Long live the streets! Down with the boats! Indeed, at the bottom. It is a myopic squint, that of Europe, not only in Italy, compared to the first event in North Africa and the Middle East, then the revolt of the squares and time to escape from the poverty of thousands of them. For decades, honor and respect to the Pharaoh and the other satraps, which guarantees the stability of the region and had the cap on the entire, albeit at the cost of the oppression of their people.
Then, suddenly, almost (for a day or two we've thought up), long live the streets of Tunis and Cairo, and maybe those of Algiers on Sunday, Benghazi tomorrow, Yemen, Bahrain, Iran obviously that cry the desire for freedom (and bread) and order without violence by the end of the schemes.
But as the heroes of the streets, even if we do not know well or who they are or what they think, and fell on the beaches looking for a job, that's - word of the Interior Minister Maroni - become potential terrorists who must be stopped before leaving and sent back. And the Minister Frattini fears "a huge influx on European shores." Now, one of two things: either the insurgents are the ones on the boats of the squares (and then we just assured them support and we welcome them, if not with open arms, at least in a non-hostile), or those on the boats are the Praetorian Guard regimes killed, fleeing not from hunger but from fear of retaliation (and then we should remember that only yesterday were our agents in North Africa, repressors also for others, ie ourselves).
A little 'consistency, if not humanity. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of the European Green, told the European Parliament: "It's less awkward than the sudden awakening of the European capitals that they find out that Mubarak was a dictator." It raises the idea of an agency to assess compliance with human rights: a Standard & Poor buds of democracy that tyrants (and their friends).
, February 16, 2011 
Then, suddenly, almost (for a day or two we've thought up), long live the streets of Tunis and Cairo, and maybe those of Algiers on Sunday, Benghazi tomorrow, Yemen, Bahrain, Iran obviously that cry the desire for freedom (and bread) and order without violence by the end of the schemes.
But as the heroes of the streets, even if we do not know well or who they are or what they think, and fell on the beaches looking for a job, that's - word of the Interior Minister Maroni - become potential terrorists who must be stopped before leaving and sent back. And the Minister Frattini fears "a huge influx on European shores." Now, one of two things: either the insurgents are the ones on the boats of the squares (and then we just assured them support and we welcome them, if not with open arms, at least in a non-hostile), or those on the boats are the Praetorian Guard regimes killed, fleeing not from hunger but from fear of retaliation (and then we should remember that only yesterday were our agents in North Africa, repressors also for others, ie ourselves).
A little 'consistency, if not humanity. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of the European Green, told the European Parliament: "It's less awkward than the sudden awakening of the European capitals that they find out that Mubarak was a dictator." It raises the idea of an agency to assess compliance with human rights: a Standard & Poor buds of democracy that tyrants (and their friends).
, February 16, 2011
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