Milan, Nov. 2 (LaPresse) – “Journalists are obsessed with this issue; they keep asking us about Vannacci, who says we’re chasing him on security. Vannacci was still in diapers when the right was talking about security, with all due respect. And the left accused us of making up the security issue.” Senate President Ignazio La Russa said this at the conference ‘A Safe Milan, Milan with Its Head Held High. No to the Maranza Phenomenon’, organised by the Brothers of Italy group in the Lombardy Regional Council at the Pirellone building. “For decades, the Italian right,” he said, “has been accused by the left of having an obsession with security. They failed to understand that security is a precondition for freedom, and they kept accusing us until they realised that they too had to at least pretend to care about security. So it’s laughable to think that we talk about security because someone else does, because Vannacci does, or because anyone else does. I believe the right has inevitably been accused, if anything, of placing too much emphasis on security, never too little. In reality, we are very balanced. Security means respect for the law; it means establishing a framework of legality within which exercising constitutional rights is entirely legitimate. Outside that framework of legality, however, there are no justifications, no ifs and no buts.”
Security, La Russa: “The right was talking about it when Vannacci was still in diapers”
Milan, Nov. 2 (LaPresse) – “Journalists are obsessed with this issue; they keep asking us about Vannacci, who says we’re chasing him on security. Vannacci was still in diapers when the right was talking about security, with all due respect. And the left accused us of making up the security issue.” Senate President Ignazio La Russa said this at the conference ‘A Safe Milan, Milan with Its Head Held High. No to the Maranza Phenomenon’, organised by the Brothers of Italy group in the Lombardy Regional Council at the Pirellone building. “For decades, the Italian right,” he said, “has been accused by the left of having an obsession with security. They failed to understand that security is a precondition for freedom, and they kept accusing us until they realised that they too had to at least pretend to care about security. So it’s laughable to think that we talk about security because someone else does, because Vannacci does, or because anyone else does. I believe the right has inevitably been accused, if anything, of placing too much emphasis on security, never too little. In reality, we are very balanced. Security means respect for the law; it means establishing a framework of legality within which exercising constitutional rights is entirely legitimate. Outside that framework of legality, however, there are no justifications, no ifs and no buts.”