Vicenza, sospeso il referendum del 5 ottobre. Il commento di Marco Revelli: "Un colpo di stato amministrativo, che priva i cittadini di uno strumento fondamentale di espressione e di partecipazione".
Il primo ottobre 2008 sarà ricordato – se ci sarà ancora capacità di memoria – come un giorno nero. E non solo perché, come è sulle prime pagine di tutti i giornali, fa parte della successione frenetica di momenti in cui è andata giù buona parte dell’asse portante dell’economia “globale”, ma perchè è, insieme, il giorno in cui è andato giù un altro bel pezzo della nostra democrazia “locale”.
La decisione del Consiglio di Stato di bloccare il referendum indetto a Vicenza sulla questione del Dal Molin è, da ogni punto di vista, un vulnus gravissimo. Il sintomo di un male mortale. Equivale, per molti versi, a un colpo di stato amministrativo, che priva i cittadini di uno strumento fondamentale di espressione e di partecipazione. Un pezzo di territorio è soprattutto, manu militari, alla sua popolazione cui viene impedito fin anche di manifestare con lo strumento del voto la propria volontà. E mentre un organo dello Stato opera a questa avocazione, dichiarandolo indisponibile ai propri cittadini, in quanto fuori della loro competenza, un altro organo, il Commissario governativo, lo rende disponibile e lo destina, con iniziativa unilaterale, a una “potenza foreign, "as it seemed at one time. And the worst of uses: the war.
hard not to see in this a sign of the times. Not so much, or not only the inherently authoritarian and fascist in its methods of government and segments (we'd still be in the range of contingencies which may change), but a kind of regressive dynamic "system". An entire "order of things" that is composing - and-string around us, in a logic of closure spaces and violation of values \u200b\u200buntil recently solid and unquestionable.
hard not to reconnect the ruling Council of State on Vicenza, with a simultaneous position of Advocate of the State the process for the massacre of the Diaz school in Genoa, that it would be absurd to talk - about what happened that night in July 2001 - "suspension of democracy."
O with the obscene act of racism in Parma, covered by institutional un'omertà scandalous.
And the list grows every week, to draw the pieces of a mosaic that reveals, as is being completed, scenes from the thirties, and the profile of a country unrecognizable.
would do well to take note, with the drama that it requires. The crisis, which is plummeting, overwhelmed with mountains of waste paper and the financial savings of us all, even with that little civility and democratic spirit that the travails of the twentieth century had occurred.
Build, rather than return to reason and solidarity trends to a new barbarism, without fear, indifference, impotent rage and aggression, down, and arrogance, domination and disregard of rules and rights, at the top. Without finding, in front of him, barriers. Alarm systems. Response capabilities. In a word: opposition. That
moments of emergency. That would allow to rise again after the big falls. Certainly not the speed of a waltz around the success or failure dialogue between majority and minority. Certainly not the court disputes between the rubble of the old left. Not this chat and bathrobe on the deck of the Titanic, which assists in the last few days.
Maybe it's too late. Perhaps there are neither men nor words, to stay at current threats. But if a residual response capacity survives, even if there is a willingness to get involved on issues of basic democracy and justice, would be a good show, from any part of it is left desperate. If not now, when?
Marco Revelli
Source: Manifesto
October 2, 2008
