Anyone who served in the army will remember that there were very important objects guarded by the so-called "dead guard". This is when the bullet is in the barrel, the rifle is cocked, and the shot is fired before the question "who's going" is asked. "Dead" guards were soldiers of special trust, ready to carry out the given task at any cost. It happened that someone fell into that role and was punished.
Since today we almost don't have an army (and what will we do?), and the little we have we sent to guard the poppy fields somewhere in the faraway, at the foot of the Himalayas, of course at our expense, it would be said that "dead guards" are no longer ours. necessary. Well, by God, it's not like that.
Even today in Montenegro, there are still some important buildings and some strategic areas, which are guarded by "soldiers" who are ready to "lay down" their, very often, retired lives so that the "enemy" foot does not set foot there. Those buildings and spaces are still unsold enterprises in state (party) ownership and several bays that we have not yet opened for our lucky ones. We are probably saving them for our as yet undiscovered strategic partners – the Papuans and those nudist tribes in the Amazon valley. When they get hold of the steam, and it will be soon when they remember to bottle natural oxygen and water from their big river, whose flow, I guess, is Lake Skadar (in winter) per hour, they will know what is beautiful. We are, after all, a wild beauty. Wow, there is no more appropriate advertisement. And we don't really care that someone there can think logically, that the same kind of people live in the wild beauty. The new slogan could read: "Don't spend money to explore Mars, explore Montenegro!"
Today's Montenegrin "dead guards" are boards of directors, management boards, as well as various agencies, institutes, administrations, directorates, or whatever ingenious people will not invent. The number of "death guards" is undetermined, because it changes daily, especially before "fair and democratic" elections. But, certainly, there are several thousand of them. Actually, as much as is needed for various needs. The response is large, and they don't need a password, even though the "death guards" don't wear uniforms for now, but they can easily recognize each other. How are they recruited? This is a very important issue, especially for boards of directors and boards of directors, which are "authorized" to make decisions. In order to get there, the basic condition is that you are "orthodox" and that you adhere to God's most important commandment - "Thou shalt have no other God but me". In addition to the above, it is necessary:
- that you have never engaged in the work for which you were chosen;
- that you have never entered a business before - an institution whose fate you decide;
- that you are not from the place where the headquarters of the company - institution is located;
- that you know what the final word is, but you don't know what the final account is;
- that you know very well why you were chosen - appointed;
- not to "stand out".
(Exceptions are a little more common than penguins in the Sahara).
In the appointment decision, which I didn't have a chance to read, it must be written: "The party will give you a reward for your efforts", and if you don't complete the task, "they won't surprise you the second time".
I can't remember anyone resigning. As always, we chose the right ones - the best.
Commercial companies that are (co)owned by the state are, as a rule, joint stock companies. The law on companies defines the company's bodies, and that the company's assembly is the highest body, which is held at least once a year, and which, among other things:
- makes decisions on the disposal of the company's assets;
- increases or decreases the capital of the company;
- makes a decision on voluntary liquidation, restructuring and a proposal to initiate bankruptcy proceedings.
As the decisions of shareholders' assemblies resound through Montenegro, e.g. KAP, Luka Bar and its weak brother KTGT, Onogošta, Brodogradilišta, Montenegro Airlines, Plantaža, and - for God's sake, is there anything else left.
There is also an extraordinary assembly of shareholders, which is convened in the case when it is necessary to consider serious (I heard serious) losses of the company and when reorganization, merger, liquidation and bankruptcy are approved. The Parliament of Montenegro has taken over all the essential powers of the Assembly of Shareholders of KAP, and the state is the owner of less than 30% of the shares of that company. Minority shareholders (over 40% of shares) are silent and watch what is done with their assets. Without the desire and intention to organize their "dead guards", as the majority owners.
Another important organ of the company is the board of directors, which, by law, manages and directs the company's affairs.
As a member of the board of directors, again according to the law, only a person capable of business can be elected (the only condition), for which (I guess) a medical certificate is issued. Translated, he shouldn't really be a jerk, but he must meet the basic requirements from the beginning of this story. The most important thing for the "dead guard" is that he is "quick on the trigger" and that he would "kill his own mother" to prove himself.
In addition to figurative ones, there are also real "dead guards", observed in the Sveti Stefan - Miločer area, who keep a watchful eye so that no one disturbs VIP visitors, who rest there if they have not booked a bed in time in a home-made hotel in one of the overseas countries.
In general, all are guards, all are guards, militias and darlings.
And here is how the eternally current story in these areas was told infinitely better in a couple of verses by Bishop Danilo in Njegoš's Gorski vijenc, more than 150 years ago:
It was scary to hear what was being done
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Janko defends Vladislav dead
What defends him, when he does not defend him.
Really, Mountain Wreath is for all time.
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