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| Rome Sends In Bully Boys To Bust Up A Northern League Banquet, Again |
| 2011-07-03 |
| The Brown bear burgers and kebabs were part of the menu on offer at the rally held by the Northern League, key allies of Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister. Armed officers stormed into the venue at Imer near Trento after they heard how 50kg of bear meat was due to be cooked. Hunting bear is banned in Italy and the meat had been imported from neighbouring Slovenia. There was tension as the meat was seized from refrigerators with police saying that ''documentation'' was not in order and so the meat could not be eaten. Furious members of the Northern League booed and jeered as the packets were collected and taken away and menus had the words bear scrawled out as the event continued. Posters for the event had openly advertised the fact bear meat - which is seen as a delicacy in north east Italy - was on the menu and recipes have been handed down from generation to generation. Enzo Erminio Boso, a Northern League senator, told the 200 strong crowd:''We have been told that he documentation is not in order to eat the bear meat and this is an order that has come direct from Rome. ''On Monday I will be calling Umberto Bossi (Northern League party leader) and telling him that we should leave the ruling coalition immediately. The paperwork is in order and this is an attempt to stop our traditions.'' In Italy bears are a protected species due to their dwindling numbers and the police intervention was welcomed by conservation groups. This is likely an effort by some opponents of Berlusconi in the government to break up his coalition. The left in Rome has long hated the North, and tried to use it as a cash cow to feed southern socialism. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 So Northern Italians also have sloping foreheads? |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-03 22:05 |
| #2 "The left in Rome has long hated the North, and tried to use it as a cash cow to feed southern socialism." Rewrite for America: "The left in D.C. has long hated the South and the Midwest, and tried to used them as a cash cow to feed northern socialism." Gee, it works! :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-03 21:40 |
| #1 Uh, uh, BECAUSE BEAR MEAT IS NOT THE PASTA OF CEASARS + EMPERORS??? Gut nuthin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-07-03 21:27 |