The Mafia now pervades all state institutions. The various gangs (including the 'Ndrangheta and Camorra) are just a manifestation of a more general problem is cronyism. The basic problem is the fact that politics stops to serve the common good and becomes a way of channeling money to a group of powers. There is a substantial difference between the favor done by the policy of the Po Valley that favors only a friend and that by a Sicilian politician equally a company which takes advantage. Then the fact that these companies (both the northern and the southern one) are in the hands of the mafia, or 'Ndrangheta and the Camorra is certainly an aggravating factor, but the behavior is the same and evil is at the origin, just in designing policy in this manner. Unfortunately there are too many people (I fear the majority) so that conceive and who turn to politicians to have some advantage over those who do not have the same friends and acquaintances. Even those who turn to the private political friend to get something that belongs to him, to assert his right, is fueling this system, because turning to him in this manner, a problem staff is still trying to climb over others who would be entitled to like him. Is obviously different if you pick up a problem and cites his own case as an example only, but, of course, is not what I'm talking about.
Unless you change this mentality in which the majority of people always try to pass to others seeking alliances, making friends and acquaintances will be impossible to break this vicious circle of political dishonesty that makes the interests of a few and going forward supported by them few, but they can move votes and support. And if the majority of politicians who have arrived in parliament in that position through these mechanisms, it is obvious that not only can not never fight these schemes, but have no interest in doing so.
The only hope is to change almost entirely the political class, but this should be done without replacing it with a different uniform outer limits of the representatives of the centers of criminal power, to different people always refer to the same centers of power. So should change, even before the politicians, citizens , or at least the fight should be done at the same time condemning one another without fear of alienating support.
A new kind of politician, should rather say: if you want to learn from this vote only for personal gain, if you expect me to take a single decision that is not for the benefit of the whole community, but only a part of it, I do not vote! If you want to ask favors, even the most innocent, you come closer! In these circumstances, needless to say that if you present with a package of votes sure it will sue their own.
should submit a program as they took on the interests of the mafia and that explicitly seeks to break these mechanisms. I try to give examples of some things that should be made:
- Simplification of laws to prevent cracks in his face away with time and those who can afford lawyers can exploit them. Laws should be few and clear, leaving no room for interpretation as possible.
- Abolition of banking secrecy and treated with states that have investigated this case because it can not stop the investigation. Laws to simplify the reconstruction of the steps banks must always be clear from where the money and where they go. Severe penalties for anyone who circumvents.
- Removal of restrictions on wiretaps and recently created new conditions for the telephone concession for which, in exchange for the grant, in addition to paying the fee, will provide free (as in almost all countries) are tabulated and wiretapping requests by investigators.
- imprisonment for all the mafia that refuse to cooperate and new laws for employees that there are benefits, even more than at present, for those who collaborate, but only if it has no such reticence should not be allowed to stop at a certain level, that is to say nothing of political collusion.
- Aggravating for politicians, officials, police, policemen, financiers, and in general for any public servant in the case of collusion with the Mafia, even for simple proximity. More aggravating if the employees are the secret services. Has anyone had been convicted of crimes related to the mafia should be banned from public office of any kind (including of course and even more so than politicians).
- Read going to affect their interests, and liberalization of the drugs that must be managed by the state and whose income should go only to campaigns and structures against the use of drugs. Much heavier punishments for traffickers of current and complete decriminalization of the use (not reveal the name of the supplier to be considered equivalent to traffickers). Regulation of prostitution, which shall be removed from the hands of traffickers and monitored in all the medical and social aspects.
- concrete tools to counter extortion and follow the signs for those who have rebelled.
- Campaigns pressing, continuous, from schools to television against the mafia that illustrate the problem, showing all the implications, explaining how to defend themselves (by providing the tools to do of course) and that take away the aura of invincibility that now; as said Falcone: "La mafia, like every human phenomenon, it has a beginning and an end." Similarly should be censored films and that they give a positive connotation.
Surely there would be lots of other things to do. Just hear the experts about those who fight every day, risking their lives and that instead of being regarded as heroes (usually this happens after they are killed, if it does), are also attacked and vilified by the institutions.
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