Isolation time

Those who think that the restrictive measures only started in March of this year would be mistaken. Namely, different types of isolation have been tested and trained in Montenegro for thirty years, and without forgiveness or responsibility. It started when the lower clerical staff, with the support of retrograde and fascist elements, started a systematic looting of social and economic resources and the devastation of nature and public spaces. In the XNUMXs, their opponents were the West, the USA, and the Vatican, and the result of that adventure led to sanctions, a chronic lack of strategic goods and foodstuffs, and isolation from civilization.

With the fall of Milošević, the world view and the narrative change significantly. People from the SDP naively thought that they managed to direct the DPS to the "right" side, under the motto first the state and then democracy. They did not understand that the DPS does not have an ideology, but a sharp pyramidal organization similar to certain family organizations of Italian emigrants in the USA, shown on the screen in the 70s of the last century. Any voice that pointed to the inseparability of the process of democratization and statehood was condemned for treason. In parallel, the process of party privatization of economic and natural resources took place. Since the time of the referendum, systemic polarization has started, because the DPS definitely stole Montenegrin independence from the modern progenitors (LSCG), introducing a system of one employee, four votes, with further marginalization of all those who think differently. As the economic crisis of 2008 found the system anachronistic, physical confrontations, threats and abuse multiplied with a chronic lack of accountability. Isolation of civil and decent citizens used to be the only way to survive. The DPS, unable to offer or solve the accumulated existential challenges, takes a turn by adding "imperial" Russia, along with Serbia and the MPC as the main enemies of Montenegrin statehood (read the survival of the DPS). Anyone who would not join the orchestrated attacks of the cabinet "intelligence", part of the representatives of the media and the civil sector, was "molded" as a beginner. I guess it is a step towards the status of Chetniks, those Chetniks, with whom the DPS still maintains the best relations. They are trying to disguise the fact that the foundations of the state have collapsed, while the giro account representatives of the national communities help them a lot in this.

Such a freakishly established government has no legitimacy whatsoever. Precisely from the above, it should not be surprising that these days we have panic among citizens. Citizens simply do not believe them. How dangerous this government is for society is vividly illustrated by an event that, perhaps completely justified, went unnoticed due to the fear of an epidemic. Namely, a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and South Slavic Literature published a slightly cynical post about the institution called the Faculty of Montenegrin Language on her Facebook page. Not even a day passed, and she was fired upon from all sides - academics, journalists and state deans came forward, who in addition to stating "nothing" also had a few words for the father of the author of the post. All this would not be worthy of attention, if the father, in the manner of self-censorship or former communist self-criticism, did not himself join the condemnation of his daughter. It seems to be a new level of (self)isolation, much more dangerous than the one our society is currently in.

Accordingly, I do not believe the words of the president and deputy president of the DPS and their subordinate party members. I seriously doubt their competence, solidarity and empathy. I seriously doubt the capacity of institutions tailored to the needs of the party, not society as a whole and the state of Montenegro. I seriously doubt that our health workers, employed in other vitally oriented and public law and order bodies, who risk their lives and the lives of their loved ones, have the appropriate medical equipment. I seriously doubt that the measures being introduced are intended to protect the citizen from existential uncertainty.

Why am I telling you all this? One of the long-standing representatives of the civil sector recently called for solidarity and the redirection of budget funds intended for NGO projects in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic. I believe that the civil sector, as it does not have the necessary knowledge/skills, is ready for volunteer, not "grant" engagement in times of crisis, and such an invitation should be welcomed. However, in order for this call not to remain alone, in the spirit of solidarity, it is necessary to make the following decisions:

1. Invite doctors and medical workers from the diaspora to return home and help the health system of Montenegro.

2. Form a fund for commodity reserves and purchase necessary strategic goods and vital foodstuffs for the next year.

3. Adjust salaries to the level of one average for a period of 12 months for the management staff, state administration bodies, local governments, regulatory bodies, agencies and publicly owned companies.

4. Under an urgent procedure, draft and put into procedure the Law on lustration/origin of property.

5. Amend existing regulations so that criminal acts in the field of corruption and abuse of position do not expire.

Only in this way, the citizen can regain trust, and trust is a step towards solidarity.