Right. Molotov cocktails are just rhetoric.
I seem to have missed the report where the govt was heaving the cocktails.
Plausible deniability?
If the Government is responsible for inciting the people then are they not just as guilty as the individual who lit and threw the Molotov cocktail? Or to put it in terms the right wing in the States seems to take more seriously, if Osama bin Laden incited his followers to use planes as missiles then is he not guilty through his words as much as they were guilty through their actions?
The answer is, of course, yes. This is and has always been the problem of Fascism. Once it becomes accepted, once it is given equal accord to other political philosophies - then it degenerates into what it does best in the hands of the masses. It is built upon division and hate.
The hate of the Roma is common throughout Europe and is very much an accepted prejudice (much like hating Muslims and Latin Americans in this country). They are considered unhygienic, ignorant, foul, thieves, and unwilling to integrate with society. Mind you, the Roma have likely never caused a national economy any substantial harm. They do occasionally mess up a field with their caravan camps and yes, in some major tourist areas they will pick your pockets (Majorca is known for this). Of course, they'll do so without ever harming you - you can get off a red-eye train in Russia and a police officer may simply rob you at gunpoint. Yet, the Russians aren't known worldwide as muggers. Despite these possibilities, European cities are far safer than American cities.
Back to the point, Burlesconi and his Fascist political allies have been given Italian and international credentials. Now that they have legitimacy, you'll see, as Prince points out, they are by no means peaceful and democratic people.
You will also note people in this forum defending these thugs. Which honestly, is the most cowardly act of them all. I'm not really all that surprised. As I told Plane, though he ridiculed me for it, the right wing here has always been comfortable with Fascism. They share a lot of the same ideals and goals. I'd say more than a few of them wish they had the grapes of the fascists to go to the illegal immigrant's homes and throw Molotov cocktails. Fascists were always more concerned with action and less with talk than the American right.
