Dear friends, today
wanted to share with you the words of Umberto Ambrosoli, the son of lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli killed in July 1979 (a few days before I was born) from a paid killer by Michele Sindona, a banker and a leading figure of Italian finance the '60s and '70s, on whose financial collapse (and subsequent charges of fraudulent bankruptcy) Ambrosoli been working on for years.
A "bourgeois hero" Stajano Conrad called it in his 1991 book.
killed only because he had done his duty as a citizen and found himself suddenly "in politics ... in the name of the state and not for a party."
killed because he had not bribes, be intimidated by threats, stop the blackmail.
I was fortunate this summer to meet in person Gherardo Colombo, Former PM of the pool of Milan, who today toured Italy talking to children, youth, men and women of law, justice, rules.
This Friday there will be a conference in Rovigo with Gherardo Colombo, Giuliano Turone (former PM and actor) and indeed the son of Ambrosoli, Umberto.
For those near Rovigo, the opportunity to participate in an event a bit 'different from a spritz in the square, an evening of dancing or a movie at the cinema.
For those who can not come, I recommend reading the book by Umberto "Whatever happens" on the history of his father.
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From "Whatever happens," Umberto Ambrosoli, Sironi publisher, 2009.
In this context, beyond the chronological Ambrosoli George, his history, his choices remain a warning - or shame hope - against the circumvention of the rule, to the detriment of the common good and in favor of particular interest: that a person, a category, group or party. A surprise for the skeptics, convinced that it reaches a certain position of "power," there can not be honest and practices conform to duty. One spur to the review that before the widespread lawlessness at every level think they can just say "this is the system, what do I can do about that?".
A refutation to the cynics who abdicate to their responsibilities and give up freedom in the name of the adjustment to a certain style of power, in the belief that it is not possible to be desired and that all aspire to do as they do.
But my father's smile says it is by no means certain that everyone has a trading price. We must not make the mistake of thinking, because there is a part of the country, as he in his time, that without holy wars, even in solitude, known to be free, conscious, coherent: no matter what.
"You start from the roof to make the houses," said Silvio * November 1995 "must also do the humble work, which is what brings the basics. Most likely we have placed only a small grain that has not gone missing. We've done something that broke some practice, a way of thinking. And even though it remained obscure to most, but the surveys have been done and completed. "
And even though in that case, the system seemed omnipotent, but won the anti-system.
Without the awareness of individuals who choose to comply with the rules and with them the life of society, laws alone are not enough to save a company.
* Journal of the Guardia di Finanza who collaborated with Ambrosoli on the investigation of the bankrupt banks Sindona
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