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Italian Police Seize Blog Over 'Kill Berlusconi' Satire

Giorgio Maone writes "Italian Police just seized the Savona e Ponente Blog because the 60-year-old journalist Valeria Rossi posted a satirical article titled 'I want to kill Berlusconi,' writing that 'you can't feel guilty of wishing him death, because he's not human: he's an alien, with incredible psychic powers.' Otherwise, how could such a clown, with multiple pending trials for corruption, tax offenses, abuse of power and even child prostitution, convince the majority of the other politicians and a consistent slice of Italian people to keep him as their prime minister for almost 20 years now? Here's a mirror of the incriminating text (Italian)." And here's a translation to English.

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  1. Re:Is the US any better? by durrr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your comment will lead to some militrary contractor getting the opportunity to sell gigantic fans for $500 million each to the white house. within two weeks you'll notice that the flags around the white house will always point in a offset from the actual wind direction.

  2. Never? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, that's actually a pretty good idea! The flag being used to gauge wind speed I mean, not the killing part... I never would have thought of that.

    Obviously you're not a golfer.

  3. Re:Is the US any better? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps we build this large, wooden Badger...

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  4. Re:In his favor by ComfortablyAmbiguous · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, the memories. I always believed that Bill should have been impeached, not for the silly 'crimes' he was accused of, but for a serious violation of aesthetics. Gees, he was the President, couldn't he do better than that? It reflected poorly on the whole country.

  5. SEX by omb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Italy is different, they like sex and are not ashamed of it,

    Tolerate alternative lifestyles, eg LBGT

    Have some of the most passable/beautiful TS outside asia, and go to confession.

    Burlisconi has few problems, at his age most Italians envy him, as in the US its only the PC liberals who hate success and fun,
    and at 74 who can grudge him that.