2011: Italy – Just Like North Africa?

If on the other side of the Mediterranean there are leaders who appoint their sons and grandsons as their successors and enrich their friends and supporters, in Italy things are not much different. Here, on our side of the sea, powerful multinationals succeed in getting elected officials to pass laws made to measure for them; they are “exonerated” from paying taxes and they don’t give a damn about court sentences, whether they are Italian or European.

But in spite of everything, we can be optimistic, because the “African surge of democracy”, useful only to those who want to put their hands on their oil, will sooner or later arrive here in our country too, and it will sweep away these residues of the Middle Ages.

“Free (Legal) Theft”

Today Philip Morris is earning 495% on a pack of Marlboros, British American Tobacco makes a 380% profit on MSs and Japan Tobacco takes in 415% on its Camels. These are “Italian style” profits, that is, they would be unthinkable in other countries. And they are all tax-free; in fact, in Italy, Big Tobacco, different from common citizens, does not even make out a tax declaration after taking home profits worth over 2 billion euro.

With a political class skillfully selected by strong world powers, made up of boot-licking, servile individuals, the tobacco multinationals have never found themselves in really conflictual situations and they have never had to account to anyone for their operations. In fact, from the rightwing to the left, today in Italy, all the politicians cooperate in their willingness to serve the foreigner of the moment.

Big Tobacco reigns undisturbed in this banana republic. Marchionne, the CEO of the Fiat Group, is the number two worldwide of Philip Morris, the greatest crook in the history of Italy. And the thieves will decide also on the future of Fiat.

The Next Challenge

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How can a democratic country tolerate that there are those who steal in broad daylight and profit from the exemption from having to pay taxes; there seems to be no political force that has the courage to say anything and no news source does its job to inform? If conditions in North Africa before the so called “surge of freedom” were appalling, today’s situation in Italy is no better!

In this context, the vital forces of our country will be forced to replace today’s passive, servile officials, and give life to a sacrosanct and memorable battle against the State itself - which the mass media will not be able to ignore - so that Italy and all Italians can benefit from their proper fiscal revenues.

Philip Morris, BAT and Japan Tobacco, too, will have to pay taxes - at any cost.

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