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Italy and Europe are right in the middle of what future historians will aptly call World War III. The Book of Lord Shang, the basic text of Chinese legalism, says that a king, if he wants to be powerful and invincible, first of all needs to learn how to wage war against his own subjects. Only once he will have learnt this kind of war, will he be ready for wars to conquer further territories and subjects. Who will lose World War III? Here the answer is very easy. As in any other war the people will lose it. We already see it: suicides are on the rise, the economy is in shambles, families are torn, and an unusual surge of sudden and unexplainable deaths are the sign of an unconventional but nonetheless deadly war.
Why Italy and why Europe? The explanation comes from history. The current war, put in its right historical context, seems far less strange than a casual onlooker may think. Old Europe and its American outposts on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean are the cradle of what is called Western Civilization. In a nutshell it is the – probably fortuitous – result of the fusion between ancient Roman and Greek culture and the Christian revolution. When the Roman Empire committed a fiscal suicide strangling itself with the unbearable weight of its own bureaucracy, standing army, and government officials the baffled barbarians, who were often hailed as liberators, were the unwilling heirs to a cultural tradition that, as Siedentop says in his wonderful book, inadvertently had invented the individual. The individual was the creator of capitalism and of the ideas that would later lead to the tradition of liberalism. Since the Middle Ages Italy was the place where capitalism was invented: commerce, double-entry bookkeeping, banking, navigation skills were the features of the astonishing Italian economic development. This led to an incredibly rich country that always awakened foul appetites from any European power that had the occasion to grab a piece of the great Italian pie. Italians always were too busy making money or creating works of art or discovering new worlds to be distracted by such a dirty game like politics. Only the worse among them deemed politics as an honourable occupation. Machiavelli’s horrible political philosophy is a case in point.
What Italians simply did, without bothering too much about finding a philosophical explanation, was explained first by the Spanish School of Salamanca and later by the English liberal tradition. This gave rise to the one and only experiment in human history of a government that, at least in its beginnings, had the mission to leave the people alone and to limit itself to the bare minimum. Meanwhile we know that this is a utopian program. Small as the monster is when it is born, it will develop to a Leviathan. Despite the blatant betrayal of the American founding fathers by their unworthy descendants, the United States of America managed to become the richest and the most powerful country in the world because it left free reign to human ingenuity and to the power of individual freedom. Admittedly, not all that glitters is gold and this isn’t the place to deal with slavery or the genocide of the native Americans, but the rest of the world cannot boast a great track-record either if respect for other human beings is concerned.
Shortly after freedom and capitalism gave rise to the USA, their deadliest enemy reared its ugly head: collectivism. It comes with different flavours and guises, communism, socialism, fascism, Nazism, social democracy, climate change policy, you name it, but it has a clear mission: destroying the individual and private property. If liberalism has been correctly defined as the unrestricted respect for other people’s project of life (Benegas Lynch) collectivism is the exact opposite. It is the denial of a project of life whatsoever. Collectivism is the philosophy according to which a tiny elite of experts knows better what is best for the rest of their fellow human beings and has the right to impose their will on anyone who dares to resist their project. Collectivists want to build a new human being and to do this they are willing and eager to shed blood. Lots of blood.
The deadliest enemy of collectivists is the Western Civilization, its achievements, its respect for individual freedom and for the value of capital and entrepreneurship, its defence of private property as the crystallization of human labour and toil. Under these premises the history of the past 110 years is easy to understand, especially if you use the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx and Engels as a blueprint for the later development. The first target was and still is money. In a few years money has been destroyed by central banks who enjoy a worldwide monopoly and the power to reduce the purchasing power of the subjects’ savings to nil. Further, the European equilibrium based on the Austrian, Russian and Ottoman empires had to be razed to the ground. This was the bloody job of two world wars. Later European multicultural diversity had to be diluted in an artificial construction, a bureaucratic behemoth like the European Union.
But this was just the beginning. Family and religion, the cornerstones of European civilization, had to go. In their stead we now have a strange new cult, that of mother earth. Or to be more precise, the new cult is that of saving the earth by avoiding the production of CO2 as much as possible. Many ministers of the new cult didn’t hide their opinion that the safety of the earth requires a drastic reduction of its way too abundant human population. Funny enough the population should be reduced especially in western countries as an atonement for their sin of being the initiators of the Western Liberal Civilization.
Which leads us, finally, to the answer to the first question. Italy is the focal point of the ongoing war for a number of reasons. Years of public education notwithstanding, Italians still remain “shopkeepers” as Giulio Rupi called them in his book “The Experiment”, recently published again by Leonardo Facco, the Italian Libertarian Movement’s founder. A shopkeeper is someone who looks after his own profit, saves money, passes his business to his heirs, and therefore is interested in building capital and private wealth. A shopkeeper is selfish in a Randian way and tends to rely on his own work, not on the government. This is one of the unnerving features of the Italians: their country may be bankrupt, but not only they don’t really care, but meanwhile they keep on accumulating selfishly an astonishing private wealth. No matter how many laws and regulations are invented to hamper their natural entrepreneurial spirit, they go on, nonetheless. This makes Italians bad candidates to be the subjects of the New World Order, where, to put it in the worlds of one of the WEF’s representatives, we won’t own anything, and we will be happy. This isn’t likely to happen with Italians and to a lesser degree with the other Europeans. Governments have proven their inability to break the spirit of the Italians and of the other Europeans. In a famous interview the Italian dictator – Mussolini, not the new one, Draghi – said that it wasn’t impossible to govern the Italians, but that it was useless. In order to break their spirit, the only remaining means was fear. Fear of dying, fear of a terrible and unknown illness. Up to now this strategy worked. Italians, and Europeans, are accepting the destruction of their lives and of their economy without many protests. Like lemmings running to their deaths, they line up obediently to receive the saving shot of an experimental drug that just a few years ago no one would have ever accepted.
The planning was flawless and the way it was done took even the most ingrained libertarian conspiracy theorists completely by surprise. After years spent saying that television is dead and that everything will pass through the internet, they pulled the trick simply by using the TV. With the excuse of a deadly virus, they locked a willing populace in their homes where, without any better programmes, everyone was exposed to 24/7 Covid-19 brainwashing.
Is this the end? As they say in sports: it’s not over until it’s over. Hence, there still is a glimmer of hope. One of the astonishing facts of the last 18 months is the growth of the protest movements and especially of the Libertarian Movement in Italy. For the American readers: We are not a political party, we never run for any election, our commitment to the original Rothbardian, Misesian and Hoppean Philosophy is as pure as possible. We don’t compromise with any government. That said, we can proudly say that during the last months we achieved a lot. In May 2020 we published the first book about the fake Covid-19 pandemics (Coronavirus: Stato di paura, Coronavirus: State of Fear). Not only was the book a great success, but we touched lots of topics that later were confirmed: cheap and very effective therapies for Covid-19, Chinese origins of the virus, the total economic disruption brought about by the government policies. Further, from the very beginning we started a movement of civil disobedience, especially of entrepreneurs who were not willing to comply with crazy government regulations about curfew, limitations of the customers, curtailing the right of free movement etc. The Libertarian Movement offered free legal advice for thousands of citizens who had problems with the police or fines for offences against the Covid-19 regulations. This was made possible especially through my own personal work as an attorney and of Michele Gandolfi, the Movement’s vice president whose tireless activity gave hope and practical help to many people who never had anything to do with legal issues. Meanwhile our founder, the former journalist and writer Leonardo Facco, made sure that his online news channel “Il Miglio Verde” (The Green Mile) was one of the very few free voices in Italy.
In March 2021 I started a Telegram Channel where I published a series of interviews edited by Matteo Bordini with tutorials about how to deal with the police, how to challenge a fine etc. It was a huge and unexpected success. In a matter of months, the followers of the channel soared to the astonishing number of close to 140thousand. Many of those are now proud members of the “Movimento Libertario”. We could convey libertarian and anarcho-capitalist contents to a number of people that would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago.
Although what the Italian Libertarian Movement did was a nuisance for the government, nothing has been really achieved so far. The government doesn’t care that every week hundreds of thousands of people all over Italy gather for public demonstrations. Our kangaroo courts have approved every constitutional violation by the government so far. While I am writing all healthcare workers that don’t have a vaccine are being expelled from their jobs. It is necessary to have a so-called “green pass” (a barcode passport showing that you either had a full vaccination against Covid-19, or a negative PCR test not older than 48 hours or that you recovered from Covid-19 not earlier than six months ago) to use interregional means of transportation, to eat in a restaurant, to enter any workplace. Anyone who doesn’t comply, on top of risking significant fines, will be suspended from work without any payment. Doctors who dare to voice some reasons of dissent against the governmental vaccine mandate will be removed from the official register which is a condition for working. Attorneys who defend clients unwilling to undergo the compulsory vaccination face disciplinary proceedings and possibly suspensions or disbarment. We are in a full-fledged sanitary dictatorship. The constitution is de facto suspended, and no one will help.
Yet, in a Churchillian fashion, many of us are willing “to fight on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields and in the streets”, in a word, “we shall never surrender” like a popular tune goes in the public demonstrations (“la gente come noi non molla mai” – people like us never surrenders). The good thing is that the lines are clear as they have never been. It’s us against them. It’s the people against the government and all the shady and criminal elites that control corrupt or stupid politicians. There’s no going back, we have burnt our ships, it’s us or them: give us liberty or give us death.
Alessandro Fusillo is an attorney in Italy, Germany and Spain and is fluent in five languages. Due to the socialist indoctrination of European schools and universities he joined Austrian Economics and Libertarian Philosophy only in his mature years. As an attorney specialized in commercial and tax law, he often represents clients against the State and banksters. Faithful to the Jeffersonian principle that when law becomes injustice resistance becomes a duty, he always strives to undermine as much as possible the multiple laws whose only aim is to encroach the freedom. https://t.me/s/difendersiora
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