Comments on: Let’s Go Dutch

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:23:48 +0000

fwiw, fascism was popular the first time around. it’s only once the regime falls that everyone claims to have been a resister, or at least a resister inside.

By: the mighty jimbo

the mighty jimbo — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 05:23:40 +0000

it’s like fascism is becoming popular so long everyone get’s to keep suvs, walmart and cheap cafe lates on every corner.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:11:42 +0000

Blimey. Not altogether surprising, coming from Berlusconi’s Italy [imagine, for instance, Rupert Murdoch owning not lots of US tv stations but nearly all of them, and being president into the bargain – the mind boggles], but disgusting all the same.

By: Daragh McDowell

Daragh McDowell — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:34:19 +0000

Nice one Maria, very thoughtful and important post. Of course Berlusconi’s disgusting little premiership has made him a natural ally of Bush’s junta and the US definition of Global Free Trade. The G8 protests in Genoa were an unmitigated exercise in massive use of state force against a largely peaceful group of legitimate protestors, sanctioned by a corrupt media tycoon. I’m very worried at Berlusconi’s attempt to actually hinder the free travel of EU citizens as it seems to be an attempt not only at quashing dissent, but in actively weakening the Union, as we seem to be on the road to becoming closer and tighter a unit. Of course this horrifies the blind nationalist sentiments of the British, the power hungry mobster government in Italy, and of course the USA, which fears the creation of a real potential counterweight to its power that could curb its plans for global supremacy. Sorry ‘bout the rant, but its time for Berlusconi to go. He represents a fundamental danger to the European Union, and is an embarrassment to Italy.