The EU has also declared that there will be no modification of Schengen as Frattini proposed.
This whole "show of macho muscle" will appease the acolytes in Italy and also enflame anti-European sentiment. It's just what this government is aiming at. Consensus, demagogy, a spineless Europe.
We'll see how this plays out, but Austria had its voting rights in the Council suspended for less than this. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
As we said other day, there's this schism between fact and the perception of reality. Even the left perceives danger where there isn't any. It looks like the apotheosis of consumerism. Ever see a commercial with a clochard scratching himself in the background? People want to live in a commercial hype world where the unsightly is banned. The disenfranchised are a menace, It's a mass of underproletariat at the gates of the empire that aspire to possess gadgets. They're the danger, the menace. They can steal your cell phone, your hifi, your baby.
So show off all this military might and make police blitzes against an "enemy" that doesn't exist. And of course at that point just stop front paging this crime crap so that people perceive that they're safer. A winner. Berlusconi for life. If he could only rule Europe and show all those wimpy fags in Strausbourg want it means to be a real hunk.
...and of course if a particularly brutal crime does occur despite all this macho crap it will be Europe's fault, never theirs.
By the way, page 3 today. Corriere. A small paragraph barely visible: An Italian raped a Romanian.
The latest tally is around 400 arrests throughout Italy. M-T Fernandez de la Vega, 2° in command in Zapatero's gevernment has condemned Italy's acts qualifying them as violent, racist and xenophobic.
