Wednesday, December 16, 2009

I can't condemn Massimo Tartaglia


Any agression is condemnable and unjustifiable. But, when I see the footage of the aggression against Silvio Berlusconi, president of Italy, I really am unable to condemn Massimo Tartaglia, his attacker.


So, could an agression be justified? Or, talking about presidents of countries, can an assassination (magnicidio) be justified? Let's put, for instance, an extreme example, Adolf Hitler. Would anybody condemn someone who tried to kill him? Or, more recently, would anybody condemn someone who tried to kill Milosevic? (Althought probably he was responsible for less than 5% of the crimes he was accused of). I am pretty sure that the 99% of the population who know these two leaders would accept their "execution". So if we accept that one magnicide is justified, where is the limit? What are the crimes that justify it? The death of how many people? One million? No, even if we accept that Milosevic commited the crimes he is accused of, he didn't kill one million people. One thousand? Why not one hundred? Why not ten? In the moment that we accept that one assassination can be justified, there is a really thin and subjective line to establish the limits.


But some can argue that Berlusconi hasn't killed anybody or been responsible for the dead of anybody. Even assuming that, Berlusconi himself is responsible for the moral, ethic, legal degeneration of Italy. He has taken the country to the total lack of morality (both religious or ethical), he is one cancer in the italian society.

Even, how can he condemn his aggressor? He publicly stated that the condemned murderer Vittorio Mangano was a "hero", and also defended Marcello Dell'Utri, who had been condemned for association with the mob.




But even the fact that one President defending criminals and murderers is serious, maybe it is even worse the fact that since he arrived he has been trying to establish laws (or best said, to modify laws) to protect himself, and his "friends". And this, in fact, is the first step of the dead of democracy, to change the laws in the interest of the leader.

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