Kirk, Meloni: stopped because he was free and brave. 'Threats are multiplying but we are not afraid'

"I saw people who had T-shirts printed with a picture of Kirk, blood streaming from his neck and the words "win this debate". He was dangerous because he dismantled the mainstream narrative with logic. And he had to be stopped because he was free, brave and capable, people like that are scary to those who think they can impose their beliefs by force'. This was said by the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in her speech at the closing of 'Fenix', the festival of National Youth.

"A few days ago, none of the moralisers who filled the pages with comments about you felt they had to say half a word about the despicable post published by self-styled anti-fascists displaying the image of Charlie Kirk upside down with the words minus one. A death threat, because things must be called by their name, everybody shut up. But we don't let these people lecture us, we are proud, deeply proud to be alternative so much as to talk about the culture of hate'. And he adds: 'We are not like them and we will never become like them and we will not fall into their trap because it will always be love, it will never be hate, that moves what we do', 'love for Italy, love for people, the courage to defend our convictions always with a smile on our lips, with respect for those who do not think like us. Because in the end we are people who believe in something, we have always had a lot of respect for anyone who believes in something even when they believe things that are very different from ours. I have always been much more scared of nihilism, I am much more scared of those who do not believe in anything, I fight much more those who do not believe in anything'.

"The threats are multiplying as we prove we can govern this nation, but we are not afraid," says Meloni. "We were not afraid in the days when you could be killed with a spanner for writing an essay on the Red Brigades. We are not afraid today, we will not be afraid tomorrow'.

"Being courageous in these increasingly difficult times means first of all not being afraid to speak the truth, to call things by their name, clearly, without mincing words. And that is what we are trying to do. We have had the courage to say from the very first day at the helm of this nation, from the very first measure passed in the Council of Ministers, that the Mafia sucks and we will fight it with all the strength we have, that we will never give in on the hard prison when others had tried to dismantle it'.

"We are fed up with the disasters of '68, of the political 6, of the demeritocracy built on a distorted conception of equality", "schools and universities must be freed from the oppressive and asphyxiating cage in which the left have kept them for years", attacks the premier from the stage.