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Italy does not want to become 'multi-ethnic' says Silvio Berlusconi
Telegraph ^ | May 11, 2009 | Nick Squires

Posted on 05/11/2009 7:20:54 AM PDT by Iron Munro

Italy does not want to become a "multi-ethnic" country and will continue its newly adopted policy of sending boatloads of immigrants and asylum seekers back to North Africa, the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, said.

Previous Left-wing governments had "opened the doors to clandestine migrants coming from other countries, with an idea of a multi-ethnic Italy," Mr Berlusconi said.

But that kind of society was "not our idea", he added, as he sought to reassure Italians who were alarmed at the number of immigrants pouring into the country, particularly from eastern Europe and Africa.

The prime minister's vision of Italy was condemned by the centre-Left opposition. "Yes, Mr Premier, we have a different idea of Italy: multi-ethnic, pluralistic, free," said Giovanna Melandri, of the Democratic Party.

"A country in which the colour of your skin, or race or religion doesn't matter, but, rather, honesty and sincerity of heart do." Since launching a tough new policy on boat people last week, Italy has turned back six boats carrying a total of 1,500 immigrants and asylum seekers which were trying to reach the country's southernmost outpost, the island of Lampedusa.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berlusconi; europeanunion; immigration; italy; nato; silvioberlusconi
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An outbreak of sanity! This does not sit well with the PC Police.
1 posted on 05/11/2009 7:20:54 AM PDT by Iron Munro
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To: Iron Munro

The invasion is not going unnoticed, eh?


2 posted on 05/11/2009 7:26:36 AM PDT by FourPeas (somewhere in Kenya, a village idiot is missing his sidekick)
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To: Iron Munro

Kick ‘em out, Silvio. Wow - a Euro with a pair. What a novel thought!


3 posted on 05/11/2009 7:26:37 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: Iron Munro

Good!


4 posted on 05/11/2009 7:27:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Iron Munro

“Mr Premier, we have a different idea of Italy: multi-ethnic, pluralistic, free,” said Giovanna Melandri, of the Democratic Party. “

The Italians apparently have renamed the communist party.


5 posted on 05/11/2009 7:28:00 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: Iron Munro
I've never understood the demands for "multi-ethnicity" in Western Europe, a collection of nations where ethnicity is as integral to their very national identities as their language and culture is. Why should Italians or Germans or the French be forced to take in people of different races and cultures? These aren't countries founded on immigration. This is the Old World, not the new. Take away ethnic Italians, and you take away Italy.
6 posted on 05/11/2009 7:35:14 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Iron Munro

You mean the Italians do not want “Cultural districts” they have worked so well here. \s


7 posted on 05/11/2009 7:40:20 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Iron Munro

Here the multiculturalists are all for destroying the European white Italian culture (because it is white), yet the ones who want to preserve it are called the racists.

Yet, the multiculturalists list Christopher Columbus and people who “invaded” the New World as racist.

They are the insane ones and racist against all white European and American culture because they are imposing immigration on these nations at a rate that will create chaos and destroy the fabric of these nations.

Immigration at too high of rate will destroy the cohesion of the towns and cities also. Of course, these multiculturalists have a loathing for white culture......and they are all progressives who want to reshape the world and have world dominion over all of us. Third world countries were always the easiest to control.


8 posted on 05/11/2009 7:41:35 AM PDT by savagesusie
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To: ScottinVA

The only reason left wingers want unlimited 3rd world imigration is so they can consolidate their power, by creating millions of new dependents on Government.


9 posted on 05/11/2009 7:42:33 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: ScottinVA
The Italians apparently have renamed the Communist party.

No,they haven't renamed it.They've just established a second one.Don't know if you've ever traveled in Italy but the last time I was there Communist Party stickers (real ones...with hammers and sickles) were *everywhere* in Rome and Naples.It was beyond nauseating.

10 posted on 05/11/2009 7:44:00 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: Boiling Pots

The Italians can see how well this has worked in France.


11 posted on 05/11/2009 7:44:13 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: ScottinVA
"The Italians apparently have renamed the communist party"

Just like here.

12 posted on 05/11/2009 7:46:04 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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>ping<

"Italy does not want to become a 'multi-ethnic' country and will continue its newly adopted policy of sending boatloads of immigrants and asylum seekers back to North Africa, the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, said."

Am recalling the story Kar & you told me concerning your daughter's *experience* while in Italy, recently.

Never thought about living in Italy, until now.
And their weather sure beats the crap we're saddled with in WI.
Of course in all fairness to WI weather & what'd top it: it wouldn't take much. ;^)

13 posted on 05/11/2009 7:49:17 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: Iron Munro

I don’t have a problem with a “multi-ethnic” country. After all, we’re a ployglot nation.

It’s this suicidal “multi-cultural” B/S that riles me. Culture DOES count. Black, white, brown or polka-dot is immaterial. If you want to integrate and become an American, have at it. Wanting just to live like one and keep your Third Worls ways ain’t gonna cut it.


14 posted on 05/11/2009 7:52:33 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Iron Munro

“Italy does not want to become a “multi-ethnic” country and will continue its newly adopted policy of sending boatloads of immigrants and asylum seekers back to North Africa, the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, said.”

A western leader who hasn’t been huffing the PC fumes?

Who’d have thought it?


15 posted on 05/11/2009 7:53:18 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Iron Munro

What does the Vatican have to say about the rights of illegal immigrants when the country that’s being invaded is the Vatican’s host country and the illegal aliens are non-Catholics from northern Africa?


16 posted on 05/11/2009 7:58:49 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Landru
Just got back from a week of camping & dirtbiking in scenic northern Wisconsin. No pickpockets! No thievery at all, except for the chipmunk trying to raid our stash of walnuts . . .

No Policzi either, though the pale green USFS trucks were everywhere.

17 posted on 05/11/2009 8:01:12 AM PDT by BraveMan
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. . . about the only multiculturalism tolerated there was the Heinekens and Linenkugels sharing the the same space in the cooler . . .
18 posted on 05/11/2009 8:05:43 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Iron Munro

The Netherlands is ever so quietly doing it too.. and France has a program I am personally aware of that provides “resettlement” assistance for Eastern Europeans who will leave France.


19 posted on 05/11/2009 8:10:30 AM PDT by flash2368 (Scary Times)
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To: flash2368

Memo to the French; its not the Eastern Europeans who are turning over and burning your cars...


20 posted on 05/11/2009 8:15:49 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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