The bitch is back

We shouldn't be all that surprised at the surge of attacks on the Roma people in Italy this week. It is one of the right's ways of dealing with economic turbulence - stir up hatred to distract people from their economic worries. On the face of it, these fire bombings are acts of terrorism - though I guess we won't be hearing about it like that - if we hear about it at all. Because, save for the snippet in the Guardian, no news service has covered it.

First they came for the gypsies but i wasn't a gypsy so I didn't speak out. . .