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Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi is bloodied by attack
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8410946.stm
BBC wrote:Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hit in the face and knocked to the ground after a political rally in Milan.
Pictures showed Mr Berlusconi, 73, with a badly cut lip and blood on his cheek and chin. A man has been arrested.
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Not if you believe politics should be conducted by democratic means, off course if you think that it should be conducted by violence you can laugh out loud
Act carried out by a man with [alledged] history of mental illness. Which part was an attack on democracy?
NB Before Aladdin or anyone else jumps in - Isn't Italy part of the coalition of forces in Afghanistan and Iraq? Isn't that politics using violence?
It sits fine with me.
The old bastard has spent his life trampling on other people.
If we had any sense we'd be lining them up and throwing rocks at lots of them.
Hanging some of them.
The attack bit - unless you think he randomly attacked a complete stranger
I should have used the term internal politics, but even in external its the policy of last resort where not acting would be worse than acting. And if it was an Afghani or Iraqi, it might be a legitimate attack (as all sides attack enemy leaders), though perhaps not given that the UN recognised Govts support Italy
I would like few things more than him being prosecuted and convicted of any number of crimes: fraud, corruption, extortion.... and for him to spend the rest of his natural life rotting in jail like the bullying, corrupt, fascist, racist evil scumbag he is. But it is still a disturbing image, even if I feel no sympathy for him.
After watching so much war and famine footage ...having listened to so many lies and seen so many rip offs from the extortion classes I feel no pity whatsoever.
How about outside of one but perpetrated from within one?
What I meant was using violence to interrupt the fair and democratic process i.e. intimidation of political leaders.
I don't say I agree with it, but I understand.
Well a) we have a judicial system and a 'constitution' of sorts by being signatories or human rights thingys and b) we can choose to vote people out if they are doing things we do not like! Democracy isn't the best system but it's better than most of the alternatives.
But using violence and intimidation against the political representatives and the voters, in order to influence their policies, breaks the democratic system meaning it becomes unfair. Because then you just need the most thugs to win yourself an election and become dictator.
Paxman is old and ugly and intelligent ...I'm old handsome and fake it:D