Thread by @SMaurizi

1. I think Italian columnists accusing #Snowden of covering up the deaths of innocent people like #Nemtsov and other #Russian dissidents exemplifies how reactionary Italian journalism.

2. Back in '70s, Italy granted #asylum to political dissidents escaping from #Pinochet's Chile. In those days Italy had governments involved in political homicides(Pecorelli, etc) and the so-called #StrategyOfTension's TerrorAttacks(#PiazzaFontana,#Italicus,#Brescia,#Bologna)

3. Have we ever asked political dissidents escaping from #Pinochet's Chile who had got asylum from #Italy to condemn the criminality of the Italian institutions involved in the political homicides or in the #StrategyOfTension's #TerrorAttacks? NEVER ever

4. As #refugees reach our coasts and get granted asylum in these days,do we ever ask them to condemn Italian institutions for their past and present criminal acts? never. Quite the opposite we understand how fragile refugees are

5. we understand that a person who was forced to escape from his/her country and ask for asylum, is a vulnerable person, hence we understand #refugees keeping a low profile, politically speaking. That's NOT being complicit,that's being vulnerable

6. I could understand columnists being incensed at #Snowden,had he acted as a #Putin's propagandist. He never ever did so.He never ever posed with #Putin, as the #PussyRiots did with #Hillary:

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/452130729691201536?s=20

7. I am NOT condemning the #PussyRiots for posing with #HillaryClinton. I just think accusing #Snowden of covering up #Russian crimes is absurd.

8. Columnists who blame #Russia night and day, but never ever spent a single word to condemn the treatment of Julian #Assange, are no credible at all. From #Politkovskaja to #Navalny,we condemn human rights abuses in #Russia, whereas they've never spent a word for Julian #Assange