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For seven years the Albertin-Lautsi family has been fighting against the compulsory presence of crucifixes in the state schools attended by their sons. They complained to the school board, the administrative court, the council of state and finally the constitutional court - all to no avail.
This week they finally got satisfaction from the European court in Strasbourg. The presence of religious symbols in schools, the court said, "is in violation of the freedom of the parents to raise their children
according to their own convictions". It is also a violation of the child's freedom of religion, the court
said.
"The ruling shows that the Italian state is anything but secular," said Soile Lautsi, a Finnish woman who has lived in Italy since 1987. "It shows that Italy is not in Europe but inside the walls of Vatican city,"
her Italian husband Massimo Albertin added in the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.
But the European verdict has been condemned in Italy with the kind of unanimity you usually see only when Italian soldiers are killed abroad or when the national football team is victorious. All the major political parties have rallied behind the cross, which they say is not much a religious symbol as a symbol of Italian tradition, culture and history, they say.
The Italian government said the ruling was "an attack on our country's identity", and has announced that it will appeal. Education minister Mariastella Gelmini said: "Nobody wants to impose the Catholic religion on anyone, but nobody - not even a prejudiced European court - will succeed in erasing our identity."
That is exactly the sort of statement we need to rally people against the Marxist tyranny coming out of Strasbourg, the EU, and leftist political parties in general. I hope that Minister Gelmini continues to stand firm in such convictions and does not buckle to any pressure whatsoever from either external or domestic reds. The attack on a nation’s identity is no different from an attack on its national sovereignty or territorial integrity. Nowhere in human history has there ever been a system in which a foreign body could interfere with and dictate so many aspects of daily life without the presence of an armed force or without having first been conquered by military force. This is truly a despicable state of affairs but not one where we cannot use it to our advantage.
The fact remains that the EU, or the separate but equally threatening institution of the so-called human rights court in Strasbourg, can only push so far before hard resistance takes place. The first steps will be through diplomacy and democracy. The EU through its Lisbon heresy will easily enough find a way to get around such actions and continue its tyranny over the people. This of course will undoubtedly lead to a call to arms; first through partisans and then to the national level. Bloodshed is imminent so long as this Marxist structure remains in Europe. As horrible as such a prospect can be, we the people are never too shy or shrinking from the call to arms in order to protect our nations, our heritage, and our cultures from the devastation of socialism and voter cultivation.
If this means that we act harshly towards our sick minded and Marxist corrupted youth, then so be it. But such kiddies in black, so-called "students" who are interested in nothing but free money and rock concerts, haven’t the courage to fight and therefore will be crushed along with their socialist puppet masters. We must show no mercy in our agenda and we must march towards total victory with a stone heart. Once we start to bring the core, the center of the universe back into the family and out of the clutches of the nanny state, then the children, the "youth" shall fall into line and naturally begin to join the ranks of the righteous and productive. There is no question, it is completely undeniable that the immorality of our young people has been a direct result of the shift of responsibility from the home to the government. We as parents ought to be ashamed of ourselves for letting this happen. We must retake control and show our children that there is only one way towards greatness. It is definitely not through welfare, apathy, drugs, and hanging out on street corners. It is definitely not through the watchful gaze of a Marxist government which encourages every form of debauchery and immorality imaginable. It is through discipline, pride, patriotism, defense of the national identity, freedom of enterprise and from over burdening taxation, and high educational standards which encourage competition rather than so-called equality and justice.
As for the rest of us; we all have a decision to make. We must ask ourselves how far we are willing to let these events go before we respond. It is imperative that we show force and unity towards those politicians who have ignored us for far too long. It is imperative that we force an outcome on the continuing efforts of voter cultivation and population replacement programs responsible for flooding our streets with the hordes of islam. It is imperative that we take decisive action to curb any further transfer of power to the Brussels super-structure before we find foreign nationals policing our streets and schools. It is an absolute necessity that we force any one of us with aspirations to lead our cause to never forget that he answers to us and shall never be allowed to fall into the patterns of politik which have brought us to where we are today. The time to answer these questions is right now. I can honestly say that we are on the verge of losing a war, which according to our numbers and strength is quite simply impossible to lose. But make no mistake, if we don't rise up, we will perish into a morally depraved hell on earth.
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