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In a further sign of Italy's growing jingoism, Berlusconi's popularity rating topped 50 percent after his anti-immigration security package was revealed—up from a rating of 33 percent just four months ago. "Frankly, I have never seen a prime minister's approval rating rise like this," Nicola Piepoli, a leading pollster who conducted the survey, told reporters when he released its results on Tuesday. Maroni, who drafted the legislation, topped 60 percent. And Rome's new mayor, Gianni Alemanno, a member of the postfascist National Alliance Party, is also winning praise for sweeping up the gypsies in Rome. He won the election on a promise to expel 20,000 immigrants, legal and illegal, from the city. So far he has worked to destroy several Roma camps, and his security forces have expelled several hundred illegal, undocumented immigrants.

After the violent attacks in Pigneto, Alemanno was quick to meet with the victims and offer public funds to compensate damages. However, his approach may yet prove to be too extreme for many. When he beat center-right candidate Francesco Rutelli, many of the new mayor's supporters drew disapproving comment from centrist Italians by giving Alemanno the one-armed fascist salute to celebrate. Alemanno has also proposed to name a street in Rome after Giorgio Almirante, a fascist leader and supporter of Benito Mussolini—a move that has angered the local Jewish community. Riccardo Pacifici, a prominent Jewish leader in Rome, says the Jewish community will protest any such street name. "Almirante was an accomplice of a tyrannical regime that led to the persecution and extermination of Jews," Pacifici says. "My opinion, as well as that of our community, is one of total condemnation."

Meanwhile Interior Minister Maroni claims the acts of violence are random and unrelated to the new immigration efforts. "Italy is not a racist country," he says. If the attacks continue, that point could become increasingly hard to prove.

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  • Posted By: rezam71 @ 05/30/2008 11:59:06 AM

    "Comment: One must understand what is happening to Europe. The birth rates are in the negative. Foreign races are coming in by the millions and are having more children than the native population. These new arrivals are also very rude and racist themselves."
    A comment like this only comes out of people of a backward nation like Italy which is ghetto of Europe. We all think Nazim and fascism are over while there are still racist like people here who believe in white supremacy. Europe is going down not becasue of immigration but because they are a bunch of lazy people who still think they are masters of the world while china and east asia is rising. This racist continenct deserves to collapse.

  • Posted By: Kingcroat @ 05/30/2008 11:40:22 AM

    One must understand what is happening to Europe. The birth rates are in the negative. Foreign races are coming in by the millions and are having more children than the native population. These new arrivals are also very rude and racist themselves.

    What does all this mean? Well simply it means the disappearance of the white people.. Now this issue can be solved peacefully by encouraging the white populations to have more children and limiting non-white immigration or violently when white people become the minority in their own countries and war breaks out.

    Is there really a problem with Polish people coming to Italy. I don't think so. Just ask any Polish girl there and she'll tell you how the Italian men drool after them.

    Every group of people need a homeland. A place where they are comfortable.

  • Posted By: Kingcroat @ 05/30/2008 11:40:09 AM

    One must understand what is happening to Europe. The birth rates are in the negative. Foreign races are coming in by the millions and are having more children than the native population. These new arrivals are also very rude and racist themselves.

    What does all this mean? Well simply it means the disappearance of the white people.. Now this issue can be solved peacefully by encouraging the white populations to have more children and limiting non-white immigration or violently when white people become the minority in their own countries and war breaks out.

    Is there really a problem with Polish people coming to Italy. I don't think so. Just ask any Polish girl there and she'll tell you how the Italian men drool after them.

    Every group of people need a homeland. A place where they are comfortable.

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