Genoa (was Re: Who provokes whom?

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 23 12:30:31 CDT 2001


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.  

Where is Fascism alive in Europe? What are you saying? Are
you saying that Italy is 
has a Fascist government? Who? What? Where? Where is Fascism
alive in Europe? 
I'm not talking about a few radical groups now. If we count
these as Fascism being alive in Europe, we have Naziism
alive in America and so on, but here the protesters are
attributing these statements to the government, right? Is
that what you are saying? If it's only a few members of a
police force that's still a very troubling, but this is
quite common, regrettably, but it's almost as regrettable,
if the testimonies of protesters are, if not fabrications,
an attempt to turn the hateful acts and statements
of police into a slogan--Fascism is alive in Italy.   



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.



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