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Ciao Tutti:
You'll have to forgive me writing in English as my Italian is non-existent.

A little background is important before my message. I'm now 76 and live
in Scottsdale Arizona. I was born in England of an English father and a
French-Canadian mother. I was educated partly in England and partly in
Canada the latter in WWII. My first contact with Italians was a
beautiful Italian girl friend, when I was twenty in London. Her name
was Ornella Giuriati the daughter of Ammeraglio Ernesto Giuriati.
So my love for all things Italian was born.

I've visited Italy on four occassions as part of two month visits to Europe.
I spent at least three weeks each time in Italy. I go there for the culture,
art, food, wine and beautiful women---I'm a widower. I've visited extensively
in Roma, Firenze, Caserta---La Regia di Caserta, Peastum, Capri, Monte
Cassino, Subiaco, the Alban Hills area and large parts of Umbria and Toscana.
My special visits are those to my good friend Peter Van Wood.

I make HD videos of all my trips and each country that I visit has a theme.
Italy's is, "Italian Chaos." It's sad but true.

My good friend Massimo says that Italians would rather watch football than
have sex. I was there for the World cup and I think that might be true.
Of this I'm sure you can't get two Italians to agree on whether it's
night or day, black or white, right or wrong, they have to argue and
debate endlessly over nothing. It is as if their honour depended on it.

Historians described Italy in the Renaissance as, "Rich, divided and weak,"
nothings changed. Frederico Fellini said it was, "A cross between a football
game and a brothel," nothings changed. George Bernard Shaw said,
"Italy's theater---with all the bad actors on the stage," nothings changed.
My best friend, an historian, Peter Muench of Bad Homburg Germany said,
"Italy is an idea yet to be manifest," nothings changed.

So how did this "Italian Chaos" all begin?


In the 7th Century BC there were 20 major language groups in Italy.
This is when Italian learned to talk with their hands. Italy is
geographically chaotic. Just look at it, mountains in the North,
mountains splitting it down the middle. Alpine temperatures in Bolzano
and semi desert in Siracusa. A person from Turino can't understand a
person from Palermo. A person from Napoli can't understand a person
from Palermo. Well these two are both Sicilians anyway what do you expect.
No, no, don't get excited remember your history. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
The history is different from one northern city to another (City States), dating
from the Renaissance. The food is different from one small area to another.

Then lets turn to politics. a country who has over 200 political parties,
some only regional, and has had 61 governments in 60 years is in deep caca!

You have four police agencies some are crrupt, corrupt politicans, corrupt ministers
and a stifling bureaucracy.

You ought to be ashamed of being Italian, by the way your Senators behaved
when Prime Minister Prodi called for a vote of confidence. The spitting, fighting,
screaming, fainting and the swilling of champagne. It was uncouth youths who had no
manners acting like the guttersnipes they are! I won't even talk about Sandra
and Clemente. She was the one in her arrogance that really started the whole thing.

Beppe has the right idea.

Make my historian friend a liar who said, "Italy is an idea yet to be manifest."

Italy is the country of Dante, Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangleo!

Have you no pride!

ITALIANS GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND MAKE A COUNTRY OF IT!!!