The farce of the U. Eighteen and the great shame if Eritreans and Somalis are on board

(To David Rossi)
24/08/18

I read the words - for now, not denied - reported by the Radical MP Magi that - discussed and questionable, but still such - commander Massimo Kothmeier, responsible for the Ubaldo Eighteen, has learned from the channels of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini on social media that his dicastery did not allow the landing of refugees. I wonder: if he had not hacked on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter - apparently, a duty for the servants of the state - to look for the "directives" of the owner of the Interior Ministry - unofficially driving also the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport while the colleague Danilo Toninelli enjoys a well-deserved vacation -, would have landed his "human load" and would have been liable to arrest and other serious measures?

From what world is the world, the military does not receive orders in oral form, but written: even President Trump, even so active on Twitter, is careful not to direct the fleets to stars and stripes with text messages of a hundred characters or video messages. I remember only once in the history of Italy in which the military did not receive written orders: on September 8th 1943. 75 years will soon have passed ...

That date is certainly about to be remembered by the President of the Republic - who is also head of the Armed Forces and guarantor of the constitutional order - and that the writer imagines intent on reflecting on what to do, in the face of orders transmitted via webcam, without that the Constitution - not yet "updated" by Casaleggio & C - provides for such a lack of form. He may be wondering if circumstances, between now and the end of the year, will not force him to write a letter to the chambers to denounce the risk of these continuous conflicts between state bodies, with the various armed forces and ministries intent on transmitting contradictory orders and conflictual. Frankly, we imagine him close to planning a measure a little less visible than an official letter, convinced that the nuclear option can definitively undermine the executive Conte, bringing the same Salvini to consider new elections the winning move and the Five Stars to break on the hypothesis of recruiting free-going forcing and Dem in search of identity for a government that saves them from collision with what the polls describe as Salvini's electoral war machine1.

Among other things, the president Mattarella, always in his capacity as head of the Armed Forces, could also ask (and ask those in duty) if the men of the U. Eighteen have equipment on board to protect themselves from the risk of an epidemic and of revolts, as well as hosting for an indefinite time, waiting for the benevolence of the minister, men and women by force of things held in promiscuity. Among other things, the situation deprives our Coast Guard of an offshore patrol boat that could be better used, instead of serving the incessant election campaign underway by the 2016, with the ministers and the opposition leaders - even the latter without shame - intent on playing the biggest shooter ...

Finally, a note on the "clandestine" 177: I understand that these are Eritreans and Somalis, not Nigerians and Congolese. The citizens of our former colonies easily receive refugee status because of the horrible situations in those countries. On all, the case of Eritrea: "defectors and renegades to the lever" and "thin of constitution"2 according to some hardliners, in reality the Eritreans flee from one of the fiercest communist dictatorships in the history of Africa, with a whole people in arms, missing journalists, tortured and killed opponents, as well as a nation reduced to misery3. Italy, as certainly the Head of State knows, has a historical responsibility towards them, as well as towards the Ethiopians4 and the Somalis, which perhaps thousands of trolls ignore beautifully, but that the civil and political consciousness of our great nation can not forget. To risk bringing people who actually have the right to welcome as refugees to self-harm or death5 could only let the world know that the story of Italians "good people" is a "fairy tale": so, a test of virility could turn into a test of stupidity.

It is not a question of welcome, we would lack something else: I would not express myself so if we were before a ship full of exponents of other peoples. It is proof of rectitude of conscience and of great political intelligence that our leaders are called to give before the world. Right conscience and political intelligence: those things or you have them or not.

  

1 He promptly announced an imminent meeting with the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Will he talk to him about the sanctions that the Five Stars would like to impose against those who do not accept the relocations, first of all the Magyar State?

2http://www.lanuovabq.it/it/diciotti-salvini-per-ora-resiste-alla-farsa-u... evidently, for certain anti-Communists those who flee today from Marxist prisons in Africa and in Asia are worth less than those who did it thirty years ago from the cages of real socialism in Europe ... Speaking of renegade to the lever in Eritrea and Eritreans "thin by constitution" is a trial of bad faith, other than patriotism!

3https://www.corriere.it/politica/18_agosto_24/caso-diciotti-eritrei-fuga...

4 That we gassed happily and exterminated inhumanly in the years when trains arrived on time and the head of the government was cutting wheat ...

5 "They have my house in their house. Because if they really escape from the war they must be treated with Bianchi gloves ": words of Minister Salvini said two months ago, not the apology of mass immigration pronounced by the former president of the Boldini Chamber ...

(image: Sky TG24)