First they came to denigrate philosophers and researchers who publicly criticized the validity of the reasons and data put forward by the government to legitimize the imposition of bans and the suspension of freedoms. But ordinary mortals do not frequent speculative cloisters or scientific laboratories, so very few are concerned about them.Then they came to disqualify doctors who doubted the anti-pandemic health protocols established by the government. But these doctors do not appear regularly on TV programs, they have no reputation, so very few are concerned about them.
Then they came to blackmail health workers who did not want to abide by the obligation to vaccinate. When this threat became law, very few refused to pay attention, so very few are concerned about them.
Then they came to blackmail all workers who do not have the digital green certificate [Covid passport], which after all is not difficult to obtain: it is enough not to be a flat earther or conspiracist and offer your arm, or at most pay a small sum every 48 hours to get your nose hammered, so very few are concerned about them.
Yesterday, in the early hours of the morning, they came for some anarchists to search and take precautionary measures because they openly considered the state as an enemy to be beaten and participated with their content in the protests against the obligation of the digital green certificate. The accusation against them is almost embarrassing due to its specificity and idiocy: incitement to violence through an underground newspaper. Leaving aside the fact that the newspaper in question is not at all clandestine, but then… can you believe it – to give an easy example – that an attack on the police is due to the reading of an article in an anarchist newspaper, rather than anger at the massacre of a Stefano Cucchi or Federico Aldrovandi, at the beatings of immigrants, at the violence exercised on demonstrators, at the torture in Bolzaneto? But anarchists are a small bunch, as we know, and very few are concerned about them.
Today they knocked at the door of some opponents of the digital green pass, searched their homes and charged them (by the anti-terrorist group of the Milan Prosecutor’s Office) for “aggravated private violence” and “transgressive attitudes” towards some journalists, insulted during the recent demonstrations. Also in this case we find hyperbolic accusations formulated to justify sudden measures. But the no-greenpassers are spreaders, as the media hammers into us, and very few are concerned about them.
And who will they go to tomorrow? Down this slope, who will be left to protest? No one. Who cares?
The poet is right – there are no more songs to make the bear dance. The balm of silence on the embers of a single word. Imagine the doubt, the break of night and the eerie cold of the game that must decide the return of beings.
concerned about them.Then they came to disqualify doctors who doubted the anti-pandemic health protocols established by the government. But these doctors do not appear regularly on TV programs, they have no reputation, so very few are concerned about them.