FOREWORD (versione italiana)
It is my will to begin this public letter of mine greeting and honouring His Emmittance the Big Grass Snake of channel 5, Cavaliere del Lavoro and end user of so many pretty chicks, our beloved President Mr. Berlusconi IV.
Unfortunately Your Lowness, this message is rather addressed to the rest of the Italian people and to the world than to you, as imposed by the tradition passed from one Pasquino on to the other. However, should you find any of the propositions below worth of your attention you have but to pick it up and turn it into Law, as often you’ve done with the many other genial ideas that had flashed inside the bushy thickness of your head.
Nevertheless, my fellow citizens, it is also true that I’m right now breaking the ancient tradition of this mask I’m wearing by talking to you in plain words rather than in rhymes and in English instead of Roman. There’s a reason for this language shift and the quickest way to explain it is using an Italian proverb which our international readers could find hard to grasp on the spot -a footnote will be added for all of them- but through which you should be able to understand and hopefully excuse this oddity of an English speaking Pasquino: parlare a nuora perché suocera intenda (1)
This letter’s looking for visibility: no one in the baby-born Europe seems able to recognize to what extent such a week and corrupted Italy can represent a common European problem, and that the bad practice of a pillaging political class is seriously risking to become a governance model within the EU bureaucratic system. Italy’s a little country with a very poor international profile, still it has a very proactive criminal scene and its people is exploited by a ruling class it did not really choose and which has been wasting our economical, cultural and environmental capital for the last forty years. Here in Italy each and every social compound is complaining right now, and demonstrating in the streets although you can find very little of it on the media: two generations have already lost their future and every common sense has gone; particular interests always prevail on the community ones and things might degenerate very soon. For this reason the Congresso degli Arguti(2), which I represent, has decided to release this list of measures that we think will be necessary for the future of our suffering nation in order to ensure a strong governance.
In the past centuries my people has given much to the world and contributed consistently to the development of human kind in many fields. Look at us know: we’re drowning in our own decadence.
(1)speaking to the daughter-in-law for the the mother-in-law to hear
(2)Congress of the Wits
Wow, your post makes mine look felbee. More power to you!