Some more frightening information.[snip]
Selma
----- Original Message ----- Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 6:33 PM
Subject: The Italian poisoner
Berlusconi is not just another rightwinger; he is a threat to democracy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,991976,00.html
Martin Jacques Saturday July 5, 2003 The Guardian
The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, may have been forced to apologise, albeit belatedly, for his extraordinary attack on Martin Schulz, the German MEP, but it seems likely that the bitter taste will remain to sour the next six months of the Italian presidency. More importantly, this incident could serve as a long overdue wake-up call to Europe's politicians and opinion-formers about just what kind of political threat Berlusconi represents.
We know that forcing someone to apologize is generally not an unambivalently constructive accomplishment for the apologizee, since the apologizer tends to remember having been intimidated and comes to harbor a grudge. (After you force someone to apoligize, redouble your watch on your back.) The phenomenon of what Timothy McVeigh called "payback time" is not just a speculative scenario somebody at Rand Corporation thought up in the 1950s....
\brad mccormick
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