Protester Shot in Head, Run Over in Genoa

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

The Italian carabinieri were set up as a police force organized on military
lines (military command structure, barracks, etc) in the nineteenth century to
establish control over a primitive countryside, fight bandits, also fight
peasant uprisings, generally to establish bourgeois state hegemony with all its
good and bad sides. Like the Guardia Civil in Spain. Not a usual police force in
amore advanced capitalist country.

Kelley Walker wrote:


>
> p.s. i talked with someone who's been stationed in italy for years. take it
> with a grain of salt, but he told me that you don't mess around with
> carbanieri and that they've been known to terrorize people in villages
> where they run the show. can anyone else corroborate this? or was it just
> this guy's subjective interpretation>?

So there's a tradition we're less familiar with in more advanced countries.

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema