Vergognoso articolo contro l'Italia sulla stampa australiana

Vergognoso articolo apparso venerdi 20 novembre 2009 sul “The Australian Financial Review”
L’articolo, a firma Silvia Greco (di origine italiana) contiene volgari accuse e gravi offese al nostro paese nonche' una mappa altamente razzista!
A parte le ormai solite accuse a Silvio Berlusconi, qui si oltrepassano i limiti della decenza. Cosa fanno i nostri eletti all'estero , le nostre rappresentanze diplomatiche, il CGIE, i COMITES e le altre organizzazioni governative o che operano con i finanziamenti dello Stato italiano ?.

La vergognosa mappa (costa nostra) che accompagna l'articolo. (se non e' razzismo questo...)

L'articolo:
I admit. I was naif. When I recently made a visit to my homeland Italy, I expected, to find dissent. What I’d been reading in the Australian, English and French press of Silvio Berlusconi (the first Italian Prime Minister to be affected by a severe case of satyriasis?) was shocking.
His affairs with prostitutes and his alleged habit of rewarding the loveliest with a role in his party or, worse, with a job in the parliaments of Italy and Europe, were humiliating to Italians, surely? (Not to mention Italy’s chronic Mafia and Camorra corruption.) But I was amazed to find how few people were actually protesting. The opposition, the Partito Democratico, has never seriously questioned Berlusconi’s media monopoly, the entrepreneurial activities that made him one of the richest men in the world or his fitness to run a country when chased by magistrates and angry prostitutes. Even the Vatican has been sluggish in reacting to Berlusconi’s alleged criminal or un-Christian actions.
In Italy it’s almost as if the middle classes are not participating in politics any more. Dissent is left to individuals, and takes the form of angry tirades in front of a mid-morning cappuccino, rather than proper political opposition.
Where is all this apathy coming from? Undoubtedly Berlusconi used his television channels to bewilder the country, crushing opposing voices and creating a grotesquely vulgar society full of naked girls and arrogant politicians. Civil society is dormant in Italy; corruption after 20 years of Berlusconi (first as an entrepreneur, then as a politician), has become palpable everywhere.
“All politicians, from all parties, got rich. They got themselves a wage which is three times the European standard”, a professor from Rome points out in despair.
And little real news on Berlusconi makes it into the papers. In Milan I question a journalist, who confides: “It’s the worst I’ve seen. Heads of newsrooms often avoid certain topics, not because they are asked to, but because they think
it’s safer.”
Leonardo Sciascia, the Sicilian writer, once wrote that Italians are “the most docile people on earth”. Docile? Or do they have a penchant for quiet cynicism, especially when money is to be made?
According to police reports organised crime is stronger than ever. Think of the proposed bridge to link Sicily with Calabria. Why unite Italy’s two poorest regions? Because it’ll provide juicy work for the mafia.
Italian police recently tapped the conversation of two camorristi discussing how to get rid of a ship full of toxic waste off the coast of Calabria. “Wait for the right weather conditions and sink it,” said one. “But why here, where we go swimming ourselves?” asked the other. “E chi se ne fotte... (who gives a fuck) with the money we make we can go for a swim in Hawaii.”
This is today’s Italy. Fancy a swim along the Costa Nostra?
Silvia Greco is a freelance journalist

Segnalazione: G.P. a Sydney