Sicilian Pastorale

SICILIAN PASTORALE On Earth as it is in Heaven In 1914, World War I began just the way that the Franco-Prussian War ended in 1871: by foot and on horse. But by 1918, this great massacre - that was only stopped by the Russian Bolsheviks and their brilliant "Red October" - was ending with the Industrialization of war: the chemical industry gave its contributions with tons of devastating explosives and gas; the mechanical industry had developed lethal machine guns. The steel and iron industry, as well as the newly-born automobile industry, contributed by introducing motors for trucks and aeroplanes that paved the way for all future wars, where in the future - in this newly introduced TERRORISM FROM THE AIR - civilian victims would greatly outnumber dead militaries. The TRI-COLOURED MOBILIZATION within the Italianized Sicily in 1911 for the colonialist invasion of Libya - and then in 1914 with the rather tardy patriotic entry into WW1 - finally provided a "consent of the masses" to the fraudulent and violent ANNEXATION that our island had endured in the chaos of 1860 to 1866. The ingenuous "social-imperialism" of the masonic Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida (one of the founders of the Fasci Siciliani) who aimed to "relaunch the Port of Catania's Mediterranean centrality" opens the way to the "social-fascism" of the Duce Mussolini, who in 1924 cuts the tri- coloured ribbon to inaugurate Catania-Fontanarossa Airport... From the "Fasci Siciliani" to Fascism: a pileup on the 4th Shore (it. Quarta Sponda)! The Duce had finally "civilized and nationalized" us, making out of the Italianized Sicily the "integrated heart" of his wannabe empire. This is a unknown page in the millennial history of our Contested Island. The understanding of this opens the way to a re-understanding of the Sicilian 20th Century, over which they made fall a kitschy colonial theatre- curtain, tainted with "sympathetic" literature about us, the "conquered", coming from publishing houses in... Milan. The Sicilians discover aviation during WWII with Operation Husky, when, during the summer of 1943, they receive their spectacular "baptism of liberation" in form of TERRORISTIC BOMBARDMENTS over their contested island, which will be crucial for the outcome of this conflict. It's WWII (1939-1945). After all ideological facts were cleaned away and our own Memory was purified, what remains of the Second WORLD WAR is a deadly clash between competing world powers that led to the division of the world in two parts, of a divided Europe, of a divided Germany, of a divided Berlin. And in the long retirement of the old colonialist European Empires, forced by India's declaration of independence, but mostly due to the foundation of Mao's People's Republic of China. During July 1943 - with Operation Husky - the "Allies" occupy Sicily with the sustain of an autonomous and efficient Sicilian Resistance against nazi-fascism. It marks the end of a regime, but, as we later see, it was not that kind of liberation which the Sicilian Partisans around Commander Antonio Canepa had fought for. They later gave birth to the EVIS, the Volunteer Army for the Independence of Sicily), the armed party of the Sicilian Independence Movement. Operation Husky was an Inferno that lasted 38 days (10 July till 17 August 1943), that ended the fate of the war. Antonio Canepa's "Etna Group" devastates and demoralizes the German aviation that was positioned at Gerbini airport at the Plain of Catania. On the 7th July of that year they sabotaged an armed train, the "Gruppo Mondiale n! 4", at Catania Central Station. Another military train is derailed at Ramondetta (Messina). But those were not the only actions on railroads (or naval ports, for that matter). On 4th August 1943, once they arrived in Catania following the crucial Operation Fustian (Battaglia del Simeto) held at the Primosole bridge at Sferro-Gerbini, the British were looking for one person: Professor Antonio Canepa. (see TerraeLiberAzione – n°2/ 2017) In July 1943, the first phase of Operation Husky was a disaster. At first, the "landing" in Sicily - was at risk to get lost at sea due to some heavy storm, that the "liberators" encountered on their seaway to Sicily. But it eventually became the biggest aero-naval operation that was ever seen in our military history. A new area begins that sees wars between humans taking over Summer 1943: Operation Husky the skies. The Sicilian situation is well known to the "Allies": the regime of the Duce - as per its own admission - does not enjoy any real consent on the island. And the partisan resistance - under the leadership of the afore mentioned professor - has carried out a series of actions that were everything else than just symbolic. Our contested island is briefly described with an abnormal liking in the "Soldier's Guide to Sicily", a booklet published in 450.000 copies in preparation to Operation Husky, that was widely shared among the allied British commando. About Sicily it read: "Invaders and dominators have succeeded each others in all epochs... up until the Italians who came to dominate the island", and "Sicily is the largest Mediterranean island - it is more or less the size of Wales. But its importance depends from its geographical position... and its dozens of airfields... 2 or 3 hours from Rome, 4 hours from Milan... closer than we every have been before... Here in Sicily is the Headquarters of (German) Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring..." Sicily's geographical importance to the Allies was also due to the numerous sea ports of Syracuse, Augusta, Catania, Palermo, Tràpani and Marsala. The "Guide of the Soldier" further reads: "Sicily is crucial. Until now we had to circumnavigate the entire African continent. Until now we had to send our warships for 12.000 miles around the Cape of Good Hope..." Thousands of American-Sicilians participated in Operation Husky. Today, both the denial as well as the overestimation of the role that the Cosa Nostra (the USA's ethnic armed party made of Sicilian immigrants) played, seem pathetic. Those who don't understand the history of American history, and only indulge in historiographic fan-hood, don't understand the real issue. "Back in the old days", in America, Sicilians were hanged on trees like "white niggers". Regardless of that, Sicily was in a cyclic revolt for its own independence. 1860, London allowed the annexation of Sicily by the arse-licking "Piedmontese Kingdom" within the colorized chaos of the garibaldesque false flag. It's an exploited and oppressed colony, that is repressed from all attempts of economic and civil emancipation. Its social elevator works only in the function of submission to "ROMAfia Capitale": Careers and privileges only for a restricted tri-coloured bourgeoisie; and for everybody else there was only systematic repression, compulsory military service and forced emigration. The "fascist reformism" does not go over a weak and tardive attempt of reordering the foundation of the aforementioned system: it claimed to make "Sicily the centre of the Italian Empire", but at the same time it combed through the mountain villages as part of a trumpeted-up "war against the mafia". By its own admission, the fascist regime never had the popular consent of the Sicilians. The Sicilians that were opposing all of this were certainly not the "underdeveloped, feudal and irredeemable Sicily" (that by the way never existed), that was later also described as such within the blind rhetoric of the colonialized tri-coloured Left, that was selling itself to the "State Capitalism", and at the same time it was ranting on about the "war against feudalism"... up until the 1970s! In the course of WWII - the huge slaughter in which the "crisis of 1929" resolves itself - the 24th October 1943, beyond the temporary A.M.G.O.T., Washington's "SICILY REGION 1" was born in the Mediterranean, which remains until this day like an "Unsaid"... underneath a sky populated by foreign planes, murderous drones, dysfunctional saints and G7 leaders on a tourist trip. The Treaty of Paris (1947) - which defined the unresolved questions of WWII in Europe - had prescribed the demilitarization of Sicily and Sardinia (art. 50). This resolution was burned on the altars of the "Cold War", and a dozens of years later, on "Sicily Region 1" the American aero-navy base at Sigonella was also opened: A little armed camp, that in a short time grew to such an extent, that like a cancerous growth it devoured a vast fertile territory of the Plain of Catania, that was previously agricultural land, as well as conquering the sky above it, crucial to the USA's Mediterranean presence. "Sigonella City" is the real capital of Sicily, an occupied island that is now worse of than Puerto Rico. A play card used by "Roma" in its strategic relation with its American friend, within the (by now paradox) ambiguities of the tri-coloured "Mediterranean atlantism", which cuts us Sicilians off the Silk Road, and therefore from all developments of the 21st Century. The Sicilian Question is the last scrap from the Second World War in the West, but always on the 38° parallel! The Statute of Autonomy that was "conceded" to Sicily in 1946 following the popular revolt for Independence, recognized a own Autonomy to the Sicilian Archipelago, even though it was enchained to the Italian State, up until its devastating Art. 1 of the Italian constitution. This Charta of constitutional value to be honest never had an authentic mental power: After the first good legislature of the Sicilian Regional Assembly (ARS), the Stature of Autonomy was never applied as it should have been, to benefit Sicily's economic and social autonomy.

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