31 May 2010

I guess stereotypes have to...

...come from somewhere...
-- ROME -- In Italy, you’re nobody if your phone isn’t tapped. Or, as Beppe Grillo, Italy’s leading political provocateur and blogger, put it: “This is a nation where if you can’t be blackmailed, you’ll never get ahead.”

In Italy’s sluggish justice system investigations can take years, and news from leaked wiretaps can often have important political and economic ramifications.
Nice to know.