By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli, July 29th 2013.
Looking
for a definition to ‘Theft’ as a
criminal act, or ‘Thief’ as a
criminal person, one would be going through which ever Penal Code in the world
to find it defined, more or less, as “..whomever
seizes or take possession of the movable things of others”.. Giving it a
thought, the ‘good’ we’re talking
about, life, could possibly be defined as movable thing? Of course no; the code
would add something very important “It is
also considered a movable thing the Electric Energy and any other energy of
economic value”.
Try and
ask your lawyer friend and he, rising up his shoulders, would reply: “Of course no, this kind of theft is not
foreseen by any code. Not always there could be a Penal Responsibility..
Maximum it could be social, moral or political.. Supposing that such
responsibilities exist anymore in our society”!!
Nowhere
in any law this crime is, or will ever be, provided for: The Theft of Life.. Not Homicide to be clear, but the
subtraction of energies of ideas, of enthusiasms, and of hopes.. These are
being systematically taken away.
If you
are over forty five years of age, then you’ll know what I’m talking about; for
you have certainly passed one day out of two trying to outlive the
controversies and hatred that have humiliated your impulses and ideals; a day consumed
in self defence against those who worked
their best to shred the country into small insignificant pieces, while you
wanted to open up and overlook the whole world.
Then
you’d look around and see your mates obliged to migrate.. Or lean down the head
to crime, corruption and political patronage.. Even to renounce undertaking any
exploit or venture.. Dignity have been stolen, yet even this isn’t an offense punishable
by any law!!
You’ve
definitely experienced that without a recommendation, a business card, or an
affiliation you couldn’t have the chance to become a professor, a director or a
manager.. Isn’t that a theft of merit, of commitment, of occasions?
Maybe
even you have seen architects friends of friends constructing buildings and
high rises out of norms who’ve been convicted, imprisoned or at large, though leaving
you without land, air, and horizons!! You have certainly
witnessed the flourishing careers of journalists champions of
silence and complicity; while others, more skilled, honest and free, are
plodding along.. And that is not theft??
They have
stolen my life and yours as well, even if you didn’t realised it yet.. Maybe it
is not a crime.. But the thieves are still out there.. Unpunished!
Pass On The Word.
NB: This article is adapted from Ferruccio Sansa’s
editorial on today’s Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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