The earthquake is different from the others and several natural disasters for the speed and indifference: in the few minutes of earthquakes the disaster is over, the survivors do not just have to find the dead bodies buried under the rubble and walk among the remains of lost cities and villages. Among the unbearable pain but as always borne by those who have lost loved ones, and the silence of the other survivors pity them but they know they have been miraculously healed.
For days, for years, will discuss prevention is not done, the mistakes made, of malfeasance for self-interest for which the bill has arrived and in newspapers and on television there will be the sad spectacle of the dead and powerless, of the injured, their family members in tears.
A name will be repeated in all the chronicles, in the comments, in the controversy. Guido Bertolaso \u200b\u200bto the head of Civil Protection, the professional assistance of the public know that all Italians, even if, in fact, struggling to understand that he is the real Prime Minister of Italy this disaster. The real head of government is he, not the politicians in Italy and abroad, playing the part of public administrators.
Bertolaso \u200b\u200bhas a uniform, wearing plain clothes with no degrees and no medals, normal trousers and a blue pullover with a tricolor ribbon sewn up, but there is no Italian who did not recognize him in what promises to rebuild the country every time he goes to pieces, which promises to mend its wounds, to remove the rubble and garbage, to reopen the roads, restore rivers and streams in their banks. That's what the official head of government would be a "dictator" good. Bertolaso \u200b\u200bfact enjoys the power to mobilize armies of rescuers, thousands of trains, cars, trucks. When he comes with his blue pullovers with the tricolor ribbon, prefects, and general Quaestors are put on alert and obey him without a murmur. He shuts up the controversy, as did yesterday, said the tragedy could not be anticipated. And no matter if he is unable to maintain many of its promises. Bertolaso \u200b\u200bhas full power, the government is stronger than the government.
There is one important thing that is taking place in Abruzzo. In pain and desperation of the disaster aged people rediscover the will to resist and repair. And once the laces and bureaucratic snares seem to disappear in the face of higher need. Is mobilized in a few hours a true national army which is that of relief, which will start operating from Cape Passero Brenner second prearranged plans and interventions, but also on a voluntary basis and solidarity. Driven by emotion, pain, the fraternity of a people.
And there's another lesson, one that is informed by this disaster in many ways cruel and merciless. The transition from ancient Italy, a country of art, Italy bricks and slates, and the modern reinforced concrete. Between Italy and around the castles of the medieval villages and hills above the industrial areas on the valley floor plans. Newspapers and television stations have interviewed the survivors of the earthquake in Campania and Marche, administrators, officials who have seen with their eyes, sometimes the death of their loved ones, the delays and foresight, errors once made, once again reported too late. Once again, they remembered the ancient and ever observed lesson of modesty and of seriousness, the duty to provide necessary today to tomorrow instead of crying on their own imprudence.
The main complaint that he moved to the imperial megalomania Mussolini, was to have spent money and men for the conquest of the "sand box" in Libya, while in southern Italy lacked roads and railways, and people continued to carry the loads shoulders and walk along the sheep tracks. The great works are a testament to civilization but five years of ambitious rulers rather than essays. The bridge over the Straits of Messina and super fast trains are beautiful to see and tell, but then comes a heavy rain and one of the great works, the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway turns into the "hanging shambles" which is most of the South .
Finally, there is a third lesson to be drawn from this modernity is no longer time to run to see who is dead or homeless. The pity and grief must adapt to the modern mass, not to obstruct traffic on the roads of relief. It is a prayer, order Bertolaso.
of Giorgio Bocca from the Republic of April 7, 2009
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