G8 letter to Obama on B. "Not in my name"

Dear President Obama, if they had told me twenty years ago that one day I wrote to the President of the United States of America, I would not have thought possible. Now the circumstances require it to me, in the interests of my country, I am honored to represent the European Parliament. All of Italy has seen an embarrassing video of the G8 in Deauville during which our former president of the Council of Ministers has approached to let them know of the "drift" which refers to our "politicized judiciary," the fact that all the judges "left" want to ruin it.

Were it to be ...

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Soon the new pirates of the Mediterranean

While fans (few) to the vicissitudes of the sea look all'ennessimo act of piracy off the Horn of Africa, where the Cargo Rosalia D'Amato of Perseverance Navigation was kidnapped the day before yesterday with 22 crewmen on board a few (much less who is the government) in the Mediterranean sense that they are laying the foundations for a new era of piracy.

Indeed, it already happened for weeks, the first true act of piracy today. Without anyone to call him so. The occupation, the hijacking and the kidnapping last 22 Asso, tug flying the Italian flag and owned by the shipping company Augusta Offshore Naples, released yesterday, was all the effects of a pirate.

Lifetime Achievement Award for Berlusconi?

David Pannick is the lawyer who argued the reasons for the prosecution in dealing with the appeal lodged by the British parliamentarians charged with theft in the scandal of the inflated expense accounts, who claimed their right to immunity, and to be judged by the Chambers of membership and not by an ordinary court.

Since the common crimes claim was rejected because the submission of expense reports by the parliamentary is not an obligation and has no impact on essential functions of Parliament. Politicians have already been tried and sentenced to various prison terms. Meanwhile, in Italy, another prominent politician, indicted in Milan for immediate graft and child prostitution, says his right to be tried by the court of Ministers, thunders against the magistrates and the left calls for a parliamentary committee of inquiry to establish the 'existence of a criminal association for subversive within the judiciary.

Can you imagine B. Old Bailey?

Jim Devine, 57, a former Labour MP, went before a judge yesterday for making false expense claims account for 8,385 pounds (about 10 thousand euro) and has been directly sentenced to 16 months imprisonment. The Old Bailey, as it's called the Criminal Court of London, no joke. There are no discounts to anyone, least of all parliamentarians.

Indeed, the parliamentary pay more, because in addition to the offense committed must also account for the outrage to the good name of the institution. Same Old Bailey, an austere building surmounted by a dome on which stands the statue of Justice with a sword in one hand and the balance on the other, intimidates and inspires respect and Upper Court judges are called again with the old Titles My Lord and My Lady.

The pyramid of power

There is a nice air of P2 in these days, or better, these days you can discover relationships, revival and stays piduista who have worked and worked over the years in track. Suddenly they are more returns out, partly against their will, thanks to an investigation by the prosecutor of Naples, in willingly, openly, with plans to reform the so-called era of justice that Berlusconi announced ...

From New York to Arcore

From time to time in the last few weeks, check the TV, about the Ruby case, the name of the former governor of New York, Spitzer, who resigned in 2008, two days after the New York Times through unnamed sources , had revealed his involvement in an FBI investigation on a prostitution ring. The argument, on talk shows, was immediately dismissed on the grounds that the investigation in question revolves around the possibility that Spitzer had used the funds raised for the campaign or other public funds to pay for prostitutes and to make unnecessary trips to only to facilitate their meetings, or had civil servants involved in illegal activities.

UK: acca 'nisciuno is cleft

Or as the famous Neapolitan concept has been translated by the Supreme Court of London with equal incisiveness, but with more elegance. Last month, the former Labour MP David Chaytor pleaded guilty before the tribunal that would judge, a move dictated by the knowledge that the accusation of fraud in requests for reimbursement of expenses to Parliament could lead to a sentence of up to seven years.

The rule of law in Rome and Kabul

This is a telegraph post inspired by two reports in the media almost simultaneously. The first concerns the reasons for the sentence to 14 years imprisonment imposed at first instance the Carabinieri General Giampaolo Ganzer, commander of the ROS, in relation to some chores unedifying in narcotics operations.

The judges of the Court of Milan wrote that the senior officer "did not scruple to agree with the fact dangerous traffickers to whom he gave Italy the opportunity to sell in tens of kilos of drugs by providing them with absolute impunity. Ganzer has betrayed the state interest and all its duties, including to respect and enforce the law.