Attraction To Male Teachers

an indecent proposal

dedicated a street to Craxi, an indecent proposal


"My uncle and my grandfather, killed by the Mafia,
will never have a go!"

The spoils of Bettino: how and how much he stole
With the plate Craxi want to rewrite the history of the country

publish open letter to the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano

Benny Calasanz

journalist and nephew of Paul and Joseph Borsellino, small entrepreneurs Lucca

killed by the Sicilian Mafia crime in 1992, the same year

of the massacres of Capaci and Via D'Amelio:

"While they faced openly and mafia gangsters,

Craxi stealing and getting rich.

This now earn a nice plate. "

Benny Calasanz

Dear President,

I write from a simple citizen who has experienced childhood was marked, as unfortunately many Sicilians, the murder of his grandfather and uncle, killed one after the other for mafia hand, for not bowing to the demands of their business what we, knowing that this would cost them what is most precious were: life.

Without fear, they decided to barter it with something that was worth more then perhaps, the dignity, the ability to look into the eyes to the end of us, small grandchildren growing up in captivity, away from the monsters that torment Sicily. They decided to die but to do it free, taking with them the honor, the certainty of having lived his head high, and not having never lowered, even in the face of our great and solemn thing, which at the time, like today, decided on everything from the allocation of ministerial appointments to public works.

had 32 and 56 years. My uncle Paolo Borsellino, namesake of the court, had two sons aged 2 and the other for 5 years. He was killed on April 21, 1992. My grandfather, Giuseppe Borsellino, aged 52 and had a lot of will to live. After untold sacrifices to be able to set up their plant concrete Sicula Lucca (AG), and having raised the appetites of local clans, which threatened them repeatedly to death, burning their assets and their orchards, they decided not to give up.

They could give up, maybe get around in, perhaps an alliance with the strongest. They have in exchange for money, maybe power, goods for them and for our family. Perhaps today we would be very rich, maybe you would be public administrators. Unfortunately or fortunately went differently, and today we are a family that has collected from the blood to twice two of our loved ones. A family that has seen the holes in the body leave the bullets. Who has had a whole load of machine gun can reduce a man of flesh and well developed.

All this to have been correct, loyal and dignified. For acting in accordance with the law, avoiding shortcuts and compromises. To them no one has dedicated a street, a square, a garden. Indeed, nobody has ever thought. No mayor, no president of the province or region has ever noticed these two series of dead D.

Sometimes, at night, I dream of being in a few cities in the world and look up, and read on a plate "Joseph and Paolo Borsellino, both father and son, killed by Mafia but died free and winners. " It also happened to me one of these nights. Except that the morrow I discovered that the plate maybe there will soon be, in some way to Milan, but instead of the name of my relatives will to Craxi. Bettino that the Mafia has never fought, but instead did what he could do worse than a politician: he sold to the highest bidder, has stolen public money for his pleasures, and, minimally, for his party .

My grandfather and my uncle had the good fortune to be sentenced to 5 years and 6 months for corruption in the process Eni-Sai, and 4 years and 6 months for illegal financing for the bribes the Milan subway. Craxi. They were idiots? O balls to say it sounds better as the Prime Minister would say? Of course they were deluded.

I think that makes some sense as they faced each other openly and mafia gangsters, Craxi was stealing and getting rich. In the same exact moment. And that now earn a nice plaque, a way, maybe a garden where children grow up, asking parents who have been Craxi, I've done to deserve so great a park. One way will be dedicated to those who died outside of Italy to avoid ending up in jail. And to those who died just to stay in his land, Sicily, to fight alone in front of an army? Oblivion, slander, infamy.

If this is what we have become, if an uprising peaceful and popular will not stop this horror, I will bless those weapons and those killers who have destroyed our lives, because they have made that my grandfather and uncle are witnessing today a criminal who is being promoted to the rank of a hero, recalled by the President of Republic, and revered by fellow Pio La Torre, who in those years, cleaned consciousness after sold to the Mafia. They can not see him, and this is my only relief.

(December 31, 2009)