Hunting: Piedmont, the Piedmontese Hunting Associations on the Regional Hunting Calendar, “the… magicians of the Region!”.
Turin Monday 6 July, 8,30 am, Regional Offices. Outside the thermometer was already well over 30 °, with the asphalt that seemed to liquefy, but inside, comforted by the powerful air conditioning systems paid for by Piedmontese taxpayers, our heroes were already at work, gathered in the Holy Alliance that had to save ... the Piedmontese hunting calendar!
Put down like this it seems the beginning of a compelling best seller, one of those Augustan readings of the average Italian under the umbrella, but instead it is only the latest act of the ridiculous farce broadcast by the Asti Councilor Giorgio Ferrero, pupil of the President Chiamparino who strongly wanted it with him, so much so that he immediately promoted it and included it in the famous "President's list", very useful, as all those who just chew a bit of politics know, to get elected ... predestined without any preference, and thus avoiding them a possible rejection of the polling stations! It matters little that the longest week of the year begins for the Councilor and President, with two TAR judgments feared as ineluctable: one, the first, when the Piedmontese Administrative Court will express itself on the worst hunting calendar ever, the Hunting Associations recurring (but ... not all!), ATC and CA of our Region.
The other, certainly more important for the destinies of Piedmont, when the same administrative court will tell us whether the current majority that governs the fate of the subalpine region is entitled to do so, in this case those who for ... similar question of signatures bogus were sent home prematurely! A level playing field? In any case, trust in a system that is now running water on all sides has been shattered.
And so we come to our story, to the chronicle of the crazy day. That Monday, in the torrid heat of a Turin summer morning, Giorgio Ferrero had called the actors of the Piedmontese hunting renaissance to him: together with his faithful collaborator from Cuneo there were officials and managers of the hunting office of Corso United States, an eminent professor of 'subalpine university, the heads of three influential Agricultural Associations (Coldiretti, CIA, Confagricoltura), that of the Environmentalist and Animalist Associations represented for the occasion by the President of Pro-Natura and, of course, those of ... Piedmontese hunters. Or rather, of a tiny and certainly minority part, perhaps even less than 10% of the approximately 27.000 enthusiasts who frequent the plains, mountains and hills of the region ... the most massacred hunting in Italy!
To guarantee therefore to our diligent Councilor that of hunting one could legitimately discuss, perhaps negotiate agreements or renunciations, but even more so with acquiescence to swap the destinies of so many Piedmontese practitioners, it was the presence of two (just think, ... double the animal rights representation!) eminent exponents of Arci Caccia , A hunting association that everyone knows has always been very close to the political world, sometimes contiguous to it. And also this time these diligent hunting leaders have shown themselves as diligent as ever to serve, always and faithfully, the common cause, winking amicably to the ... hosts, coincidentally they too are members of the same party that animates and makes this lively … Colorful and colorful, representation of hunters.
And so on Mario Bruciamacchie and Lino Rava, respectively honorary and regional president of Arci Caccia, the expectations of all Piedmontese hunters are now pinned, including those who would never have imagined it and in that small, but evidently terribly effective, Associazione Venatoria not they recognize each other at all! Yes, these are the real Italian miracles, authentic "political magheggi" by alchemists or sorcerers, habitual for some but which have now made the majority of Italian citizens and voters sick, well aware of the fact that there is no longer any ... limit to worse! To us, who instead profess the idea of a hunt light years away from politics, there are only a few simple considerations left, such as to become very trivial questions to President Sergio Chiamparino, alas for him, slipped into the squalid story of false signatures in which many claim he stumbled upon it completely unconsciously and innocently.
“Dear President Chiamparino, does all this really seem right to you? Do you think it possible that 90% or more of Piedmontese hunters are excluded from negotiations involving them? What would you say if the President of the Republic started and concluded the usual political consultations by summoning a single and minority political party to the palace? And if the Prime Minister did this too before deciding on an important government action, or an essential reform for our country? Or again: what would happen if the volcanic Marchionne passed over the workers' heads before deciding their destinies?
As President Chiamparino sees, what has been happening for some time in the shadow of the Mole, in the offices of the Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing Department, has become an undemocratic exercise, absolutely unique and also a sad national record which should not be boasted at all, if anything. to be ashamed, provided that this word still exists in the vocabulary of Piedmontese or Italian politics! " Waiting for the President of the Piedmont Region or some of his delegates to answer us, we come to the results of that happy assembly that the well-informed tell ... having closed in on tarallucci and wine. Well, it would seem that Giorgio Ferrero has guaranteed his firm commitment to bring forward the opening of the hunting season by a week, a fact already taken for granted by all the experts given the sudden decision to mutilate a hunting season, not even guaranteeing more those three months of hunting that 157/92 has always guaranteed to everyone, in every corner of the peninsula. It seems indeed, but this is ... gossip, gossip from under the stairs, there was bewilderment and disappointment when in the United States they realized they had the wrong accounts, sure as they were that the period between October 4 and December 31 was ... three months.
No comment, but it is worth remembering here that our request is still to respect the dictates of 157/92, opening on the third of September. Someone well informed then, and certainly present at the historic meeting, reports that the Councilor was willing to intervene on the pre-opening to the turtle dove, a migrant who ... all except them, know well how on October 4th he is in Tunis or Marrakech but not certainly in Ciriè, Novi Ligure or Savigliano. On the other hand, nothing comforting seems to have reached the partridge question, the white one to be clear; white as the ghosts that shake the nights of the regional administrators after the two terrifying blows inflicted on them by the Piedmontese TAR, which accepted the legal-scientific theses of the hunters, giving them the victory in two consecutive appeals.
From those casks, however, Giorgio Ferrero & c. believed to be able to take shelter quickly, excluding the ptarmigan from the 2015/16 hunting calendar, a painful Italian solution for those who are unable to impose their decisions on the strength of science and reason, but only by showing off an authority delivered to them by a complicated electoral mechanism, and certainly not by the free choice of his fellow citizens. The attitude of the agricultural world is also surprising, always ready to ask for help and collaboration from hunters and proved, for the umpteenth time, an easy prey to promises and empty words of a policy that makes them lack the money for damages, then shamefully unloading on the shoulders of hunters responsibilities that they certainly do not have.
It would be useful for these friends of ours to find out more about the provisions of laws and regulations, and no longer open up all the nonsense that is usually spread by the palaces of power: it is the Region, peasant friends, that turns off the taps, not sure we! Who knows, maybe we have been too harsh, and on these undemocratic attitudes that are penalizing 27.000 Piedmontese taxpayers, the decision to appeal will only have weighed, not even this was an act of treason, and how the will of almost half of areas and districts did not count. and almost all of the subalpine hunting world.
Or maybe it was the human desire to make it pay to so many impertinent who claim (proudly!) Rights recognized elsewhere, but the fact remains that in this way a very deep furrow has been dug between the Piedmontese hunting world and those who, on the other hand, forget of having received precise proxies including hunting, he governs the matter only more in an approximate and vindictive way. Now the TAR will tell us its, the fact remains that in Piedmont from the very hot 6 July 2015, reason and respect for national laws are no longer valid, but only more prevarications and answers on stamp paper! For the Piedmontese, another disappointment, for those who administer them a moral defeat; but in the meantime they are discussing it behind us, and with the air conditioning fired at maximum!
(24 July 2015)
National Free Hunting Association
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