RSS Feeds  Pro-Berlusconi rally in Italy draws cheers, jeers
Sunday - 5/12/2013, 3:40am  ET  Associated Press   The backers
turned out for the "Everyone for Silvio" rally by his Freedom
People party in a square outside the cathedral in Brescia, a
small industrial city that is a bastion of the conservative
leader's political support. As some arrived, waving pro-
Berlusconi banners, some detractors shouted "jail, jail."
Helmeted police holding plastic body shields moved in between
the noisy camps to prevent any physical violence.    "There are
politicized magistrates blinded by prejudice and hatred toward
me," Berlusconi said. "I want to send them a clear message from
here: you can do anything to me, but there is one thing you
cannot do -- be the leader of the Freedom People, as long as
millions of Italians want that."  The billionaire businessman,
who jumped into politics two decades ago by forming his own
center-right party, has long blamed his many criminal cases on
prosecutors he contends side with the left