Asshole. (image via askmen)
Pony-boy Machiavelli and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a fascist buffoon to be sure, has been making the gypsies an issue. In proposing a census to weed out illegal immigrants from among the gypsies (and using overheated right-wing rhetoric to do so), he has created an atmosphere in which bigotry against them is on the upswing. Recently the dead bodies of two gypsy girls failed to give sunbathers pause. From Bloomberg:
"Rebecca Covaciu, like most little girls, likes to draw pictures of the things she knows best: Her brother playing the accordion for spare change, a self-portrait as she begs for money to buy food, a shack under a bridge.
"Rebecca is a Roma, or gypsy, as her ethnic group of Romany speakers is more widely known. She moved to Italy from Romania with her parents and two siblings two years ago. Since then, authorities have driven her family out of a half-dozen makeshift camps. In June, Italian men shouting racist taunts punched her and shoved her to the ground.
"'I'm 12 years old and I already know what sadness is,' she said in fluent Italian at the Tor di Quinto camp on the banks of the Tiber river in Rome. 'Why can't we live our lives, too?'"
If Dante Aligieri could assign Berlusconi a proper residence in Hell it would surely be in a hot spot at the vestibule.
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