375. #Italy: Commemoration of an Assassination
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| Aldo Moro Assassinated by The Red Brigades |
I don’t want to open up old
wounds,
which however have never healed and are mostly responsible for the recent
outburst of violence against politicians but it is necessary to remind
ourselves what in effect are the results to the incitation to violence.
Back in the 1970s a wave of
violence provoked by an extreme left group called “The Red Brigades” devastated
the whole of Italy culminating in the kidnapping and eventual execution, by the
said group, of the twice Prime Minister of Italy, the Christian Democrat, Aldo
Moro whose assassination 35 years ago we commemorate on 9th May.
What did those extreme left
groups
fight against three or four decades ago? Drenched in Marxism, they wanted to be
rid of capitalism, democracy and U.S. dominance as they called it. But they
didn’t succeed and most of them ended up dead or behind bars.
This is what incitation to
violence does, provokes and puts into the minds of hot headed youths Utopian visions
that would be accessible if as the leader of the Five Star Movement has
proclaimed to blow up Parliament, politicians who are walking corpses, smash
and break up everything or words to that effect. Only a year or two ago words
of hatred and violence provoked someone throw a sharp object and injuring
Berlusconi’s face. A week or two ago members of the Five Star Movement mingling
with the red Marxist flags bearing the scythe and hammer- symbols of communism-
shouting slogans of violence against those members of the left-wing who had
formed a coalition government and then plunging on the left-wing M.P. Dario
Franceschini in a restaurant, showering
him with insults and death wishes ending up with the shooting in the heart of
Rome while members of the new coalition government were being sworn into
office.
Fortunately, violence as the past has
witnessed, has never paid off but the price paid has been high on all sides.
By the way is it just a
coincidence that the symbol of the Red Brigades was a five point star and the
Five Star Movement came up with the name for their group just by chance?
