MISERY & NOBILITY
Article published on September 19, 2011
Sign: Stop stealing, thieves! Thieves! Thieves!
Daily encounter with poverty in Trieste. An old woman, barely walking, is begging in one of the city’s main pedestrian streets. The woman needs a crutch to walk and, exhausted, she is holding herself to the wall. Her eyes are vacant. Her embarrassment shows, but her need is even greater.
It is hard reading an age on a face that speaks sufferance, yet, shows a strong dignity. She could be my mother, but she simply is a human being, suffering public indifference. People have no time for this kind of things: each of them rushes to hide in the own island of unhappiness that they found in their daily life.
I stop, I give to her what little I can find in my wallet. I hope, at least, to lead to more contributions from other passengers-by. She thanks me, we exchange a look. I feel touched, embarrassed, helpless… You don’t have to thank me, mother!!! I am ashamed that I cannot do more and that I am abandoning you in the middle of this brute crowd of human degradation…
I cross the road, unpleased. 300 meters more, ill-smelling trash bins. This is where another old woman is digging in the waste, in search of a daily meal…
Hidden sufferance that nobody shall talk about, that nobody can speak about. Because, “officially” this is wealthy Trieste, once the first port of the Habsburg Empire, now capital city of the Free Territory of Trieste. Since decades, the local Italian authorities simulate Italian sovereignty over Trieste.
It is ruthless, nationalistic rule. One more expression of the traditional Italian nationalism that thrives on the border. Italian sovereignty over this land ended in 1947, after destroying Trieste’s society and economy from 1918-1920. It is happening once again, since 1954.
This is how the administered State’s people fall into poverty and despair.
It gets worse every day: it is a slow, “assisted” fall into hell. While welfare is granted to the local, corrupt political class that, on behalf of Rome, treats Trieste as Italy’s “last colony”.
But what wealth are we talking about? Huge capitals, concentrated in the hands of a few, powerful families. The highest levels of deviated freemasonry.
A pseudo-freeasonry that is protected by the State, which considers this as a conquered land. The feather on the cap of the never ended Italian nationalism. A bipartisan nationalism, spanning from the left to the right wing in the exaltation of a “patriotism” in which’s name everything is allowed. It is in the shadows of those post-war illusions of impossible revanches that the decline of Trieste started and continued.
With mass emigration and forced repopulation, they took the soul of the Habsburg’s city.
By now, half of the local population consists in retired elderly, many of whom are in serious economic need: minimum pensions amount to about EUR 500 each month, but the individual poverty threshold is EUR 800. A destroyed city, not just when it comes to its social tissue, but also when it comes to its territory, downgraded to huge landfill of State. I write about it often on this blog, because it is a situation I’m denouncing since decades.
A city-port deprived of its port, thanks to decades of “slightly” mafia-style misadministration.
But for the rulers, under the benevolent control of the “nice tyrannic” bordering State everything it is all right this way, everything is well-planned…
Only a few years more and the sack of the city will be complete: with the illegal removal of the Northern Free Port from property of State and the consequent housing speculation worth EUR 1,5 billions, supported by all local political parties and stopped only thanks to the Free Trieste Movement and the I.P.R. F.T.T. it would be impossible preventing the economic destruction of the Free Territory of Trieste.
Once the population decreases to about 100.000 reduces, deprived of all of their wealth, this would this become the paradise for international and Italian mafia-like organizations.
Blood, misery, desperation for all, as some hundreds people get wealthy: this is the future of the former pearl of the Adriatic.
Translated from blog “Ambiente e Legalità” – “Environment and Legality” by Roberto Giurastante