I miei pensieri nel giorno della Memoria |
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In 415 AD, Bishop Cyril had quartered Hypatia, philosophy, astronomy and mathematics, because he refused to join to Christianity. become a saint for having subjugated the people of Alexandria, bringing in the lap of the Church. Since then and down the centuries, the Inquisition became an instrument of unparalleled power. With the French Revolution, it lost its religious character, became secular. But Inquisition was always in the characteristics and attributes. With Adriano Prosperi formidable courts that rightly called "courts of conscience." In both cases, the Christian and secular, the goal was protect the power, by limiting the freedom of thought and freedom of expression, freedom in short, in the name of a strict morality derived from the concept that Bernard-Henri Levi calls "the absolute Good."
At this point, I appropriate the right Angelino Alfano distinction between moralism and morality. are exclusive of each other. Moralism can do without morality, and this happens often. Morality must do without the moralizing. The first justified and legitimate power, the second governs the actions of the individual in his capacity as private and public, and ensure the peaceful sociability. Individual, the Gospel text of extraordinary pragmatism, suggests to "give to Caesar what is Caesar's", recognizing the difficulty of individuals to cope without compromising the imperfect world in which they live. For moralists, pulling the punch of "who has never sinned cast the first stone."
moralists of every stripe and every age, Christians, Muslims, secular and so on, have shown a much more brutal pragmatism. Some examples:
Arnaud Amaury, Cistercian abbot and papal legate against the heretics of Languedoc, following the taking of Beziers in 1209, he launched the famous phrase "Kill them all. God will recognize his own. " There was no need of courts. were after and very well designed for this purpose, even if it exists today a revision to the "bottom" of the dead killed by the Inquisition. difficult to erase, however, few or many others, it is difficult to condone the abjuration and Forced into exile, the Cathars, Waldensians, Jews, France, Spain and Portugal. Later the persecution of the reformed. Noël Beda, Mathieu Ory, doctors of the Sorbonne, the Grand Inquisitor. The massacre of St. Bartholomew. There was no trial or court in that case.
of the French Revolution we know what we know: the Court of Public Health, the guillotine always busy, countless dead. was so violent, the Revolution, to devour itself.
Lenin "fucilatela," about an old woman who pressed him. was in the early days. After he became a wise administrator, instituted the new revolutionary courts and the courts informed the popular "socialist legal consciousness", the Extraordinary Commission to combat counter-revolution. And then, the Cheka ...
Hitler, on the other hand, in front of millions of enemies at home - Jews, Gypsies, gays - was not modo di istituire tribunali e scelse metodi più spicci: i campi di sterminio. Lo imitò con grande successo Stalin con il trasferimento di 5 milioni di Kulaki nei campi di lavoro dove morirono, i gulag, la grande Purga. Lì, è vero, i tribunali c’erano, i risultati anche.
Khomeiny: “Processi? Sono colpevoli tutti. Questa generazione deve scomparire insieme a tutta la sua discendenza.” All’inizio, ce ne furono di processi, per la vetrina. What my father lasted 7 minutes, followed a few hours after the shooting. Like my father others, many others, over the Kurds, Turkmen, say maybe it's just 10,000, and millions of exiles.
as examples of History is full, right down to Tangentopoli, with its miasma is true, but even with the bright and fierce determination of the magistrates "facing Italy as a sock. put them into all and throw away the key. " It was, yes, to clean up Italy ed era un bene, ma poi si è visto che si trattava anche di consolidare il potere nascente della magistratura. Come da copione.
In Europa, oggi, non esiste più la pena di morte, vivaddio. Il Bene Assoluto è stato sostituito da un più gentile, ma altrettanto tirannico perbenismo, che gli americani chiamano il “politically correct”. La cultura vigente impone un’accondiscendenza, un conformismo che imbavaglia i singoli, toglie loro il diritto di usare la propria testa, pena exclusion from communities large and small. The audience then help the media, serves as an arena of sleep and suppression of any dissent. How do you disagree with Annozero? You can not ... It is also used, the media audience, as a preview of trials. No wonder that the presumption of innocence is disappearing. A cornerstone of law practiced today the most courageous, and there are, thank God, but more and more illegal immigrants.
Questi i miei pensieri, non proprio felici, nel giorno della Memoria. Sto diventando vecchia, fatto poco piacevole, ma voglio godermi almeno il privilegio della vecchiaia che consiste nel dire ciò che penso. E penso che ricordare non basta, piangere neanche. Il passato è stato brutto, ma il futuro non si presenta roseo, se si continua così a sperperare le poche conquiste che ci ha consentito la Storia.