel as a scholar that the judiciary is the weakest because the media campaigns against judges and pm's have caused the loss of authority: the climate for them is not the best. And on the other hand, the current internal battles between the judiciary are losing the helm: entire prosecution split for these reasons do not work well. The weakness of the judiciary I hear a lot: than when I wrote "Gomorrah" I feel a crisis of effectiveness and confidence. "
Italy is the home of the courses and claims history. Which phase of our past, recalls the crisis we are experiencing?
"There are two historical moments that help me in trying to understand the present. The first floor on the skin feel, I have not experienced first hand. He's the one that preceded the massacres of 1992. When I talk to prosecutors and investigators feel the same fear, the fear that the boss could give a shove to the country, raising the bar and establishing conditions for the near future. I think of those phrases written in prison by Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone who warned family by a "snowball" as if to say at this time of crisis, whatever we do the consequences would be enormous and we stop them and redesigning the way destiny. "
And the second reference?
" The climate of post-unification 150 years ago. Interior Minister John Nicotera by former partisan, the issue of the South: the South was occupied not unified. I now feel so much the desire of a part of Europe, even before the League, to rid the South of Italy and see a Southern ruling class, with few exceptions, disoriented if not corrupt. The South seems divided between conniving and resigned, who is in it and who is honest but lost hope. " (La Repubblica, May 27, 2010)
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