Opravy

I admire, as the rest of the honest Italians, the difficult and dangerous job of those judges that fight against the mafia, which is also known in Italy as “Cosa Nostra” (“Our Thing”).

I know that there are resistance movements and initiatives against the mafia in Palermo and in the whole Sicily; but now and again I surprise myself at dreaming that maybe something else can be done.

I dream of a State that is able to coordinate an anti-mafia cultural offensive.

A State able to understand that the phenomenon of the “pentiti” was not a product of the judicial system, but the consequence of the crisis of identity of the mafia’s culture.

A culture which seems to have difficulty to bring itself up-to-date.

Maybe I am naive, but I dream of a State that knows how to use the resources that it has as a modern country, from the television to the advertising.

And from the school to the public information to get rid of this old problem.

It is a moral duty for the State to try to defeat this social cancer that has no motives to exist, the mafia.

I do not wish for Italy, a country already half controlled by the mafia, to be ruled in the future by the Statemen that come to terms with the members of this society.

Men that abuse of their power and are being manipulated by the mafia.

What else could they do?