Berlusconi billed the recently held rally in Rome in defence of press freedom, "a farce": his lawyers' claims during the trial when he was stripped of his immunity that he is "equal before the law but the application is another matter" smacks equally of an enormous farce in itself. Taking into account that the "application" of Gelli's "democratic recovery plan" devised more than thirty years ago by his masonic lodge filled with nostalgic members of the former Fascist Party - converged within the Berlusconi's coalition, are now well aware of their own influence over the magistrature and media, enacted once again a spectacle for the benefit of Tv cameras interpreting the decadence the entire country finds itself embroiled in. The trial looked like Italian pageantry and showmanship at its best, a throw back to the most refined thespian art, with the PM as the main tragic character. The outcome has decreed his public image came out more and more dented before the whole world...the "Emperor" knows extremely well his prima donna role, inevitably catastrophic.