[ExI] Al Cafone (was: The Manifesto of Italian Transhumanists)

[Amara Graps]

Mirco Romanato painlord2k at yahoo.it :
>Would you tell us why Mr. Berlusconi deserve to be in jail?

I gave a link,

>Criminal offenses
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>
>Here I've collected the most relevant articles about his fitness as a
>prime minister; the last 25 pages of this 50 page compendium concern his
>last 9 criminal indictments as investigated by The Economist.
>
>http://www.amara.com/article.pdf
(this is a temporary location, I'll remove it about a week)

but probably I wasn't explicit enough.

The formal charges are (some are multiple times): tax fraud, false
accounting, illegal financing of a political party, bribery,
misappropriation of funds. Most of these ran out by statute of
limitations. When Berlusconi evades criminal charges, he changes the
laws, or he changes the judges or he alters other parts of the judicial
system. When Berlusconi wants to expand his business, he initiates bills
to ensure that his businesses not only continue, but expand.

 From "Dear Mr Berlusconi..."  Leader article, Jul 31st 2003
 From The Economist print edition
Why we are sending an open letter to the Italian prime minister

"This is not a matter of a rich businessman now applying his talents to
reforming Italy and giving it a greater voice in the world, though no
doubt Mr Berlusconi is sincere when he says he would like to do those
things. It is a matter of a rich businessman using his political power
to foster his businesses, both by defeating judicial investigations
against him and by enacting new laws and regulations in his own
interest. The Economist is thus concerned about Mr Berlusconi both as an
outrage against the Italian people and their judicial system, and as
Europe's most extreme case of the abuse by a capitalist of the democracy
within which he lives and operates. Far from being, as he claims, the
man who is creating a new Italy, he is a prime representative, and
perpetuator, of the worst of old Italy. Ironic, really."

See starting from about page 15 of the many articles I globbed together
and placed at the link above.

Amara

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Amara Graps, PhD      www.amara.com
Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado