A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria: Evidence of fascism: filing, investigating, excluding - Emanuele Amodio (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In recent months there has been much talk about the decision of the 
sister government of Italy to subject candidates for the judiciary to 
tests to assess their suitability for the legal profession in court. 
This claim does not include freelance lawyers and, rightly, some 
magistrates have protested both at the fact itself and at the 
non-inclusion of ministers and politicians in general. Beyond the 
instrumental intention of the government in the pre-electoral era and 
the real value of such instruments for identifying intentions or 
conditions, there is no doubt that it is part of a long Western 
tradition which has its roots in the Judeo-Christian Bible itself. 
foundation, when the Jewish god forced Gideon to choose the warriors 
according to the way they drank from a stream, discarding those who 
drank lapping the water like dogs (Judges, 7, 2-7). But you don't have 
to go that far to understand that filing, for statistical, 
administrative and, finally, selection for legal purposes, is an 
integral part of political systems, especially modern ones, to achieve 
and maintain social control. And, naturally, exclude those who do not 
correspond to the models that each system of domination implements, 
based on belonging to particular social groups characterized by their 
ideas, a different skin color or a different gender from the male, be 
they women or deviants" from official sexual norms. From here, there is 
only one step to introducing genetic discrimination, finally realizing 
Lombroso's dream!

To understand how the tests that are claimed to be applied to 
magistrates work, it is necessary to be clear that it involves a long 
list of questions which we can, roughly, divide into three categories: 
(a) concrete data on the subject's history, in order to elaborate its 
historical profile; (b) attitudinal and taste data; and (c) data on 
hypothetical behavior, when faced with imaginary situations. In case b, 
these are questions like "What flavor of ice cream do you prefer" or "do 
you like car rides", while in case c, the questions require you to 
imagine a situation, like "someone drops a banana peel in street, what 
are you doing?". In general, the answers to the questions are closed, 
that is, the subject must choose between pre-coded answers. 
Theoretically, the comparison between the various types of data, 
numerically calculated, would make it possible to judge the character, 
honesty and even the degree of aggressiveness, comparing the results 
with tables developed experimentally after calibration with people who 
have proven to be dishonest or aggressive (it would be laughable, if the 
matter weren't serious and with people in power who believe in it!).

In fact, this type of test is already applied to police and armed forces 
officers, even if we do not know whether the selection criteria allow us 
to choose people with or without aggression. The beatings of students in 
Pisa and Rome by the police suggest that the aggressive are not 
discarded, people who could be at ease in the context of the current 
government. In reality, for decades the most critical psychologists have 
been condemning these types of tests considering them ineffective, 
something confirmed by the existence of real psychological consultants, 
complete with online advertising, who offer courses and real training to 
easily pass the tests, paying of course. Therefore, in the case of 
police and armed forces, a more realistic hypothesis would simply be 
valid: these "bodies" more easily attract people of a certain type, 
aggressive males, with the desire to shoot someone and, naturally, 
strongly homophobic, like the case of General Vannacci confirms this. On 
the other hand, this same logic would also apply if they were repressed 
homosexuals, as Crozza often insinuates in his imitation of the general 
who, for his part, confessed and wrote about his curiosity about the 
graininess of the skin of the blacks he met on the Paris metro , so much 
so that he pretends to fall in order to touch them. Perhaps in his case, 
the test didn't work or he had prepared well before submitting to the test.

And since explicit gays are not allowed in the men's army (let's 
remember the motto of the US army: don't ask, don't tell), a suspicion 
is enough to exclude, so the general may have decided to migrate to 
politics , before they require him to take another test or interview 
about his preference between pumpkins and peas! (but falling from the 
frying pan into the embers of the League, where the same law applies, 
see the case of Luca Morisi, Salvini's beast). We are not fantasizing, 
if we consider the recent news of an inquisitorial proceeding against a 
Turin prison police officer which took place in 2021 and which only now 
becomes public after the TAR forced the state to pay him compensation 
for moral damages. The official was forced to submit to a test to 
determine whether he was attracted to men. The test, which probably 
didn't work, was followed by an interview with his superiors, with 
specific questions about his attraction to men and whether he was happy 
with his family, which was followed by the advice/imposition to consult 
a psychiatrist. Once the news spread, humiliations followed in the 
prison environment which forced him to ask for transfer and report it to 
the TAR.

We have entered the nightmare of a disciplinary society and we haven't 
even noticed it and it is of no use that Gratteri proposes that even 
politicians undergo these tests and even alcohol tests. Caste cannot be 
touched and the laws only apply to those who do not have power and 
money. And it is getting worse, spilling over into everyday life, with 
daily violence, in trains and squares, in broad daylight, against anyone 
who is different, whether of gender or colour. And we already see that 
mobility is also being increasingly controlled and limited every day, 
with blanket filings or easy dismissals for those who protest. We are 
already in a fascist society, even if we are "free" to stay attached to 
our smartphones which, in fact, think for us and everyone stays happily 
ever after...

Emanuele Amodio

https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
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