I chose a strong image to accompany this post, the funeral of Peppino Impastato, for many of us a lasting symbol of resistance to the mafia and testimony for the future. What I want to express in these few lines, so you can read and comment, is the strong sense of duty that wraps me in those days. Let me explain what I mean: they are after all still young, but my memory of guy leads me to remember the disastrous period of the massacres of the mafia, when the dome had decided to respond with the blood to the tough stance of the judiciary in the pool Anti-Mafia in Palermo, thanks to a big job and, unfortunately, lonely, had managed to lock in hundreds of Mafia bosses and laborers across the nation. Lirio Abate's book, "The Accomplices" helped me to connect all those names at that time that I heard on the news, most of the Sometimes not knowing who they were, so I learned to read between the lines of a policy not only of Sicily, which the mafia has forged pacts with blood, has entered into agreements for business-millionaires who have forced men like Pio La Torre to become martyrs, betrayed by their own comrades. And it brings me back to the written word Lirio, when he talks about red cap, adding to the long list of politicians-Democrats and Socialists and UDC forzisti before and after a series of names belonging aeration of the center-left and Ds. The thing in itself did not surprise me, but I was saddened, because it made me understand that before the immense black shadow of the mafia, real men without ideals and end up succumbing to stay game. So it is not only a question of political affiliation, but in the first place I put the fear and the thinness of some men, those men who have not been able to say no, as Peppino Impastato.
So even today as an election policy that involves us in these days, takes a very special taste, because it repeats themes that just a few months ago we have been involved in the support of Rita Borsellino. Here I would open a small way, to witness the disdain with which I saw to vote and elect Totò Cuffaro, the worst thing that could make policy Palermo, friendships clearly linked to mafia man who had the courage today reappear in front of the opinions of voters by sponsoring Lombardo as its logical continuation (inquietante!) and candidates for the top of the list for the UDC room. I wonder how it was possible for us in Sicily, as we stand in front of Rita and Toto, choose the latter, symbols of two opposing cultures that we represent. So my deduction was that the Sicilian deserve Cuffaro, since for them the kind of politics is the best, that way of walking hand in hand with the mafia is the appropriate behavior for those who must govern.
fate (or justice), however, play a game that has rules different from ours and so, less than two years later, we find ourselves making the same choice but with different characters: Lombardo champion of Cuffaro and Finocchiaro supported by Rita Borsellino and spreaders. I should not even continue to write what I tell you, because it seems clean and clear as a mountain spring: there will be a third chance! Free Sicily, laid the foundation for a different policy, which no longer gives the opportunity for our government to use health as a source of income for the Mafia families (160,000 € for an exam when the real cost is 8,000 euro!) , who plays on the skin of the workers who die on construction sites where the arrangements for rigged contracts exclude controls for safety. I hope Sicilians we can have the courage to say NO, to make a different choice, as part of my party says, but beyond the political color we believe, really this time we can not fail to follow the example of heroes like Peppino Impastato that regardless of their safety, have put together this great revolution mafia that still swells our hearts and tells us to choose Anna.
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