the noise of violence
so you turn on tv and the images you see are of a city under siege, cars on fire, people throwing stones at the police and breaking shopwindows and banks and other stores, what’s that ? Palestinia ? nay it’s Genoa, Italy where the G8 meeting is just started, and oh well i was forgetting the most important thing : one dead man , or better a young boy laying on the street.
is this a surprise ? something unexpectable ? i’d not say so; when for so many days we’re warned about the risks and the city has been transformed into a cage with so many guardians you can expect that trouble arises. The problem is just this : a lot of talk about the violent groups that have nothing to do with people who just want to demonstrate in peace, a lot of talk about the tough and repressive way of the police but not on the real issues at stake there. When the spark of violence is lit, there’s little left to do, the noise that violence create erases all the good will and voices that should be able to talk about something, to agree or to espress a different voice. We don’t hear the so called big men, what they’ve been talking about, if it’s something useful for all the people or just crap and we don’t hear the sound of peaceful yet strong protest, it’s just the noise all over it.
