Silvio Berlusconi realises dream with new rightwing party

[panzerfaust]

Source: Guardian (UK)

Freedom People includes Mussolini's spiritual heirs
• Coalition brings Italy closer to two-party state

A unified party of the Italian right, bringing together followers of Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, and the spiritual heirs of Mussolini's fascist blackshirts will formally be created tomorrow by delegates at a congress convened to inaugurate the movement...

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/28/freedom-people-silvio-berlusconi-italy

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Past and Future.

Poor Italia

[denem]

1. Tomorrow belongs to Me ...

"As soon as a 50ft high screen above the platform showed the prime minister was entering the hall, 6,000 delegates sprang to their feet to give him an ovation. A beaming Berlusconi strode to his place while loudspeakers blared out his party's election campaign song ...."

[madrchsod]

2. silvio wants bloggers register with the government

if he is successful he will have control over all of the media in italy....

[Laelth]

14. That's how the fascists did it here in the States--media control. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[santamargarita]

3. Is their memory as short as ours?

Italy should kill any notion of letting fascism return!

[Dennis Donovan]

6. As long as multinational corporations exist under-regulated...

...there will be fascism.:thumbsdown:

[Kip Humphrey]

4. Fascism is "positive for democracy"? That's news to me when the Italian fascists are already

worrying themselves over "Caesarism". I'll bet the Bushies are proud of this accomplishment though!

[Dennis Donovan]

5. I assume Alessandra Mussolini will be a part of this?

Looking very Il Duce-esque in this pic...

Here's a pic of two fascists:

[antimatter98]

7. Coming to the US eventually, only it will be the GOP. Watch for 2012. n/t

[non sociopath skin]

8. Scary, scary stuff. OK, Italian Left, what are you going to do about it?

And how can we help?

The Skin

[DetlefK]

9. No big deal. In Italy virtually every few years a new party is founded (and collapses)

Partys mean nothing in italian politics. They are founded, they change names, they collapse. That's regular stuff.

And two-party-state? WTF???? What about the communists, the religious fundies and the moderate socialists?

[Odin2005]

10. WTF is with the recent rise of out-n-out Fascists in Italy?

I remember a year or so ago hearing Rome elected a "former" Fascist militant as mayor. :puke:

[fascisthunter]

11. its the Republicans True Vision for America: fascism

but they have no balls to admit it.

[FarLeftRage]

12. Italia del nord can bite me!

I won't go back now... fucking assholes... molto testa cacatas!!!

[paulk]

13. it may hurt him

a lot of people in the Italian center voted for Berlusconi because they saw him as a sort of bulwark against the crazier elements of the right. Openly allying with the fascists might make some reconsider?

OTOH - the Italian left is so splintered that they're hopeless. And when they do win the PM slot, they put some hack like Prodi in there, who is just as bumbling and corrupt as the right ever was. Result: Berlusconi gets reelected.

Poor Italia, for sure.

[Snarkoleptic]

15. Will he surround himself with fellow fascist booger eaters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2mHPjUuksE

These booger eaters are in the same league as comb lickers, imho...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9nzBWcTSVM

[roody]

16. I met an Italian biology student last week in a hostel

in NoCal. She felt completely discouraged about Berlusconi and said that Italy was once a very nice country.

[Supersedeas]

17. isn't this a possibility here as well -- moderate Republicans should have concerns