Paolo Borsellino (magistrate murdered in the massacre of 1992 along with his 5 bodyguards) disliked Palermo yet, he learned to “love” her in order to change “her”. He sacrificed his life for his city and for this entire country. We feel like Paolo did. We dislike “this” Italy. Since his death, 17 years ago, Italy has not been able to find nor has it tried to find the people who are responsible for this massacre. Despite this we love our country deeply, enough to make Paolo’s dream our own, deeply enogh to try to make that dream reality.
We want to be able to feel the fresh wind of freedom for which Paolo and his bodyguards awaringly gave their lives. We are tired of having to breath the stink of moral compromise, complicity and indifference, which continues to suffocate our country. We want Agostino, Claudio, Vincenzo, Emanuela and Walter to be called heroes. We cannot accept for people like Vittorio Mangano to be called heroes, as “somebody” had the nerve to call him. We dream of a country which no longer needs heroes.
We want to live in a country where people are all the same before the law, not in a country where there are laws for the powerful and other laws for the “weak”. We dream of living in a country which respects the principles of our Constitution instead of upsetting the moral laws it is founded on and violating the values of solidarity and hospitality which have always been the landmark of our culture.
We want to live in a country where the principle of seperation of powers from the State (as established by the father founders of our Constitution) be respected. We do not wish to live in a country where the President of Council accuses our magistrates of being “crazy” on a daily basis. We wish for this country to be itself and not the imitation of other countries.
Many young people are once again crying out the word “ Resistance”. They feel their country sliding deeper and deeper into the darkness of a regime. They are ready to fight for their future, a future founded on FREEDOM, TRUTH and JUSTICE.
Salvatore Borsellino
and the young peoples’ movement of the “Red Diary”
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