(John Blackeye) The first thing that comes to mind is that you must always have your eyes open even when you sleep. Yes, because, if on the one hand the coronavirus has holed us all up at home (or more or less all since the average Italian cannot really get his leash even in case of epidemics), on the other hand the political machine it does not stop in front of anything, not even in the face of a general confusion fueled by the pandemic crisis that sees us without everything: artificial respirators, masks, doctors, nurses, placed in cemeteries.
We must keep our eyes open because in this general pandemonium, the gears of political initiatives that never stop, could give birth to unhealthy initiatives, making them pass through national needs, perhaps passed in the public interest.
Not that we want to stop the ingenious inventiveness of our representatives in Parliament, rather that everyone gives their own thought contribution is a "good and right" thing but on condition that these mechanisms turn in the right direction, that is, in the direction useful to find solutions concrete to the concrete problems that we are called to solve these days.
But it is not so. Even in the days of emergency in which the chronicles of every day report that the numbers of the dead from the epidemic have the same scope as a battle on the front, someone begins to inoculate in general common thought, supported by the media, that something is useful when it is not.
But let's take a step back. A few weeks before the outbreak of the epidemic we had witnessed usual anti-Italian proposals of the yellow-red government, like that of the granting citizenship to immigrant foreigners who, reaching thousands every day on our territory, would like to receive everything except the citizenship of a country that is not theirs.
But alongside this, another initiative had been thrown into the arena of the national media context to verify, probably, what reaction it would have in front of public opinion. But you know, the Italian public opinion is limited to those few sober subjects who are not stunned by the football leagues or the evenings in front of the TV and so, very few, had smelled the air of rip-off. The rest of the majority were more concerned with whether the champion bought by their football team was making enough in the league.
The privatization of Italian ports
At a time when China is in the eye of the cyclone for having inoculated a lethal virus in all the nations of the world, or almost all of them, it is not convenient to shoot zero on the country of the dragon because Italy's subjection is now claimed towards the Chinese empire.
So, we Italians, we have moved the spotlights to make sure that they frame everything except the Chinese communities. We all know that the huge Chinese communities in Italy, those that the state has never registered, those of whom it is unknown if they pay taxes like the Italians, those that the Revenue Agency will never reach, here, those huge communities, with her coronavirus sufferers, with her disease positives and with her many deaths, as always, she managed to disappear into thin air. Can anyone see a Chinese in Italy? Not even to pay it in gold. Anyone know how many coronavirus sufferers have? Where do they treat them? How many of them do not make it a year? The Chinese have become experts in all sectors but the best thing is to disappear at the right time. They are there but invisibly, a bit like Marvel superheroes
Also closing this chapter on which if not the institutions, at least some front-line journalist should open an investigation, we immediately move on to the recent history of the international agreements signed by our government.
In fact, the initiative of the then vice-premier pentastellato to promote the opening of a new silk road capable of moving the flow of goods from China to Europe, through our territory, had caused a sensation. Everything had been passed as a great privilege, at least economically but perhaps not even under that.
But this availability must not have been enough for the Chinese who when they have to do business do not want hindrances of any kind and so, if bringing the goods on ships must then cost a check in Italian ports and the payment of customs duties or in any case it is necessary to cross a merchant port with the checks that the Italian authorities could do to you, well, so what better to do than to exploit the weakness of a sovereign state and buy merchant ports as they did with the silk road?
On the other hand, what do you do, buy yourself a highway and don't buy the highway toll booths? We grudgingly note, therefore, that not even the coronavirus can freeze those initiatives which for Italy have absolutely no advantage.
But how can we get our hands on the ports in a period in which all the attention is paid to saving the lives of Italians and any other initiative could cost dearly in terms of the electorate?
The solution is this: the initiative passes through a national emergency.
In fact, today's newspapers report the interview of a senator from the Democratic Party, Louis Zanda, who would appear to be ready, obviously in institutional terms, to sacrifice the family jewels in order to feed the Italians. Engage the family jewels. Or, "if Europe does not help us Prime Minister Conte said that we will do it alone. But since no loans will ever be granted without guarantees, to meet our extraordinary needs without detonating the public debt, we could give state-owned real estate as collateral".
The guarantee could be constituted "at least for the part constituted by the buildings that house offices, headquarters of large institutions, ministries, theaters, museums ...", as can be, for example, Montecitorio, seat of the Assembly, and Palazzo Chigi, seat of government .
"We are at war. And then we talk about the guarantee, not the sale", Because it refers to"assets already entered in the state budget for a value that is around 60 billion"To which you can also add"the assets of local authorities and regions, which are only partially surveyed and some say they are worth around 300 billion".
He then asked himself "if we can also include non-strategic and military property, making it contribute to the great effort that awaits the country". And then there are the ports and airports, concludes the senator.
And of course, let's sell everything, the railway yards, the ports, the airports, let's make sure that the damned globalization, this great bluff invented by our detractors, can always and only apply to Italy. One-way globalization, with a single direction, the Italian territory. That would become a crossroads of foreigners, goods and interests, as well as profits, of which the Italian people, those committed to feeding on football games, would have no advantage.
We hope that the good weather, in addition to taking away the virus, also takes away these political proposals, giving back to the nation a sovereign state, a stronger and more cohesive people and a government worthy of the name.