Clown Prince - Italy

August 2008

Meet Beppe Grillo, or 'the crown prince of Italian politics'. Disenchanted by decades of corrupt politicians, a porous economy, the mafia and thousands of tonnes of rubbish, Grillo is using humour to shape up Naples.
"Our weapons have been to ask for signatures! Our main weapon is to grab them by the arse!" Grillo's petition for individuals to compete in elections gained a million signatures. He even launched "V Day" with V standing for "Vaffanculo" or "fuck off". But with political parties dictating the media, how did he do it? "With the web, you can make miracles." Grillo uses his web blog to discuss the corruption implicit in Italian politics. Yet despite widespread backing, the old regime remains, "Italians have short memories a little longer than goldfish". This may explain the re-election of extravagant billionaire Prime Minister Berlusconi or as Grillo says, "the dwarf with asphalt hair."

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[kidcalabria]

Thanks for posting this. I don't think that the unbelievable situation of Italy is known in all its gravity outside of Italy. The country is fast becoming a police state, with neo-fascists in government, mafia bosses running the show & prime minister Berlusconi who's an ignorant, corrupt thief and megalomaniac. This must be known around the world, so that other nations and the European Union put pressure on Italy to change. Too small a space to go into details, but something must be done & fast!

[cesarebt83]

berlusconi is worse than mussolini !

[MaximilianHorizon]

@GrandeurFrancaise actually he had a crash incident when he was 30 and 2 people there were with him in his car died.

the reason why he was fault guilty was cause we was driving to fast and he slipped on the ice.

[1deathseeker]

@EvanJamesInglis @EvanJamesInglis It's called "Vesti la Giubba". It's from the Pagliacci opera.

[GrandeurFrancaise]

THIS MAN IS A KILLER, HE HAS KILLED 2 PERSON

[munich84ss]

@GrandeurFrancaise you are a bastard, grillo's had an accident with his car due to the ice in the road, in that accident died his friends who were in car with him.

you are really a poor bastard,