The openly homophobic, racist,
misogynistic and anti-environmentalist views voiced by an
Italian army general in a self-published book for which he has
been sacked also lie at the heart of Premier Giorgia Meloni's
rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, Green and Left Alliance
co-spokesman Angelo Bonelli said after FdI coordinator Giovanni
Donzelli defended the general's Constitutional rights to free
speech on Sunday.
"Freedom of opinion has nothing to do with General (Roberto)
Vannacci's book: the fact that an army general should talk of
gays as people who aren't normal, or that people are going too
far in defending Jews and all the history of the Shoah, or that
saying sh*ty Jew is normal, has everything to do with our
Constitution and with the Mancino Law (against reconstituting
the Fascist party), and not with freedom of thought," said
Bonelli, a historic Green leader.
"Donzelli isn't speaking for himself only: he is the coordinator
of FdI and therefore he is speaking for Giorgia Meloni.
"Just as Vannacci, as a general, represents the army. Donzelli
is trying to give us a lecture on freedom of thought by
defending the general, and this has nothing to do with freedom
of thought but rather with Article 3 of our Constitution (which
states: "All citizens have equal social dignity and are equal
before the law, without distinction of sex, race, language,
religion, political opinion, personal and social conditions").
Bonelli said that Galeazzo Bignami, another FdI member and
deputy transport minister, and Donzelli were defending Vannacci
"because his positions represent the heart of what Brothers of
Italy has always been and what is has built its electoral
consensus on.
"In a normal country we would not have Bignami in government and
Donzelli as Meloni's deputy.
"In the United States, Eric Fanning, an out gay, was the head of
the army, but for Donzelli it is freedom of thought to says
sh*ty Jew, abnormal homosexuals and all Vannacci's other
discriminatory insults
"What dies Meloni have to say, does she think the sme as her
deputy Donzelli?
"Brothers of Italy is ever more similar to Alternative for
Germany (AfD), that party which (late Silvio Berlusconi's)
centre right Forza Italia party would be disgusted to have as an
ally in (next year's) European elections."
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