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Look, a hell of a record.

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True, Boredom. But unfortunately, as you can see, there are still those who find a loophole to excuse "Le Chevalier." Instead of shouting scandal because a character like that leads a nation, they engage in discussions about the journalistic ethics of those who point it out. It's the classic story of those who look at the finger pointing to the moon. Italy: the only country where it's a scandal for someone to speak the truth that everyone knows.

I wanted to say that a melody of 3 notes that achieves the goal of being effective is far from simple; on the contrary, it denotes talent. We agree on that. The thing is, often when we talk about metal, people are amazed that a band has managed to make history with just 3 notes, because it is generally assumed that a good musician must necessarily be someone who puzzles over incomprehensible riffs, when the truth is quite the opposite.

"A person is innocent or guilty only after three levels of judgment." But in Parliament sit people with dozens of corruption accusations and every type of financial crime, who use every means to avoid appearing in court; can you understand in your little head what the serious problem is? You’ll also realize that it seems a bit strange to us that these figures do nothing but complain about having the magistrates against them, talking about persecution or manipulation, or that they seek every way to reduce the statute of limitations for trials or to legalize the illegal (remember the infamous law in favor of false accounting?). In short, come on, pretending not to see is worse than being blind.

If there's one thing I hate, it's jumping over big, weighty issues like a mountain in favor of small problems like pebbles. The serious thing is that the government of a nation that should be called "democratic" is submerged under a layer of mud where all sorts of shady dealings and corruption occur (and have occurred), and here people dare to mock the highest matters, about how ethically wrong it is to say "that person is a thief, I have proof!" You discuss ethical minutiae that, compared to the filth happening every day in the halls of power, are a tiny speck in the grand universe, and meanwhile Italy moves forward with you inside. It's not the corrupt politicians' fault that Italy is going to hell, no, it's the fault of Travaglio who says that politicians are corrupt, because, you see, it's incorrect, for heaven's sake! These are things that shouldn't be done on TV. On TV, we should only see dance shows, variety acts, and scantily clad showgirls, because otherwise we have to make the effort to realize what a smoking garbage bin we live in. We have politicians accused from every side who escape the clutches of justice every day thanks to favors and laws made specifically, and what do we talk about instead? How wrong it is to accuse an innocent poor soul. Bah, maybe Cptgaio is right: such an Italy is truly what we deserve.

Hymnen I have been clear: I spoke about politicians who are not honest and know they are not; THOSE are the ones who get angry, not those who have nothing to hide! You just keep repeating that it would eat you up to be accused as innocent, and in doing so, you also justify those who are accused when they are not innocent. It doesn't seem to me that Di Pietro or Travaglio, who have also been accused and taken to court, raised questions about the legitimacy of the judges, about conspiracy and plots against the state, and so on. Nor does it seem they spoke about privacy, justice reform, or red robes. Those who are relentless with justice do so because justice obstructs their plans. Are you so fond of these gentlemen with dark and mysterious pasts who are (at least in part) responsible for the problems that your country has always dragged along? Keep them if you like; if you enjoy building them an alibi, go ahead. I don’t envy you.

"Very simple ideas, a few notes, but of overwhelming effectiveness, demonstrating that the great ones are great precisely because they can do so much even with few means." This sentence always betrays the usual formal flaw typical when talking about metal: the need to always distinguish between easy/difficult, slow/fast, technical/melodic. It is NOT AT ALL true that the ideas in that piece are very simple; rather, the opposite. You always make the mistake of looking at music from an excessively mechanical and superficial point of view.

"Would you perhaps be happy to find out from a newspaper about your supposed guilt as a great cuckold, even though you know you are not?" Certainly not, that's defamation. But what if I really am a cuckold, and if someone spreads that rumor, I fire or censor them? Let’s be honest: the journalists mentioned so far (Travaglio, Biagi, etc.) have always talked about bare facts with data at hand. Travaglio doesn’t say "politician X is a bastard thief," he says "politician X has received a 5-year conviction in the first degree for such-and-such crime, then it was statute-barred and now he sits in Parliament," which is a fact written in black and white, plain and simple. The truth is that the various gentlemen involved, who have their own skeletons in the closet to hide, don't like it when someone with observation skills and critical sense breaks their eggs in the basket, additionally putting the voting citizen in a position to realize how things really are. Isn’t it perhaps significant that those who are obsessed with privacy, wiretaps, and the like just happen to be those characters with an open account with justice (and this regardless of political affiliations)? Come on, if we need to talk seriously, that’s one thing, but if we’re just going to mess around, it’s not even worth it...

Look, there are many of us who have asked you questions that you haven't answered yet, so don't take it out on just me. You see, there's not just one kind of bias. I don't believe that the bias of Travaglio and Santoro influences public opinion as much as the fake satire of Striscia la Notizia or the Mediaset news programs. Travaglio is direct and transparent; his bias is obvious right away, he bluntly shows you who he is against and, above all, why. I find it much worse to have a news program where the bias is hidden under the table and quietly progresses in shaping public opinion through carefully crafted methods (for example, mixing serious news with segments about actresses engaged in questionable activities or how important it is to eat right to lose weight after the Christmas holidays). Or should we deny the subliminality of the messages, or the media's ability of television to form and influence public opinion? If I am not left-wing, it certainly won't be Santoro's speeches that will change my mind, nor Travaglio's rants, but if during a news program there are four consecutive segments on rapes and robberies by Romanians treated with a tone of sensational emergency (as if there weren't other instances of violence, perhaps committed by Italians), I challenge anyone to say that this doesn't influence public opinion, or distract from real political, economic, etc. issues. The dangerous bias is the one that goes unrecognized, that hides and filters reality, not the one that clearly states that there are thieves in Parliament, a fact that is, among other things, undeniable. Wake up.