What's the fuss all about?

I'm amazed at how "buonisti" Italians can be. Buonista is a nice word in our language, it means that you try to be good to others (and behave accordingly) in whichever situation, even when the others are blatantly damaging you or when they are breaking the law.

In Italy, you should know, we have a number of people (they seem to be millions) who in the name of "buonismo", or the art of being "buonista" to your own advantage, try to gain votes, money, privileges, power or whatever else their arrogant ego tells them to pursue.

Several of these people occupy civil servant posts, and most of them (though not all) have leftish thoughts.

Now don't get me wrong: I'm a leftish liberal myself. I have re-immigrated all the way from Finland, where welfare and equal rights are the foundation of society. The thing is they come together with two other things we are currently missing here in Italy: respect for the law and open market.

That's the recipe for a wealthy, peaceful and advanced society: you produce wealth by means of open market rules and fair competition, then give part of that money you make to other less lucky people in form of taxes and other contributions.

In Finland, if you don't pay your taxes you will not only be prosecuted and made to pay: you will be despised by the whole society.

In Italy, instead, we are "buonisti". We (and especially those pseudo-leftish people) consider it bad to point fingers against other people who break the law and, in doing so, damage all of us. Buonismo is exactly what is bringing mr. Cofferati and mr. Veltroni, mayor respectively of Bologna and Rome.

You see, these guys have decided that illegal immigrants who try to sell you stuff on the street should be prevented from doing so. In Bologna they started enforcing the law against those extremely annoying, intrusive, arrogant people who insist in washing your windscreen for a fee at every red light.

Now you can't imagine how annoying it is to have someone trying to wash your windscreen at every bloody traffic light that you happen to stop to. To whoever wants to do it to my car I'd like to remind that:
1) I like my car dirty
2) I have enough brain cells to decide when it's time to wash the windscreen
3) if I decide it is time to wash my windscreen, I bring the car to a gas station where I can do the job for free.
So please get the fuck out of there before I get pissed off.

Anyway, back to our mayors: Cofferati is sending away rogue car washers while Veltroni, in Rome, is focusing on illegal street sellers. Now you don't have to be a member of Mensa to figure out that those kiosks actually bother whoever tries to walk in Rome's cobbled streets with some company. So Veltroni said: no more illegal sellers in Piazza Navona.

And then the fuss came: how could they do it? throw out people who very often they are not only illegal sellers, but also illegal immigrants? these chaps must be nuts. Let's forgive them, let's let them live a peaceful life, in respect of all religious and social mandates. How can we have the right to tell an illegal seller: you should not be here? no, my dear readers, this is Italy. You respect the law, fine. You break the law, fina anyway: you'll be forgiven (or they'll forget, or the leftish buonisti will come and defend you).

Welcome to Illegality Land.