no wonder berlosconi and bush are friends. they're both nazis.
News: "They make no bones about their contempt for capitalism and consumerism and their desire to change the system. And they were present in strength at the protests against the G8 summit in the northern Italian city of Genoa in July 2002 which ended in bloody violence and mass casualties among police and demonstrators.
But the 13 members of Italy's 'disobbedienti' group who go on trial next week are not charged with crimes of assault or vandalism. Instead, they face grave but abstract accusations: 'political conspiracy ... with the aim of disrupting the functions of the government'; 'making subversive propaganda, and creating an association of 20,000 people to violently subvert the constituted economic order of the state'.
The disobbedienti - the disobedient ones - have few friends in parliament, but voices across the opposition spectrum have united to condemn the trial, due to begin on Thursday in the southern city of Cosenza. The charges, used rarely, are a relic from pre-war years.
'The crime of opinion,' said the left-wing daily L'Unita, 'is a relic of the Fascist era and must be abolished'. Fausto Bertinotti, leader of the Rifondazione Comunista party, called the trial 'disturbing and dangerous', the product of a 'repressive drift, in progress for some time, for which they want to criminalise dissent, menacing the basis of the state of rights.'"