Mafia and immigration
(… I receive and publish from one of our administrators. I think he captures an important point, then you'll see …)
Hello, Alberto. We are now all back to work at full capacity and you, above all, will have a lot to do… Today I bring you a reflection on the topic of migration. Very rightly, we local administrators in the South are under pressure not to lower our guard when it comes to fighting the mafia, sometimes with paradoxical effects, but always with good intentions. In the meantime, however, I believe that no historical mafia has caused a number of deaths comparable, in relation to time, to what the criminal organizations that manage the flow of illegal immigrants who practically throw people into the sea are doing, worse than the Argentine dictatorship. However, the concern of the peripheral articulations of the state continues to be that of enabling this perverse system to continue to function. The prefects publicly boast about how good they are at dealing with migrants (I heard a couple of them with my own ears), the police spend their days in the ports and the fight against other criminal phenomena languishes on multiple fronts. Everyone continues to talk about it as if it were a natural phenomenon and not a social and therefore political one. Imagine if we started talking about the mafia in this way again, saying things like: "but it is an anthropological issue linked to the presence of the genes of Neanderthal man", "but it is linked to the laziness of southern man caused by high temperatures" , "they commit crime to escape poverty caused by natural disasters" etc… Obviously Don Ciotti would rise up with good reason and in this he would be followed by all of us. Imagine then if prefects and police took action not to repress the extortionists, but to find resources to be allocated to the victims so that they continue to pay the extortionists to avoid dangers to their safety, perhaps even boasting about it… Messina Denaro is dying in L'Aquila, serving rightly his sentence, after years of hiding, the lords of death who organize the trafficking of human beings on the African coasts and perhaps also on the Italian ones and perhaps also in Malta, Berlin and London, continue to enjoy the fruit of their crimes: he will come also their turn to be brought to fair justice? If there isn't a strong awareness, I don't think so.
(… it is never a sign of intelligence to interpret political phenomena, the result of choices, as natural phenomena, as objective tendencies, devoid of alternatives. It is never a sign of intellectual honesty to present political phenomena as natural phenomena. Whether it is the immigration, AI, globalisation, those who say that there are no alternatives simply want to preclude us from alternatives, they want to limit our freedom. In the buildings that matter there is not much turning around: those who have many decisions to make tend to take for granted what it's obvious. I still remember the speech that a very high-ranking official made to me a couple of years ago: she couldn't stand the sloppy and superficial way in which the PD managed European dossiers any longer: "but if the centre-right comes to government, they'll leave again with the boats! "It's not conspiracy theory, it's science (which arrived in Italy thanks to us). So what's happening is clear. Even Bruno Vespa had to basically frame it with the Greenhill categories. Of course, they are missing the last mile: if the European elections didn't take place, the socialists wouldn't need to campaign with boats. Honestly, between the socialists and the EU I have pretty clear ideas about who is less useful: the problem is certainly not the coexistence of different visions of the world: the problem is forcing them to confront each other in a sick and distorted system, rotten to the core , inefficient due to elephantiasis and intrinsically alien to democracy. This is indeed a big problem, so much so that if on the one hand I am obviously convinced that we must do our utmost to change the front in the EU – last time nine grillini prevented it – on the other I am well aware that this is only a necessary defensive measure, but it cannot be a decisive measure. However – and here I return to the deeper meaning of our friend's contribution – before we can think about setting up a solution to the problem, a profound cultural revolution is necessary that makes us masters of the discussion. As long as the words are those of others, the world can only be what they want for their sordid purposes. This is what you need to look at to understand whether we are progressing or not. And we're progressing a little… )
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2023/09/mafia-e-immigrazione.html on Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:11:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.