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Free speech is (albeit to a lesser extent than it was some years ago) something that is still allowed in this country isn’t it?
It is not illegal to support Left, Right, Islamic Fundamentalist or "far-right" or "far-left" parties is it? Or at least to sympathise with some if not all of a party’s policies.
So why the hullaballoo at the appointment of Paulo Di Canio – a fascist – as manager of a football team?
One doesn’t have to agree with his political views (he’s being appointed manager of a football team for heavens sake, not Minister of Justice), to approve or disapprove of his appointment as a footy club manager. His politics have nothing to do with things. (Anyway Italian fascists were, as Di Canio has pointed out, not racists. For the most part Italians at the time of Mussolini were not anti-semitic).
So why does his appointment stick in the craw of so many who might otherwise profess to support free speech? (And oh! the faux "aren’t I a metro-liberal saint" attitude of David Milliband – pass the sick bucket please.)
Ask yourself this. If you were due to have major surgery and you found out that the best surgeon for the operation held political views similar to De Canio’s would you tell the hospital to ditch that surgeon and get someone else to operate on you? Would you hell as like. So why should the director’s of Sunderland not appoint the man they feel best able to fulfil the task-in-hand? We can all disagree with a persons views, but that shouldn’t hinder them from taking a job where such views have no effect whatsovever on their role.Free speech is (albeit to a lesser extent than it was some years ago) something that is still allowed in this country isn’t it?
It is not illegal to support Left, Right, Islamic Fundamentalist or "far-right" or "far-left" parties is it? Or at least to sympathise with some if not all of a party’s policies.
So why the hullaballoo at the appointment of Paulo Di Canio – a fascist – as manager of a football team?
One doesn’t have to agree with his political views (he’s being appointed manager of a football team for heavens sake, not Minister of Justice), to approve or disapprove of his appointment as a footy club manager. His politics have nothing to do with things. (Anyway Italian fascists were, as Di Canio has pointed out, not racists. For the most part Italians at the time of Mussolini were not anti-semitic).
So why does his appointment stick in the craw of so many who might otherwise profess to support free speech? (And oh! the faux "aren’t I a metro-liberal saint" attitude of David Milliband – pass the sick bucket please.)
Ask yourself this. If you were due to have major surgery and you found out that the best surgeon for the operation held political views similar to De Canio’s would you tell the hospital to ditch that surgeon and get someone else to operate on you? Would you hell as like. So why should the director’s of Sunderland not appoint the man they feel best able to fulfil the task-in-hand? We can all disagree with a persons views, but that shouldn’t hinder them from taking a job where such views have no effect whatsovever on their role.You make the Italian fascists sound quite decent souls, insomniac. (I’d tell you to go back to sleep, but you might think I was ‘winding you up’). Their thugs used to pour two bottles of castor oil down the throats of old folk who didn’t vote for their ‘duce’.
I wished Gascoigne had said to Mussolini’s grand-daughter, who expressed outrage at Gazza’s joke burp, when asked by a TV reporter what he thought of some team they were to playing, that it didn’t seem so terrible compared to forcing bottles of cod liver oil down the throats of OAPS.
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