One of the most beautiful towns in the Balkans is Sarajevo. It is a harmonious coexistence of different elements, different cultures. Mosques and churches stand together and seem to have coexisted for ages without conflicts. It is one of the most oriental towns in Europe. The conflict of the recent past surprises if you walk in the town and it seems to have been something planned by someone else, someone not belonging to the town.
When I went to Sarajevo by train from Banja Luka I sat near a Muslim girl who was going back home. She told me that for Muslims it became very dangerous to stay in Sarajevo at the time of Milosevic and she and her sister and mother left for Croatia. Her father remained in Sarajevo longer but she and her family were informed that he was in danger and he had to leave as soon as possible because male muslims could have been killed immediately. He escaped soon and he could take refuge in Croatia too. He was then told that soldiers entered his house on the day after his departure.
I had bought a local newspaper in Banja Luka and I saw a picture of Mladic in the newspaper (it was April 2005). I did not know the local language and so I asked the girl what the article said. She told me that Mladic had been seen in a village near Sarajevo few days before in a restaurant together with his wife.
No one knows where Mladic and Karazdic are, and they have not been taken to court yet.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
safety in USA
As a member of Purdue University I received this letter dealing with safety problems at Purdue in case of incidents similar to that at Virginia Tech - murder of 32 persons by a mentally ill student.
After the letter, my reply.
April 24, 2007
To All Purdue Students, Faculty and Staff:
In the days following the tragic events at Virginia Tech University, some students, parents, and other members of the Purdue community have inquired about safety procedures on the West Lafayette campus, our capacity to respond to a large-scale emergency, and our ability to communicate with students, faculty, and staff in case of an emergency. As we all mourn the loss of life at Virginia Tech, including the death of two professors who were Purdue graduates, we want to assure all those in our community that campus safety is one of our highest priorities.
The Virginia Tech tragedy was a unique situation, but it reminds us that even in very safe environments, we have to be ready to respond. We believe the Purdue campuses are very safe, and we work constantly to make them safer. In the wake of this tragedy, all units involved with security at Purdue have met in recent days to review our state of readiness and apply lessons that we have learned.
While no amount of training and precaution can guarantee absolute safety at all times, Purdue police and other public safety personnel are exceptionally well-prepared. Purdue has extensive emergency contingency plans in place. For the West Lafayette campus, which is by far the largest and most complex of our campuses, you will find good information about safety on the Purdue police Web site: http://www.purdue.edu/police.
Despite what you may have heard or read about the situation at Virginia Tech, a campuswide "lockdown" is not truly possible. A campus like ours is too large with too many buildings and doors. What we can do, though, is issue a call to "shelter in place," alerting everyone to stay inside or seek shelter where they can be safe until more information is known and can be given. The decision on what to do in an emergency is one that must be made by trained experts who take into account all circumstances.
As for our ability to communicate in an emergency that represents a threat to people on campus, the university has several ways to reach students, faculty, and staff, including:
* In the event of a campuswide emergency, warning sirens might be sounded. This signal tells you to go to the lowest level in the building you are in and to begin checking e-mail, the Purdue home page, or news media sources to learn the nature of the problem. The procedure is the same for extreme weather conditions or other emergencies. The sirens are tested on a regular basis.
* We are able to e-mail building deputies in every building, including our residence halls. They, in turn, may forward the e-mail or go to offices or rooms in person. They also may post signs on doors or in hallways. Sending an e-mail to our 200 building deputies is much faster than sending one to 50,000 students, faculty, and staff.
* We are exploring the possibilities offered by Facebook. We have just created a "Purdue Emergency Notification" group on Facebook that anyone with a purdue.edu address can join to receive safety-related information. We also may be able to use it to send alerts as text messages to mobile devices such as cell phones, as e-mail, or to a Facebook account.
* We also have the capability to e-mail all people with a Purdue address. For example, we sent out alerts before and during a snow recess last winter to Purdue e-mail accounts for students, faculty, and staff. The system works well, but a massive e-mail transmission may take an hour or two at best to reach everyone.
* Anyone, including parents, wishing to receive e-mail alerts also may sign up via the Purdue home page.
* We have a telephone tree in place for contacting those living in fraternity, sorority, and cooperative houses.
* Residence hall and communications administrators are on a paging system that receives alerts about any police, hazard, or fire activity. The pagers provide short text messages about the incident. When pages are received, these people can activate our emergency communications plan.
* The residence halls have procedures for alerting people in individual halls via their resident assistants, phones, and signage.
* The Purdue home page (http://www.purdue.edu) is the focal point of the most complete information for all campus-related emergencies.
* And, of course, we utilize the news media - radio, TV, and Internet - to help spread the word.
We are exploring several other options as well. As we refine emergency notification procedures, we will provide you with updated information. We also will share this information with prospective and incoming students during Day on Campus and Boiler Gold Rush.
Purdue is a large and complex institution, and people move about our campuses freely. Despite advances in communication, there is no way to reach everyone instantly with a single message. However, the multi-layered approaches described above will spread the word quickly.
Sincerely,
XX
Sr. Director, Environmental Health and Public Safety
XX
Vice President for Student Services
-----------------------------------
My reply:
Hallo. Thank you for your information which can be useful in case of emergency
similar to what happened at Virginia Tech, but to say that 'Purdue University
is a safe place' is non true at all. Not so much for Purdue's safety system but
rather because what happened at Virginia Tech may happen in any moment and in
any place all over USA. Anyone can buy a weapon and kill without even being
submitted to a control. Probably the most useful way to be safer in USA is to
collect signatures in order to propose and to achieve a strong reduction of
weapons for citizens.
For this reason, and certainly not because Americans are more criminal than
other populations, USA has a number of murders more than 3 times Italy, which
is a country with a high level of criminality in Europe, and much much more than other countries in Europe like Germany and France.
This is the real problem in USA and only with a reduction of weapons for
citizens, Americans will be safer.
Best wishes, Roberta Barazza
TA for Italian
After the letter, my reply.
April 24, 2007
To All Purdue Students, Faculty and Staff:
In the days following the tragic events at Virginia Tech University, some students, parents, and other members of the Purdue community have inquired about safety procedures on the West Lafayette campus, our capacity to respond to a large-scale emergency, and our ability to communicate with students, faculty, and staff in case of an emergency. As we all mourn the loss of life at Virginia Tech, including the death of two professors who were Purdue graduates, we want to assure all those in our community that campus safety is one of our highest priorities.
The Virginia Tech tragedy was a unique situation, but it reminds us that even in very safe environments, we have to be ready to respond. We believe the Purdue campuses are very safe, and we work constantly to make them safer. In the wake of this tragedy, all units involved with security at Purdue have met in recent days to review our state of readiness and apply lessons that we have learned.
While no amount of training and precaution can guarantee absolute safety at all times, Purdue police and other public safety personnel are exceptionally well-prepared. Purdue has extensive emergency contingency plans in place. For the West Lafayette campus, which is by far the largest and most complex of our campuses, you will find good information about safety on the Purdue police Web site: http://www.purdue.edu/police.
Despite what you may have heard or read about the situation at Virginia Tech, a campuswide "lockdown" is not truly possible. A campus like ours is too large with too many buildings and doors. What we can do, though, is issue a call to "shelter in place," alerting everyone to stay inside or seek shelter where they can be safe until more information is known and can be given. The decision on what to do in an emergency is one that must be made by trained experts who take into account all circumstances.
As for our ability to communicate in an emergency that represents a threat to people on campus, the university has several ways to reach students, faculty, and staff, including:
* In the event of a campuswide emergency, warning sirens might be sounded. This signal tells you to go to the lowest level in the building you are in and to begin checking e-mail, the Purdue home page, or news media sources to learn the nature of the problem. The procedure is the same for extreme weather conditions or other emergencies. The sirens are tested on a regular basis.
* We are able to e-mail building deputies in every building, including our residence halls. They, in turn, may forward the e-mail or go to offices or rooms in person. They also may post signs on doors or in hallways. Sending an e-mail to our 200 building deputies is much faster than sending one to 50,000 students, faculty, and staff.
* We are exploring the possibilities offered by Facebook. We have just created a "Purdue Emergency Notification" group on Facebook that anyone with a purdue.edu address can join to receive safety-related information. We also may be able to use it to send alerts as text messages to mobile devices such as cell phones, as e-mail, or to a Facebook account.
* We also have the capability to e-mail all people with a Purdue address. For example, we sent out alerts before and during a snow recess last winter to Purdue e-mail accounts for students, faculty, and staff. The system works well, but a massive e-mail transmission may take an hour or two at best to reach everyone.
* Anyone, including parents, wishing to receive e-mail alerts also may sign up via the Purdue home page.
* We have a telephone tree in place for contacting those living in fraternity, sorority, and cooperative houses.
* Residence hall and communications administrators are on a paging system that receives alerts about any police, hazard, or fire activity. The pagers provide short text messages about the incident. When pages are received, these people can activate our emergency communications plan.
* The residence halls have procedures for alerting people in individual halls via their resident assistants, phones, and signage.
* The Purdue home page (http://www.purdue.edu) is the focal point of the most complete information for all campus-related emergencies.
* And, of course, we utilize the news media - radio, TV, and Internet - to help spread the word.
We are exploring several other options as well. As we refine emergency notification procedures, we will provide you with updated information. We also will share this information with prospective and incoming students during Day on Campus and Boiler Gold Rush.
Purdue is a large and complex institution, and people move about our campuses freely. Despite advances in communication, there is no way to reach everyone instantly with a single message. However, the multi-layered approaches described above will spread the word quickly.
Sincerely,
XX
Sr. Director, Environmental Health and Public Safety
XX
Vice President for Student Services
-----------------------------------
My reply:
Hallo. Thank you for your information which can be useful in case of emergency
similar to what happened at Virginia Tech, but to say that 'Purdue University
is a safe place' is non true at all. Not so much for Purdue's safety system but
rather because what happened at Virginia Tech may happen in any moment and in
any place all over USA. Anyone can buy a weapon and kill without even being
submitted to a control. Probably the most useful way to be safer in USA is to
collect signatures in order to propose and to achieve a strong reduction of
weapons for citizens.
For this reason, and certainly not because Americans are more criminal than
other populations, USA has a number of murders more than 3 times Italy, which
is a country with a high level of criminality in Europe, and much much more than other countries in Europe like Germany and France.
This is the real problem in USA and only with a reduction of weapons for
citizens, Americans will be safer.
Best wishes, Roberta Barazza
TA for Italian
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
birth of US democracy
When can we speak of a democratic America? If you read books about the IIWW, you read of Europe saved by US troops representing democracy against fascist and nazist dictatorships. And it is common to speak of US democracy as if it were a long tradition, much longer than Italian tradition, for ex., or other countries' tradition.
The problem is that black people were recognized their civil rights not before the 60s. How can you define US a democracy if so huge a number of people could not vote?
So it will sound surprising to say that Italy (necessarily my point of comparison is often my country of origin) was a democracy before USA. But it is true. In 1946 we had free elections after fascism and women could vote so they are the first real democratic elections in Italy. And in USA black people could not vote yet. So Italy was a democratic country before USA.
It sounds really strange but it is true. So when we speak of US troops liberating Europe from non-democratic powers, we cannot really say that they were freed by a democratic nation.
I think that it is very important for black people to strengthen this idea and if officially the birth of US as a real democracy is set in 1964 when black people could vote, this is a sort of payment that US will give back in historical books in favour of the black population which suffered for lack of civil rights. It is as if officially US's denial of giving rights to black people would stain the historical cronology and this is right for black people. It is not a light matter. It is not obvious to say that yes, black people could vote in the 60s so US democracy is complete in the 60s. It is not a trivial thing. History should be rewritten. I have always studied US as the mother of democracy, the major democracy, and at the time of Roosevelt or even before all the history books speak of US democracy. And they should be rewritten, not to humiliate a country but to recognize the suffering of so many people denied of their rights.
The problem is that black people were recognized their civil rights not before the 60s. How can you define US a democracy if so huge a number of people could not vote?
So it will sound surprising to say that Italy (necessarily my point of comparison is often my country of origin) was a democracy before USA. But it is true. In 1946 we had free elections after fascism and women could vote so they are the first real democratic elections in Italy. And in USA black people could not vote yet. So Italy was a democratic country before USA.
It sounds really strange but it is true. So when we speak of US troops liberating Europe from non-democratic powers, we cannot really say that they were freed by a democratic nation.
I think that it is very important for black people to strengthen this idea and if officially the birth of US as a real democracy is set in 1964 when black people could vote, this is a sort of payment that US will give back in historical books in favour of the black population which suffered for lack of civil rights. It is as if officially US's denial of giving rights to black people would stain the historical cronology and this is right for black people. It is not a light matter. It is not obvious to say that yes, black people could vote in the 60s so US democracy is complete in the 60s. It is not a trivial thing. History should be rewritten. I have always studied US as the mother of democracy, the major democracy, and at the time of Roosevelt or even before all the history books speak of US democracy. And they should be rewritten, not to humiliate a country but to recognize the suffering of so many people denied of their rights.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Italians - mafia?
If an Italian travels abroad and says where s/he comes from, one of the first associations which s/he will be attributed, is 'mafia'. For foreigners Italy is first of all mafia.
Now, you will be surprised to hear that murders in USA are around 3 times more than in Italy.
Yesterday a new massacre in a USA university; unfortunately it often happens in USA: 32 dead.
There are 275 million inhabitants in USA. There are 57 million inhabitants in Italy. An average of 12000 people are murdered each year in USA. An average of 700 people are murdered in Italy each year. In Germany they are around 300 out of a population of 80 million inhabitants.
So in Italy murders are much more than in Germany, and also than in France and UK, but in USA murders are around three times more than in Italy.
Mafia? If I still hear someone associate the word mafia with me when I move abroad, I will now oblige him/her to listen to these numbers.
There is a difference, though: in Italy crimes are above all criminality or mafia. In USA there is not much criminality: ordinary people, good neighbours, good students going to church on Sunday ... these seem to be the responsible of the massacres. Ordinary people who, all of a sudden, bent by a big problem, begin to shoot here and there. Also in Italy common people get suddenly crazy for jelousy, or sudden unemployment, or hate for the neighbours , but - and this is an important point - they do not own a gun, a war pistol, a domestic kalashnikov. In Italy it is difficult to be allowed to buy a weapon. If one wants to kill, he can use a kitchen knife. But in USA it is terribly much easier. And so by chance there are thousands of murders evey year.
So now, which country is safer, USA or Italy?
Now, you will be surprised to hear that murders in USA are around 3 times more than in Italy.
Yesterday a new massacre in a USA university; unfortunately it often happens in USA: 32 dead.
There are 275 million inhabitants in USA. There are 57 million inhabitants in Italy. An average of 12000 people are murdered each year in USA. An average of 700 people are murdered in Italy each year. In Germany they are around 300 out of a population of 80 million inhabitants.
So in Italy murders are much more than in Germany, and also than in France and UK, but in USA murders are around three times more than in Italy.
Mafia? If I still hear someone associate the word mafia with me when I move abroad, I will now oblige him/her to listen to these numbers.
There is a difference, though: in Italy crimes are above all criminality or mafia. In USA there is not much criminality: ordinary people, good neighbours, good students going to church on Sunday ... these seem to be the responsible of the massacres. Ordinary people who, all of a sudden, bent by a big problem, begin to shoot here and there. Also in Italy common people get suddenly crazy for jelousy, or sudden unemployment, or hate for the neighbours , but - and this is an important point - they do not own a gun, a war pistol, a domestic kalashnikov. In Italy it is difficult to be allowed to buy a weapon. If one wants to kill, he can use a kitchen knife. But in USA it is terribly much easier. And so by chance there are thousands of murders evey year.
So now, which country is safer, USA or Italy?
Sunday, April 15, 2007
middle east
I think that the problem of terrorism is based on two fundamental matters: the presence of USA in the Persian Gulf and the Palestinian case. And it will be solved or radically improved when USA cease to consider the Persian Gulf a sort of personal property, and when the Palestinians will at last have a land.
After the end of British colonialism in Iran, the British refused to give Iran the control of the oil in Iran territory. And this is the beginning of some terrorist actions. USA joined the contrast and they never ceased to control the area: they eliminated Mossadegh in Iran and established the criminal dictatorship of Shah Palevi. Carter, at the end of the 70s, was one of the mildest US Presidents (the Americans would say the weakest) and he emphasized the importance of peaceful international relationships and the defense of human rights. He also disliked Shah Palavi but he refused to extradite him to Iran after the beginning of Komeini's power because the Shah would certainly have been killed. After the assault of the US Embassy in Teheran in 1979 and the capture of the 50 American hostages by Iranian students, the situation got worse. He could not solve the problem of the hostages, and another important problem rose: the Soviets invaded Afganistan and even he, the most peaceful of the US Presidents, considered this an attack to US themselves, and concentrated his efforts to free the Persian Gulf of the Soviet power, considering it unbearable that the Soviet Union replaced US in the control of the Persian Gulf. With Reagan there are new wars in the Persian Gulf ... up to now.
The question is: which rights do the US have to control the Persian Gulf as if it were the backyard of their house?
Terrorism is also a reply to this.
Second: Palestine. If the Palestinians do not have a land of their own, peace in the Middle East will remain impossible. There is no Palestine. There is only the State of Israel which controls also Palestine. Both Israelis and Palestinians have right to a piece of land, but so far only Israelis have one.
Terrorism will finish, I think, when the Persian Gulf countries will no longer be controlled by foreign countries and when the Palestinians will have a territory.
Is it really so absurd to think that a nation should do what is clearly right and not only what is its interest? Carter gave up the control of Panama Channel: this of course was considered a small suicide by Americans as they would no longer control the area. But this improved the international relationships, the independence of Panama and it was simply right: that nation at last got again the control of its territory. Carter is considered weak by Americans but he did some good choices, if not from the interested point of view of American safes, from the point of view of the international law. Reagan is, on the contrary, appreciated as a strong President who improved the economy of USA. But no matter if the cost of this improvement was a strong reduction of the workers' rights and an increase of the tension in the Persian Gulf. I think each citizen has the duty to judge the politics of one's country not only from a local point of view, but considering the consequences of one's policy also on the foreign countries.
As regards Iraq, how can people not see that a whole country is being completely destroyed? How can people not wonder if the US presence there is legitimate?
After the end of British colonialism in Iran, the British refused to give Iran the control of the oil in Iran territory. And this is the beginning of some terrorist actions. USA joined the contrast and they never ceased to control the area: they eliminated Mossadegh in Iran and established the criminal dictatorship of Shah Palevi. Carter, at the end of the 70s, was one of the mildest US Presidents (the Americans would say the weakest) and he emphasized the importance of peaceful international relationships and the defense of human rights. He also disliked Shah Palavi but he refused to extradite him to Iran after the beginning of Komeini's power because the Shah would certainly have been killed. After the assault of the US Embassy in Teheran in 1979 and the capture of the 50 American hostages by Iranian students, the situation got worse. He could not solve the problem of the hostages, and another important problem rose: the Soviets invaded Afganistan and even he, the most peaceful of the US Presidents, considered this an attack to US themselves, and concentrated his efforts to free the Persian Gulf of the Soviet power, considering it unbearable that the Soviet Union replaced US in the control of the Persian Gulf. With Reagan there are new wars in the Persian Gulf ... up to now.
The question is: which rights do the US have to control the Persian Gulf as if it were the backyard of their house?
Terrorism is also a reply to this.
Second: Palestine. If the Palestinians do not have a land of their own, peace in the Middle East will remain impossible. There is no Palestine. There is only the State of Israel which controls also Palestine. Both Israelis and Palestinians have right to a piece of land, but so far only Israelis have one.
Terrorism will finish, I think, when the Persian Gulf countries will no longer be controlled by foreign countries and when the Palestinians will have a territory.
Is it really so absurd to think that a nation should do what is clearly right and not only what is its interest? Carter gave up the control of Panama Channel: this of course was considered a small suicide by Americans as they would no longer control the area. But this improved the international relationships, the independence of Panama and it was simply right: that nation at last got again the control of its territory. Carter is considered weak by Americans but he did some good choices, if not from the interested point of view of American safes, from the point of view of the international law. Reagan is, on the contrary, appreciated as a strong President who improved the economy of USA. But no matter if the cost of this improvement was a strong reduction of the workers' rights and an increase of the tension in the Persian Gulf. I think each citizen has the duty to judge the politics of one's country not only from a local point of view, but considering the consequences of one's policy also on the foreign countries.
As regards Iraq, how can people not see that a whole country is being completely destroyed? How can people not wonder if the US presence there is legitimate?
egypt
I was in Luksor, Egypt, and I entered a shop where they sold wonderful colourful African dresses. I decided to buy two, a red one and a blue one. But they were too long; so long dresses are not common in Europe. I said that I could not have worn them. But the boy in the shop said 'Do not worry, I will solve the problem in few minutes'. He left me in the shop and came back later .... more than two hours later! He had been at the factory where he had the dressed cut and sewn!
Fortunately there was a TV in the shop and I was conforted by a film in Arabic.
Fortunately there was a TV in the shop and I was conforted by a film in Arabic.
albanian habits
In Albania people nod in an opposite way: if they want to say 'Yes' Albanians move their heads from right to left, if they want to say 'No' they move them up and down. So when I was in Elbasan I asked a local inhabitant if there were any buses to Tirana and he nodded 'No' in his way. So I replied: 'Good. And where can I catch one?' and he continued to nod the same way. I almost got angry with him and only later I could grasp the misunderstanding.
a 4 million people 'village' in china
In Europe there are few cities with more than 4 million inhabitants, and they are usual capital cities like Berlin, Paris, London. And everybody knows so huge towns. When I went to China I happened to get off the train in an unknown town in the north - Harbin - which I later discovered to have 4 million inhabitants. Everything is huge in China.
ode to Mr. Kalashnikov
When I was in Warsaw, Poland, I entered the Russian Embassy to ask for some information, and I was shocked at what I read in a window in the hall. It was a picture of Mr. Kalashnikov and his 'admirable' invention with some scenes of war. Mr. Kalashnikov was praised as a benefactor of mankind for his weapon which, it was written, defended and defends so many people from criminals. Nothing was written of when it is not used to defend but to attack innocent people.
birdwatching
To practice birdwatching it is not necessary to walk around parks or to cover many miles. I do birdwatching at home offering seeds to birds invited to my windows. And here in West Lafayette this is particularly rewarding since birds are colourful and beautiful. I began in Riga, Latvia in winter, and since then I do birdwatching in all the countries I stay in. It takes some days for birds to notice food in the windows, but once they got it, they may even wake you in the morning to ask for breakfast.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
palestine, the last colony
Palestine, actually, does not exist. Palestinians and Israelis live in Israel. Palestine is not a nation, it is a territory in Israel. I remember some years ago that Arafat, who died in 1994, wanted to go I-do-not-know-where and he simply could not, because Israel did not give him the permission. Now it is almost the same. There is no Palestine. There is just Israel which has the control of Palestine as well. Palestine seems to be the last colony, and hopefully still for a short time. Many Palestinians lived and still live in Iraq. But now the situation is getting worse for them because they are hated both by Sunnitis and by Shiitis and they suffer violence more and more often. So many leave the country. But, differently from any other citizen in the world, they have no homeland, they cannot go to Palestine, simply because there is no Palestine, there is just Israel which does not want at all to open the borders to Palestinians emigrated abroad. Palestinians are what Israelis were some decades ago: a population with no land.How can you think that it is possible to solve the problem of Middle East terrorism if you do not consider and solve these situations?What is being done now, that is forcing 'democracy' in Middle East, seems what can do a doctor who wants to heal a wound simply covering it instead of curing and consider where it comes from.
Nancy Pelosi
Congratulations to Nancy Pelosi! I admire her courage to take decisions which seem to be condamned not only by Bush but by the whole national press. I hope hers will be the new trend of US foreign politics, based not on violence and hard counterposition but on an attempt to communicate and solve present problems with the arms of diplomacy and discussions, rather than with those of guns and bombs which should be left to the past.
Has Bush solved anything with his solution for the Middle East? Nothing. Has he worsened the situation? No doubt. The failure of his politics makes it necessary to look for other solutions. I also hope US will no longer be recognized the right to invade other countries. Only a common decision of UNO can do this. Only UNO can organize to intervene, and not a single country alone.
Has Bush solved anything with his solution for the Middle East? Nothing. Has he worsened the situation? No doubt. The failure of his politics makes it necessary to look for other solutions. I also hope US will no longer be recognized the right to invade other countries. Only a common decision of UNO can do this. Only UNO can organize to intervene, and not a single country alone.
CIA and massoneria
I have the impression that films of social and political commitment are recently increasing. I like this because this is my favourite genre. There seems to be less sentimentalism at the cinema and more attention to public social problems.
Today another film by Robert De Niro was presented and it is about CIA and its unofficial tricky games. I heard also that he compared CIA to Italian Loggia Massonica. This is not correct and the difference is big: CIA works for the US govenment, while Loggia Massonica began to organize a sort of coup d'état against Italian institutions. Loggia Massonica and Massoneria were condamned by the Italian Republic. This does not exclude, though, that some politicians of the Italian goverment and Parliament supported the Massoneria. I say this because I like these topics and not to criticize Robert De Niro who just vaguely began to study this comparison. And I hope films with similar topics will continue to be produced.
One more thing: I am in USA and I see many 'Masonry' buildings here with the usual symbols of the triangle, the eye, the compasses. When I arrived here I was surprised to see Masonry buildings as if it were a legal organization. In Italy if you say that you belong to the 'Massoneria' you risk prison, since it is a forbidden organization which acted in the past against the law. But in USA it is legal and it does not need to hide.
In Italy a law says that secret organizations cannot exist and Massoneria was one which tried to subvert the legal institutions. In USA Masonry seems to be a legal organization which has not problems with justice, while CIA is a secret organization but it seems to be perfectly in harmony with the official power of the White House.
Today another film by Robert De Niro was presented and it is about CIA and its unofficial tricky games. I heard also that he compared CIA to Italian Loggia Massonica. This is not correct and the difference is big: CIA works for the US govenment, while Loggia Massonica began to organize a sort of coup d'état against Italian institutions. Loggia Massonica and Massoneria were condamned by the Italian Republic. This does not exclude, though, that some politicians of the Italian goverment and Parliament supported the Massoneria. I say this because I like these topics and not to criticize Robert De Niro who just vaguely began to study this comparison. And I hope films with similar topics will continue to be produced.
One more thing: I am in USA and I see many 'Masonry' buildings here with the usual symbols of the triangle, the eye, the compasses. When I arrived here I was surprised to see Masonry buildings as if it were a legal organization. In Italy if you say that you belong to the 'Massoneria' you risk prison, since it is a forbidden organization which acted in the past against the law. But in USA it is legal and it does not need to hide.
In Italy a law says that secret organizations cannot exist and Massoneria was one which tried to subvert the legal institutions. In USA Masonry seems to be a legal organization which has not problems with justice, while CIA is a secret organization but it seems to be perfectly in harmony with the official power of the White House.
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