Genoa (was Re: Who provokes whom?

[JBFRAME at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/22/2001 11:54:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jbor at bigpond.com writes:


> I'm not sure that obvious and outrageous fabrications like this -- Mussolini
> being dead for 55 years and all -- are really helping the cause of the
> 

Sorry, but these are not fabrications.  The fascist slogans shouted by the 
carabiniari have been attested to by many of the people forced to undergo the 
ordeals recounted.  Now, not being their, I cannot attest to them, but the 
people quoted are believable to me.  The fact that fascism is alive, if not 
particularly well, in Europe has been well established.  Saying 'evviva 
Mussolini' is no more absurd for that mindset than the falangist slogan 'Viva 
la Muerte'.
For the record, I am no supporter of violence, but to be shot in the head & 
run over by a truck is not the normal penalty for throwing a fire 
extinguisher at an armed cop wearing body armor even in Italy.

jbf
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