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The fragility of power, the strength of conspiracy |
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| 07/12/2008 |
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Ranieri Polese, a journalist for national daily Il Corriere, opened today’s conference on A Passion for Conspiracy, held this morning at the Centro Congressi of Courmayeur. He was accompanied by journalists, writers and physicists who spoke on how the need to not accept the official versions of events came about, and the reasons for which in a world where democracies are continuously expanding, there are increasingly more secrets (political, military, judicial, state, and so forth).
“The search for a conspiracy,” said Polese, “arises the moment that the authorities do not give sufficiently clear explanations of events.” But that is not enough for full comprehension.
Aldo Giannuli, an expert on the secret services, a member of parliamentary commissions and a consultant for numerous Italian courts, clarified that “conspiracy hunting research becomes increasingly more pressing the moment that power shows itself to be at its weakest. Because the need for conspiracy indicates the quality of power.” The more fragile power is, the more new centers of power seek to directly protect their interests.
Writers Sergio Altieri and Patrick Fogli and journalists Giorgio Boatti and Fabrizio D’Alessio also spoke. About their own stories, and their own questions for which no answers have yet been found. Questions that are typically political, such as the Delfo Zorzi case, referred to by Fogli (author of Il Tempo Infranto, a book on the Bologna massacre that will be presented at the festival); or more general questions, such as the “Truman Syndrome,” the fear of feeling or need to feel one’s self under continuous observation.
The highlight of the conference was a television documentary by television journalist Maurizio Torrealta, L’accusa del Veterano. La terza bomba nucleare, about a presumed nuclear attack carried out by the United States in 1991 in Iraq. The panorama is disturbing, not only for the deaths and effects radioactivity will have in the area for years to come, but because behind this story lie other, more disturbing stories.
Such as those recounted by physicist Emiliano Del Giudice, who explained that the problem with nuclear bombs is the impossibility to limit their capacity for destruction. The situation would be different if it were possible to use cold fusion, which would allow for the construction of nuclear devices as small as a bullet.
Yet studies on this new, revolutionary technique, published in 1989 by Pons and Fleischmann, have been enshrouded in silence. According to Del Giudice, in order to understand why this research has been subject to such violent bullying, one need only look at photos from the latest war in Iraq: burnt tanks, the blackened bodies of Iraqi soldiers, images of human shadows on building walls that indicate where people were literally vaporized, as happened in Hiroshima.
Del Giudice believes that cold fusion is a great, functional discovery buried by military powers that have nevertheless used it to create highly secret and highly powerful new weapons. Though there is no proof of this thus far, there are some clues. However, he adds, “logic is also an investigative method.”
The matters discussed could easily give rise to fear or anxiety. Yet, according to Torrealta, there is always a moment in which those who harbor secrets feel the need to talk. The most important thing for a journalist is to be attentive, to try and seize those moments. And to work with curiosity, without preconceived ideas and, above all, without fear.
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