A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #14-26 - Security for whom? Another decree against freedoms (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

It's not the first, and it likely won't be the last. The Meloni 
government's new security decree is part of a continuing series of 
measures that, under the slogan of "security," extend control, 
repression, and administrative powers. ---- The mechanism is always the 
same: intervention occurs before the crime occurs, based on presumed 
danger. But what crime are we talking about? Are workplace murders 
prevented? Are employers' crimes against workers targeted? Are racism, 
fascism, exploitation, and gender-based violence countered?

No. The crimes this government is targeting are always the same: those 
related to marginalization, poverty, and social conflict. It doesn't 
address power relations, but those who suffer from them or challenge them.

Prefects and police chiefs have seen their tools strengthened: they can 
identify "sensitive" urban areas and order the removal of people deemed 
disruptive or potentially dangerous. A conviction isn't necessary, nor 
is a specific fact. An assessment is sufficient.

A trial isn't necessary, nor is a considered judgment. There's no need 
for proven responsibility. An administrative decision is sufficient.

It's the logic of suspicion that becomes the norm.

And then we recall past experiences. As May Day approached, under 
Fascism, preventive detention was systematically triggered: the most 
notorious anti-fascists were arrested in advance, to prevent them from 
organizing or participating in demonstrations. It is in light of this 
mechanism that we better understand Emanuele Gualano's state of mind on 
the night of April 30, 1934, when the police were preparing to round up 
"subversives."

"...they had mobilized in full war gear to proceed that very night with 
the arrest of all known 'anti-fascist subversives'... I... was leaving 
the country under the watchful and eager gaze of spies so that I 
wouldn't escape this roundup..."

It's not a distant story. It's the same system: strike first, based on a 
presumed dangerousness. Back then, it was called preventive detention; 
today, it takes on different forms, but the logic remains the same.

And when suspicion becomes law, the boundary shifts: the police officer 
is no longer an enforcer of the law, but someone who effectively decides 
who can stay and who must leave, often protected by the immunity granted 
by the power of the day. He becomes a cop!

The so-called urban DASPO (detention order) is thus extended and 
normalized. Entire spaces of the city become selective: accessible to 
some, closed to others. Those targeted are especially the socially 
vulnerable-young, marginalized, poor-who become a public order problem.

Alongside prevention, repression also increases. The decree expands the 
possibility of deferred arrest, including on the basis of images 
collected during public demonstrations. Thus, forms of social conflict 
are targeted, extending the power of punishment over time, making 
participation riskier, and increasing sanctions disproportionately. One 
word too many can cost months of work.

But repression isn't enough. We also need to reward those who repress 
and construct a narrative that legitimizes their actions. On the one 
hand, power is strengthened; on the other, an aura of legitimacy is 
constructed around those who wield it, presented as guarantors of order.

"Security for whom?" Government officials themselves provide the answer. 
Undersecretary of the Interior Wanda Ferro says it clearly: we must 
defend "true freedoms, those of respectable citizens."

Here's the point. On one side, the "respectable," on the other, everyone 
else: those who protest, those who are poor, those who are foreign, 
those who don't conform. It is within this division that today's 
security is built.

On the immigration front, the picture is even clearer. Detention centers 
are being strengthened, expulsions are being sped up, and accelerated 
border procedures are being extended. Immigration is definitively 
treated as a security issue, to be managed with coercive tools, 
rewarding with hard cash anyone who cooperates in the repatriation process.

The result is a system in which guarantees are reduced and control is 
expanded. It is not security that grows, but the power to control.

A security that does not protect, but selects. That does not liberate, 
but excludes.

To the "good people," we respond: "You good people, what peace do you 
seek? Peace to do what you want..."

Totò Caggese

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