The basics, and the cagnara project.
The story of the Italian general who writes a book that could be titled "Viva la Figa, and other writings that I read in the toilets of the high school" is holding court, even if in reality it is a simple story. The simplicity of the story would be evident if we started from the basics, which in turn would be simple if someone knew the basics.
Let's start with a simple concept. ANY soldier, to wear a uniform with the two stars (uniforms without stars DO NOT identify, in Italy, soldiers – with all due respect to the traffic policemen and security guards) has sworn in. What exactly did every Italian soldier swore?
Every Italian soldier has sworn to defend the Italian constitution and the free democratic institutions that derive from it.
The formula is not exactly this, but you can find it here:
So, if you write a book where you deny, one by one, the main values of the Constitution, the principles of equality which underlie a Republic and the functioning of free institutions (for which all citizens are equal), you have evidently denied your oath.
And as such, you shouldn't be wearing that uniform.
Is simple. It is sufficient to consider the basics, or "how to become a soldier", and everything is clear. If you renege on that oath, you're obviously going to be discharged.
The Cagnara Project, made up of ignorant journalists and equally ignorant readers, ignorant politicians and ignorant intellectuals, is creating a useless debate, the sole purpose of which is to fill the pages of the newspapers and make the simple basics disappear under the Cagnara .
Let's move on to another example: Meloni paying the bill for a group of Italians who fled an Albanian restaurant.
In practice, by paying the bill from her personal budget at the Embassy, Meloni has literally transformed the criminals into official agents of the Italian government.
In fact, it is not clear why the Italian government is ever liable for this crime. Do they intend to compensate the victims of every crime committed by Italians abroad? Mafia, extortion, rape, all of that? Aside from the sum, this is NEVER done by ANY government, for one simple reason: when an Italian commits a crime abroad, the Italian government says "he certainly did not commit it in my name, and for this he will pay ' the price to pay according to local law”.
Compensating the victim of a crime can be done, and is sometimes done, in a wholly symbolic way, outside the ongoing process, to demonstrate the government's opposition to similar acts: but to do this it is necessary that the payment of damages does NOT extinguish the criminal proceeding, so that yes, the criminal will be punished according to local laws, and in addition the government shows its opposition by compensating the victims. Usually, AFTER their conviction, to make it clear that the thing is NOT meant to replace local justice, interfere or anything.
The only exceptions are those countries where the death penalty, or penalties contrary to the Italian legal system, are in force. But for very different reasons.
But if the Italian government settles the bill of those guys, the club withdraws the complaint, we are saying that representatives of the Italian government went to the restaurant, fled without paying, and then the government hastened to pay its debt.
Apparently, Meloni does not know the difference between state, government and nation.
That is, he does not know that the mere nationality of those offenders does not make the state responsible for their actions (it is not sufficient), and that in any case it is not a problem of the government, which is only the executive power, and does not inherit such responsibilities.
In the mind of the fascist, that is, nations are generic hives where everyone organically represents everything, starting from the queen to the honey bees, all are equal and equally responsible and especially, ethnically responsible for everything each member of the hive does.
The Cagnara Project, made up of ignorant journalists and equally ignorant readers, ignorant politicians and ignorant intellectuals, is creating a useless debate, the sole purpose of which is to fill the pages of the newspapers and make the simple basics disappear under the Cagnara .
Last point: the extra profits of the banks. Now, on the moral level, the problem exists: during a period of crisis, banks (but also many other industries, including large-scale and small distribution) have accumulated extra profits on the pockets of the victims of inflation.
If we stopped there, and had to decide on a way to balance it, we could choose everything, but not a tax. Unless we decide that the tax is permanent, ie making a law that is general and abstract: "if they make extra profits by taking advantage of a crisis, then tax X is triggered". Well.
The trouble is that the concept of "abstract and general" (two qualities of the law that were not too popular in the fascist period, to circumvent which special courts were created), is not very clear to Meloni.
Indeed, to be honest, the concept of "tax" is not even too clear, in the sense that the tax is not a punishment. It is certainly imposed, something that is imposed, but it is not a punishment. To say that taxes are punishments would be to say that taxpayers are punished: what exactly have they done wrong?
The truth is that everything would be solved if the one made to the banks was not a tax, but a FINE.
So, if we notice that an immoral, unbecoming, repugnant or other behavior is applied by the banks (and I could agree with this), what we do is FINE them. If the levy imposed on the banks for their repugnant behavior had been a FINE, and not a TAX, in fact:
- The EU could do NOTHING about it. You have been fined, pay the fine.
- The exemplary and political intent would correspond to the actions: you behave badly towards the population, the state punishes you.
- We would respect the sacrosanct difference between two radically different things: a fine and a tax.
In behaving in this way towards the banks, the government simply shows that it ignores one basis, namely the difference between "tax" and "penalty". If it's a punishment following execrable behavior, then it's a FINE. If it is always and in any case due, with the same tax conditions, it is a TAX.
The Cagnara Project, made up of ignorant journalists and equally ignorant readers, ignorant politicians and ignorant intellectuals, is creating a useless debate, the sole purpose of which is to fill the pages of the newspapers and make the simple basics disappear under the Cagnara .
Why am I saying this? Because at least some of you, now, will know what to answer to those who say that "Meloni is competent".
No, I'm sorry, the girl hasn't studied, has walked out of any school unscathed, has no idea what she's doing, ignores the basics, and is appearing completely incompetent.
And if the newspapers, owned by industrialists and financiers, didn't prefer it to the government to stop income claims, they wouldn't have mobilized the Cagnara Project to hide the shortcomings of one that, in my high school days, would have been deferred to Civic Education.