Call for directive to prevent episodes like Duomo demonstration in Milan from happening again
ROME – Places of worship, supermarkets and shopping malls will join public institutions, political party headquarters and diplomatic premises as being off-limits for demonstrators. Organisers will also have to pay a deposit as a guarantee against damage.
NEW RULES – Interior minister Roberto Maroni has proposed new rules for public demonstrations, revealing that he is working on a directive to be sent to prefects and chiefs of police.
A week ago, the minister explained to a hearing of the Senate’s constitutional affairs committee why there was a need to review public order regulations for events that attract thousands of people into the streets. He made specific reference to the prayers by hundreds of Muslims in Milan’s Piazza Duomo during the pro-Gaza march.
He said: “Demonstrations like the recent ones for Palestine pose new questions with respect to what we were used to. In the past, we prevented marches from passing various kinds of premises, including those of political parties. It’s now time to assess whether marches should pass places of worship”. Mr Maroni added that “there is no wish to offer a repressive response but it is necessary to give full implementation both to the right to demonstrate and to the right of non-demonstrators to use their own town”.
NO MORE DUOMO INCIDENTS – The proposal was reiterated at question time in the Lower Chamber when Mr Maroni replied to a question by Riccardo De Corato, the deputy mayor of Milan, who wanted to know what initiatives the minister was taking to prevent similar situations in future.
Mr Maroni replied: “I have drafted a directive so that episodes like the demonstration outside the Duomo in Milan will not happen again”.
5 comments:
Pastorius,
Good for them, but they need to do far more than this. However it is a start.
I agree they need to do far more than this. However, western governments need to proceed carefully, this is a slippery slope. Rule number one in Guerilla warfare is to make the target government clamp down on personal freedoms of the populace. This breeds resentment of the government and pushes recruits to the guerilla cause. I'm probably a bigot, but it needs to be made very clear that these restrictions are directed at fanatical Muslims.
Austria and the Netherlands will be the first to fall to Islam because they have this week taken steps to prosecute free speech where the truth was spoken about Islam i.e. Susanne Winters and Geert Wilders respectively.
All the indications are that Italy will take the necessary measures to prevent an Islamist takeover. The Italians are not prepared to subjugate their own culture and the Italian people - particulary in the north - will defend their religion and way of life against the march of Islam.
Right-wing author is banned from Islam talk
A right-wing writer has been banned from chairing a debate on Islam at the London School of Economics today amid security fears, the Standard has learned.
Douglas Murray, a self-confessed “neo conservative”, was due to chair “Islam or Liberalism: Which is the Way Forward?” at the university tonight — 24 hours after the end of a week-long sit in at LSE in protest at Israel's attacks on Gaza.
The commentator and author, who is the director of conservative think-tank the Centre for Social Cohesion, said: “This is back to the bad old days of the LSE — where the most violent get to dictate people's education. It is worse than censorship — it's intimidation.”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23626820-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
Anonymous,
Thanks for that link. I will post on that a little later.
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