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The faith in man, between enlightenment and Republic day

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Every phenomenon or fact has its own beginning, in recent times and easy to locate, remote and sometimes for this difficult to trace or to remember. If today, 2 June 2016, We are celebrating the Republic day a beginning we must trace. It was a Republic, our, founded on the blood of a civil war in the mid-20th century has disrupted our country leaving him poor, destroyed and reduced to fame. It was thanks to the merit of men who, by rolling up your sleeves, together they have decided to rebuild a country, brick by brick, House after House, hope after hope. Within a few years, the Italy has been able to give himself a Republican form, a Constitution and restart the economy of the State. There was the desire not to forget, to remember, to learn of what happened because in the future, the new generations are not fighting the same wars and to relive the same fears. Was hope in the power of man United with the idea of freedom. It was as if that wind of hope and liberty had returned to blow on Europe after decades of totalitarianism and oppression. It was a wind from ancient origins. It was the same belief, in the same strength and same freedom, that had pushed, a century before, our people to fight for freedom of the country from "foreign oppressor.". In The 19th Century, convinced of being right, believe in the power of man and the idea that freedom was the most valuable asset at man's disposal, We won back those that we believed to be our lands and we created a State. A State that had joined with territorial, but not humanly, It was like geography, but not as a people. Once again the strength of hope together with the idea of freedom was enough to hold the destiny of this state until the advent of fascism. But if even in the second half of the nineteenth century vigevano the ideals of hope in man and in the idea of freedom, to investigate the sources we have to downgrade again over time. In this route backwards we find many industrial revolutions, social and political. The strength in the hope of man caused unprecedented technological advances, the idea of freedom was pushing the poor masses to take up sticks to revolt to absolute monarchs. It's a wind, that of freedom, that blows throughout the nineteenth century, that comes from the 18th century. It's a fresh wind, new, pushing to believing in the potential of man. This is our point of arrival, that is the starting point from which hope and freedom are rooted in the idea that man can be at the center of the world, It can by their own efforts to become judge of your own future. In The Eighteenth Century, was the enlightenment to end the middle ages and open the doors of the modern age. Thanks to this movement of men and ideas he set the focal point man, in its entirety, placing under the scrutiny of reason all aspects of human life, religion including. For the first time the man had no more excuses, excuses of a God that predestined her future, I was driving along a path already written. The end of the dark age, the man had the idea of himself, ends when you turn on the light of enlightenment. Enlightenment is the man with the light of reason. The secularisation that followed and which involved the appropriation of man in the world, in the century just, with the crisis of religious movements has come the times with the winds of hope and freedom giving way, only in modern times, to globalisation. The latter phenomenon, like the previous mass, caused the unification of man-mix spegnando standard hope and reducing the freedom of a space on social networks. But the winds of hope and freedom in humans continue to expire, driven by an ideal that in the 18th century it never faded, just today rather than continuing to ride them you prefer to close them out the window.

Roberto Rossetti

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"No, never ". Giovanni Falcone

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"The thought of death accompanies me everywhere. But, as Montaigne, It soon becomes second nature. Certain, you're on your toes, It is estimated, We observe, There is organized, you avoid repetitive behaviour, is getting away from the crowds and from any situation that cannot be kept under control. But it also buys a good dose of fatalism; at the bottom you die for many reasons, a car accident, a plane explodes in flight, an overdose, cancer and also for no particular reason».

Giovanni Falcone responds in this way to a question about the possibility of an attack against him. As always, in front of the cameras, the judge retains an attitude compounded, a smile politely, not exuding any emotion. Are the years of the maxi trial, difficult years for Giovanni Falcone. The landmark ruling, more than two thousand years in jail for the defendants and nineteen life sentences throughout the Sicilian Mafia Commission, instead of elevating heroes Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino isolated them even more. In 1988 the High Council of the judiciary States that will be Mahesh Mahesh and not Falcone, to replace Calvert. Giovanni is once again rejected, as was the case at the beginning of the eighties, After the death of Rocco Chinnici, He preferred Calvert. Meli the curtain falls on the experience of the pool and returns to the old unsuccessful mafia investigation methods. Borsellino publicly denounces the State of things, Conversely receives the meeting request from C.S. M. alongside Meli. The pool, Although limping, He was put back on feet. This is not helped break the isolation of man more danger for the mafia, for one who has devoted his life to fighting for the State. In 1989 the failed assassination attempt at Addaura represents the pinnacle of the sense of isolation around the figure of Falcone: not just part of the power of Attorney, the same colleagues and the State does not show solidarity with judge, but he is alleged to have procured alone, the attack. It's the beginning of the end, Falcone takes a job in Rome at the Ministry of Justice, Criminal Affairs section. Falcone in Rome are building a super proxy capable of channeling, centralize and optimize the investigations of the mafia. Unfortunately, however, the 23 may the mafia (or not only the mafia, but it was mafia – CIT. Paolo Borsellino, speech at the public library of Palermo, June 1992) He ended the life of John, Francesca, Rocco, Antonio, Vito.

The man who dreamed of defeating the mafia by applying the law died, because that dream I was making. So who cares that Falcone was sleeping only, on the floor, with a gun for fear of an attack at night, He received several warnings that threats, who said that to be credible we must be dead.

The reporter writes down the answers of Falcone, brief and concise, betrayed only by the movement of the mustache. One more question, the last "have you ever had a moment of discouragement, any questions about, the temptation to give up this fight?”

"No, never "Giovanni Falcone.

Roberto Rossetti

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Salvatore Riina declares war

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And’ Sadly obvious that, during the centuries-old struggle between the State and the mafia now, COSA nostra has always won because her rival has never been able to look beyond their nose or, even more daunting, didn't want to do it: just like in these days of popular uprising against the television program Porta a Porta, guilty of having invited to study the third child of Salvatore Riina. Once again the old lion caged, for a quarter of a century, attracted attention to himself. Trying to get past the emotion of anger (justified) against the initiative of WaSP, It would be interesting to focus on why this book was written by Ragsdale jr. We make order. No one in the family Riina would have taken the initiative, let alone the responsibility, to write a book that refers to the head of Cosa nostra without the endorsement of the latter, Toto Riina. According to the "rules" of mafia boss, Although in prison, is always the Riina. In recent times it is happening a new fact: in prison, during the hour of fresh air, Ragsdale speaks with his cellmate, vindicating massacres and execute mode, real and alleged. The man who made of silence and silence one of the pillars of their lives, It is now a raging river: the stories follow one another so incessant. Especially, Riina sort, without success, the death of the judge s involved in conducting the process Negotiation State-mafia. But his orders remain in vain, Fortunately. And’ a Ragsdale disoriented that in prison, that no longer recognizes his Cosa nostra, that of the years ' 80 and ' 90, one that when it was decided an ambush “It was out of, without thinking more″ (CIT. S. Riina), that organization who could be scary to the State and that, in some ways, the commanding and forced him to come to terms. Today, the mafia, outside, has changed., is undergoing reorganization: the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, He who with a grand gesture should take over the reins of the Organization, It looks good from doing sensational attacks for fear of a genuine State action directed to his capture (for example, the capture of Riina after massacres 1992 Capaci and via d'amelio, following the popular uprising that invoked, claimed and yelled the task of capturing the massacres, that was in January 1993). The mafia is trying to regroup by spreading from below, the so-called mandates, from the stump hard which has always guaranteed in history people loyal and heinous "soldiers": However, Thanks to the courageous action of palermitani magistrates, This reconstruction is regularly cleared, making ever more scorched earth around Messina Denaro. Yet. La Cosa nostra in the new Millennium, on the set he had given Bernardo Provenzano in late 1990s, is an organization that talking about the economy, Finance, investments, joint-stock company, forgetting the language "Riiniano" of bombs, Mitra, massacres, blood, dead. The first is a setting that allows criminals to operate in silence, While the second has always caused a strong media focus as a result of massacres that have become historical now. All this cannot be accepted by the capo dei capi, which not only no longer recognizes the "organization", but neither the company: in the years ' 80 and ' 90, precisely, to the anger of the days immediately following to crimes, for example in Capaci and via d'amelio, It made almost never followed an action lasting popular protest. Today, Thanks to the numerous organizations throughout the area, Italian and the goodwill of many citizens, all inspired by the teachings of Falcone and Borsellino, the company took to the streets as at the time, but not only, It poses itself as a guarantor, as a shield against judges, of magistrates, of law enforcement officials, of officers. And’ a company that, in some ways, replaces the status on the request and claim to a total and permanent elimination of the mafia, though unfortunately does not have, as the State, the means to perpetrate such action. The game then continues its course. Despite his age, the harsh prison, the weight of the anonymity of many years, Salvatore Riina has lost the will to fight and take back what he claims: his role as head of the Organization: However, the boss is aware that, If it can't be him, This role can and should move on to someone you trust, given that even those off the following more. Then from prison Salvatore Riina thinks, While the State, as sang De Andrè, “…you are, You unworthy, undertakes, then throws in the towel with great dignity. "

Roberto Rossetti

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The mafia not only kills in summer

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The 6 January 1980 the Mafia organization Cosa nostra kills, in Palermo, the President of the Sicilian region Piersanti Mattarella. The Sicilian politician, Since the youth, dedicates his life to politics trying to fix and heal the problems present in Sicily. After a spent in the ranks of Catholic action, Piersanti enters into the ranks of the Christian Democrats, becoming one of the greatest exponents, sharing the guideline set by Aldo Moro at party. Frank and transparent politician's attitude earned him the nomination before a municipal councillor in Palermo and then, in 1967, a member of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. The activities it carries out first as Deputy and then as head of the region applying for next President, a position he held from 1978. One of the main objectives that plugs into its political agenda of Government Piersanti region is the fight against the mafia: external connection that virtually every Conference and public meeting. The late seventies and early eighties they see within Cosa nostra profound transformations, not only about the arrival on the scene of the Corleonesi mafia clan in Palermo that undermine the foundations of the equilibrium created inside the Organization, but see fight their way to a new form of huge illicit gain, which drug trafficking: not surprisingly, the Sicily will become one of the major centers of processing and refining at European level. The murder of Piersanti Mattarella fits so into the action conducted by Cosa nostra against all those who, members of the policy and law enforcement, You clearly opposed to it.

This reminder of the current President of the Senate, Piero Grasso:

“Piersanti Mattarella was trying to create a new political and administrative project, a real revolution. His radical policy moralization of public life, According to the slogan that Sicily was to appear with the credentials ', He had upset the public procurement system with resounding gestures, never implemented in the island”

Roberto Rossetti

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