One of the worst aspects of Berlusconi is that it has lowered the threshold for morality in public life to the point that actions that would destroy the career of any politician in another context pas healthy as if nothing in today. Let us consider the case of Nicole Minetti, the dental iginesta / former showgirl / Regional Council, which is a key figure in the scandal Rubygate. The Minetti is being investigated for his role in the management staff of the harem of the prime minister and is accused of having procured prostitutes for Berlusconi in particular induction to child prostitution in the case of Ruby, who was seventeen at the time of his arrest. But it goes almost without comment - except a few wry smile - the fact Berlusconi has given a seat on the Regional Council of Lombardy - a place that is worth about € 120,000 a year - a girl of 25 years without any experience only because he participated in the political feasts bunga bunga and why the prime minister was in charge of other Girl's night life Berlusconi. The Italian courts will decide whether or not they were prostitutes, but their role in the life of the Minetti Berlusconi is very clear. She is that Berlusconi calls urgently on the night of the arrest of Ruby asking her to steal the young Moroccan from the hands of Italian justice. (More particularly shocking: Berlusconi is informed of the arrest during a state visit to France by a Brazilian prostitute. In another country, the fact that a prostitute has the telephone number reserved for the prime minister would have forced the resignation, but in Italy only a tasty detail in a story bigger and dirty). We know from a number of interceptions that Minetti was present at the feasts of the president even speaks of his "flabby ass" who apparently has seen and according to several witnesses does a striptease for the entertainment of the emperor. But it is not serious, very serious, that a person, for these services is paid not with money but the most powerful man in the country with taxpayer money? Strangely, the only person who seems to realize the importance the fact is another member of the harem, Barbara Fagg, who on the phone with Minetti, said: "He makes you comfortable and put me in Parliament because it says, well I have been raised by the balls, the salary is paying the state. " The Minetti replies: "Yes, good! Brava! Yes, yes. " So Berlusconi uses public money to pay for the girls, apparently making a mockery of democratic institutions such as the Regional Council of Lombardy and the Italian Parliament. But compared to induction to child prostitution, this seems less a fact. It makes the unacceptable acceptable. In another country, it is unthinkable that the personal lawyer of the first minister, who defended him in his criminal proceedings, is also a member of the Parliament draft law that could benefit its customers. It would be considered outrageous that this man take a salary every month from the very lavish Italian taxpayers but especially in Parliament representing the interests of his client in private by his law firm receives much, much more. But Berlusconi in the universe - where you can buy decisions and you are convicted of collusion with the Mafia - a fact that seems almost irrelevant, even if, in fact, is an example of the total distortion of democracy.
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