-
Welcome to our blog, Genzano it story
and this post, concerned about the mafia
-
Concerned about the mafia
-
-
Concerned about the mafia
About the refugees and the mafia
Dear readers, even though I have called this
post, concerned about the mafia, I have to say that it should have been called,
we should be concerned about the refugees and the mafia. Anyhow, in the last
two articles we have been talking about, the earthquake in central Italy that
has destroyed many houses, for this reason, the people affected have nowhere to
live and they have become refugees, in their own country. So, they are very
much like the illegal emigrants, which are also refugees, even though they are
coming from outside Italy. Anyhow, we have talked about these two sorts of
refugees, because they both concern the Italian economy, as they both need
money and other things to solve them. We could say that these are two negative
issues, which need to be talked about, if we want to solve these problems the
best way we can. Today these problems exist in Italy and in other parts of the
world as well, even though they might need a different approach to solve them.
But let us see what we think it could be done to minimize the negative outcome.
We know already that the Italian government
has promised to rebuild all the buildings’ that have been damaged from the
earthquake. So, that is already something positive to start with. Now under
normal circumstance and given time, with the knowledge that we have nowadays,
these problems could be solved properly, but it might not be that easy because
of the existing mafia in Italy.
In my personal views and I am sure that I am
not alone in understanding this issue of the mafia; the way I understand it is
this; whenever in Italy there are large sums of money to be spent, soon enough
the Italian mafia wants a share of this money, which is an act so low and
disgusting and as an Italian, I start feeling ashamed of being one, because of
this low moral that the mafia has now. I know that today the Italian mafia are
only criminals and they want only to grab as much money as they can; but the
mafia has not been like that all the time, in fact, even today the word mafia
to the Sicilians and other regions near Sicily the word mafia means a person or
a group of people that are fearless and are not letting anybody take them for
fools, they are also a bit of an authority, as we are going to explain
hereunder in this article.
But before we do that, let us mention also
that Italy has this other problem of the illegal refugees, so, we are going to
say something about this issue also, we hope that we can write a few things
down, which would highlight the problems they can cause, hoping that during our
discussions we could suggest something that would be useful. We will write
about this in this article as well, since this is the reason why I have been
writing our last few articles and if necessary, we will write even more
articles.
Talking about
the mafia
Now, let us talk first about the mafia,
because this could be a real concern in Italy. The mafia of today is different
from the original mafia, that is the reasons why some old people see the mafia
a bit different from being just plain criminals. The mafia origin is very old, just
like the history of Sicily is very old where the mafia organization began. To
understand the mafia origins, one needs to go back in history and try to
understand the way of life that the people in Sicily had to live with. Because
Sicily is an island right in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea it has been
invaded many times, so, every new ruler imposed their own way of dictatorship,
which most times made the Sicilians people suffer. But the Sicilians are strong
willed people and proud to be Sicilian, so they would always try to have also
their own rules, like another government within the ruling government. They
were sometimes doing this together with the ruling government of the day, at
other times they were sort of rebels that would help the people that were
suffering from the government rules.
There were times in the past, when we could
say that the old mafia has played a part and has been a sort of Sicilian
government for the people of Sicily, which had its own rules, and most times
they would oppose those foreign rules that would hurt the Sicilian people. Well
that is the good part of the mafia in the old days, of course there were also
bad things done, but that is a different story, today we want only to compare
the old good mafia with today criminal mafia, which does completely nothing
positive for the Sicilian people, or any other community that they happen to be
in.
But let us go back to the reason why we are
talking about the mafia in this article. We are talking about it, because we
are afraid that the criminal mafia of today, does not do anything at all to
help the native people, in fact they are so selfish that instead of helping
those people that need help, they rob them of the help the government or other
institutions provide for these people. So, in my opinion they should be ashamed
of themselves, because they do not provide any service to the community that
need help, like they might have done in the past. Therefore, today to look at
the mafia as an organization that the people might accept is impossible, they
should be seen only as criminal, because this is as low as the mafia of today
has become, they are just plain criminals.
It is a well-known fact that wherever is money
to be spent, the mafia pretends a share of it, they do not provide any services
or any help at all, as they did or pretended to do in the past, they only tell
the people to give them a share of it, or you will be killed. What sort of
people are these, that rob the poor people that want to do the right things and
those that need help? We hope that the Italian authorities can catch them soon
enough and neutralize them by throwing them in jail or something else. So, that
the people that should work to rebuild the buildings damaged from the
earthquake are left in peace and can do a good job, without worrying about the
mafia people.
We could say a lot more about the mafia and
the problems that concerns the people that have lost their houses, and they
have become refugees in their own country, and how we see the problem that the
Italian government is facing to fix their houses, including the control of the
mafia. Anyhow, we want to keep this article brief, so we should move on.
Because we would also like to say something about the other refugees that come
from overseas, as this is also a problem that Italy is facing today and we need
to be concerned about it too.
---------------------------------------
Concerns
about the overseas refugees
We would like to say something about the
refugees that come from overseas, because we think that they could cause many
problems in Italy in the future, so we would like to point out what we see
coming. So, let us start from the ways they are coming, which is not right,
because most of them are not real refugees, they are just people that want to
find a better life, just because they believe that there is a better lifer to
be found.
What is usually happening is that they want to
go to Europe because they have learned from their friends that have already
moved there that in Europe the standard of life is a lot better than in their
own native land, so, whether they are real refugees that have been displaced
from catastrophic events, like wars or another natural event, or they are just
wanting to try this new life anyhow, they move in large numbers from many
countries. The worrying part is that they are moving in very large numbers, so,
it is hard for the countries that takes them in to cope with all these illegal
emigrants, so, they are causing already and they are likely going to cause lots
of problems, not only when they arrive, but also in the future.
Some people still think that it might be okay
to take them in and help them; well we should say that on humanitarian grounds
we should really take them in and help them. But at the same time, we should
also look if in the long run, they would cause unforeseen problems to the
countries that they have moved in, which we believe that there are going to be
many problems, so, we wish that this illegal emigration should be stopped if
possible, or at least discouraged, but some people don’t see it this way, so,
instead of discouraging them they write articles that would encourage them to
go to Europe, like an article that I found on the internet, which I am going to
quote some of it here-under.
Here are some benefits of living within the
European Union:
Easy relocation to another country within the
EU without the need to emigrate. In some countries, you may need to register
and you may have to have an income or a job, but that is all about it.
Then, he goes on telling other things and the
freedom you could have, if you live in Europe to visit many countries and makes
a list of them. The twenty member countries are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta,
the Netherland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
and the United Kingdom until it moves out in 2018.
Then this writer continues to explore the
benefits for the people that live in the European Union, and the choice that
they have, so for me that I see problems ahead is somehow upsetting and I wish
he did not write that.
Anyhow, I could say a lot more about my own
views, but I believe that this article is becoming too long, so I will write
about these issues that are worrying me in our next article.
See you soon.
----------------------------------
Genzano it story
Concerns about the mafia
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, other people concerns
------------------------------
Concerns about the mafia
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, other people concerns
------------------------------
Some of our personal links
