We Are Not Scared to Face the Dictatorship of Thought Police - by Lorenzo Fontana
Letter from Lorenzo Fontana, Italian Minister of Family Affairs, to the Director of the Roman newspaper Il Tempo.
Dear Director,
I would like to thank, Il Tempo, its staff and all those who have given me their support during these days when there is a strong attempt to attack not only me but even the values that reflect the silent and peaceful majority of the country.
What we saw is bitterly reminiscent of Gilbert Keith Chesterton's predictions: "Swords will be drawn to prove that the leaves are green in the summer", a prophecy that no longer seems so remote.
And that's what happened. We said things that we thought were normal, almost a foregone conclusion: that in order for a country to develop, it needs to have children, whereby a mother is called a mother (and not parent 1), a father is called a father (and not parent 2).
We have said that the only people who must have a word on education, growth and …More