ULTIMI APPROFONDIMENTI CARICATI

For a long time now in western countries religion has governed the minds of a multitude of men and women without the need for armies, tribunals and physical constraints. Church ministers have been wearing the same garments for centuries, ancient liturgical robes of obscure and esoteric significance with arcane and mysterious symbols and head garments.

Politicians must not refuse the symbols and the excesses of power, they cannot get close to the people, enjoy the same standard of living as the people. The status symbol of politicians, the air of wastage of public funds and of dubious business deals that surround them are together the very essence of their fascination. The rituals of office, state flights, privileges, engaging repartee, unjust stipends are part of the politicians sacred vestments.

Mystery generates fear and respect. It causes people to fantasise, since power is usually associated with rooms furnished with precious antiques and the velvet walls of secret corridors within inaccessible palaces. People dream of elegant politicians, sipping a Martini in the shadows whilst weaving sordid alliances whilst seated on a white baroc sofa in front of a fireplace adorned by a Thomas Birch painting of a battle between two ancient frigates.

All politicians defer to some higher office and are only granted a certain autonomy in decision making when the stakes are not high. Even the highest ranking politicians from the leading political parties are not autonomous, since decisions (or perhaps non-decisions) have to be taken collegiately often after lengthy and troublesome negotiations and bickering with different groups and factions within.

Politicians must give the impression of someone who can move with ease and purpose through the labyrinthine state bureaucracy and be able to a greater or lesser degree, influence the decisions of the public administration. In this way they will be able to quickly create for themselves a network of patrons ready to supply votes and favours in exchange for favourable patronage.

No one is naive enough to believe that a type of politics exists which is completely free from influence and corruption. We don’t live in a perfect world and flesh is weak; people have become used to living with white collar fraud, with “distinguished gentlemen”

A politician is someone who has coalesced the opinions of a certain number of fellow citizens around ideas, plans, intentions and more generally around a certain vision of life and of society. Or more simply they are influential people who have obtained the support of people by promises of practical, immediate and direct gains. In the majority of cases they are both things.

Except for very few cases, politics is not a job for purists, the chaste, the upright, the morally sound and idealists: even if they do try out their luck and participate, it doesn’t take too long for them to leave in disgust, or they are marginalised and rendered useless, to be used as puppets in a beauty parade.

Scandals are a part of politics simply because politics is shrouded in secrecy, often not entirely impenetrable. Scandals are apparently symptomatic of a healthy democracy and indicative of good moral substance in a people.

Dopo le note sentenze 348 e 349 della Corte Costituzione, alcuni studiosi, ottenuta l’eliminazione dei criteri riduttivi di calcolo degli indennizzi espropriativi relativi alle aree con destinazione edificatoria, hanno considerato appianato o definitivamente risolto ogni problema nella materia; mentre altri, interessati soprattutto alla mortificazione dell’occupazione espropriativa, non hanno nascosto la delusione per la rinascita dell'istituto, avvallato ora dall'art.2 della legge 244/2007

La Corte ha escluso con fermezza dalla declaratoria di incostituzionalità, le occupazioni permanenti di immobili, costituenti illecito di diritto comune, perché attuate al di fuori di una procedura ablativa, e quindi in assenza (anche solo giuridica) di una dichiarazione di PU. Ciò in quanto per esse il giudice ordinario aveva attribuito al proprietario la tutela piena e completa equiparabile a quella postulata dalla Corte europea, che comprende anzitutto il diritto alla restituzione del bene

Le Sezioni Unite si sono inserite nel capitolo prescrizione con riguardo proprio alla fattispecie che più si avvicinava già ai parametri della CEDU, costituita dal provvedimento espropriativo successivamente annullato dal giudice amministrativo, comportante il ripristino del diritto di proprietà nella situazione giuridica antecedente all’atto annullato; e quindi il verificarsi dell’occupazione espropriativa ove nelle more l’immobile fosse stato radicalmente trasformato dall’opera pubblica