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Titolo: Supporters of Desert Fox Operation aggressed by right wing activists in Rome - "Who hates the Occident is scared by sexual freedom"

Demonstrators in support of the Anglo-American Desert Fox Operation
aggressed by right-wing activists in front of the American Embassy in
Rome. Course (and recourses) of History.
     Two demonstrations have been held on saturday, December 19, 1998 in
front of the American Embassy in Rome. One by supporters of the
Transnational Radical Party, with the slogan "I Support Clinton and
Blair", the other by activists of the italian "Social Movement" (extreme
right wing), protesting the "genocide of Iraqi people" brought on by
Clinton and Blair.
     Police patrolled between the two groups, but a platoon of
right-wing activists out-flanked the cops and aggressed the radicals
with fists and kicks, trying to seize and destroy the American flag they
were waving. Since the Radical Party supporters adhere to Gandhian
nonviolence doctrine and practice of civil disobedience, no wonder that
they succumbed in the match. At the end the Police intervened, just
before the  outrage to the flag was completed.
     Italian TV news reported "moments of tension between supporters of
radical and  social movement parties".
It is strange enough that a party that declares itself to be a
nonviolent party support the Desert Fox Operation, while an extreme
right-wing party (formerly the "fascist" party by excellence in the
Italian partycracy rule) is side by side with left-wing minority groups
and Moslem integralists in the fight against the American Devil.
According to interpretations by those groups, and by some influent
medias in Italy and all around the world, the strike against Iraq was
but a diversion from the main point, that is the Clinton - Lewinsky
case. No wonder here that spicey news about sexual intercourses in the
White House are more appealing to the masses than stories about the
victims of the Iraqi satrap and of his bloody dictatorship.
BTW, the first US President of the "Make Love Not War" generation seems
to be at ease with both love and war.
     To those that have interest in further investigating this aspect, I
propose the reading of the following article, published April 12, 1991
by the Italian magazine "L'Europeo" short after the conclusion of Desert
Storm Operation.
Article author  is Psychology Professor Luigi de Marchi, co-founder,
back in the '60, of the first Italian association for birth control,
AIED, and a Transnational Radical Party member too.
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     " Who hates the Western Countries, is scared by sexual freedom
     Under their ideological mask, fascists, and former communists,
Catholic or Islamic integralists, share the same psychologic matrix:
they are sexuophobic, dogmatic, intolerant.
     In a recent editorial, Vittorio Feltri (1) pointed out that the
Gulf crisis revealed that in Italy there are two transversal parties,
that collect consensus among different ideologies and different
traditional parties. He recalled the fact that the anti-occidental front
is made by a majority of former communists, former fascists and of
catholic integralists. Those groups are respectively considered as being
left wing, right wing and moderate, but they get together to protest
against "western countries arrogance" that is not able to find an
agreement with the good man Saddam Hussein. It is difficult to explain
how people that consider each other as enemies end up together in the
same pile.
     I believe that the Gulf war, this traumatic event, worked as
reagent to reveal the psychologic relationship between certain groups
and certain kind of personalities, beyond their apparent
incompatibility.
     I believe that these transversal front on the Gulf crisis give us
further evidence that political and social behaviors must be analyzed in
psychological terms, an analysis that I call psycho - political.
     "Ideologies are but masks", says the psycho - political analyzer
"what really counts are the psychological types under those masks".
     If we take a closer look at these ideologies from this point of
view, we can easy find that they have a lot in common.
     First, they have a common denominator in dogmatism. To be honest,
this is less strong than it used to be in the past, because history and
science together disavowed enough catholic, communist or fascist dogmas,
and their hierarchies had to revise or attenuate their doctrine.
Nevertheless, all these groups have nostalgia of the past certainty, and
they all had or still have "infallible leaders".
     Second, all these movements have - sometimes in contradiction with
their open statements - a strong sexuophobic and misogynist approach. It
is not by chance that they fight to "moralize" the society, and that for
a long time they excluded women from leadership.
     Third, these movements, catholic movements in particular, oppose
contraception and birth control.
     All these movements have a long history of bloody persecution of
the opposers, both inside and outside.
     All these common aspects are strange and alarming, and still it
seems difficult to find a common psychological denominator. Among the
firsts who tried to explain those fact there was Wilhelm Reich, a
heretic disciple of Sigmund Freud.
     According to Reich, the repression of natural sexuality, that is a
typical among authoritarian regimes (from Nazism to Stalinism, from
Maoist doctrine to Catholicism to Islamism) is the psychological trigger
for gregariousness of the followers and authoritarianism of the
leaderships. It creates a sadistic -masochistic distortion of the
personality.
     At a social level, it produces a constant desire of domination and
control in the leaders; and among the followers, an incoercible need of
submission, a spirit of sacrifice to the authority, will it be the
Church, the State or the party.
     Reich's hypothesis is interesting, as he is the first who searched
for a psychological explanation to phenomena that seem to be very
different. However, this hypothesis also appears to be unilateral and
simplistic. Can we believe, as Freud did in his Victorian times, that
all the human neurosis and tragedies derive from sexual repression?
     An Italian writer of the Thirties, Achille Campanile, answered
corrosively to Freud that "a man's life - and death - is not just about
his pains (penis)" (2).
     If it is true, as Reich believed, that before the totalitarian
regimes with their sexual repression came to life, men were all good and
healthy (as in the myth of the Bon Sauvage proposed by J.J. Rousseau)
from where and by who all the authoritarian and sexuophobic regimes have
been generated?
     In my researches about human conflictuality, I came across another
primary factor of destructiveness that psychology seems to have
neglected, that does not derive from any "evil society" but from the
simple and natural evolution of the human mind, that is death angst
(that follows the discovery of the common destiny of death, the very
own, and the participation to agony and death of the beloved ones) and
his paranoid  acceptance.
     Human psyche tries to defend itself from this angst with a need for
certainty, and with religious promises about the Paradise, where there
is eternal happiness and peace of mind, a Paradise that is reserved to
the followers of the True Faith (and here it is the
beginning of all the Holy Wars, last is the Islamic Jihad that promise
to destroy all the disbelieving).
     Modern totalitarian movements, left wing or right wing, appear all
to be the extreme tentative to reproduce the Paradise on Earth of the
ancient religious beliefs, shacked by the lay and scientific approach
that flourished in the Western countries.
     But at this point, the basic psychological affinity of the
followers of the True Faiths and of the True Revolutions seems to be
clear, and explains why people with different ideologies find themselves
side by side: as it was the case in 1939 with the Ribbentrop - Molotov
alliance, and the Vatican sustain to the fascist regime in Italy, or the
irresponsible support of former Soviet Union to Islamic fundamentalism;
as it  was the case for the continuous revival of the catholic-communist
culture, up to the generous "comprehension" the Pope showed for the
instigators of the killing of the writer Salman Rushdie (happily not
realized) and the cordiality that the Holy See has always had face to
PLO (that has renounced to terrorism just recently); or the refusal of
acceptance for birth control practices in the name of the possibility of
multiplication of the loaves and the fishes (that has never been put in
practice); up to the article that the magazine "Catholic Civilization"
published in defense of legitimacy of the Iraqi invasion of the Kuwait;
and of course, up to the anti-Occidental piling during the Gulf crisis.
     At the end, what are the faults of the democratic Occident that
those militants and veterans of various dogmatic beliefs consider
unforgivable, up to the point of always backing his enemies?
     I indicate three points. The first fault, is that Western countries
are the homeland of these "revolutionary" people, and by that, the
symbol of the Authority that they contest.
     The second fault is sexual freedom, that undermines the process of
building the fanaticism, as Reich pointed out. Third unforgivable fault
is that Western countries are the homeland of the humanistic thought,
based on independent research, that since two hundred years put in
crisis their certainty e their promises about the Paradise, will it be
celestial or on Earth".
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(From "L'Europeo", April 12, 1991 )
     Notes 1. Italian journalist
     2. In Italian, the word "pene" means both "sufferings" and "penis".
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     With many apologies to Prof. De Marchi for the translation, and to
all native-english-speaking-people for the inevitable injuries to the
language of Shakespear and Hemingway, faithfully yours
 [Mr.Bittertooth]
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nonviolence doctrine and practice of civil disobedience, no wonder that
insomma Gandi che si lasciava morire e questi che bombardano anche i
bambini rinforzando il potere di Saddam sarebbero la stessa cosa? 
Qua' c'e' qualche variante della mucca pazza che sta colpendo gli umani e
nessuno se ne e' accorto ..
Mah
Luigi Bianca
E' il mitico De Marchi poi a sparare queste c....ate.
Wilhelm Reich direbbe che e' stato colpito dalla peste emozionale ;-))