Italy Condemned for ‘Racism Wave’
Human rights group Amnesty International has said it is extremely alarmed by what it calls a “climate of discrimination” in Italy.
The Italian section of the rights body said recent tough new immigration measures were a worrying trend.
It added that politicians from both sides of the spectrum were legitimising the use of racist language.
Last week, Italy’s new centre-right government introduced a series of measures aimed at improving security.
Illegal immigration will become punishable by up to four years in prison, it will be easier to expel illegal immigrants and there will be a three-year prison sentence for using minors to beg for money.
Attacks on Roma
But the head of Amnesty International in Italy, Daniela Carboni, said the moves represented “heavy restrictions and new crimes that will target, above all, immigrants”.
She said the organisation was particularly worried by the measure that would mean attempted illegal immigrants could be held for up to 18 months in a detention centre.
“Amnesty International is extremely alarmed both by the contents and haste of these measures . . . and by the climate of discrimination which preceded them,” Ms Carboni said in the report.
There is deep suspicion throughout the country of the Roma community, whom many Italians blame for a disproportionate amount of crime.
In mid-May Italian police were forced to intervene to protect Roma Gypsies who came under attack from local residents in Naples, who set their camps alight.
Ms Carboni urged the Italian government to investigate fully the torching of the two Roma slum communities.
In April’s national elections the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi—which includes the anti-immigration Northern League and the post-Fascist Alleanza Nazionale—swept to victory, pledging to tackle illegal immigration.
In Rome, Gianni Alemanno, also of the Alleanza Nazionale, was elected mayor on a pledge to expel 20,000 people.
(Posted on May 28, 2008)
Comments
Won’t be long before “Amnesty International” is an outlawed group subject to arrest in various countries. Italy is likely to be one of the first.
Posted by at 7:01 PM on May 28
Ahhhhhhhhhhh Italy….you make me feel so proud…now if only they would do this in the USA…..it would be a dream come true!! You are all to be commended!!!! Bravo bravo!!
Posted by lydia at 7:25 PM on May 28
They’re worried about racist language? Must be racist language against non-whites, that is.
Posted by LHathaway at 7:39 PM on May 28
There wouldn’t be any discrimination against immigrants in Italy,
if Italy didn’t have any immigrants in the first place.
Posted by voter at 7:43 PM on May 28
If Italy is smart they’ll tell Amnesty International and all other similar orgs to BUTT OUT!
Posted by P Norman at 8:01 PM on May 28
Got to love Italians.
Italians can generally be trusted about all “White” groups to take the White side.
Posted by JR at 8:47 PM on May 28
Who funds Anmesty International???? Probably the employers of cheap immigrant slave labor.
Posted by at 8:49 PM on May 28
The Italians are reacting in a sensible and moral way to the “racism wave” currently bearing down upon them. I’d support the League of the North and Berlusconi if I could legally do so.
Posted by Cassiodorus at 8:50 PM on May 28
“new crime (legislation) that will target, above all, immigrants”
The Marxists at Amnesty want to see all global wealth redistributed, and is counter to the Marxist agenda.
Posted by at 8:53 PM on May 28
What did Italy expect when their birthrates are one the lowest in the world? If they TRULY want to solve the problem of unwanted immigrants, HAVE MORE CHILDREN. If you don’t, then the elites will continue to bring in third-worlders to do the work.
Posted by at 10:17 PM on May 28
I commend the Italians for their courage, pride and commitment!! Hopefully, this will influence other European nations to stand up for themselves!
I grew up in Cleveland,Ohio and Little Italy was the safest neighborhood in town. You NEVER saw a minority there and blacks still drive through quickly with their windows up and doors locked…It was well known the paisanos had their own way of dealing with troublemakers…
Posted by James at 11:24 PM on May 28
Why don’t these “human rights” clowns EVER go to South Africa or Zimbabwe?
Posted by Tom S at 11:45 PM on May 28
(from the article): Illegal immigration will become punishable by up to four years in prison, it will be easier to expel illegal immigrants and there will be a three-year prison sentence for using minors to beg for money.
Why imprison the illegals (with the taxpayers footing the bill) at all? Just expel them immediately, after confiscating whatever property they may have had. Use military cargo planes or cargo ships to transport them cheaply and with minimal comfort.
Also note that weasel word “Roma” to describe the Gypsies again.
Posted by Strider at 11:52 PM on May 28
Italians: yet another invention of racist CIA scientists.
Posted by at 1:54 AM on May 29
I suppose one has to just look at the national youth football teams of Italy, England, France and Netherlands and will see that Italy is the only country without a socialist government in Western Europe.
Posted by fdf at 5:06 AM on May 29
Won’t be long before “Amnesty International” is an outlawed group subject to arrest in various countries. Italy is likely to be one of the first.
It’s about time
Who funds Anmesty International???? Probably the employers of cheap immigrant slave labor
That would be the taxpayers who pay for the U.N.
Posted by Skip at 6:39 AM on May 29
Why don’t these “human rights” clowns EVER go to South Africa or Zimbabwe?
Why don’t they also go to Saudi Arabia or Kuwait? I also suggest the U.S. nationalize all of the foreign interests in the U.S. as the Arabs did in their countries. U.S. citizens cannot own property in most foreign countries but those citizens can buy property in our countries.
Posted by Skip at 6:44 AM on May 29
Human rights group Amnesty International has said it is extremely alarmed by what it calls a “climate of discrimination” in Italy…
Get used to it! More and more Westerners are getting fed up catering to and being destroyed by the relentless, never-ending mass immigration of Third Worlders.
Posted by Jackers at 8:49 AM on May 29
The Marxist stooges at Amnesty International are a fifth-column bent on achieving Marxism’s stated aim, the destruction of Western Civilisation. We have many Marxist politicians in the EU countries. But, thank God, Italians have seen the light concerning these nation-wreckers & have had enough, & almost since the advent of Communism, no Marxists in their various guises are in the present Italian parliament. May this trend become as popular as pizza throughout the Western nations.
Viva Italia
Posted by dr dees brainwashing elixir at 12:50 PM on May 29
Amnesty International is a genocidal Bolshevik type group. They are from the same mold as the Nazis in many ways - only that the Nazis practiced open genocide while Amnesty International creates genocide against whites but covertly.
Posted by Elrey Jones at 5:20 PM on May 29
“Won’t be long before “Amnesty International” is an outlawed group subject to arrest in various countries. Italy is likely to be one of the first.”
Posted by at 7:01 PM on May 28
I hope so! No one ever voted to give Amnesty International power in any sovereign nation. They are led by Marxists who have the one world utopia aim. Aside from the impossibility of such a utopia, they seek to give power to those for the purpose of corrupting various societies and cultures. Out of that they think a pure socialism will emerge. Nonsense, only a new dark age will occur. In the end, all nations have to learn how to regulate themselves successfully. Neither the U.S. government, the UN, or Amnesty International can teach people how to government themselves by coersion and international courts.
Posted by at 6:24 PM on May 29
Amnesty international is only concerned with keeping non-whites comfortable, and fat and sassy in white countries. They never complained when white farmers in Zimbabwe were being slaughtered for their land. In fact, their only input was to critisize world leaders for not doing enough to improve the situation for blacks there today.
Posted by at 9:08 PM on May 29
Why is it “racism” for Italians to want to have back their own country of Italy?
Posted by at 5:35 PM on June 3