14-02-2011, 06:54 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:
The elite "Jacobins" are out to get him.
Nothing to do with his penchant for bribery, corruption and paying under-age girls for services rendered I suppose.
Ah well, may he join his Caballero Opus Dei-Neo-con friends in disgrace.
David, yes, Berlusconi's stream-of-consciousness description of his opponents as "Jacobins" is revealing.
At its simplest, Silvio is probably referring to the "international revolutionaries" of the Jacobin Club who were involved in the French Revolution, and to those who believe in a centralized and powerful state rather than aristocratic largesse. In Italian politics this means he is accusing "the Left".
Webster Tarpley argues that it is the CIA that is actively destabilizing Berlusconi, but I doubt Silvio is using the term "Jacobin" to describe the Company...
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war