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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)

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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)

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Us against the law (Umberto Eco)

is known the definition of democracy as a flawed system but which has not yet found anything better. From this it follows reasonable assumption, for most people, the mistaken belief that democracy (the best or the least worst system of government) is that for which the majority is always right. Nothing could be further from the truth. Democracy is the system which, since it is difficult to define in terms of quality who has more reason than others, it uses a low quantity, but objectively verifiable: in a democracy governs who gets more support. And if anyone believes that the majority is wrong, worse for him if he accepted the principles that democratic governments must accept a majority that is wrong.

One of the functions of the opposition is to demonstrate that the majority was wrong. And if you can not do it? Then we have, in addition to poor majority, even a bad opposition. How many times the majority can be wrong? For millennia, the majority of men believed that the sun revolved around the earth (and, considering the vast areas of low literacy in the world, and the fact that opinion polls in more advanced countries have shown that many Westerners still believe that the sun turns) here a good case in which the majority is not only wrong but you are wrong again. The majority were wrong to believe Beethoven or Picasso unlistenable unwatchable, the majority Jerusalem is wrong to prefer Barabbas to Jesus, the majority of Americans are wrong to believe that two eggs and bacon every morning and a nice steak meal is no guarantee of good health, the majority was wrong to prefer bears to Terence and (perhaps ) is still wrong to prefer "The pupa and the geek" to Sophocles. For centuries the majority of people felt that there were witches and that it was right to burn it, in the seventeenth century the majority of the Milanese believed that the plague was caused by the spreaders, the vast majority of Westerners, including Voltaire, considered legitimate and natural slavery, the majority of Europeans believed that it was noble and sacred colonize Africa. In politics

Hitler came to power by a coup but was elected by the majority, Mussolini established the dictatorship after the assassination of Matteotti but first enjoyed a parliamentary majority, even if that room despised "dull and gray." It would be unfair play of paradoxes and therefore say that the majority is the one that's always wrong, but certainly not always right. In the appeal to the political will of the people only have legal force ("I have a right to govern because I received more votes") but does not allow quantitative data be drawn from this theoretical and ethical consequences ("I have the majority of the votes and therefore are better ").

In some areas of Sicily and Campania the Mafia and the Camorra have a majority of the vote but it would be difficult to conclude that they are therefore represented the best of those noble people. Recently I read a journalist government (but was not the only use for that matter) that the case nell'ironizzare Santoro (now happily bipartisan target), said that he had the curious belief that the majority of Italians were bent willingly to be sodomized by Berlusconi. Now I do not think that Berlusconi has never sodomized anyone, but it is certain that a substantial amount of Italian allows him without realizing that their favorite is slowly eroding their freedoms. Erode the freedom of a country usually means putting act in a violent coup and establish a dictatorship. If this happens, voters will notice it and, although they are not under tion coup that has changed with him. The coup was replaced by the rustle of State. The idea of \u200b\u200ba transformation of structures of government through violent action Berlusconi's genius was and is to be implemented very slowly, little step by little step, in an extremely lubricated.

Think of unnecessary violence with which fascism, to silence the voice of Matteotti uncomfortable, he had to kill him. Things to medieval times. It would not be enough to pay him a good exit megagalattico (and incidentally, not with government money but with those of citizens paying the fee)? Mussolini was really a man rozzissimo. When a transformation of the institutions of the country takes place step by step, ie for small doses, it is difficult to say that each, taken by itself could create a dictatorship - and in fact he does is when some cassandra sbertucciata. The fact is that for a new populism media dictatorship is the same antiquated system that serves no purpose. You can change the structures of the state at will and according to their own interest without initiating any dictatorship.

We can say that the immunity law prefigures a tyranny? Nonsense. And moderation interceptions really careful to freedom of information? But come on, if someone has murder everyone will know the case to trial, and avoid speaking in advance of the alleged crimes only respects the privacy of where ever each of us. Would you like to go in the newspapers that your conversation with her lover, so it came to know your lady? No, of course. And if the price is that the conversation is not intercepted or corrupted by a powerful mafia in the permanent service of a real, well, our privacy will be a good price. Do you think fascism reduce funding for public schools? But we have to save all, and one needs to set an example by starting with the collective costs. And if this country over to private schools? It will not be the end of the world, there are very good. You Stalinism unwatchable make the news public networks? No, if ever the old dictatorships did everything to make the radio very affectionate. But if this goes in favor of private networks? Well, it appears that Stalin had never favored the private television?

Here, the function of creeping coups is that the constitutional changes are hardly perceived, or are perceived as irrelevant. And where the amount of product will not the second but the third Republic, it will be too late. Not because you could not go back, but because the majority will have absorbed the changes as natural and you will, so to speak, mitridatizzata. A new Malaparte could write a treatise on superb this new technique rustle of State. Even in the face of it because each and every protest and complaint challenging loses value seems that those who complain about giving the body the shadows.

Pessimism global, then? No, trust in benign weather and its continued erosion. A transformation of the institutions that small steps may not have time to take place at all, may be halfway smandrappamenti, fatigue, power failures, mishaps. It is a bit like the joke about the difference between hell and hell German Italian. In both the morning dip in the hot gas, electric chair at noon, rendering the evening. Except that one day in hell Italian petrol does not arrive, another power plant is on strike, and another patient was given the Executioner ... Cut the head of the king or occupy the Winter Palace is something that is done in five minutes. Poison someone with small doses of arsenic in the soup takes a long time, and in the meantime who knows who will live. For now, resist, resist, resist. (L'Espresso, 27 May 2010)