Posted on 04/11/2020 10:04:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police with batons and guns have moved in to protect supermarkets on the Italian island of Sicily after reports of looting by locals who could no longer afford food.
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The building sense of desperation reportedly boiled over on Thursday in Sicily, long one of Italy's least developed regions.
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"We have no money to pay, we have to eat," someone reportedly shouted at the cashiers. In other Sicilian towns, small shops owners that are still allowed to stay open have been pressured by the locals to give them free food, Il Corriere della Sera said.
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Sounds like people may have to support the Mafia again, so that they can restore order again.
A perineal problem with Italy is that they have to erect criminal empires to prune their corrupt governments with. Then they are able to reform the government to try and purge the criminal element. Always some point is reached where the government oppresses the citizenry instead and the cycle begins all over.
Gee, nobody could have seen this coming.../s
The irony that it takes a criminal enterprise to fight and overtake the government criminal enterprise is not lost on this reader.
As we all know; it’s the democrat criminal enterprise in cahoots with some supposedly republican establishment goons; GOPe that are the problem children in America.
I have family in Sicily so this really concerns me.
It irritates me they call Sicily backward because it isn’t. It’s traditional with a long rich history somewhat separate from mainland Italy.
I heard on the radio today that the Mafia was distributing food in Sicily.
Coming to a ghetto near you.
The Communist Chinese unleashed this crap upon us.
The question is, in our Uber Politically Correct culture will they pay a price for the death and economic destruction they, the Communist Chinese have unleashed upon the world?
Or, once this Pandemic blows over, will the world settle back into a comfortable complacency and forget all about this? Until it happens once again.
Sicily
"We have-a no money! We have to-a eat!
United States
"Aint gots no money! Gots to watch TV....and eat popcorn, motherfuc.."
So they loot the markets, eat for a day or 2 then starve when they go looking again and find out the markets haven’t bothered to restock. Good plan if your life goal is to live one more week.
perineal?
Based on 9/11, sadly it’s the latter.
“It irritates me they call Sicily backward because it isnt. Its traditional with a long rich history somewhat separate from mainland Italy.”
You are right. I was stationed there in the mid-70s and been back a few times. It’s a beautiful place with some very modern, classy cities and tons of history well worth studying. The people are warm and friendly, beautiful women (while young!), the food excellent, the ancient ruins are comparable to much of what you’d see in Greece or upper Italy. Heck, I took my family there and they loved it.
It's a toss up. Trump has been a voice crying out in the wilderness about China for decades. This has only made his voice louder, but there will be many who simply do not want to hear.
You spotted the goof! Its a pain in the crotch thing...
Did you notice the women hold their beauty well into their 50’s there? Must be all the vitamin D from the sun and natural non processed food diet.
I’ve been there 3 times. I’d love to see it one more time through more experience eyes. Probably won’t happen though.
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