When building a wall – of any type: cultural, social, racial or even
physical made of bricks, barbed wire or steel – around yourself thinking it’ll
protect you from the ‘Other’, in fact it isolates you from all and from
everything; and you’ll end up discovering how vulnerable and defenceless you’ve become.
A.N.
Last week Right Wing Hungarian authorities have informed the EU
commission and parliament of its immediate suspension of the Political Asylum
treaty, and of its intention to erect a 180km long and 5m high of double folds
barbed wire closing its southern borders with Serbian territory!
Moreover, France has forced tens of desperate African refugees to remain
on the rocky shores of Ventimiglia refusing to host them on French soil. The
official claim is: “awaiting the new EU regulations
in merit”!
Austria, Denmark, Germany and the UK are timidly watching and silently
preparing similar procedures; while in Italy and since several years , official
police records show frequent cases of aggression on “extra-community subjects” by activists belonging to extreme right
movements; headed and driven by the xenophobe political party “Lega Nord”* – The North League – which calls for the elimination of “Parasites that are infecting the society
and the race”, and uplifting its tones declaring that “kicking them out is no longer a solution, the time has come to engage
bulldozers to eradicate them and their camps from our cities”.
Lega Nord - same as European Skin-Heads, Neo Nazis, and Neo Fascists - has
been dangerously embracing the very same tactics practiced in the US by
Nationalist Groups of Supremacists and Secessionists, who follow the “Anglo-Celtic” ideology and preach
independence and dominion over other ethnic a/o religious minorities.
Preaching ‘Hate’, to support an ideology of racial supremacy, would
consequently imply ‘Violence’.. Which always commence first ‘Moral’ (verbal
aggression, racial segregation, offensive critics, insults, songs…), then, and
for socio-political motives more than cultural, the violence will rapidly shift
from moral towards the ‘Material’ (cloths, cars, houses, shops, camps,
churches, synagogues…Etc.).. However, it does not stop here;
unfortunately it accelerates into ‘Physical’ attacks on the person with the
intention of causing maximum harm, having death as a target.
The Charlestone Church massacre by Dylann Roof proves my point, that
preaching hate implies consequently all sorts of violence; that are above all
unpredictable as well as uncontrollable.. Roof was raised in an environment
where the Confederate flag decorates many residential facades and is proudly
waved on the top post of the City Hall; and where the notes of Dixie is the
region’s official anthem.. In fact, for many southerners, both the flag and
Dixie are the symbols of the Confederate Republic of the South.
What’s to be considered carefully here is that, on both sides of the
Northern Atlantic, racial supremacy and its sisters nationalism and secessionism
are Constitutionally protected: in the US by their worshiped sacred ‘Totem’ known as the “2nd
Amendment”; while in Europe the “Freedom of Expression” articles are
the shield.
Also, despite the obvious similarity of the methodologies that are meticulously
practiced here and there, to
mobilise the masses and ensure their loyalty, through: manifesting,
creating of proper identification symbols (flags, logos, anthems, books,
slogans, mottos, oaths, cloths, colours, hair-styles, songs…etc.),
rallying, preaching, recruiting, training, educating, misinforming and
assaulting; no one sees or admits the identical characteristics that join
together all types of extreme ideological, political, racial or religious Fanatic Behaviour!!
It’s clear that nothing is new under the sun.. Yet it is clearer that history repeats itself regularly in cycles of approximate precision.. So, I can safely
conclude that it is much too much clear the ‘Imbecility’ exhibited by many of
us.. Those who absolutely refuse to learn the lessons of History.. Or even
worse: to categorically deny History itself.
Pass On The Word.
PS:
I.
Allow me to suggest the vision of two films considered as part of
Hollywood’s Cult features:
1) “American History X” with Edward Norton, and
2) “Mississippi Burning” with Gene Hackman and William Dafoe.
II.
La storia:
a) Offer us the possibility to examine all the choices of the past in relation to their economic, political
and cultural pretexts of their times;
b) allow us as well to analyse the consequences revealed from such choices, so that,
if wit enough, we would learn how to face the challenges of the present without having to sort out for
uncertain improvisations or be limited to only react or just follow the
initiatives of others;
c) give us for last the certainty of being able to reduce into its possible
minimum any unseen risk, and to best organize efficient plans optimizing the future.
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