Berlusconi immunity law overruled (oops)

[astrochicken]

Italy's Constitutional Court has overturned a law granting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution while in office.
The move opens the possibility that Mr Berlusconi, 73, could stand trial in at least three court cases, including one in which he is accused of corruption. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8295716.stm)



Hanging's too good for him, it's a good kick up the arse he needs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quU6Yb9k0qo

[nezmond]

our laws and there laws.

[rollotomaz1]

our laws and there laws.

Our laws are also stalling the real problems in government, a barrister is immune to suit so they can just about do say and act as they bloody well please, this is why they shouldn't be leading anybody,

We are the horses which they are leading away from the water trough, instead of the other way round.

Maybe one day, but our day will come,

[runciter]

http://isilenti.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/berlusconi-malore-montecatini2.jpg

[elysiumfire]

Immunity from law invites and encourages Acton's percept that 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. Having immunity from law is what allows the NWO to function, to do as it pleases, to steer the whole world in the direction it wants it to go.

Hiding behind a puppet government (whose leader is immune from law) creates a buffer zone that protects the NWO, because to get at the NWO, one must first get past the puppet government. So, even if the people of Britain were able to impeach (a laughable process) Blair, or the American people Bush, we would still not get to the NWO. Immunity from law must be entirely removed...governments must be accountable for what they do, for their policies, and the harm and misfortune they bring upon the people whom entrust their governance to such puppets. Immunity brings tyrannical behaviour and policies, but in the end, it still comes down to the people doing something about it. So we are back to square one. The people really are their own tyranny, their own harm and misfortune...they enslave themselves. The people's inaction and apathy offer the greater immunity.

[worlds beyond]

"Women MPs fight back as Berlusconi lashes out

You are increasingly more beautiful than intelligent, PM tells furious Bindi

By Jack BremerFIRST POSTED OCTOBER 9, 2009

Amid warnings that Italy is on the edge of a constitutional crisis after Silvio Berlusconi was stripped of his immunity from prosecution, the man himself has been flailing around like a bear with a thorn in its foot. Taking part by phone in a late-night television discussion, he struck out at President Giorgio Napolitano saying he should have used "his influence" to get a different ruling from the Constitutional Court.

When a studio guest, Rosy Bindi, a former family minister in Romano Prodi's centre-left government, expressed shock at this suggestion, Berlusconi replied: "I recognise you are increasingly more beautiful than intelligent".

Even coming from Berlusconi, this was over the top and Bindi answered that she was "not a woman at your disposal", alluding to the call-girls and television showgirls at the centre of the long-running Berlusconi sex scandal.

Among the first to leap to Bindi's defence was another former minister under Prodi, the American-born Italian MP Giovanna Melandri. She said the remark summed up "the Berlusconi philosophy towards women". The diminutive prime minister, she went on, had shown himself to be "taller than he is well-mannered".

None of this, however, dissuaded the furious PM from continuing his attack on Napolitano. He reminded a radio interviewer that the president, a former communist, had been elected by a left-wing majority and that his "roots are entirely in his left-wing history". Napolitano's recent appointment of a Constitutional Court judge "showed which side he is on", he said.

The court's ruling, handed down on Wednesday, was that the law giving the PM immunity from prosecution while in office, pushed through parliament by Berlusconi within weeks of his becoming prime minister last year, was unconstitutional. The law covers not only the PM but also the president and the two speakers in the Italian parliament - but of course it was designed solely for Berlusconi's purposes.

Because the court's decision is final - there is no right of appeal - several court cases in which Berlusconi would have faced charges of corruption, fraud and tax evasion over the past year can now be reopened. But Berlusconi continues to call Wednesday's judgement "laughable" and claims it nothing but a political gambit got up by his enemies on the left.

Opposition leader Dario Franceschini said yesterday that Berlusconi's public criticism of Napolitano - who, whatever his history, is the head of state - would be "unimaginable in any other country". He foresaw "difficult days ahead" if Berlusconi refused to accept the removal of his immunity.

An editorial in the Catholic bishops' newspaper, Avvenire, whose editor Dino Boffo quit after being attacked by allies of Berlusconi this summer, said the country was "on the edge of a precipice".

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/54526,people,news,women-mps-fight-back-as-silvio-berlusconi-lashes-out

[bornfreenow]

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