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I think we've pretty well come to a consensus that Signore Giuliani was an idiot, or worse.
I'm curious, though... has anybody seen any biographical info on him? I've looked, but come up empty-handed. A Google search returns a lot of "Carlo Giuliani"s, but most of the sites are in Italian. The search is made more difficult by the fact that Giuliani seems to be a fairly common surname in Italy.
It might be enlightening to know how he ended up the way he did. Does anybody know anything about him? His background? His education? (Must have been pretty limited!) Did he belong to any political "groups", or was he just a free-lance moron? Etc., etc.
BTW tw- I agree with a lot of what you say, but I think you're wide of the mark when you compare the rioters in Genoa to the Nazis. Both the Nazi and Communist parties in Weimar Germany were very well organized and reasonably disciplined. (When they weren't busy killing each other in the streets, that is.) More importantly, all the members were (theoretically) fighting for a common ideology, however abhorrent it may have been.
As far as I can tell, neither of these elements are present with Giuliani and his buddies. To call them anything other than vandals or hooligans is to give them too much credit. To suggest that they share a common goal, other than random violence, is absurd.
I wonder how many of them are just bored?
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