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The Parties and the Felons
23 felons are representing us. Since 8 September, none of them has taken a step back. Resigned. Anyone doing that would have become a hero, the precursor of a new politics. With roots in forgotten words: morality, ethics, justice. That is inspired by servants of the State like Ambrosoli, Borsellino, Falcone, Livatino, Chinnici, Dalla Chiesa.There have been other seasons of politics, better than this. Can you imagine Moro, Berlinguer, or De Gasperi elected to Parliament and yet convicted of extortion, armed robbery or accepting kick-backs?I have shouted that we have to destroy the parties. Those that represent power groups and strong appetites. Far away from the citizens, but close to the municipal utilities, the banks and tenders for incinerators.Who elected the magnificent 23? The party secretaries. Not the citizens to whom the preference vote was denied with a tiny coup. A dozen people have decided for everyone. Its called oligarchy, not democracy.If the felons are the effect,...

Dangerous Blogs
Click here to see the videoThe Internet was born free. One of its laws is transparency. You cant hide anything on the Internet and you cant tell lies either. The Internet means the end for the politicians who say one thing and do another. Anyone who starts a blog should know that. A politician can end up like Gentiloni overwhelmed by a mass of requests (not dealt with) about Rete 4 (and always off playing tennis with Ermete) or, even worse, like Mastella. Talking about Mastella is like shooting tuna in a tin. I can no longer keep up with him. He has started a blog clementemastella.blogspot.com, so that he can have a dialogue with the citizens, but hes not publishing the thousands of negative comments. The positive ones are only coming from Ceppaloni. The Internet cannot tolerate this kind of behaviour. A blogger wrote: Mastella has a look like a badly counterfeited banknote.Others have gone further and have cloned his blog so as to be able to comment. When the Minister of...

This evening lets all go to the Town Council meeting
Anyone who incites the crowd, who is outside the institutional river bed is condemned. The language of V-Day is criticized to avoid talking of its contents and the causes that brought it about.V-Day has proposed a popular draft law with three elements for a Clean Parliament. Italian citizens queuing up for hours, signed it. Where is the violence? Where is the fascism that Scalfari was talking about?The civic lists take the citizens back to the centre of public life. They are allowed for by Italian law, they have always existed. Where is the demagogy and the qualunquismo that the professionals of politics are screaming about?We are in the river bed. Public life interests us. Apart from anything, it is the legitimate property of the citizens. The blog has proposed a programme: "Citizen Primaries" on the economy, transport, energy, health, and telecommunications. Has any of the media taken it into consideration? Has it perhaps been analysed and discussed? Since 8 September, every...