This was the week of strengthening the Montenegrin judiciary, such a degree of action unity of the Appellate and High Courts, the Judicial Council and the Association of Judges has not been seen since their establishment...
Or at least since the end of the nineties, when the then president of the Supreme Court was targeted by the public. With one piece of paper, he rejected 36.000 individual lawsuits filed by the Liberal Alliance on the eve of the election due to the same number of phantom voters...
The entire judiciary then sided with Ratko Vukotić and - the wolf ate the donkey...
No one stood by the judge Suzana Mugoša this week. On the contrary, colleagues from the Appellate and Higher Courts, as well as those from the Council and the Association, initiated a process against her.
For now, only in the media, I guess because that's where she committed the crime for which she is being tried this week. On what she did for an extended period of time, during the year and a half trial with the so-called coup d'état, colleagues also reacted uniquely - by collective silence...
The formal cause of this process is a verbal delict, as it was called in the happy times of Tito's judiciary.
Essentially, it is about laundering the Montenegrin judiciary from the trial and from the judge and from the verdict for the so-called a coup d'état.
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They washed themselves for nothing, all of Montenegro witnessed how the Montenegrin judiciary has been pretending to be dead for decades. After the verdict for the so-called the coup d'état no longer had to be staged - it died from the real...
Unfortunately, there are no witnesses that the judges - not only collectively but also individually - ever publicly rebelled against irregular trials and illegal verdicts...
The judiciary remained silent even three decades ago, when Ibrahim Čikić was sentenced for "planned sniper activity", even though the reports of Berlin and Belgrade doctors at the time confirmed - XNUMX% vision impairment.
Fifteen years later, they followed his fine with silence for causing mental pain and suffering to those who tortured and abused him in custody...
The voice of the judges was not heard even after the SDA leadership was sentenced to 168 years in prison for a crime that never happened, nor was it ever planned...
The word of admonition was not addressed either in connection with the inconclusive trials for Morinj, Kaluđerski Laz, Eagle Flight, or in connection with the embarrassment of the process against Monitor, Liberal and Vijesti...
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The fact that the judges remembered the law, the code, justice and fairness only when a female colleague suspected three colleagues that their verdict was bought reminded me of an old story from my hometown...
Half a century ago, in a village lived a middle-aged bachelor who, to put it mildly, lacked courage...
He was not very good in other character traits, including determination. No one in the village remembered that he had ever stood up to anyone, although some of the villagers treated him literally as a servant.
As he was not beaten for any serious work, he also received beatings, but the bullying was mostly reduced to verbal humiliation...
Your mother was... your father was... you are... he was known to be insulted by some cruel neighbors when the villagers were together for some reason. He never answered them, he would just bow his head and move to sit next to those who don't touch him...
One day, while everyone was buying hay at the mob, he suddenly stood up, picked up a rake and - whistled at his neighbor in the middle of the skull...
- They have been insulting you for years and you did nothing, why hit him - the others asked him.
- Because he was the only one to guess - that's how he answered.
- And what did he tell you?
- Poor one, he told me I was poor... He guessed...
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Did Judge Mugoš get it right when she said that the judgment of the Court of Appeal on the so-called coup bought, it is not yet known.
The only reliable information available to the public is that this is the first public accusation of high-level judicial corruption coming from such a high-level judge.
I know, legal lessons are about to start, which all judges are not allowed to talk about publicly.
But that can only be valid in a legal state, in which not only the judiciary, but also the executive and legislative authorities should not say what they say...
And what the judicial authorities were not only allowed to say, but - before others - had to say is that Montenegro was not a state of law and justice neither before nor after October 16, 2016.
And that the attack on the state cannot be tied to that date, the foundations of that attack are in the very structure of Montenegro as an autocratic, non-sovereign, dependent and disorderly state without institutions.
A state that was demolished from the ground up in 1989, and rebuilt from the ground up in 2006 so that it can last only as long as the government of one party lasts.
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In order for that government to last as long as possible, the so-called the coup d'état of the citizens has three goals.
First, the Democratic Front had to be cut in half. Because he was the strongest, not because he is Serbian. The same would happen if some Montenegrin group became too dangerous for the survival of the regime. As it happened during the lifetime of the late Liberal Alliance, with some purely linguistic differences, such as the replacement of Ustashas with Chetniks.
Another goal was to stop the popularity of the chief special prosecutor, gained by the coup against Svetozar Marović. He got too carried away - the then Montenegrin Prime Minister ruled in a timely manner. The then supreme judge made it possible for him to get dressed like no other prosecutor before him by live streaming the trial.
I have nothing more to say about the third goal, forcing Montenegro into NATO and obliging it to obey the West in dealing with Russia, even five years before the attack on Ukraine...
All this, along with many other details, had to be known by the judges in the "process of the century".
Because the fact that they are prohibited from actively participating in politics does not mean that they are allowed to ignore the political circumstances in which an attack on the state is allegedly being prepared...
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And there have been no such preparations since terrorism became an asset of civilization.
At first, this coup against the state seemed rather silly.
The day before the coup, well-organized terrorists from Serbia and Kosovo arrive in Podgorica, whose task is to cause bloodshed among the Serbs who are celebrating the victory of the DF. And at the same meeting they found and kidnapped Milo Đukanović...
That long-trained terrorist group first ran out of food and roaming, then killed themselves at the bus station, and then ended up in prison.
Halfway through the trial, the impact became much more serious...
The former policeman and recent duke Paja of Zubin Potok admits that he should have spilled blood in the largest quantities since the Second World War.
He gave up, as a sign of gratitude to the Montenegrins for the heroic rescue of the Serbs a hundred years earlier in the Battle of Mojkovac.
Meanwhile, he bought a lot of weapons to help the terrorists, and then decided to help the prosecution. By throwing the crown piece of evidence against the terrorists into the lake. Logical!
At the end of the trial for coup against the state, all the main heroes from the state side were thrown out of the machine - Milivoje Katnić and Saša Čađenović and Slavko Stojanović.
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Suzana Mugoša doesn't write well either...
But not only because of the way she conducted the trial for the alleged coup and the verdicts for even more alleged participants.
But because of the acceptance of the key witness and who knows whose associate, Saša Sinđelić, without a credibility check. If that credibility does not count the smuggling in Šabac and the murder in Drenovci, about which she was properly informed from both Serbia and Croatia.
Nobody seems to have informed her about the rights and duties of the defense attorneys in the courtroom, otherwise she would not have punished them like that.
First dialog:
- Can this witness explain when and where he crossed the state border?
- I don't allow the question! As for you...
- Because there is no proof that he is here at all, he was not registered at any border point.
- Silence! Sit down! I'm taking your word away!
- Can I just...
- No!! I will punish you!
Dialog two:
- Can the witness remember where he was for the New Year...
- I don't allow an answer, it's none of your business...
- But it concerns his credibility. He was in custody...
- Nevermind! It doesn't affect his credibility...
And then the executed witness, out of sheer calmness, thoroughly authenticated himself:
- I tried to take off my... I didn't succeed. I am immune to diazepam, now only trodone would help, but it is no longer used... I can hardly stand here. I sank and fell into a severe depression... But I will endure now, I don't know about tomorrow...
Tomorrow he was gone...
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All these tragicomic dialogues, as well as hundreds and hundreds of others more tragic than comical, had the opportunity to listen to all Montenegrin judges...
For a year and a half, they remained heroically silent on every word of their colleague Suzana Mugoša. And to every ban and punishment imposed on lawyers...
And not only while DPS was in power, the judges did not have a Greek word for their colleague even three years after the fall of the former regime.
They remained silent even a year ago, when Suzana Mugoša literally demolished three colleagues from the Court of Appeal, accusing them of falsifying documents.
- What was written by the Appellate Court is not written in the first-instance verdict. Either we didn't read the same scriptures or we didn't read the scriptures at all. I can claim that this is a forgery of an official document - said Mugoša before the parliamentary committee.
They remained silent even when she accused colleagues from the same court that others were writing judgments for them:
- And in the case of Zavala, an acquittal decision was drawn up, with clear instructions to carry out a new expert examination in order to acquit those people. The reporter judge was the same one who wrote the decision for the held strike - Mugoša claimed before the same committee.
And why did they speak up only now, after four years?
I don't know, if it's not for the reason that the Democratic Front just came to power...
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