VENEZIA, MY LOVE - THE PEARL OF THE ADRIATIC SEA...

...daily defaced
- by ignorant 'tourists' who just come here for a selfie
- by those who think it's 'cute' to eat a piece of foreign-made pizza (if one can still call it pizza), sitting on the          historical steps of Le Procuratie and insult centuries of history by littering those grounds. Would you    
       ever conceive the same happening  in Place Vendôme?
- by imported 'merchants' who sell chinese glass under the false label of Murano
- by unlawful immigrants who sell counterfeit goods in all places
- by criminals from Eastern Europe who organize drug rackets, with Africans  in some areas where people
        are now afraid to live in?
My poor Serenissima.
You're sinking under the weight of ignorance and mass tourism.
You deserved better.
You, Pearl of the Adriatic where artists and connoisseurs chose to live, create and die.
You, Venice, who stood up against the Popes and the Inquisition
You, Venice, are you now giving up completely the values that made you so powerful?
You, Venice, do you really want to become a kind of discredited  Disneyworld?

LET'S NOT MIX UP...

...terrorists and people who are bullied, slain, raped, tortured in the lands where terrorists are now in command. People from Arabic countries were civilized well before us, Western people. They taught us mathematics, medicine, and so much more, before Islam became a faith of destruction.
The problem, as usual, is religion and fanaticism.
Can we deny that the Christian Church killed millions and millions (whole civilizations in South America), milllions in Europe in Witch-chases, millions still in Europe, through Inquisition, in the name of orthodoxy?
The real enemy is religion, fanaticism, overpowering in the name of a god who should be merciful (in name) but is just an excuse to empower a few over a multitude.
Civilization? That can only exist if people reason with their own brain and not according to some Preacher's credo.