My life for freedom

Roma,
Circolo Canottieri Aniene

Do we live in a rule of law? But what does the rule of law mean?

In the broadest sense, this expression indicates the type of state where the law over power prevails: it is the law that confers power and regulates its behavior. The fundamental principles of a rule of law are legality, the guarantee of human rights, civil rights and equality.

In a rule of law, therefore, children should not be prevented from going to school and people with disabilities should not be abandoned with their families because there is no money.

A rule of law is and should be a place without barriers, physical and social, where at the center is the person with his face, his name and his peculiarities. A rule of law is and should be a place where the person with disabilities is not considered an expense that weighs on the community, but a hand to be shaken, a challenge that science must take up.
A Rule of Law is and should be the place where the resources, the goals achieved by research and the power of technologies are not and should not be oriented to multiply profits, to impose a domination, but to be the eye for non sighted people, the prosthetic device for amputees, the digital hearing aid for the deaf, the exoskeleton for the paraplegics, the speech software for the quadriplegics. And finally, the personalization of each aid that corresponds to the needs of multiple disabilities.

The time is ripe to review the LEA and the Tariff Nomenclator, far from the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to guarantee aids and prosthetic devices, for every person with disabilities, adequate to their needs to finally exit the invisibility.

I believe that the only way to go today is that of a legislative instrument that equates events in life – civil disability – with accidents at work. Aware that it will not be an easy goal, the road to take will be long and full of pitfalls, but I am convinced of it, it is the only one capable of leading us to that much desired goal: the end of the imprisonment of disabilities and the complete freedom to choose rehabilitation more congenial to us.

Paraphrasing our Constitution, sovereignty resides in the nation, therefore in the rule of law: no longer sovereign by divine right, but the people are sovereign.

Salvatore Cimmino