The right that runs away from the crackdown on freedom of expression
More than the noise of the handcuffs waved with joyful digital transport by the usual Soviet red-colored justicialists, to leave their mark, after the ROS operation which saw eleven people under investigation for insult to the President of the Republic, is the usual, icy silence of the area referable, generically, to the center-right, in its various shades liberal, sovereign, patriotic and so on.
Yet Professor Marco Gervasoni, whatever one can think of both in ideological terms and in the more prosaic ones of social behavior, is certainly not a neo-Nazi subversive, but a historian with a solid editorial and academic background and, above all, for the purposes which are of interest here, from collaborations with foundations, associations and parties in the center-right area.
It almost makes you smile today, in light of the reconstructions offered by the mass media that portray him as a sort of Mussolini's troll , to re-read his article which appeared in August 2020 on Formiche.net , in which he advised Meloni not to take an excessively moderate position but not too radical: an article in which, in a clear and unambiguous way, the accounts were settled with the nostalgism of a black shirt, residual in some fractions of FdI which, however, Gervasoni dismissed as having no specific weight in the overall design of the party of Meloni, which should instead have aspired to a sovereign and conservative breath, without falling into biased extremism.
Not exactly the reasoning of an alleged supremacist ideologue. Then, for heaven's sake, someone may say that for years he hid in public, while in the bluish secret of social networks he gathered the digital crowds to offend the President of the Republic, on the other hand it was understood that for the Communists now everything is valid, however Dadaist may be a reconstruction.
However, given these premises, with the exception of a largely generic post that appeared on Giorgia Meloni's social profiles, regarding the police operation and its conceptual implications, first of all the crackdown against freedom of expression, however much it may be corrosive, poisonous or even frankly obscene, the Italian right has practiced the noble art in which it has always seemed more and more knowledgeable: running away.
The strategy of the ostrich, with its head forced into the sand, while everything around the world is on fire, society goes back or forth depending on the point of view, the communists are becoming more and more bold and arrogant, is a classic which never fails to amaze, negatively, for its intrinsic masochism.
On the other hand, since we are talking about masochism, von Masoch in “The Venus in Fur” wrote that whoever lets himself be whipped deserves to be whipped. And so, despite the country for months now being started and screwed into the heart of one of the most serious institutional crises involving the judiciary, despite the Palamara 'system', despite the fact that the Council of State has resoundingly and fully disavowed the appointment of the current chief prosecutor of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office decreed at the time by the CSM, and despite the scandal of the minutes filtered out of the CSM in the direction of newspapers, no politician, intellectual, philosopher referable to the center-right has tried to criticize the magistracy and to underline the intrinsic gravity of an operation that involved the special departments, complete with a morning blitz and house searches, to the detriment of a university professor who also has no episodic relations with that center-right.
Almost no one has raised the danger of ideological disputes based on the slippery basis of a criminal case of the ancien regime .
Almost no one has pointed out how very often a part of the prosecuting judiciary cultivates non-episodic relations with the world of the left and with a part of the press, despite the events described above would reconcile a serious reflection on the objective politicization of fragments of the judiciary and the pursuit of non-profit ends. always properly noble.
It seems to me that there is enough meat on the fire, between scandals and the very often creative exercise of criminal prosecution, to solicit a massive mobilization in favor of a referendum motion that puts the real remedies into a system and rationalizes some of the distortions we are experiencing, proposing the overcoming, resorting to the separation of careers between judging magistrates and prosecutors, empowerment, overcoming the compulsory prosecution, radical reform of the Superior Council of the Judiciary and fighting the leaks that very often crucify the suspects even before any investigation.
In fact, the press, in outlining Gervasoni's political identikit, brought him closer, indeed made him almost organic, indulging in a Lombrosian-like complacency, in an unspecified supremacist world: but if one goes to retrace the publications, the collaborations, the professor's participation in conferences, it will be noted how they are registered in the world of an institutional right, very often with broad parliamentary representation and of a cultural world between sovereignty and conservatism.
No conspiracies, no dark world of neo-Nazism, no picturesque and runic rallies among gleaming torches, but only meetings and conferences of a still respectable right, even though I know perfectly well that for the communists no right is ever really respectable.
Gervasoni has been a speaker and participant in meetings such as the National Conservatism Conference , in Rome, together with American, Israeli, Italian speakers, none of whom belong to the self-styled 'suprematism', whatever the term means; spoke at the conference for the presentation of a book on sovereignty, in November 2019, together with Professor Ginevra Cerrina Feroni, currently vice president of the Privacy Guarantor and that no one in their right mind could suspect alleged sympathies for suprematism.
The only newspapers and authors who have defended Gervasoni, or rather have taken the real issue head on, namely the crackdown on freedom of expression and the age of the contested crime with respect to our legal system and society in 2021, were Libero and La Verità , Feltri, Capezzone, the signatures of this site, Atlantico Quotidiano . Then there were interventions by Becchi and Palma, on Nicola Porro's site. Almost all of them are more linked to the liberal world than to the right. That's all.
But in general, there was a scattered order that lost, as usual, several exponents of politics and culture who perhaps out of personal antipathy towards the suspect, perhaps for fear of 'getting dirty', or for other reasons of which I care very little about, they have disappeared at the speed of light, perhaps after a life spent complaining about the unfair ostracism towards them.
And sincerely, I repeat once again, it is possible to contest the permanence in our legal system of a certain type of crime and defend freedom of expression even if we are of little interest to the suspect on duty. Also because, I am quite sure, many of the forgetful and silent today are the same ones who tear their clothes for the liberticide drift implied by the Zan bill.
Silence even now that the minister of the university intervenes in the affair asking the University of Molise, where Gervasoni teaches, a disciplinary investigation.
All while Matteo Salvini is covered with insults from pro-Palestinian ultras, seasoned with virulent threats and insults to the mother of the leader of the League, while the communists continue to ask to reflect on the 'civil war' of the seventies and on their comrades who 'they were wrong', asking for amnesties, forgiveness, drafting petitions, and the right, as usual, shattered into a thousand pieces, between swirls of smoke and monastic silence.
The paradox, atrocious and grotesque at the same time, is that in this country the Communists have defended their own for a sense of identity belonging to the limits of the tribal, they have defended regardless of the reasons or objective wrongs, going beyond the gravity of the accusations, and they have put in the same cauldron of passionate, total defense ex terrorists, persecuted intellectuals, murderers, people who have set fires, have legs, praised acts of violence and illegality, then welcomed with paternal transport the return home of the 'revolutionaries'.
They made a square, closing themselves up like a hedgehog, without wanting to hear accusations and truth, they defended a priori. On the right, on the contrary, exemplary penalties were asked, the 'reprobates' who were clearly innocent were isolated, or, as in the present case, a rigorous and thunderous silence was maintained despite criminal disputes involving the mere exercise of the word and of the intellect, certainly not of violence. A silence full of fearful ineptitude.
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