These days we hear often of Berva process of constitutional reform shared by Ministers I want to change the Italian constitution since the first article ...
I wonder if these people who govern us vaguely remember with what dignity with which moral ideals of freedom and justice and with what sense of responsibility future generations Costitutenti our Fathers, in the aftermath of the war have written the Constitution.
I remember that during a seminar at the University of Bologna, a teacher made us listen to the sound of the voice of one of the founding fathers : Piero Calamandrei . His speech, in 1955, was aimed at students of Milan and when I sentinto I had goose bumps so I wanted to include in my blog.
"The Constitution is not a machine that once set in motion goes without saying. The Constitution is a piece of paper, dropped it and does not move, why move must lose every day in the fuel must be put in commitment, the spirit, the will to keep these promises, his responsibility. That is one of the offenses that are made to the Constitution is indifferent to politics. It's a little 'a disease of young indifference. "Politics is an ugly thing. What I care policy? ". When I listen to this speech, I am always reminded of that old little story that someone you know: two of those emigrants, two peasants who crossed the ocean on a rickety ship. One of these farmers slept in the hold and the other was on the bridge and noticed that there was a large storm with high waves, the ship rocked. So this farmer afraid to question a sailor: "But we are in danger?" And that says: "If this continues the sea in half an hour the ship sank." Then he runs into the hold to Sveg mate. He says, "Beppe, Beppe, Beppe, if it continues this sea the ship sinks." What he says: "What do I care? Unn'รจ mica mine. " This indifference to politics.
is so beautiful, so comfortable! is not it? is so comfortable! The freedom is there, you live in climate of freedom. There's other things to do that interested in politics! Eh, I also know there are ... The world is so beautiful right? There are many beautiful things to see and enjoy, as well as deal with the politics! And politics is not a pleasant thing. But freedom is like air. You realize what it's worth when it begins to fail, when you hear that sense of asphyxiation men of my generation have felt for twenty years and I hope you'll never hear of young people. And I hope you will not find you never feel this sense of anxiety, because you hope you manage to create the conditions for this sense of anxiety do not have to prove anything, every day reminding you that freedom must be vigilant, to watch, making its contribution political life ... So you young
to the Constitution must give your spirit, your youth, live it, feel it as your own, put in your spirit, civic awareness, to realize (this is one of the joys of life) to realize that none of us in the world is not alone, is not just that We are more that we are part of a whole, a whole within the limits of Italy and the world. Now I have little else to say. In the Constitution there is in all our history, all our past, all our pains, our troubles, our joys. They're all here resulted in these articles, and, you know mean, behind these articles you hear voices far
... And when I read in art. 2: "the performance mandatory duties of political solidarity, economic, social, "or when I read in art. 11: "Italy repudiates war as an instrument of aggression against the freedom of other peoples', the Italian homeland in the midst of other homelands ... but this is Mazzini! this is the voice of Mazzini!
Or when I read in art. 8: "All religions are equally free before the law," but this is Cavour!
Or when I read in art. 5: "The Republic one and indivisible, recognizes and promotes local autonomy," but this is Cattaneo! Or when
art. I read about 52 of the armed forces, "the sort of armed forces on the democratic spirit of the Republic, "army of people, but this is Garibaldi!
And when I read in art. 27: "It is not permitted the death penalty," but this is Beccaria! Great voices away, far away ... big names
But there are also humble names, recent entries! How much blood, how much pain to get to this constitution! Behind every article of this Constitution, or young, you have to see young people like you who fell in battle, shot, hanged, tortured, starved to death in concentration camps, died in Russia, died in Africa, died on the streets of Milan, for streets of Florence, cha gave their lives for freedom and justice could be written on this card. So when I told you that this is a dead paper, no, not a dead paper, is a testament is a testament of a hundred thousand deaths. If you want to go on pilgrimage to the birthplace of our Constitution, go to the partisans in the mountains where they fell, in prisons where they were imprisoned in camps where Fuorni hanged. Wherever an Italian died to redeem the freedom and dignity, or young people go there, thinking, why they came to our Constitution. "
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