R.Vinello

http://www.giovanipadani.leganord.org/argomentofed.asp?StringaDaCercare=English&Stringa=Federale

The Young Padanian Movement (MGP) is the political expression of the Lega Nord political party; but not only that.
Young Padanians are and represent every young person of the North, of Padania.
The Young Padanian Movement, in recent years, has been able to involve even young people not of the Lega Nord, or in general, with politics.
The MGP gathers together youngsters of all cultural and social extraction without ideological differences.
What really draws them together, is to search for and defend one great ideal: FREEDOM.
A belief that for Young Padanians is not just a word.
What does it really mean to be free? What is freedom?
We believe that freedom means the return to being master in our own home.
Freedom means being free to love our land with its mountains, its rivers, with its immense Plain and its fog!
It means being moved by the sight of the Mighty River Po, or by the notes of Verdi’s “Va Pensiero”.
It means valuing our traditions, our culture, our identity.
It means living untarnishable values of our lives.
It means being able to reap the fruits of our labours but not forgetting solidarity.
It means improving quality of life, creating new and more efficient infrastructures; defending our workers pensions; improving our children’s education.
It means having decent safe roads.
It means a serene retirement after a lifetime of work without tht nightmare of losing eagerly awaited
pension.
It means not living in degraded cities, where man is noy insignificant but a citizen.
It means to be free to form a family without the nightmare of the cost of living.
Do you onestly believe there is anything more noble than personal sacrifice in the name of freedom of one’s own people and land?

Not a selfish freedom but rela freedom, of our whole Nation!
This is the essence of the Young Padanians.
The giovani Padani expect the respect for our people, our history, our culture.
The Giovani Padani will always be in the frontline thus demonstrating one’s great love for the North, which has its name and identity: PADANIA.
And will soon has its FREEDOM!

BECAUSE THEY CAN DEPRIVE US OF LIFE,
BUT THEY CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!

My piece was obviously short on the political analysis since this is after all a football site, and whatever one things about the legitimacy of rejecting the Italian state in its current form, the comparison between Padania and Tibet is unarguable specious.

I suppose my problem with your argument is that I don’t see much evidence here of people having any greater faith in regional or provincial government; I would say it’s not simply anti-centrism but anti-government in more or less all its forms.

The fact that the entire argument about Italy’s status as a centralised country (rather than a a semi-federal [like Spain] or entirely federal [like Germany] state, which to a much larger degree captures the actually Italian national feeling, is constantly dismissed as irrelevant because of the Lega antics, actually is a main contributer to maintaining their momentum. As long as the serious issue of periphery-centrum cleavage line is not in some way mediated for in Italian politics, it will manifest itself in one way or another.

“Free Padania” is actually an extreme consequence of something which is a long-time coming.