It’s Official: Italy Has The Historical Memory Of A Goldfish

It’s happening again… the Brown Shirts are back. Anyone who has a minimum knowledge of European history in the last century can easily see where this is leading. How this is the next step in the establishment of a fascist dictatorship in Italy. Again. Because this is not simply a spontaneous, marginal movement: this has the blessing of the State itself, through the Berlusconi government (of course).
I honestly find it hard to believe my own eyes and ears, can’t believe it is indeed real… but it is. I can’t even begin to describe how gobsmacked, appalled and revolted I am. My own country. My own hometown! My own people! Un-fucking-believable. What’s next? A walled ghetto, like they did in Warsaw? Because we already have concentration camps, you know…

I am posting a translation I made of an article by Enrico Piovesana (http://www.peacereporter.net/). You will find a lot of my comments in brackets and italics. Some of them are to clarify what certain things mean to those who are not acquainted with Italian history and politics, some others are just because I can’t help but voice my opinion, sorry about that.

Here’s the link to the original article: http://it.peacereporter.net/articolo/16046/Arrivano+le+ronde+nere . Check out the pictures.

So, without further ado… this is what’s happening in Italy, not 70 years ago, but right now, today, 13th June, AD 2009.


The Black Patrols Are Coming
They will be introduced on 13th June in Milan. They are called “Italian National Guard”.

Interview with their founder, Gaetano Saya

Next Summer, unless anything unexpected happens, the volunteers of the Italian National Guard (ING) should begin patrolling the streets of Italian cities as an implementation of Berlusconi’s government bill on security (approved by the Chamber of Deputies last 14th May, now under examination by the Senate), which in Art. 3 (paragraphs 40-44) provides for the cooperation of “unarmed citizens’ associations” in guarding the territory (the so-called patrols).

They are former members of armed and police corps and common citizens, “patriots and nationalists”, ready to “serve our land and the Italian people”, performing watch duties “to strengthen security in urban centres”, but also “civil protection” and “promotion and spreading of Italian history, language and traditions with particular reference to the Roman Empire”.

They have a General Commander, the former colonel of Carabinieri (Me: a part of the Italian armed corps) Augusto Calzetta, from Massa Carrara, and a National President, young former Alpine (Me: another part of the Italian armed corps) Maurizio Correnti, from Turin (the city where their headquarters are also located: for now, there are operational branches in Sarzana, Reggio Calabria and Siracusa).

They wear a uniform: grey shirt (initially it was kaki) with a black belt and shoulder strap, black tie, grey trousers with a black side band, a grey beret or kepi with the symbol of ING: the Roman Empire eagle.
Their complete equipment includes a helmet, black military boots (Me: those with a steel point), leather gloves, and a big black metal electric torch (Me: and that could not easily turn into a potentially deadly weapon? Do they think we’re idiots?).
They wear a black band on their arm with the “sun wheel”, symbol of the Italian Nationalist Party (INP): the newborn political party behind the ING.

Members of the INP wear a uniform, as well: the same as the Italian National Guard’s. The political programme of INP, of statist and collectivist* inspiration, invokes, among other things, the death penalty for “usurers, exploiters, and petty politicians” (Me: read “whoever has a differing opinion from ours”); fighting “against the corrupting parliament system”; the creation of “a strong State central power” and of “union and professional chambers”; the right to citizenship and to access public offices “only for those with Italian blood”; stopping “any new migration of non-Italians”; the immediate, compulsory expulsion of “all non-Italians who migrated to Italy after 31st December 1977”; the banning of “newspapers that oppose community interests” (Me: read “those who call us to task”) and the abolition of all organisations and institutions “that exert a disintegrating influence on our national life” (Me: read “those who promote multiculturalism”).

Colonel Calzetta’s paramilitary forces and INP’s Grey Shirts will officially debut on 13th June in Milan, at number 5, via Chiaravalle, corner via Larga, on the occasion of the national convention of Gaetano Saya’s Italian Social Movement – National Right Wing (Me: i.e. ISM, what was left of the Fascist party after the war, duly cleaned-up and recycled). Saya, from his internet webpage, declares to be the “political inspirer” of the Italian National Guard.

Admirer of Berlusconi (Me: and that says it all) and fierce enemy of Mr Fini (Me: moderate right-wing leader of the National Alliance party, a splinter of ISM), Saya, who after the recent dismantlement of the National Alliance party has remained the sole depositary of Almirante’s (Me: former leader, now dead) ISM, is a former NATO secret agent, former “gladiator” (Me: “Gladius” was a stay-behind organisation, supported by the USA and NATO, that was secretly active throughout the cold war, between 1949 and 1990, it was suspected of being behind numerous terrorist attacks and subversive attempts that took place in Italy during that time, it was called the “strategy of tension”) tied to SISMI (Me: Italian secret services), who already in 2003 had tried to create a paramilitary group of “grey shirts” (the National Protection Units) and who in 2005 was arrested for the ominous affair concerning “parallel secret services” (the DSAS, Department of Strategic Anti-terrorism Studies, directed by Gaetano Saya and Riccardo Sindoca): a “band of swindlers” according to the then Minster of Internal Affairs, Mr Pisanu, which however turned out to have relations with the top ranks of the State’s security structure, in particular with military secret services.

PeaceReporter interviewed Gaetano Saya to understand something more about the Italian National Guard and the Italian Nationalist Party. This is what he told us.

Mr Saya, a brief digression before starting: how did the DSAS affair end?

The inquiry against me was started to throw smoke in people’s eyes, to turn the attention from true deviated secret services, those that were, and still are, under Marco Mancini, the then director of SISMI’s counter-espionnage. Right in the days of my arrest, in July 2005, Mancini and his associates were at serious risk, because of the Abu Omar kidnapping: it was the time when the head of the CIA station in Milan, Robert Seldon Lady, precipitously left our national territory to escape Italian justice. (Me: here’s a link that explains what happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Rapito_affair )
The DSAS and I were used as scapegoats, I was the victim of a trap (Me: boo-freakin'-hoo), a conspiracy orchestrated by Mancini’s deviated agents, like journalist Renato Farina, agent “Birch”, who wrote on Libero (Me: an Italian right-wing newspaper) that I and the DSAS were involved in the kidnapping of Omar.
In 2006, after Mancini, Pollari, Pio Pompa, Tavaroli and Cirpiani got in trouble for the Abu Omar affair and the Telecom-SISMI scandal (Me: Telecom, the Italian main, formerly state-owned, telecom company was unlawfully intercepting calls and keeping tabs on “undesirables” and passing such information on to the SISMI), the persecution against me was no longer of use and therefore it ended up in nothing. Except I discovered, only a few days ago, that the Prosecuting Authority of Genoa requested the re-opening of the case. This time, these subversive magistrates and police forces, tied to the above-mentioned deviated secret services and supported by the left wing, but also by Gianfranco Fini, want to hit me in order to hit the Berlusconi government. The Prosecuting Authority of Turin had already tried, without succeeding, trying to criminalise the Italian National Guard in order to sink the government’s bill on security: a few days before its approval by the Chamber, the DIGOS (Me: stands for “General Investigations and Special Operations Division”, it’s part of the State Police) of Cuneo went to my son’s house accusing him of being a member of the ING and of illegally holding weapons. They hoped to cause an uproar. But the weapons were all legally owned, besides my son has nothing to do with the Italian National Guard. Now, after this waterhole by the Prosecuting Authority of Turin, that of Genoa is charging back against the DSAS…

Mr Saya, let’s come to the Italian National Guard. It looks very much like a fascist paramilitary group: the uniforms, the references to patriotism, the Roman Empire eagle…

This is all humbug! The Italian National Guard has nothing to do with fascism. I myself am not a fascist (Me: amazing how you sound like one). I am right-wing, I’m a conservative, a nationalist: call me as you wish, but I’m not a fascist. Had I lived in 1943 and had I seen the fascists gathering and shooting Italian citizens, I would have risen against them. I have just watched the film “Vincere” (Me: “Winning”), that gives a very negative vision of Mussolini and fascism, and I can tell you that I liked it very much. I consider myself as a faithful citizen, a defender of the 1948 Constitution, by which each member of the Italian National Guard must swear. I have always had a very good relationship with the government of Israel and their secret services (Me: OK… considering what’s happening there at the moment, I understand why): do you think that if I were a fascist the Israeli would work with me? About the uniforms, let me tell you: if they cause all this ruckus, maybe we will change them (Author’s note: after this interview, the kaki shirt was replaced by the grey shirt). (Me: right... because the real issue is the colour, here…)
The Roman Empire eagle? You have to be ignorant not to know that it’s a historical symbol of our motherland, visible on many monuments in Rome (Me: yes, especially those built in the 30s and 40s) and that it has nothing to do with fascism.
The Italian National Guard is a non-political association in which anyone that shares this initiative can partake: go figure that even some communists have become members, people from Massa Carrara.

I find that hard to believe. Our republican Constitution is founded on anti-fascism, but on the Italian National Guard’s Facebook group page, their National President, Maurizio Correnti, writes to his supporters: “Please, refrain from using “comrades”, etc., or anyway quotes and slogans typical of a different time. That said – Correnti points out – we absolutely don’t wish to declare ourselves anti-fascists, that must be very clear”. Something does not add up…

He wrote that, everyone is free to write what they think. In the Italian National Guard there are fascists and non-fascists.

However, you did write this on your personal internet webpage, last February, on the eve of the creation of the Italian National Guard. And I quote: “Thousands of foreign prostitutes with a police record and not expelled. Thousands of gipsies that commit thefts in total impunity. Millions of clandestine migrants walking unpunished around cities. Thousands of foreigners that sell drugs, steal, rape, kill. An 80% increase in strikes and public and private offices occupations. Hundreds of armed assaults against private property committed by foreigners. Attacks against State property. Group of young subversives acting outside the parliamentary limits. Deputies and Senators of the Republic instigating armed insurrection against the powers of the State, a Minister of Internal Affairs that is a self-declared secessionist. A countless number of political magazines and TV programmes inciting to revolt. Jesters and charlatans offending and scorning the Ministers and the Government (Me: that is a clear reference to Beppe Grillo, Marco Travaglio, Michele Santoro and Milena Gabanelli who are among the few who are trying to open people’s eyes about the current situation in Italy). The use of freedom threatens the established powers and authorities from all sides. (…) The people are underage, the Nation is ill; others have the task to heal and educate. We have the duty to repress, repression is our creed. Repression and Civilisation.” And again: “We want to clean up Italy from the corruption that nestles in it, we want to bring back the whole Nation to an iron discipline”. “The Right unsheathes its sword to cut the too many Gordian knots, that ensnare and sadden Italian life. We call the supreme God and the immortal Spirit of the thousands of dead as witnesses that one impulse drives us, one will gathers us, one thought arouses us: contributing to the greatness and salvation of our Motherland. Men of the Right throughout Italy, hold out your spirit and strength, we must win and with the help of God we will win!!!”. (Me: “Heil Hitler!”… I can almost hear it behind his words)

But those are only slogans that I think up here and there! (Me: is he serious???) Let’s clarify something: migrants are the least of our problems. They are not our target. If you really want to know, to us the true danger for Italy is represented by the secessionists of the Northern League (Me: another right-wing party, but with separatist aims, however they don’t disdain being in the “thieving Rome” government, when it suits them, and so much for coherence). They are indeed against the Constitution! They want to destroy our national unity, they continually offend the symbols of our motherland, create, unpunished, secessionist provisional governments, enlist people in the anti-constitutional Po Valley National Guard.
It’s these people that will have to face our Italian National Guard: if we see a Northern League member burning the Italian flag, we will have them arrested! (Me: “after beating them up to death with our ‘torches’”) The League should beware of where they go. It’s to oppose the Northern League in the next elections that we will run in the North with the Italian Nationalist Party.

The one that has the schwarze sonne, the black sun, as a symbol, which is used by so many neo-nazi groups? That sort of twelve-handed swastika, an ancient Germanic pagan symbol, adorning the floor in the main hall of Wewelsburg castle, the headquarters of SS?

Let’s not be silly! The sun wheel has no proven tie with Nazism, so much so that in Germany it’s not banned, while the swastika is, and it’s freely used as a commercial logo. This symbol, the property of which I own in Italy, is actually a Mayan magical symbol evoking power…

Excuse me for interrupting you, but I’m passionate about Mayan and Mesoamerican culture and I can guarantee you that in such peoples’ symbology there’s no trace of anything similar.

Of course there is! Search on Google under the words “hollow earth”! (Me: I checked, I didn’t find that symbol. If this guy is seriously into that stuff, though, he definitely has kangaroos in the attic. Here’s a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth )

Let’s get back to the Italian National Party: can you tell us about it? We have understood, from the symbol and the uniforms, that it’s tied to the Italian National Guard. But how is it related to you and your ISM?

The Italian Nationalist Party, INP, will be officially created in Milan on 13th June, on the occasion of the Italian Social Movement–National Right Wing’s national convention. On that day, I will relinquish my presidency of ISM-National Right Wing to my wife, Maria Antonietta Cannizzaro (Me: and here comes nepotism, a really innovative, democratic concept), who has a good relationship with the head of the government (Me: i.e. Mr Berlusconi. Ah, well, how’s that for credentials? Now I feel reassured). Yours truly will then become president of the new Italian Nationalist Party, which in the next national political elections will run in the northern regions, where the tricolour flame (Me: the symbol of ISM) is not very strong, to oppose Italian nationalism against the Po Valley nationalism. In the central and southern regions, instead, ISM-National Right Wing will run with their historical symbol. Both, I hope, as allied of Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party: if anything prevents us from doing so, we’ll run alone.

Mr Saya, is it true that two thousand people are already enlisted in the Italian National Guard?

We have widely exceeded the two-thousand number of enrolments. Every day there’s a landslide of new ones, especially former police troopers (Me: what a surprise). I invite you to the convention on 13th June, to which we also invited President Berlusconi, so you will see with your own eyes: we have nothing to hide (Me: except the bodies).

Enrico Piovesana



Well… what more is there to say, except: I rest my case. And “the mother of idiots is always pregnant”.

* See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivism