FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH
I WROTE ON 20TH OCTOBER 2009:
WASTE AND ?PAPELLOS?
LOOKING AT ITALY TODAY IS LIKE LOOKING AT A JANUS BIFRONS.
A NATURAL LANDSCAPE THAT IS BREATHTAKING, FROM THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAINS DESCENDING TO THE HILLS UNTIL IT REACHES THE SEA. AN ARTISTIC PATRIMONY WHICH IS UNIQUE IN THE WORLD, WITH ETERNAL MASTERPIECES, PRODUCED BY THE CREATIVE GENIUS OF INIMITABLE MASTERS. IT IS CRADLE OF THOUGHT, PHILOSOPHY AND ARTS. LAND OF DANTE, LEONARDO, GIORDANO BRUNO AND AN UNMATCHABLE AMOUNT OF SURPRISING GENIUSES.
BUT IN THE SAME WAY A LAND DISFIGURED, DEPREDATED AND CONTAMINATED THAT REBELS WITH THE VIOLENCE OF THE SOIL AND WATER AGAINST ITS DEVASTATION. LAND WHICH IS INHABITED BY MONSTERS CAPABLE OF DOING ALL KINDS OF VILE THINGS AND SHEDDING INNOCENT BLOOD IN ORDER TO KEEP THEIR POWER AND ARROGANCE.
AN ITALY MADE BY THE EVIL FROM THE MOST HORRIBLE MYSTERIES AND FROM THE INFINITE WEAKNESSES OF GOOD.
THE ITALY OF HEROES THAT DRIVEN BY THEIR INNATE IMPULSE MANAGE TO TRANSFORM IN PRACTICAL LIVING WHAT FOR MANY REPRESENTS UNIVERSAL LOVE AND FOR OTHERS THE LOVE OF CHRIST. HEROES TO WHOM NO HONOR OF JUSTICE, EXCEPT FOR FEW EXCEPTIONS AFTER YEARS, HAS BEEN RENDERED BY THIS DISTRACTED AND UNGRATEFUL COUNTRY.
TODAY, AFTER 17 YEARS, A FEW LIGHTS OF TRUTH EMERGE FROM THE COWARDLY SILENCE OR MAYBE JUST FROM THE SUPERFICIALITY AND LIGHTNESS.
FINALLY, WE HAVE THE NOTORIOUS ?PAPELLO - NOTE?, A FURTHER PROOF THAT A DIALOGUE BETWEEN STATE AND MAFIA HAS TAKEN PLACE AND THE LATE REVELATIONS OF THESE RECENT YEARS SHOW US THAT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TRAGEDY OF THOSE YEARS HAVE TO BE SOUGHT IN A MUCH BROADER SPECTRUM AS OPPOSED TO COSA NOSTRA ONLY.
IT IS NEITHER FOR SELF-CELEBRATION NOR VAIN GLORY BUT, EVER SINCE THE FIRST YEARS OF OUR PUBLICATION, ANTIMAFIADUEMILA HAD SUSTAINED THAT PAOLO BORSELLINO HAD BEEN ELIMINATED BECAUSE HE WAS AN OBSTACLE OF THE NEGOTIATION, SINCE HE HAD RECENTLY UNDERSTOOD WHO INDEED WERE THE NEW PROTAGONISTS OF THE BIG GAME.
SECRET SERVICES, UNTOLD TRUTHS, HIDDEN DETAILS; ALL OF THESE HAS ALLOWED TO GUESS THAT THE CARNAGE OF VIA D?AMELIO HAS BEEN A ?STATE SLAUGHTER? AS TOLD PERSONALLY TO US BY MRS. AGNESE BORSELLINO. ?THE HOMICIDE OF MY HUSBAND IS A STATE HOMICIDE?.
NOW THERE IS NOTHING LEFT FOR US TO DO, BUT WAIT AND SEE WHERE THESE NEW ELEMENTS WILL LEAD US, IF THE MAGISTRACY WILL BE ABLE AND WILL MANAGE TO CERTIFY AND ASCERTAIN THE WHOLE TRUTH.
THEN, WHY DO MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE INSTITUTIONS SPEAK OUT ONLY NOW? ARE THEY IN GOOD FAITH OR NOT?
WHAT DOES RIINA WANT TO TELL US, FROM LEADER TO VICTIM OF THE NEGOTIATION, THROUGH THE WORDS OF HIS LAWYER LUCA CIANFERONI WHO, IN THE MICROPHONES OF THE TV PROGRAM ANNOZERO HAS SUSTAINED THAT THE MAFIA AND OTHER VIOLENT ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTALIZED FROM THE PAST, IN ORDER TO CREATE A NEW STABILITY IN THE COUNTRY REGARDING ECONOMY AND POLITICS?
LAST JULY, IN PALERMO, DURING OUR CONGRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JURISPRUDENCE, THE SAME IN WHICH FALCONE AND BORSELLINO STUDIED, I INVITED ALL CIVIL SOCIETY TO SUPPORT THE JUDGES ANTONIO INGROIA AND NINO DE MATTEO, AS WELL AS PROCURATOR LARI AND THE REST OF THE JUDICIARY WORKING ON THIS FRONT. IF WE WILL BE ABLE TO PROTECT THEM WITH OUR ATTENTION, IF THEY WON?T BE HINDERED OR, EVEN WORST, THEY WILL NOT BE PHYSICALLY ELIMINATED, WE WILL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO GLIMPSE THE TRUTH. A TRUTH THAT WILL HURT AND THAT WILL DAMAGE SECTORS OF POWER: POLITICS, FINANCE, AND BUSINESS? GOING AS FAR AS THE ROLE OF THE VATICAN.
THE SAME ?POWER LUMPS? INDEED HAVE USED ORGANIZED CRIME TO GET RID OF WASTE, WHICH WITH ABSURD LACK OF CONSCIENCE, HAVE THROWN IN THE DEPTH OF THE SEA, THEREFORE PUTTING ALL OF US AT RISK.
LET THERE BE COURAGE NOW, TO MAKE SURE OF WHAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEAS OF CALABRIA AND WHO KNOWS WHICH OTHER COASTS AND LET US BE TOLD WHETHER WE ARE AT RISK OR IF OUR CHILDREN ARE TOO. WHO WILL PAY FOR THIS SHAMEFUL AND INFAMOUS OFFENSE AGAINST OUR BIFRONS ITALY, BEAUTIFUL AND YET CONDEMNED AT THE SAME TIME BY UNGRATEFUL AND FOOLISH CHILDREN?
LET THEM HAVE THE COURAGE, OF TELLING US THE TRUTH AT LEAST ONCE.
GIORGIO BONGIOVANNI.
GIORGIO BONGIOVANNI
SANT?ELPIDIO A MARE (ITALY)
20TH OCTOBER 2009
