I get very annoyed at times with politicians, but then I realise that things can be a lot worse without having to go very far.
“Early yesterday afternoon, in the big lecture theatre of the Università Bicocca, in Milan, I put a few questions to the life senator Giulio Andreotti, about the strange absolution that he got on the grounds of “prescription” {timed out} for the crime of associating to commit a crime, that the judges at least until 1980, considered to be “concretely reviewable”. Because I dared to do this, I was identified and threatened by police officers and kept at the Police Station for almost 2 hours. And I was lucky it was just that.
What I find really dangerous is not only the threats and intimidations but also the fact that the main media in Italy does not cover this type of news. When the elderly guy was thrown out of the Labour conference for protesting the media in this country reported the story and you could also watch the video on the BBC website.
Politicians might be the same (more or less) all over the world but what makes the difference is whether the media is always on their side or not. And why.
