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Titolo: Guardian: Berlusconi, l'uomo più pericoloso in Europa

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/apr/05/berlusconithemostdangerous
he most dangerous man in Europe
We turn a blind eye to Berlusconi, but a huge amount is at stake in this 
weekend's Italian general election.
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Martin Jacques
guardian.co.uk
,	 Wednesday 5 April 2006 09.37 BST
Article history
With just a few days to go, there is a profoundly discomfiting fact 
about the Italian general election: Prodi is only three points ahead of 
Berlusconi. The result remains on a knife edge. I make no apology for 
returning to the subject of Berlusconi. He is the most dangerous man in 
Europe and poses a profound threat to democracy in Italy. The attitude 
displayed towards him by western leaders like Blair and Bush - treating 
him as a friend and ally - has been nothing short of disgraceful - the 
word appeasement is buzzing around in my head. While they busily 
denounce "extremists", terrorists and "authoritarianism" around the 
world, they turn a blind eye to the corrosion and degeneration of 
democracy in one of the historic centres of Europe, not to mention one 
of the most important countries in the European Union. Berlusconi 
represents an incipient fascism, a fascism born of the conditions of our 
age rather than the interwar period. I choose my words carefully, 
without hyperbole.
In a country resting on universal suffrage, then the corruption of 
information - through the overwhelming control of the media, especially 
television, both private and state - is a pre-condition for the 
debasement of democracy. This is exactly what Berlusconi has achieved. 
The truth has become fiction, fiction the truth; the two are 
indistinguishable in Berlusconi's Italy. Democracies depend on the 
separation of powers and recognition of and respect for the legitimacy 
of these various independent sources of power. But Berlusconi has sought 
quite deliberately to undermine them. He doesn't just seek to attack 
them; he seeks to undermine and ridicule them. He calls the judges 
communists. This is the typical style of a fascist leader, seeking to 
weaken and undermine those sources of power and legitimacy that lie 
outside his control.
A fortnight ago, I wrote an article making some of these same points. I 
got over 120 emails in response. They made deeply depressing reading, 
not because they were critical of my article. On the contrary, they 
overwhelmingly came from Italians who thanked me for writing the truth, 
who said that it was increasingly hard to say these kind of things in 
Italy, and who displayed a profound pessimism about the future of their 
country. I cannot remember a similar mood of desperation in any major 
European democracy in recent times. And yet we happily seem to turn the 
other cheek, or pretend that Berlusconi is simply a fool, or a knave, or 
another mega-rich man, or one of those slightly bizarre political 
figures that Italian politics seems to specialise in from time to time. 
He might be some of these things as well, though fool he certainly is 
not, but this is to miss the point entirely. Berlusconi threatens the 
edifice of Italian democracy.
Let us hope that he is defeated this weekend, but we should be under no 
illusions that this would bring the matter to a close. Berlusconi has 
done untold damage to Italian democracy since his emergence as a 
political leader in 1994. The weak centre left government that replaced 
him in 1996 failed to provide a serious and viable alternative, while 
also shamefully failing to legislate over Berlusconi's "conflict of 
interests": that he could, at the same time, be both prime minister and 
own virtually all of the private television channels as well as a large 
slice of the print media. As a result, Berlusconi returned to power in 
2001 far stronger than before. Exactly the same could happen again. 
After another period of weak centre left government, Berlusconi could 
return yet again, in an even stronger position. And Italian democracy 
could slowly wither on the vine. Europe, are you listening? Do you care? 
Are you worried? Do you understand the meaning of Berlusconi and what is 
happening in Italy?
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 figures that Italian politics seems to specialise in from time to time.
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> happening in Italy?
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 >> Europe, please, help us! :-(
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BArrYZ

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E' ben per questo che gli fanno la guerra.  Berlusconi ha gli attributi per affrontare i Paesi forti ai quali Frodi ha appecoronato l'Italia in danno delle imprese e di tutti noi cittadini lavoratori italiani.
Con il governo Berlusconi l'Italia comincia a rialzare la testa anche se purtroppo ci � piombata in testa una crisi arrivata a seguito del dissennato repentino spalancamento delle nostre frontiere.
Solo questo governo ha la capacit� di tentare l'affrancamento dell'Italia dalle potenze straniere.
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 Con il governo Berlusconi l'Italia comincia a rialzare la testa 
L'unica cosa che si e' rialzata a me pare sia la pressione fiscale, ai 
massimi storici *proprio* con questo governo che si definisce pure 
liberista (ROTFL e ovviamente disintegrando una per una tutte le 
eccellenti liberalizzazioni fatte da Bersani).
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BArrYZ

On Thu, 28 May 2009 01:00:20 +0200, BArrYZ <Earl...@Altern.org>
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Mi pare un'analisi piuttosto azzecata.

 Mi pare un'analisi piuttosto azzecata.
la mia di sicuro.
E adesso leggiti il FINANCIAL TIMES, cretino.
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E adesso leggiti il FINANCIAL TIMES, cretino.
E cosa mi dici dell'articolo del Financial Time dove c'e' scritto che
l'Italia (il governo Berlusconi) ha ragione a mettere i freni ai
giudici politicizzati?