The fight to reclaim holy ground from Steve Bannon

[DonViejo]

Local residents are trying to halt a move to turn an 800-year-old abbey in Italy into an academy for populists.

By GIADA ZAMPANO 3/17/19, 6:59 AM CET Updated 3/17/19, 7:08 AM CET

COLLEPARDO, Italy — After masterminding Donald Trump’s success, Steve Bannon turned his attention to building a far-right political movement in Europe. But a group of activists in a tiny village outside Rome are hoping to disrupt that effort.

Around 200 people marched Saturday in Collepardo, an hour and a half from the Italian capital, to protest Bannon’s plans to create a training school for nationalists in the Trisulti Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery.

Trump’s former adviser last year announced his intentions to turn the 800-year-old medieval abbey — previously inhabited by monks and a colony of feral cats — into an academy for the next wave of populist politicians.

Protesters marched toward the monastery on Saturday displaying banners that read “Stop Bannon, Free Europe,” and “Trisulti, European land.” The anti-Bannon activists argue the institution, founded in 1204, is a true “European outpost” that embodies “ideas that are inclusive and do not shut out the world.”

Their hope is to challenge the legal basis of the concession through which the monastery is being leased, on the basis that the aims of the academy aren’t in line with the building's purpose.

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[mopinko]

1. what the actual fuck? now white isis is starting up madrassas?

white isis.
that is what they are.
we need to start calling them that.

[2naSalit]

3. White ISIS, that works...nt

[Skidmore]

4. Stephen Miller is

Trump's White ISIS advisor.

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

Bannon has been on a campaign since he got kicked out of DC. He's a hateful POS and needs to be contained. I hope he is unsuccessful in this venture.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Give it back to the cats ! nt

[smirkymonkey]

6. I wish that hateful, bloated, self-important POS would just

drink himself into an early grave. He is just determined to "be somebody" and since he has no talent and pretty much nothing else going for him, this is the only way he can see his way into becoming infamous and important. By being as destructive and as evil as possible.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. "Stop Bannon, Free Europe." These malignant, evil SOB's must be stopped; now.

Thank you marchers. They've seen Mussolini; they get it.

[rockfordfile]

8. Steve Bannon is un-American

Trying to put fascist pos in places we fought against. Americans and others died fighting against. Steve Bannon and other right-wing traitors should be locked up.

[Raster]

9. I think I'd go with the old standbys...

...saturate the place with Holy Water and hang garlands of garlic at every window and door.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. There's never a vial of polonium around when you need one.

[PatSeg]

11. It is like the run up to World War II all over again

Did all the defeated fascists of that era reincarnate to try again? This is all so insane, I really believed the world had decided that fascism, white supremacy, and nationalism were bad for the planet and human beings in general. There is something seriously wrong with our species.

[dustyscamp]

12. We just let the bad apples stay in the barrel far too long

[PatSeg]

13. Yeah

And they appear to have fermented instead of decomposing.

[Leghorn21]

14. Bannon only wants this old abbey because he needs all the space he can get to hold his crowds:

OH WAIT