Lampedusa is a small touristic island of old sicilian fishermans isolated in the southern mediterranean.
It is west-east stretched and barren. It is awashed in the most incredible sea. [Google map]. For any 10 tourist there, one is an illegal immigrant stranded in some imprisonment camp waiting to escape or for the expulsion to Lybia.
Many more die in the effort to reach Lampedusa after two or more days on small boats from Africa.
The human traffic is one of the main plate for the Mafia.
"When I hear people talk about collective expulsions, deportations, concentration camps, as an Italian I am deeply offended," Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu told the Senate in June, referring to forced detentions and expulsions of the immigrants operated by the italian government.
Right, Pisanu. I too am offended. And, have you noticed something? Being offended is really useless. Your being offended, mr. Pisanu, in fact won't change the fact that European policy against immigration is blatantly against any human rights and won't change the fact that immigration is an unstoppable global process; my being offended by your policies, won't change the fact that I am a privileged European threatened by the immigration waves.
Life sucks, doesn'it, Pisanu?