Furore as Berlusconi compared to Italy's Fascist dictator Mussolini

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5446311

ROME (Reuters) - Members of Italy's centre-right government want a poet stripped of
his senatorship for comparing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Italy's Fascist dictator
Benito Mussolini.

Mario Luzi likened the media mogul prime minister to Italy's wartime dictator after
Berlusconi appeared with a large plaster near his ear after a tourist threw a camera tripod
at him.

"Berlusconi is very good at playing the victim. Mussolini also once put on a plaster --
on his nose -- after he was hit with projectile," 90-year old Luzi told a Rome newspaper.

"In certain aspects, they do resemble each other."

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Hey, if it quacks like a duck...

[LynnTheDem]

1. Sure hit a sore spot, otherwise the RWW woulda just laughed the remark

off.

Just like the rightwingnut wackos in the USA scream bloody murder over bush-Hitler comparisons...must be a SORE SPOT, huh.

[TahitiNut]

2. Hey, if it reacts like a duck...

The right-wing reaction to Luzi's remarks merely confirms the comparison.

[Forkboy]

3. Sometimes the truth hurts

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Mussolini wasn't that bad, says Berlusconi (Guardian, Sept 12, 2003)

Mussolini wasn't that bad, says Berlusconi
Even some of Silvio Berlusconi's own supporters and allies were last night squirming with embarrassment at their leader's latest extraordinary gaffe.

In an interview published yesterday by the Spectator, Italy's prime minister appeared to defend the actions of his country's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.

...

One leading member of his party tried to excuse it on the grounds that it was not an "official phrase". But others made no attempt to hide their dismay.

"I don't want to believe that the prime minister made the comments on fascism reported by the news agencies," said Giorgio La Malfa, leader of the small Republican party, which backs Mr Berlusconi's government
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1040340,00.html

Berlusconi: Mussolini 'never killed anyone'
ROME (AP) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in a newspaper report Thursday that Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini never killed anyone and only sent people away on vacations in internal exile, a claim that greatly distressed Jewish leaders.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/09/11/183253-ap.html


Years before he entered politics, Berlusconi was a member of the secret, elite Masonic lodge P2, headed by the fascist Licio Gelli, which inviltrated the Vatican and was implicated in money laundering and a wave of terror bombings and murders blamed upon the Italian left.

Who killed Calvi?

...

Mafia, Freemasons and the Vatican are implicated in a tale of drug trafficking, money laundering and tortuous financing spanning the world.

Many believe the death of Pope John Paul I in 1978, just 33 days after his election, happened because he wanted to break the murky links between what was then Italy's largest private bank and the Vatican.



...

One of the most influential figures in the Calvi story was Licio Gelli, now 84. He was Grand Master of the P2 masonic lodge of which Silvio Berlusconi was once a member. Gelli was sentenced to 12 years for fraud in connection with the collapse of Calvi's bank and is under house arrest.

Calvi's mentor Michele Sindona was friends with former US President Richard Nixon. Sindona died in prison in 1986 poisoned by coffee laced with cyanide.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1101410,00.html

[ananda]

5. it's the truth

Truth must hurt. Too bad.

Sue

[jmcgowanjm]

7. John Paul I

David Yallop's 1984 book In God's Name alleged that John
Paul was killed by Vatican officials who feared he would
uncover financial misdealings in Vatican
affairs.

http://www.who2.com/johnpauli.html

[loudsue]

6. Italy needs to check their voting machines for fraud, as well.

And, didn't they let Rupert Murdock buy up the media there? Methinks the bush mafia extends waaaay beyond our borders. If it didn't Berlusconi might not be where he is.

Fascists....all of 'em.

:kick::kick:

[rooboy]

11. Murdoch doesn't own the media... BERLUSCONI does!!

he's the richest man in Italy, and he literally owns something like 95% of the media there. And the government network is run by ...guess who's government????

[loudsue]

12. I thought I remembered something snarky about their media...

What country was it that Murdock was recently trying to infiltrate? I'm having a senior moment here!

:kick:

[Chicago Democrat]

8. He is like Mussolini, BUT WORSE!

Fuck him!

[GOPBasher]

9. Is that a shocking statement? This nutcase is as far right as our Bush*.

[flordehinojos]

10. just because a man tells the truth, they (the mob) want to:

(1). crucify him--in the case of Jesus Christ.
(2). give him hemlock--in the case of Socrates in the year 399 BC.

Just because a man tells the truth, dark forces want to turn facts upside down, make that which is wrong, appear to be good; make that which is black, appear to be white...

Just because a poet tells the truth they want to strip him of his senatorship.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Hey, Silvio, if the Bruno Magli fits you must wear it

Buongiorno, il fascista