The Hunt Told at "Porta a Porta", we are at the usual ..
Environment Ministers Going Hunting? It would be like expecting that those who make coffins stay up late to invent the immortality pill. On the other hand, if, in compliance with the laws to which he has sworn allegiance, the minister on duty works to enforce them. Someone, after all and even in recent times, has done it. It doesn't happen every day that the defense minister comes from a military career and that of the youth turns eighteen fifteen days before being appointed! But a minister is a minister.
And he remains a minister. And that's that. And when he declares in public that he is personally against one of the subjects to which he must devote his institutional attention, it means that sooner or later he will have to deal with all citizens, including hunters.
Rather, I know that with this story of the lengthening of the venatic season (more hoped for than real, according to the accommodating statements between the minister Prestigiacomo and the valiant Hon.Bears at the end of the broadcast), the Men of the Woods - this time - even the bones of polenta lose out!
Because if this is a 'modification' (and modification is) of 157/92, the XII Commandments (proposed modification of Law 157/92 signed by myself) that I have hoped for for over ten years, for one or two legislatures I can even forget!
Will the 'house arrest' of the five years born from the 'hunting option' remain? And will the payments and questions with hat in hand also remain to be able to go hunting in OUR national territory? Not in Andorra or in Paupasia, mind you! But at the house of an adventure friend who -fatale- lives 'beyond' the border drawn by 'our' Area! And the bizarre regulations concerning the 'hunting silence' on Tuesdays and Fridays, the 'tele-reservations', the chronic disinterest in letting us enter the management committees of the Parks and within a ministry that, whatever the right-thinking environmentalists say about it desk, it is also ours, that of the Environment, what will become of them? Will we still have them on the hunchback? Amen.
Copnik revolution? It seems so. Once again - if ever it were needed - we will change 'everything', so as not to change… .nothing! On the contrary: worse! If it passes what a Minister of the Republic opposed to our world, albeit personally, but openly, wants and insists for the entire duration of the transmission, and that is the word 'binding' on the opinion of an institution that previously called itself INFS and now ISPRA, well, then dear friends, it really means that the banana peel that they threw us in the middle of the Rai1 door will fully fulfill its task. If you haven't done so yet, read up on the names of those who run the hut in via Curtatone 7 in Rome, the headquarters of ISPRA: your imagination can do the rest!
The question then is this: can an institution, with all due respect to those who - on the payroll of the State - operate in the name of environmental science and technology, change the rules of the game dictated by a law passed by both branches of Parliament? If the 'word' wanted by the minister passes, it seems so. Unlike what the old and mistreated 157 of 1992 says to this day, which previously gave the former Institute of Wild Fauna the faculty to express an opinion that, although mandatory, would not have distorted in any way what the regions could and they had to apply in this matter, because it is not binding, the exact opposite would now happen.
'I told me!' They will thunder from via Curtatone. But where does the scientific truth end? Or rather: where does that policy begin? But the law is law and all that remains is to respect it. For everyone. Regions included.
So what?
We just have Rome, friends, on March 9th.
Sergio Gunnella
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