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“Salvini is right when he talks about a political act”, Carlo Nordio declared it, in an interview with QN in which he defines the protagonism of those who investigate as "dangerous".. This is how the former deputy prosecutor of Venice commented on the seizure from 49 million euros ordered by the Court of Genoa on the assets of the Northern League after the conviction of Umberto Bossi and the former treasurer Francesco Belsito for electoral reimbursements.
“We need to be careful with measures of this type – he explained – which affect the development of the political dialectic. They should only be adopted if strictly necessary: I don't think they were. Thus there is a risk of altering the democratic game. In this sense, Salvini is right when he talks about a political act". More generally he then stated that "politics must regain confidence in itself if it wants to re-establish primacy over judicial action, otherwise it will remain subordinate to the judiciary, as it happens since 1993, that is, since Mani Pulite broke out”.
Salvini's statements – The seizure of 49 million euros to the League is "madness. Any erroneous use by the treasurer of the old management amounts to just over 300 thousand euros. Jurisprudence in hand, once definitively convicted he had to return those. Da 300mila a 48 million dances a lot...". This is what the secretary of the League had declared earlier that day. “We don't have a penny, We have not received any public funding for two years. If someone made a mistake, go and ask this someone and not us". The League did not become a civil party in the trial of the Court of Genoa against Umberto Bossi and Francesco Belsito which resulted in the seizure of 49 million euros “because we were counting on there being justice in Italy, we considered ourselves the injured party". Read More

Of Uri Avnery
The march of madness
Source: Comedonchisciotte
You can look at the events in Gaza with your left eye or with your right eye. One can condemn them as inhumane, cruel and wrong, or you can justify them as necessary and indispensable. But there is one adjective that cannot be compromised on. They are stupid.
If the good soul Barbara Tuchman were still alive, might be tempted to add another chapter to her seminal text “The March of Madness”: a chapter titled “Blind in Gaza.”
The last episode of this epic began a few months ago, when independent activists from the Gaza Strip had organized, together with Hamas, a march on the border with Israel. It was called “The Great March of Return,” a purely symbolic gesture for the million-plus Arab residents [in the Strip]who had had to flee or had been driven from their homes, from that territory which later became the state of Israel.
The Israeli authorities pretended to take the matter seriously. The Israeli public had been presented with a horrifying picture of the situation: 1,8 millions of Arabs, men, women and children about to throw themselves against the border fences, break them down in many places and lay fire to the cities and villages of Israel. Terrifying. Read More