Italian town Filettino declares independence
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UPDATED: Wednesday, December 28, 2022 12:15
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This make anyone think of Texas?Quote:
Is this the way Texas would go? Should we look forward to this sort of thing happening here in the U.S.? Are they nuts, or is it a publicity stunt to attract tourists (which it's already doing, apparently)?
A small town in central Italy has declared its independence and started to print its own banknotes.
The authorities in Filettino, 100km (70 miles) east of Rome, are protesting against austerity measures.
It has only 550 inhabitants and under new rules aimed at cutting local administration costs it will be forced to merge with neighbouring Trevi.
Town mayor Luca Sellari, who stands to lose his job because of the eurozone crisis, came up with the idea.
He created his own currency, called the Fiorito. Banknotes have his head on the back, and they are already being used in local shops and being bought as souvenirs by tourists who have started to throng the normally quiet streets.
Town mayor Luca Sellari has his own face printed on the money
The mayor says there is enormous enthusiasm about declaring the independence of the new principality.
There has been such an outcry by small towns across Italy at the government move to abolish local councils and merge them with larger towns that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's coalition may be forced to backtrack.
In the meantime the new Principality of Filettino - complete with coat of arms and website - is suddenly enjoying international fame.
TV stations from as far afield as Russia have been running news features about Filettino.
After all, the mayor says, Italy was once made up of dozens of principalities and dukedoms. As he says, the landlocked republic of San Marino still manages to survive, so why not Filettino?
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Who can blame them? Even Prime Minister Berlusconi says he wants to leave his "shitty" country, because it "sickens" him.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/01/berlusconi-vows-leave-shit
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Ironic that one of the nations that gave us the idea of a unified nation instead of unaffiliated city-states now seems to be headed back to the old ways...
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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Hello,
We used to have one of these back home. The Conch Republic.
I was always sad that they didn't take the effort more seriously.
--Anthony
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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I wonder how long that will last, I guess its a rebellion against homogenaeity and globalization. I wonder what the townspeople think of the mayor's face on the currency?
Entertaining story..
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