I was in a cafe with a friend when I received a text message: Boxer slapped Excellency! In the Prime Minister!
Uh, that's good, at first I thought - I have witnesses who will testify against me in front of any investigation, even if it is led by the prosecutors Nina Ivanović and Sanja Jovićević, or the police officer Peđa Ašanin, so I have witnesses who will give me an irrefutable alibi that I have nothing to do with the slapping, by grabbing his throat, pushing or insulting his Excellency M. Vlahović.
Whoever is bitten by a snake thinks the worst first. Taught, therefore, by bitter experience from dozens of simulated investigations, hidden evidence, fabricated witnesses, changed statements, shameful judgments, my first association was just that - after all, now they will also screw me up. If I had slapped, choked, cursed, or just gently pushed the poor ambassador, while he was sitting mute and terrified in the hotel armchair, in a way enjoying this mistreatment and humiliation.
As if Ranka Čarapić is still the head of the Prosecutor's Office, Vesna Medenica of the Supreme Court, Veljović the boss of the police, and Vlahović the ambassador to the Vatican, I first exclaimed in front of my astonished friend - oh that's good, you are my witness that I am innocent because at the same time I cannot be in two different places. If it wasn't me, no matter what Đurđina and Čarapićka set up, and whatever clinical findings about Vlahović's brain damage the doctors from KBC packed - it wasn't me but someone else who slapped, held his neck, insulted or just pushed the distinguished diplomat, ambassador in Washington and the Vatican, ex Minister of Eternal Montenegro.
When reason still prevailed over the instinctive, irrational impulse and fear, when I said to myself and my friend, take it easy, no more mentions, no more fake investigations, planted witnesses, paid volunteers, no more DPS injustice and terror - I started to think why would anyone , and even Boxer, slapped, strangled, pulled his shoulder or neck, insulted or just pushed his Excellency, with whom he has been sharing the same manger, state, and polished bust of the same man - the leader of the MĐ?!
I asked a friend if he knew the answer. Why would a decade-long ideologue of a new identity, the founder of the image and works of a great leader, the author of statements such as - the fate of Montenegro is inextricably linked with the fate of Đukanović, why would such a character slap, choke, insult, hold the shoulder or neck or just push His Excellency MV who also built his entire career on identical values of the private state of one man and his family.
He didn't have an answer either.
Then it occurred to me to call Milomir Marić, who is the same for Vučić as Boxer and Excellency Đukanović, and to ask him how he felt when he was slapped, held by the neck, pushed, insulted or whatever - in Splendid this summer? ! However, I immediately gave up. Because Marić himself gave up. And as Boxer said that there was no physical contact, moreover that there was as always enjoyed Splendid. As well as the excellence of MV that day in the Prime Minister! Judging by his statement, nothing terrible happened, that there was some gentle pushing, and that all that "makes the event completely irrelevant for informing the public".
So, if Boxer had really slapped or choked Excellency, Vlahović would not have gone over everything like Marić this summer, but would have immediately written an editorial for Pobjeda, a letter to the think-tank community in Washington, he would have called Antena M to tell them live how Boxer slapped and strangled, and then he would end up as an exclusive guest of the newspaper on Gradska, where, all blue and wrinkled, he would show, not just tell, what kind of violence he was exposed to!
And from whom! Milo's Aralica, winner of all literary awards, winner of numerous tenders, promoter and sponsor of the Taliban Andrej, screenwriter of the comedy series "Christmas Uprising", signatory of dozens of local and regional petitions about Great Serbia and imperial Russia, owner of a fake icon that he almost sold to a prominent Montenegrin businessman once upon a time from Rijeka - as a real one.
I felt like calling Burzan and Pulević, unwilling witnesses of the event, lovers of the character and work for an extended period of time, to ask them how they allowed such humiliation for our eternal Montenegro - for the first intellectual of the family to hit the first ambassador, to slap him, strangle him, pushes, pulls by the shoulder, holds the neck or whatever, but I also gave up on that because I remembered that they might have more work to do, let's say that together with Boxer they are convincing His Excellency to cover up everything because the publication of the information would cause a great stain on our mayor and movement All for our city... Who kill themselves to prove that they have nothing to do with the DPS, the Chief, and even less with Gradska TV.
So that you don't misunderstand me, I will repeat what I said in the case of Milomir M. - even when it comes to some moral boulder that for years poisons the public space, spreads hate speech, nationalism, brags in front of the weak and humbly wags its tail in front of the powerful and corrupt people, her name was Milomir, Boxer or Mićo - you have to hold back and pass. No slapping and choking, bad words or gentle pushing.
Because no one, not even the holder of Njegoš's award and the owner of a fake icon, has the right to take justice into his own hands. Even so, he only mildly and uninterestingly for the public pushes another man, otherwise a like-minded person, with whom he shares the same manger, state, and strengthens the foundations of the same state - private.
I was cynical enough, and now seriously - the case from Premier, as well as the one from Splendid this summer, or the sabotage of Sergej Ćetković's concert in Nikšić, dangerously warns that society is slipping into radicalism in which arguments turn to fists, and when even that if it is not enough, then the rifles and pistols are taken out.
President Đukanović cannot understand that the main problem is in him. And how long ago he should have gone. Because he is the biggest and strongest generator of division and hatred. The case of Boxer and Excellency confirms this most clearly. Because if two decades of like-minded people, strikers from the same labor action, suppressing different, especially critical opinions, if they started attacking each other, what can we hope for if Tamara Nikčević and Nevenka Ćirović face each other on Terazije or in the hotel lobby. I can't even think about that.
But now really without cynicism - Milo, back off. Save Montenegro, maybe yourself. This was the title of one of my columns in 2017. But in vain. That is why we are where we are as a society.
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