BTW American school children were taught to salute the flag that way until these unsavory characters started doing it. Then we switched to the hand over heart salute.
Posted on 04/29/2008 3:42:42 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
guardian.co.uk
6.30pm BST Cries of 'Duce! Duce!' salute Rome's new mayor John Hooper in Rome Tuesday April 29 2008
Italy's new parliament met for the first time today with applause for Rome's mayor-elect, Gianni Alemanno, a day after followers celebrated his triumph with straight-arm salutes and fascist-era chants.
Alemanno, a former neo-fascist youth leader, took 54% of the vote in a run-off on Sunday and Monday, crushing his rival, Francesco Rutelli, a deputy prime minister in the last, centre-left government.
Silvio Berlusconi, who won a general election earlier this month, welcomed the latest evidence of Italy's leap to the right by declaring: "We are the new Falange". Although he took care to wrap his remark in a classical context, his choice of words appeared to be a nod and a wink to his most extreme supporters.
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I'm just saying.
How appropriate that his name translates as "German".
BTW American school children were taught to salute the flag that way until these unsavory characters started doing it. Then we switched to the hand over heart salute.
Gianni Alemanno, a day after followers celebrated his triumph with straight-arm salutes and fascist-era chants. ............... Wow the rebirth of the Roman Empire has returned, soon all the trains will run on time again? Joking aside, this may have something to do with the local growth of Islam. Sort of an Italy for Italians thing? I don’t think they’re too thrilled with any form of immigration.
BTW American school children were taught to salute the flag that way until these unsavory characters started doing it. Then we switched to the hand over heart salute.
The fasces of the Roman Republic was also considered a noble symbol until those unsavory characters started using it.
How appropriate that his name translates as “German”. ...............Italians refer to Germans as Tedesco. Aleman (accent mark over the 2nd “a”) is spanish
"Many of you have in your veins Geman and Italian blood. But remember that these ancestors of yours so loved freedom that they gave up home and country to cross the ocean in search of liberty. The ancestors of the people we shall kill lacked the courage to make such a sacrifice and remained slaves." -- George S. Patton
Ah, my bad Italian is showing... Thanks for correction, but "Alleman" refers to the Germanic tribe anyway, doesn't it.
Right-wingers in Europe are a very different breed from their North American counterparts.
Why do you say "until"? Turn on C-SPAN and look at the wall behind the Speaker of the House. That torch thing on the back of the dime is modeled on the fasces also.
Hmmm...then there was Lenin > Mussolini > Hitler.
Today there’s...
One has to go back centuries to dig up the Alleman tribe of Germany. I would think they were in the area of Southwest Germany because the French, Portuguese and the Spanish seem to have similar words for them.
I think you guys need to consider the source of this article before convincing yourself that this new mayor is another Mussolini.
To the Guardian, anyone to the right of Trotsky is a fascist.
A little Duce coup?
You are right. The Alemani was a Germanic tribe in what is now southwest Germany. Tacitus wrote a little book describing the tribes the Romans encountered.
The new Mayor of Rome is named John Hooper ?
Yeah I thought for a second my Italian teacher didn't know what he was talking about, Io sono Tedesco, Noi andiamo Tedesci.
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