Sunday, July 27, 2008

Traxxas Rustler Is Brushless How Fast?

A journalist tells ... Roma Press

Luca Trinchieri (from Liberation, July 7, 2008)

Rome - There is also television, to tell how the Roman youth having fun in Trastevere on Friday evening. hallucinogens of . The streets around Piazza Trilussa crowded with people. Five or six stalls of street vendors. A boy has just got a pair of earrings to his girlfriend. The sirens of police capture everyone by surprise.
is not a simple check: three cars and a truck that has all the empty feeling of having to be filled . is the first operation against street vendors after the entry into force of Decree security, widening the powers to the mayors in the area of \u200b\u200bpublic policy. I stop to observe, as many others. It is curious, my. It is an instinct of self-control. The cops begin to

sbaraccare banquets. Via the market, collected in the summary sheets on which it was prepared. An agent takes an Indian close to the arm, and leaked all over his face, fear, resignation, except the instinct to flee. It's dumb. A big woman Africa, Togo, is much more talkative. If you take it when the agent collects violently flaps of the cloth that had supported the earrings and necklaces that sold. "Let me put in the bag, at least!" says the agent. "Do not run away, do not worry, here is my residence."
"But why all this? - He says - I was not doing anything wrong. " Agent runs a smile, maybe a little 'bitter' is my job. " Then the woman insisted: "I know the new law. Now I do 5,000 euro fine. But why not give us a way to do this job properly? "No answer from the agent, who goes away and gives way to a colleague, much less accommodating. "And come on, come on!" He says without a hint to help her carry her things. She, with the same smile on his face, closes the suitcase and orange hands are saying "where we go, here?" mask with pride the fear that deep down the growing. It keeps the irony, however, when I approach and ask where it came from. "From Naples, Naples beautiful, right?", And meanwhile, as I reveal its true origins in Africa, takes off her earrings: "I do not need more jewelry this tonight."

Two meters away two boys Italians with their feast in every way equal. sbaraccare should too, but the agents use more polite manners . Do not hold them by the arms, did not gather the goods. She gathers the few things they had for sale. He is shocked, terrified, and began to talk nervously: "I swear, is the first time I come, let me go." "If we take them we have to take you too," answers an agent. But in the end will not. The guy is desperate, "are in Rome, I can not believe I treated the same way as those there," . Obviously it is a persuasive speech. He approached a man in civilian clothes who is there to manage the entire operation. "Dottie, Captain, Marshal, I swear that I will not ever ...». It breaks out, looks like a child just put in a punishment by her mother. The man in civilian clothes shows adamant, but it soon becomes clear that only wants to teach him a lesson, and others just stopped - 7 people all foreign - are no longer in sight, let him go .

After completing this operation going to the bourgeois gentleman, I present to you, "I am a journalist and I witnessed the scene. Why have you stopped only foreigners? "I ask. The answer is revealing. "Take him away, identificatelo, and controlled - adds looking into my eyes - because he has breath that smells like beer." Already, the beer I was drinking before, and I choked with everything that happened. Fortunately it is not yet offense, though. I bring two to the duchy where foreigners gathered, holding his hands tight on the arms. It had never happened before, and it is a feeling really unpleasant.
"This is the list of those arrested yet," says the man to my right, also in plain clothes to a colleague. Behind the truck, hands out of pockets, mobile phone seized. "Why have you stopped only foreigners?". The man with the pink polo, what held me right, he says, though - he says - would not be required, "because these are all illegal." Bullshit, I saw with my own eyes the Togolese woman give their permits to the police before. But I did not expect a truthful answer. "Of course you did not own nothing better to do," he says with a contempt of the agents. "I had a question, I an answer. " The man in pink, that is my identity card and is chanting my name on the radio turns to me, "Have you finished talking?" Cries.
Apparently also answer questions is a serious mistake, and indeed third policeman, sheltered until just before you address me by saying 'look at that to do so only your situation worse. " I demand to know their names and grades, as I had already done with the man in civilian clothes at first, convinced that by law it is their duty to identify themselves. Another policeman - but how many I have around four or five? - Give me his version of the law. "You see what the difference is that I can ask you your name and you can not ask me anything, it's me who's boss. " A colleague adds: "Of course, if you want to write is different, but you do not recommend it, it would be quite uncomfortable."
The threat was missing, in fact. Stops question the man in pink. 'Luke,' and with the hand motions me to come to him. "You want to go?" I want an answer to my question, "I insist. "You do not understand - you said - you want to call it a story or not?". "I'm not stupid, I know what you are telling me, but I want my answer." Takes me away from the van, the streets Trilussa. Before me, the man who commanded the operation, the stinking breath. I wonder if you go back to him, but I realize that in the game of confrontation, his is much harder.

still waiting in the square, observing the work completed, up instantly where immigrants are loaded on the truck traffic that is mixed with the Tiber. There is nothing else to do tonight, if not tell what I've seen around. This sad result, this winter the Italian advance. Today begins the summer. Hurrah

Monday, July 7, 2008

Birthday Cake For Gay Man



began with an unexpected ethnic census, in the middle of the summer of seventy years ago, the shameful history of the Italian racial laws. The prefectures had issued a circular on 11 August 1938 providing an "accurate survey of the Jews residing in the provinces of the kingdom" to be performed "with speed, precision and maximum restraint."
The filing was completed in about ten days, 47,825 Jews registered in the territory of the kingdom, including 8,713 foreigners (in respect of which was immediately decreed the expulsion).
In fact it was already known to interior ministry figures. "The census was then intended to submit that to know more, more to demonstrate that to evaluate," writes the historic French Marie-Anne-Matard Bonucci in "Fascist Italy and the persecution of the Jews" (the mill). Of course, in the face of protests from citizens unfortunate facts of that profiling ethnicity was told that it had no persecutory nature, indeed, would have served to protect them.

in very different historical, political and social today, back to this topic mocking and hairy: the collection of fingerprints of Roma children? But it is a measure prepared in their own interest against the scourge of child exploitation!
This is a rhetorical artifice used several times in history by advocates of discriminatory measures, "We do it for their own good". To support the collection of fingerprints are the same people who praise the evacuation of the barracks where they also leave in the middle of the street children and pregnant women. But who cares if the people are with us?

I know that proposing an analogy between Italy 1938 and Italy 2008 is not only difficult, but clashes with the sensibilities of most. The experience urges to distinguish between innocence and guilt of the Jews of the Roma. The proportion of deviance found among gypsies is not comparable to the lifestyle of the citizens of Israel, seventy years ago. Yet
should be familiar to our contemporary ears certain subjects then devised by the racist propaganda about the "tendencies of the Jewish character." We list the book as reported previously mentioned: nomadism and "revulsion congenital idea of \u200b\u200bthe state" ruthlessness and greed; exaggerated intellectualism; great ability to adapt to mimicry; sensuality and immorality; tragic conception of life and therefore revolutionary aspirations, distrust, victimization, polemics and so on.
it happens, was always the first to nomadism. Followed by that Gianfranco Fini, in a fit Lombroso, has condemned as "non-integrability" of "certain ethnic groups;-prone by nature? for culture? for business? - the rat children. Which requires us to recall once again that the past two decades has never been shown the kidnapping of a child by gypsies .
public opinion stirred up fear in the Roma as the Camorra, is so desensitized in the face of oppression and injustice when they came upon a minority which recorded above average rates of deviance. This is the custom to regard the gypsies together as a people criminal, as well as to justify the appointment of "Commissioners for emergency nomads" in charge of the new ethnic census. As a journalist Magdi Allam has come to show surprise at the ease with which it was granted an Italian passport to seventy thousand Roma. Ignoring that this is perhaps the resident communities in the peninsula for more than five hundred years: not enough to grant them citizenship? Yet Christians are like him ...

the ethnic census of 1938, "for more to submit that to know, more to demonstrate that to assess, "reminds us that Marie-Anne-Matard Bonucci, in what is not very different from the census of unspecified" camps "in 2008. In private conversations they confide the same prefectural officials in charge of run: almost everywhere the necessary profiling had already been made long ago.
The ongoing initiative therefore has a demonstration. And the law-enforcement officials shall, without haste, disobeying as possible to request to take fingerprints to minors are not punishable, hoping to spread out the measures that are supposed to immediately achieve: total evacuation illegal camps and those authorized but non-standard, immediate deportation of non-nomadic, and after a stay of three months, even nomadic community, the Italian gypsies, they will be granted the use of picnic areas for short periods after of which will go (or not nomadic? So roam from one field to another, the public housing do not want to give them to him none).

This election promises to be their implications for a quantum leap difficult organizational and political development. Where to send slum dwellers Italian-very few of them "in order" - if they were really all dismantled in a few months? Who preaches hypocritically scandal may also lead to the fact that many poor people, not all Roma, not all foreigners living among the rats and garbage. But he knows very well to allude to an "elimination of the problem" than in other historical periods has resulted in the deportation and extermination.

offensive insinuation, my? I admit. No Italian political leader is said to favor the "final solution". But the governmental exception to the principle of universal citizenship rights, supported by papers that exhibit a language worthy of "The Defense of the race, opening a gap all'inciviltà future.
In recent years, unfortunately it was easy to drift advocate racist act. For this would be shortsighted illusion to postpone the complaint, perhaps waiting for a calming of the alarmism is resized and the scourge of petty crime. The minority cross, right and left, which now feels a growing unease, can and should play a valuable containment.

Social workers tell us that would be wrong to show indulgence towards lawlessness and brutal behavior against women and children, common in the Roma community. But equally dangerous would show leniency with regard to the codification of rules blatantly discriminatory that encourage hatred and war among the poor.
You can not add abuse to abuse in the face of mistreatment by Roma children. When the children of poor Italians were sold to make the beggars in the streets of London, the exile Giuseppe Mazzini devoted himself to their education, not to collect their fingerprints.
The hypocrisy of cards "for their own good" only serves to claim as a systematic practice, and not exceptional, the withdrawal of parental authority. After the prints, the next step is symbolic of the "hard line". Because the Roma are not like us, the only way to save their children and take them away: so he thinks the country that clears the 'integration' feel-good as a utopia.

About the increasingly widespread use of the derogatory word "doing good", that finally pena di evocare un'altra reminescenza dell'estate 1938. Chi ebbe il coraggio di criticare le leggi razziali fu allora tacciato di "pietismo". Con questa accusa furono espulsi circa mille tesserati dal Partito nazionale fascista. E allora viva il buonismo, viva il pietismo.