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trigger-happy: the massacres in U.S. schools and the culture of violence

The massacre today in a U.S. college, after a shooting that caused dozens of deaths, is just the latest of similar episodes that periodically hit the United States. The tragedy will raise a hornet's nest of opinions and accusations, which are useful to fill seats and to straighten the audience of U.S. talk show, everything as in 1999 when the Columbine massacre shook the imaginary American Institute, linked to the idea of \u200b\u200bschool as means of escaping violence in the ghettos of the shootings. The wonder that violence explode as well, in an unexpected place, seemingly without warning, makes the mistake of confining these cases diverted to the mind of some young boys, as if listening to a certain type of music, bad company, or some mental disorder adolescent could justify a massacre. The scope of incidents like this is not so as to reduce a phenomenon on a personal basis, but perhaps in a malaise that affects American society as a whole, including the ease of gun ownership is just a corollary. Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine, a documentary about the Columbine massacre, said the reason that the U.S. has a number of murders per capita three to four times higher than the European countries (see articles PeaceReporter: art. 1 and art. 2) with the presence and easy availability weapons state, a view supported by study at Harvard School of Public Health. Certainly the availability of weapons for all the violence can help you realize that the common person can try, but perhaps the problem should be tackled at its root. These phenomena are united by two things: it happens in places of training, and are made by young people. If a state like the United States is hit at home, by the people who are its future, and right in a symbol of their growth as citizens, is then to think that there is something wrong with the values \u200b\u200bthat in general ' Education and the U.S. mass media transmit to their generations. Will then just the statement that President George W. Bush will make to the nation on the matter, it is precisely because the U.S. administration and the propaganda that is bound to be legitimate form of behavior that laws in recent years have marked the world affairs: it thinks of the "Act" in the name of defense against terrorism justifies the restriction of rights (like privacy) of U.S. citizens, or detention without charge at Guantanamo as certain. There is no question the civil law to the possession of a weapon, as set by the U.S. Bill of Rights, but the abuse of rights that characterizes U.S. foreign and domestic policy. If the 'American dream "that the U.S. intends to export is made of war ... and if this is justified for the defense of the Fatherland, was hardly surprising that their children of this culture to be influenced. If violence and abuse are legal means for a state for the resolution of conflicts, it is not surprising that the weapons are seen by citizens a legitimate means of asserting their will. And it is perhaps in this light that you can read the U.S. refusal to abolish the death penalty and to regulate the arms trade: gun violence is not governed only by the political power of the National Rifle Association business and economic generates, but also has its roots in a culture that considers the weapons, or violence in general, half as another, if not the preferred way of confrontation and conflict.

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GOOD AND EVIL OF DEMOCRACY: the polemic against the CEI

Not a day passes in which the CEI did not add an element to the controversy with the DICO. The statements today the newly elected president of CEI, Archbishop Bagnasco, highlight the basics "ideology" behind the opposition to de facto couples: Bagnasco said that first, if the "objective criterion for judging good and evil" is replaced by the 'consensus' or the public, or "dressed majorities democracy but that could become widely and severely undemocratic, violent or better ", it could degenerate into" aberrations "as" legalization of incest or pedophilia among consenting persons "Bagnasco then used these as examples of supposedly democratic majorities cases of England , where "a brother and sorellahanno children, live together and love each other" and Holland, with the case of the pedophile party. Regarding this first point, I would like to make some comments. First, the concepts of good and evil objective "of" natural and unnatural "called by many Angelus the Pope, have no objective basis but a cultural one, and it's the same story to show it: with the changing times have changed the concepts of good, bad, natural and unnatural, as adjusted from time to time in the dominant power, but the CEI is also talk of "nature", "right natural, "but without explaining precisely what it is based on this" anthropological ethics policy regarding human nature, which is' primarily a matter of nature and culture "as" human nature ", has historically taken on behaviors and norms depending on the different cultures and times, unless you want to take an ethnocentric policy as the "superiority of Western civilization" Bagnasco seems then be the bearer of an original concept of democracy, which, unbound by the public, is no longer the "people power" in order to recognize their legal rights, and thus implies a change in the representation of Deputies, representatives of the people no longer but the clergy, but if a nation is not governed by the power of the people, public law, but he stood by a minority church, the alternative to "anti-democratic majorities and violent" described Bagnasco can not be a theocracy; result the inevitable disappearance of the power of the people is that the "natural and objective criterion of good and evil" is to be a substitute to the 'self-determination two consenting individuals "Finally, it is really an interest in preserving the human species to enliven the controversy of the CEI, do not see why a theme that puts more radically into question the permanence of the human race, or the global state of war in world, are placed only in rare impromptu statements of the Pope, not assuming that the current political relevance, with the vote on the refinancing of the military, might suggest. pulling the findings, it appears that the bishops' attention is focused on an attempt to change the rules of the democratic game, which fits perfectly in the status of a lack of political representation Members: practicing Catholics in Italy, ranging, according to estimates by the Catholic Alliance, between 25% and 35% (data CESNUR), less than half the Italian population, and not all are contari reforms such as the recognition Legal status of unmarried couples , or even more thorny issues such as euthanasia . Opposition to say, simple legal recognition of a major reality in the country (de facto couples are twice as many marriages, the source ISTAT), you configure and then, beyond the specific targets of the clergy, as another case (next to the refinancing of military missions, at Dal Molin, etc..) that transforms Italian democracy into an oligarchy of the "great powers". A further demonstration that the "good" is not for everyone, but those in charge.

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SAY THE OTHER ROAD TO PEACE: the newness of the mediation of Emergency

The release of Daniele Mastrogiacomo, thanks to the mediation of the NGO Emergency, has inaugurated a new form of intervention in a conflict. The positive resolution of the story for the Italian journalist does reflect on the motivations that may have pushed the Taliban to the release of a man with a serious charge of spying, plus the pay of the occupying troops.

1. The killing, however bloody, Mastrogiacomo's Afghan interpreter accompanying certainly does not think of an act of mercy of the Taliban;
2. seems, however, simplistic to think of a compromise of the Taliban when they get the release of some of their leaders (but not the withdrawal of the Italian): indeed, the killing of the journalist could have led to a rethinking of the refinancing Italian ISAF mission;
3. Third, although important, do not think that appeals to the liberation of the Italian population may indeed have influenced the release , as shown by past cases of journalists kidnapped and executed;

Despite the actors of the story have been multiple (the Italian secret services, the Karzai government, and yet, despite the criticism followed the U.S.), is common knowledge in the central mediation of Emergency . The hospital Afghan NGO free care who you are presented, regardless of age, religious belief or political affiliation: In a word, even by Taliban fighters. Not pausing here practical and symbolic importance of this initiative, which fully complies with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I want to stress that the opening of a civil confrontation with the Taliban and the peaceful settlement that followed was just about a organization that has a real mission humanitarian, made not with guns and bombs, but with medical care free and open to all. The dialogue with the Taliban shows the positive consideration of the NGO Emergency in the country, even among the extremists, who may not have influenced the release of Mastrogiacomo. This may account for the different fate than all'afghano is Italian in the Italian NGO, and the resulting positive regard for Italy at the Afghan population.

I conclude that if indeed the refinancing of the Italian mission ISAF is made in humanitarian function, and if the stay of the Italian contingent is seen as the prerequisite for starting the Afghan war to peaceful SAH, as expressed by Minister D'Alema, it should be rethought and changed its connotations in the light of this positive experience.

We tend to think the idea of \u200b\u200ba peace conference involving the Taliban even revolutionary idea, certainly against the strategies in vogue, as the "spring offensive". But just because against the Peace Conference can not happen until you achieve a real step, and not just symbolic, towards peace, that we can only occur with the withdrawal of Italian troops or a serious redefinition of the assumptions and for the ISAF mission. Find an alternative solution to the offensive military does not mean supporting the Taliban or a wish their return to power. But the war in Afghanistan, given the distance between the military and many civilian deaths (see to stay current PeaceReporter ), the destruction of the country and the few achievements, is a violation of human rights like the Taliban regime.

Rethinking the mission in Afghanistan from the means " belief that nothing is comparable to the value of human existence, and when it is actually a human life in danger, you should save it to carry out any act that do not directly destroy other "as the press release Emergency on the story Mastrogiacomo. If Italy wants to follow its belief that peace with the Peace Conference, is not only necessary to create a European unit as advocated yesterday by President Napolitano, but also give the Afghans a lead role in their own renaissance, and not to the victim, but to what are perhaps more necessary as the works of weapons of Emergency (also partly financed by Italy) new infrastructure, water purification ... A people alive and healthy for democracy will decide if the want. But the ISAF mission, with its victims and its bombing of civilians, can only bring enmity for the West and support for the Taliban, frustrated not only a "victory" but a military genuine desire for democracy for the Afghan people.

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empty seats: Italian politics and the crisis of representation

Yesterday the House passed, by a majority of 95.9%, the decree that refinances military missions abroad: 4% missing for unanimity composed of 19 votes against and 3 abstentions. In total more than 99% of Deputies has voted against. The point here is to emphasize the many reasons not about policies that encourage an executive to vote against their own ideas, against the constitution: the nearly unanimous vote on refinancing military missions is primarily a vote against the voters, of which the deputies are to Definition representatives. You do not need "the ballet of the digits" of surveys to understand that among the mood of the population and the executive government, whether right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous, is digging a groove more, un'incomunicabilità substance which can not fail have consequences, much more of a deep estrangement from politics, a general lack of interest or of increasing absenteeism from voting. The refinancing of missions is only one case in which the parliament speaks for itself, and not for the much-cited "real problems of the country." It can be considered a calculation in his pocket what drives the majority of Italians see eye evil money that could be occupied with equal solidarity (with a portion of funding for military missions could be abolished ticket health ...), or a feeling of "beautiful souls" pacifist, considered disconnected from reality the job of politicians, the fact is that now the "people sovereign and its agents speak two different languages. Here then is an Italy that a large majority is mobilized for peace, civil rights, welfare, be reduced to the logic of the opposition party, where "peace" is a word left, "safety" ambidextrous term, "welfare" required by tax evaders. There are those who live on their own land, he knows the needs, the reasons, there are those who live in his own chair, now empty because phenomena such as Afghanistan, the Dal Molin, the Tav, Moses, to say, the insane salaries of Sanremo, in their remoteness from the will and needs of Italians, show that Italian politics is marked by a growing vacuum of representation, therefore emblematic which can only be an electoral law that elects the deputies on the basis of the logic of the party. It will not be changing the electoral law to bring down from the chair representatives of a country that exists only in the offices of House.

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