The revolting words pronounced by Francesco Cossiga, a former President of the Republic, in an interview with an Italian newspaper, have revealed to be a wicked forecast of the grim reality to be.

Today, on newspaper La Repubblica, Curzio Maltese writes about what happened in Rome, where a small, yet well-organised group of neo-fascists has stormed in a square in which students and teachers were holding outdoor classes, protesting against the announced government intervention on the Italian education system. All this, while the Police was standing still on the side, leaving the field open for the extreme right commandos to take the square by storm with bats, chains and knuckle-dusters. According to the journalist, some police officers were actually quite enjoying the show, and deliberately ignoring the teachers' requests for help, pretending the violence erupted from the left wing students, who were instead yet to arrive in the area.

The word of mouth spread quickly, and in a few minutes a couple of hundreds of left wing militants arrived in the area to thwart the attack and fight fist to fist with the fascist commando. Although the latters are the ones who leave the square in the worst shape, this is terrible news for the whole, so far pacific, protest movement. Tonight the media were all over the riot, making use of the images in their typical fragmented, heavily edited, nonsensical way, as to depict a generic outburst of violence, kind of like "they're all guilty because they're all there while they should be working or studying", casting discredit on over a million persons who have been voicing their opinions against the upcoming reforms, in a pacific, rationale manner.

In the words of the student quoted as a close to Maltese's article: "Starting tonight the news on the television will only talk about the incidents. Day by day the message will be that the students are the ones looking for the clashes. It's the Cossiga's strategy. They're fucking us up."

What really is disheartening to me, is the mass reaction these events will cause: people will be fed the usual bullshits from the television and embedded media, and have yet another reason to dislike whoever has the guts to stand up and voice his own opinion against the one ruled by above. Everything will go back to normal, and everyone of us will be a little less free. A little less free. Day by day. Until we will wake up again, almost a century ago.

Last link of this bitter post full of sorrow, a video uploaded by Antonio Di Pietro's organisation, one of the few that seem to be still giving a thing about Italy as a democratic republic.