FIRST STEP, BUT NOT SUFFICIENT
Republic - December 7, 2008 Page 1 Section: FRONT PAGE
must immediately say that - even if for some unusual and improper - the 'initiative of the Head of State (requested information and documents for the investigation of Salerno and Catanzaro) has the merit of having returned to a sense of institutional conflict which took the 'uncontrollable intensity of a sidewalk brawl. Napolitano's move forced the Higher Judicial Council to intervene without the 'usual slow pace, heavy bureaucracy. The immediate hearings of the leaders of the two offices - the Public Prosecutor of Salerno and the attorney general Catanzaro - showed a disciplinary committee, troubled and bewildered, drug practices. The magistrates of Catanzaro were forced to strip naked by the magistrates of Salerno in their apartments during searches that have not spared even the backpacks of the child. Operations, with two alternates of the holders' investigation De Magistris, was attended by four other prosecutors without any formal delegation, as a private form of 'support to colleagues', with' job to keep an 'eye each, a magistrate investigated - usually as a token does not even anti-mafia actions. 'S initiative Salerno, was found, has been fed by statements of Luigi De Magistris, heard by sixty times (65) with no call. Then you realize, every time I had the desire or the need to record a new circumstance, suggestion, suspicion or recall of the plot that would have stopped, De Magistris prosecutors entered the room and made his testimony. A fortune and a 'little attention' complainants' attorney receive in Italian. The wrongs of Salerno do not oppose the reasons for the robes of Catanzaro. Who, humiliated by 'invasive' s raid, in turn, react with disdain, with an outrage. The Attorney General of Catanzaro, at that point, he knows Salerno and yet to be investigated by an order controsequestro offices in Salerno, in a state of absolute incompatibility. This framework of rules violated, is likely incomplete, has convinced a few hours to initiate the disciplinary committee against the attorney of Salerno and the Attorney General of Catanzaro, the leaders - so to speak - of "bands togate" means a process for transfer of 'office for environmental incompatibility: can not administer justice in the seat they occupy "in the conditions prescribed by the prestige of' judicial order." It 'a purely administrative measure and not sufficient for the disaster which has taken place. Now, if you want to listen to concerns of the President of the Republic, must move with the same timeliness of the CSM the attorney general of the Supreme Court, the owner of 'disciplinary action. Only a severe and rapid verification of responsibility and irresponsibility can restore trust in an order (power) state. Because ultimately this is the problem. We want to believe in a court, without fear and without hope, respect for the law, consistent with their intelligence and legal knowledge, by virtue of its institutional status, is guaranteed to every person. But if there are judges who do not even comply with their duty to attack and punish the other judges, what about the rights of the vulnerable and the less protected, the poor souls like us? To restore this confidence to the citizen and to reinforce the conviction that the judiciary is a right only if an autonomous and independent from any other power outside and inside, the protagonists of this depressing mixture must be enabled to not more harm to the State, the judiciary, citizens themselves. It must be ensured that, on 'outcome of this tragedy, do not weigh the pressures of lobbies togate, the agreements between the currents and weak compromises and settlements that have often undermined the role of the Council of the Judiciary. Of course, then it remains to clarify the substance of the Why Not investigation and Poseidon. What is this? It 'really was collected sufficient documentation to say that we are facing a power system failure and opaque, inhabited by freemasonries, cliques' s business, corrupt politicians at all levels and of all colors? Actually, the work of De Magistris - even before the 'break - appeared inadequate to prove allegations made especially and almost exclusively with the cell phone records collected by its mysterious and discussed technical advisor, Richard Jenkins, perhaps the real dominus investigations Calabria. However, a distillate of this poison and miasma can not remain without a serious investigation because then jump on a Berlusconi, accused "prescribed", amnesty, except in ad personam "laws that have changed in the course of 'work the process or the offense, the same man that defines a mafioso "a hero," Berlusconi jumps up - I repeat - to say that there is a "moral issue" that concerns us all. It 'just too much. If there is this rotten system of power, it is established. Come out the names of actors and accomplices. This reconstruction of a 'credible radiography of that criminal network, if you do not want the night, all cats displayed black. Why Not Today, and Poseidon, Salerno, Catanzaro and incompetent, incompetent Napoli (De Magistris works there) will end the prosecution of Rome. 'S office in the capital has not just a great story to boast in the investigation against Powers. In any case, no one can doubt that the head of state, with the same efficient alacrity with which it has stopped the gang war togate, will ensure that you check the 'existence of this "monster" that shook the serenity of Luigi De Magistris and ours. - JOSEPH 'S SURPLUS
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bells' HORNS AND ALARM STONE
Republic - December 7, 2008 page 1 section: HOME
There 's one red flag on which our gaze must be taken to understand the causes and predict the effects with daily monitoring. There are three, which threaten our lives over the coming months fueling our uncertainties and our fears. Two patients national in scope and are the 'alarm on the functioning of justice and what is called the moral question. The third is worldwide and is the crisis of 'economy, U.S. recession now spread around the globe, the danger that the recession will turn into deflation, and this degrades further into depression. The American press now speaks fluently of "great depression, part 2" in reference to that of '29, the consequences of which devastated the U.S. and Europe' for eight years. There then took two more to begin a new cycle of economic growth whose monstrous engine was the 'arms industry and war broke out in 1939, with its millions and millions of deaths, including those Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the extermination of the 'Holocaust. Because of how it terrifying dimensions begin my remarks this Sunday from the third red alert. I'm looking for some months now but every day things happen and a new critical update is therefore necessary. In the eleven months elapsed from January 2008 until now the U.S. is in recession, first under the plaster, then exploded in June with the housing crisis. The six months passed since then have seen the lists of Wall Street lose more than 50 percent of their value as citizens of this country have a familiarity with the stock market unknown in the rest of the world is derived an impoverishment, but in the virtual part partly real, which impacted on consumption and investments. L 'effect, in a free market economy country, had an effect on' employment and has been growing from month to month. At present the facts have been destroyed in eleven months and one million one hundred thousand jobs, of which 200,000 in October and 536,000 in November. A 'frightening acceleration, according to the latest estimates, will exceed the first half of 2009, four million people. When Obama and his advisers say that the worst is yet to come to think exactly this: the specter of mass unemployment and therefore a reduction of income, especially in classes and ethnic groups most vulnerable, but not only. The balance between the destruction of income el 'seeming benefit of falling prices (due precisely to the fall in demand) will be strongly negative, depress consumption and investment, will send tens of thousands of bankrupt firms as part of it is already happening. Among the many negative germs that 'America has already scattered in the rest of' the West 's main effect is that the American engine was flooded and will remain so at the very least until 2011. But then start to pull as before? Joseph Stiglitz in an 'in our newspaper interview published yesterday, gives a negative answer to this question. American capitalism (and its model throughout the international capitalism) has lived for decades on speculative bubbles. It was the bubbles to beat than the piston engine U.S. locomotive of the rest of the world. The bubbles, which is the easy credit, that is speculation. But the bubbles, says Stiglitz, after the terrible crisis we are experiencing does not happen again. Not in the size we've seen all 'work in recent years. And then capitalism will no longer exist as what we have known for four fifths based on consumption. Probably take over a capitalism based on investment and on a redistribution of global wealth, and all 'inside of various countries, wealth among the various social classes. It would reverse the pattern (so far prevailing) see the redistribution of income and wealth as a result of employee the production of income and profits. It will be a redistribution to start production and economic engine of the piston. I remember those who did not know ol 'had forgotten that it was the' young then to advocate liberal Luigi Einaudi (it was 1911) a 'single tax based on consumption and a' wealth tax of succession beyond that of 'a certain threshold passive income with the assets' rate of 50 percent to be used to redistribute social wealth. Perhaps, with a century of delays, we are heading towards such solutions. We'll call him still capitalism? Or how? * * * Our government and our Minister of 'economists say things will get better in Italy because banks over here are stronger than elsewhere and the government accounts are "safe." Unless the debt, but because of that hole was created in the eighties and is concerned with the previous generation. Latter 'point of reasoning is correct, that our banks are sound is good reason to hope, but that our prospects are better than other countries is a hoax of the many that the government propina. We are not better, but we are definitely worse, keep us afloat 's € without which we'd long been under' water. We're worse because we do not have any money to spend. What we had was a strong action for recovery of 'tax avoidance which gave us more than 20 billion in 2006-7 to spend. This source has dried up. The demand has increased, the 'abolition of the' ICI has destroyed an income tax of 3 billion and a half 's year' s flag has cost at Alitalia 'Treasury 3 billion (if sufficient). So Tremonti did not have any money. To go ahead with the Italian scooter was obliged to submit a finance bill in July full of cuts. In order to survive the system gave last week a 'charity of 6 billion one-off families and businesses with a few cents extra for the invective to silence the Pope and the bishops for the cuts to Catholic schools (though those of the public school and all 'University remained fiercely all standing). Even in Italy, however, as elsewhere, the crisis has so far only scratched the skin but did not injure either the muscles or tendons. It consumes a little 'less you invest little or nothing (but this hiding of private and public investment has been for years a constant). Tremonti said the worst is coming and unfortunately right. The diagnosis is correct. The therapy is not c 'is for reasons of force majeure resulting from mistakes made six months ago. Should tell us how to get the premier and the minister 's Economy. Certainly not if it comes up with the calls to investors to subscribe to the Bot. Making it much less to blame 'opposition. Tremonti for the route of 'output appears to be to lay hands on postal savings deposits and loans of the Bank. It was hoped that the president CDP, Franco Bassanini, was opposed to the project so risky, but I hear that there was even one of the instigators. If it were true I'd be amazed. * * * I will set the two alarms national red: the crisis of justice and moral issue. The Prime Minister, in a speech yesterday in Pescara, has articulated that "in the Pd c 'is a moral issue." Il Corriere della Sera with an editorial on the front page of the Deputy Baptist, he chanted to 'Espresso published an' investigation of criminal investigations of some aldermen of the City of Florence and some reliable rumors about some sort of committee d 'Affairs on procurement of land in Naples. Tg1 on Friday evening too ' registered it as a top news 's investigation of' Espresso and interviewed in direct the director of that newspaper, Daniela Hamaui. A 'attention like that, the rest more than deserved by' friend and colleague who directs our weekly group and his collaborators, it is quite unusual by d 'in a newspaper that slalom skiing at the deeds and misdeeds and that of a newscast you just proud to be "impartial" even though many of his listeners do not realize it. I have never read an editorial in the Courier and never seen on the screens of Tg1 a colleague of the Republic or the 'Espresso complimented or asked to explain the public services, those services when documenting the moral issue in the parties and personalities starting from the center-right Berlusconi himself. I am not speaking of political judgments, I talk about malfeasance investigations. In recent years we have written hundreds, but none of them has had the opportunity to impose itself on public opinion outside of what we read (fortunately there are many). It is a pride of our group of journalists not to face with the colors of the flag of this or that when it comes to dishonesty. Giuseppe D 'Avanzo is a name for everyone. But it is suspicious and suspected that the relief is given by the so-called independent press and the public television service when the surveys include the reformist left and never when they relate to the characters of the center. As for newspapers and journalists to center is useless to try to put some of their article that examines the colors of their party. I'm not sure paid for it by their owners. C 'is a moral issue that concerns some people who hold positions of Pd public. Personally I do not think that relates to the mayor of Florence to protest his innocence he wanted chained to gate 's entry building where all the journalists working in our group. Bind seems like a gesture that smacks of rhetoric but I understand his suffering and his motives. That said, ruling the judges their truth. The suspects belong to which party has sovereignty over institutional mandates elected, can not compel a governor to resign Region or to a mayor who derive their powers from the electorate. But it can (in my opinion should) suspend from the party pending the findings of people prosecuted. In Florence should suspend the accused from the primary election for the office of mayor. In Naples, it should suspend the accused, if and when we know the names of a 'judicial inquiry under way. So too should stay the governor of Campania, who was also under investigation for some time. What's cooking at the Naples prosecutor for now not much is known. D 'Avanzo has spoken extensively in two recent articles from which I infer that there would be a sort of' committee 's business "made by politicians including important names in the center and center-league between them and, as a reference in Naples, Antonio Saladino, who has nothing to do with the fierce Saladin of the glorious figures of Perugina chocolate, but it was from 1995 to 2006 (ie for eleven years) the president of the League of the South Works , a subsidiary business of Communion and Liberation. Where do you see that the (alleged) bad apples are everywhere and when you sight that must be set aside not infected by the good. This is expected from a party led by respectable people. This indeed is the claim. From 'other political party expected little or nothing because there is the dishonesty at the top which obviously can not clean up his other traveling companions because, by definition, can reclaim itself. * * * The prosecution to Salerno and Catanzaro and the crisis of the court that prosecutors had in those few days in its most disturbing, he said it all with simple words so severe as the President of the Republic. It seems that there has been a sort of in those environments breath of madness, vanity, spite, megalomania that brought down the credibility of a few hours' entire judiciary and its pervasive power. The Minister of Justice is now seeking a constitutional Alfano bipartisan. We'll see how it will conduct in the coming weeks. It would be desirable that the 'word' bipartisan 'would not be confused with' incitement to 'opposition to approve a artifact of the majority with only the power to change a few commas and a few exclamation points. So far it has been so, and this explains the increasingly negative response of 'opposition. C 'is a point that does not require constitutional amendments and that I believe should be addressed: report to the chief prosecutor of the tribunal and the prosecutor of the court' s call the 'year of' criminal action is now known to chief deputies. Much of the current discrepancies in the prosecution arising from this subdivision that is extremely dangerous in my view, be abolished. - Eugenio Scalfari
