178. L’Aquila: Houses Inaugurated

Guido Bertolaso welcomes the children

Where there are houses, there are schools. In this school we see Guido Bertolaso, in charge of the construction here in L’Aquila, welcome the children in their new school. Yes, because this nursery school has been constructed from a plan which was a part of a degree thesis of Giulia Carnevale whose body was found under the debris.

University student Giulia Carnevale Drawing of her plan of

the nursery school dedicated to her memory

The emotion was palpable for about 2,500 people at Onna, the city most damaged, when they were handed over the keys to their new homes, built 5 months after the earthquake. Quite a record for Italy given that times of restoration in the past ran for decades of years, and further south you went, further did time lengthen. Then they say- some UK press pick up thine ears- that all Berlusconi does is give parties in Villa Certosa. He is the only Italian Prime Minister who has worked for Italy as if this was his only vocation- all the other PMs except for a rare occasion, were only politicians.

The Prime Minister hands over the keys to a family

The emotion of holding the keys to a house

Even the Church agrees with this point of view of mine, except for the President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), Cardinal Bagnasco who continues, even just two days ago, to say that the Church will not be intimidated (by Berlusconi, of course, who else?) But of which intimidation is he referring to? Not even if it were true that Berlusconi was God almighty!

From the debris to...

The village which was built with the funds collected by the Red Cross and the Trento Region

Moving and even washing up

The President of CEI was referring to the Boffo case. But it’s not Berlusconi’s fault if someone in the CEI gets caught washing their dirty laundry, and even less can it be described as an “attack”. If what one does or has done is unfolded, it’s no one’s fault, apart from the person involved who should not have done what one had done, or at least not get caught out. But certainly you can’t blame Berlusconi for this, after all, what has Berlusconi got to do with it? Where is the alleged intimidation? Rather, one has to consider, it is not very loyal of the CEI to deliberately hide information from the faithful and consider, as the President of the CEI has repeatedly said, that he (and Boffo) were only doing their duty, which obviously the former deems this duty to be as that of disgracing the Prime Minister of his own country. Given the Cardinal continues to bring up the issue that he is only doing his duty, let’s talk about the duty of the press. Is it not the duty of the press to give information based on facts and not to hide or invent reality? In all this, it seems to me that L’Avvenire, (the CEI’s paper) has only regurgitated gossip on Berlusconi passing them off as true and Feltri (the right wing paper) has done nothing more than inform us of things that had been withheld from our knowledge that involved the editor of the CEI’s paper. Where is the intimidation in all this? Only if Feltri had written something that was a lie then I could understand why the President of the CEI should complain, otherwise, it just doesn’t make sense as to notify the people of such events was indeed, Feltri’s duty.

A woman reads a note of welcome from Silvio Berlusconi.

There were groceries andeven a bottle of bubbly

Also pans, sheets, blankets

Dear Cardinal, put you mind at peace, go and join the UDC (allegedly centre Christian Party), or even better, since you so greatly desire it, unite yourself to those who are sabotaging this government so as to make it fall, not withstanding that it has been legitimized by the free vote of the Italian people. Indeed, go and join those politicians who only want to be politicians, that is parasites of the Italian state and let Berlusconi, as the Archbishop of L’Aquila, Mons. Molinari has said “I wish you (President Berlusconi) to continue to do good, not only to our land, so devastated, so tested, but also to the rest of our beautiful, beloved, nation, Italy.”

The houses

were furnished- even with a television (of course!)

The Archbishop of L’Aquila has worked side by side with the Prime Minister and therefore knows him well, knows how Berlusconi was ever present in L’Aquila and how much the Premier wanted and wants that the people were, are given back, at least in part, that which was taken away. Hence, I am more likely to believe this version that the Church presents of Berlusconi rather than the one which wants to throw muck at him, without in the least considering that in doing so, they are throwing muck on their own nation, Italy.

If anyone has to worry about intimidation is this bishop, from his own superior, the Cardinal.

Mons. Giuseppe Molinari, archbishop of L’Aquila with Giulia’s Mother

As Mons. Molinari has said: “The gospel condemns those who spread gossip and have no good deeds to show. The same gospel praises those whom substitute gossip with good deeds.”

And in whom apart from Silvio Berlusconi is this more true?

Meanwhile, today the President of the Senate Renato Schifani has inaugurated more homes in the absence of the Prime Minister who is in the United States.

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