Newsgroup: it.arti.cinema
Titolo: Dall'Independent


Tragicamente sarcastico, acidamente accusatorio.
Se avete cinque minuti dateci un'occhiata: si ride tanto a denti stretti
che cedono i molari.
Perche' queste cose sulla stampa nostrana non le leggiamo?
Luca
Mark Steel: I've no time for these hooligans who go around being killed
'Maybe the driver went to press the indicator and instead pressed the
trigger of a pistol ? twice'
26 July 2001
da: The Independent
A young protester is shot dead in Genoa, so the politicians agree we
must all condemn the violence of the protesters. Perhaps it is a
recognised psychological disease, to think that when someone is killed
it's due to the violence of the killed person. Perhaps it has a name,
like "confused murderer/murdered syndrome". Maybe those who suffer from
this neurosis start by sitting through episodes of Inspector Morse,
thinking: "I hope they catch that bloke who got killed at the
beginning."
Blair's response was, in effect, to say: "I utterly condemn the
behaviour of those people who flouted our democracy by being shot.
They'll say they were exercising their democratic right to be shot, but
if they can't be shot peacefully they have no right to be shot at all."
Typical was the macabre discussion on the night of the shooting, about
the police vehicle that ran over the protester after he'd been shot.
Statements were issued insisting that running over the body had been an
accident. So, let's give the police the benefit of the doubt on that
one. Now they only have to prove that shooting him twice through the
head was an accident and they're clear. Maybe the driver went to turn
left, and instead of pressing the indicator he got confused and pressed
the trigger of a loaded pistol - twice. After all, you know what the
Italians are like at driving.
What the debate about running him over tends to miss out slightly is
that he was already bloody dead. It's killing a live body that makes
someone a murderer, not damaging one that's already dead. Or is this a
common mistake? Perhaps there are books that claim: "I know who killed
JFK. It was a priest who lowered his body into the ground inside a
wooden box."
Equally perplexing is the debate around whether the police
"over-reacted". To give an example, one night they raided the official
centre of the Genoa Social Forum, an organisation that no one is
claiming was linked with violence. According to witnesses, part of this
centre was a building site, but the Italian police declared they were
considering whether to charge them all with "possessing offensive
weapons" as there were poles and other building-related objects nearby.
If this is normal, it must make it extremely difficult to get anything
built in Italy.
Having builders round your house must be like holding a teenage party at
which everyone's smoking dope. Every now and then a police van pulls up
outside and the plasterer starts screaming and trying to flush his
chisel down the toilet. Maybe this explains the leaning tower of Pisa.
The builder thought: "I'm taking enough of a risk with the screwdriver,
I'm not going up there with a spirit level as well."
The trouble is that every witness agrees that every person in the
building was severely beaten. One BBC reporter said that when he arrived
he could see pools of blood at regular intervals throughout the
building, suggesting each person had been attacked while sleeping.
Several witnesses told of the police returning to "hose away the blood."
The British pair Nicola Docherty and Richard Moth, who fled the
demonstration when the police charged, were among those beaten, and
their whereabouts were not released, not even to the British consulate.
After three days it was revealed that Nicola had a broken wrist and
Richard had stitches in his head, though they were still denied contact
with anyone, including their distraught parents. Many of those beaten
are still unaccounted for, prompting the Italian press to dub the
incident "the Chilean night".
So, did the police "over-react"? Is it possible to over-react to a room
full of people who are asleep? Perhaps they were sleeping in a manner
liable to cause a breach of the peace. Maybe Milosevic should try this -
"You might think there's nothing wrong with Kosovars, but you haven't
seen them when they're asleep? Alright, so maybe I over-reacted but all
that tossing and turning, I tell you, anyone would have done the same."
There was a section of the demonstration that set out for a bundle, the
notorious Black Block, and the police claim that at every incident in
which they've been accused of violence, the Black Block were present -
though one piece of news footage showed a line of gay rights campaigners
in pink furry costumes, dancing a chorus line while waving brightly
coloured balloons. Then, like lions arriving amongst a herd of jolly
wildebeestes, the Black Block began to prowl nearby. Within moments the
police attacked the whole crowd and the viewer could see gay rights
protesters being belted with truncheons as orange balloons floated above
a cloud of tear gas. I know that in the heat of battle things can get
confused, but there must be something in police training to assist
officers in distinguishing between rock-throwing anarchists and a line
of blokes dressed as teddy bears performing the theme from Oklahoma!.
None of this is condemned by Tony Blair, neither the batons nor stitches
nor pools of blood nor illegal detentions or shooting - for he only
condemns the violence.
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Splendido!!!
luke

it's due to the violence of the killed person.
Le rapine a mano armata? Un'invenzione del TG5.
 
Ciao
Nicola
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 What is matter? Never mind."
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       (1799-1875)
       British classicist

gia` che ci siamo, a proposito di Dude e per romperti ancora un po' le
palle... :-)
la font che usate e` letteralmente illeggibile, piccolissima, amenoche' io
non alteri le preferences fino a rendere gigantesca quella della finestra
messaggi.
chiaramente potrei istruire il browser per non utilizzare le font dei
documenti ma le sue interne, ma cosi` perderei la visualizzazione delle font
in parecchi altri siti.
ho idea che le font che voi usate non siano uguali a quelle sotto unix.
cosi`, giusto perche' il mondo e` vario.
comunque conosco gia` la risposta e OK, adesso vado e cambio le preferences.
:-)
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voce' e' linda e sabe viver,
voce' me faz feliz.

 :-)
No no, non scherziamo, almeno ci provo
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 No no, non scherziamo, almeno ci provo
ho eliminato il problema impedendo l'uso dei document-specified fonts e
forzando l'uso di quelli interni, come prevedevo.
ora leggo tutto. il vostro speciale G8 e` semplicemente perfetto. ho anche
ripescato l'intervista originale a Chomsky.
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 ripescato l'intervista originale a Chomsky.
Grazie, davvero. 
Vorremmo fare qualcosa di piu', qui siamo tutti molto scossi, Marco e'
ancora sotto shock.
Adesso sento Berlusconi in diretta e mi si stanno cariando tutti i
denti. Credo che scarichera' il capo della polizia, ha dato la colpa di
tutto al governo precedente e all'imponderabile.
Io ogni volta che vedo quel filmato mi sento male, andrei via se sapessi
dove andare.
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 dove andare.
io mi sto preparando il postdottorato in spagna o portogallo. ieri ho sentito
un amico (genovaese) che vive a Oxford affermare che se prima aveva delle
remore a fermarsi in quest'isola, ora le ha perse del tutto. non lo rivedro`
in Italia per parecchi anni.
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 in Italia per parecchi anni.
ecco, appunto, me ne andrei anch'io. Mia sorella e' a Oxford e spero che
ci rimanga per sempre.
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dove andare.
In Cina?

 1280x1024, monitor 19" trinitron.
Poi non ha il cellulare...
La tavoletta di argilla devi usare!

 Tragicamente sarcastico, acidamente accusatorio.
E' un giornalaccio, e questo articolo lo conferma.

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No, neanche li' rispettano i diritti umani.
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