It was a textbook example of chauvinism:
- Mr. Huter, you cannot have the same emotion that I have... and that all of us autochthonous Montenegrins here have towards the struggle of our ancestors for the freedom of Montenegro - stated the representative of the ruling PES, Darko Dragović.
If he knew what he was talking about, I believe he wouldn't have.
- You do what you know, but you do not know what you are doing - said Peter the First in the Epistle to the Katunians.
That it was not intended only for them, was confirmed by the following two hundred years of history.
And the fact that MP Dragović was only "doing what he knows" is evidenced by the obvious teaching of chauvinism over the past decades.
Which was mainly held by lecturers from the single DPS and their students from all the separated classes...
Half a century earlier, the school's definition of chauvinism read as follows:
- A reactionary form of nationalism which, ascribing higher value to its own nation and underestimating others, tends to exploit and enslave other nations and incite national hatred - this is how the Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian/Croatian-Serbian language explained.
For now, MP Dragović has (mis)used only the first part of it, but that does not make his guilt half-hearted.
The second part of the definition - about exploiting, enslaving and inciting national hatred - was practiced by the DPS government for a full thirty years, towards each of the nations in turn...
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Until the 1990s, not only linguists but also politicians were united when it came to the meaning of all words - especially those that threaten brotherhood and unity.
Because the then SFR Yugoslavia was unique in the fight against any manifestation of nationalism, especially its aggressive form - chauvinism.
That Yugoslavia has been gone for 33 years, it has been split into seven countries, and in each of them every member of parliament is protected from any punishment for any spoken word, even chauvinist...
And what does that have to do with the aforementioned outburst in parliament?
And what kind of things, first of all because we can now only spit under the window of MP Dragović.
Because the Constitution protects those who spread hate speech, not the victims of that speech.
No one has ever been fined, let alone jailed...
And that is why we are where we are today.
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And where we are, these days shows the massive hypocrisy of the mass defenders and Oskar Huter and Boban Batrićević.
Unprecedented, when it comes to the spokesmen of the former regime.
Because that regime was not only born from hate speech, nationalism and its most extreme form of chauvinism, but it is also their birthplace...
And the birth of that regime - thus also hate speech and nationalism and chauvinism - did not, as most chroniclers write, begin on January 11, 1989, with the forced resignation of the communist leadership.
But on August 20, 1988, with violent speeches and shouts at a meeting in Titograd. Who expressed solidarity with the Serbs in Kosovo in name only.
According to the content, motive and goal of the gathering, it was a meeting of chauvinism towards Albanians. To everyone, not just Kosovar. And it was the largest until then in the territory of SFRY.
- We will kill Vlasi, yes... let's go to Kaćuša - that's how the Montenegrin solidarity started...
And continued in Belgrade...
- I can't hear well, I can't hear well... - the Serbian leader pretended to be deaf until the crowd roared...
It echoed all the way to Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sarajevo, so they tried to escape...
Then (and) from Titograd, cannons, thieves, pops started attacking them...
For the majority of members of the Montenegrin parliament, all Croats were Ustashas, all Bosniaks - Mujahideen, all Albanians - Šiptars...
And the Montenegrins? Well, they were just a "branch on the Serbian tree" or - they didn't exist!
Most of the journalists then together with the MPs were inciting war. Causing national, racial and religious hatred, which was a criminal offense even then.
No one has ever been fined, let alone jailed...
And that is why we are where we are today.
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And we are in a judgeless country where the judiciary administers justice in accordance with the interests of the government and not with the paragraphs of the law.
Three decades of autocratic rule was overthrown three years ago, three governments were changed after that, there were also important news in the prosecutor's office.
Judges, even when they make mistakes regarding professional and moral standards, still can't do anything. Until retirement, when sanctioning becomes meaningless...
From the point of view of law and justice, this process for Boban Batrićević is also pointless, because it is clear to a layman that the quotes mentioned in the lawsuit cannot be classified as "causing national, racial and religious hatred".
It would have made more sense if the prosecution and the judiciary had dealt with the quotes of the bishop who are the heroes of Batrićević's column in a timely manner.
And those who have not been mentioned, but have been quoted regularly since the nineties.
If the hate speech of the Serbian Church and its associated DPS had been stopped then, the judges would never have dared to judge as they did.
And instead of war-mongering journalists, Liberal and Monitor columnists who incited peace would not have been on the docks for years.
And if the DPS had been sanctioned even in the years of peace, instead of the corrupt liars from the state media, the journalists of the independent Vijesti who wrote about corruption and lies would not have been tried...
And not only the court, the champions of the DPS and their authorized beaters were ready for fights, arson and bombs, but the judges were not ready to prosecute them...
And not only them, when the DPS media wingmen called the Monitor journalists "whores, slobbers, sleazeballs, blowhards, swindlers...", the court assessed that this is the author's freedom, which is implied in - a shorter essay...
And the extermination by extermination, which was demanded by the first among the leaders not only of the party but also of the state, remained without a just judicial response...
And not only judicially, when it comes to justice, the rules are dead and most of those who are now - rightly, of course - demanding justice for Boban Batrićević...
And that's why we are where we are...
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This is why preachers of hate, lies, insults and pranks from the nineties continue to give us moral sermons...
The party whose judges, not only for misdemeanors but also criminally, have been condemning free public speech for thirty years, is calling for a protest in front of the Misdemeanor Court in defense of freedom of public speech.
But parties change when they leave power, why not allow DPS to have that opportunity?
I allow him, but he will not himself.
What a black fight against the persecution of critical thought, when the DPS targets Jelena Jovanović in the same vein, linking her with the Škaljar clan.
And not because of critical thought, but - because of quoting documents...
PS Well, now it's my turn to quote a document, not a police document but a party document from the DPS media archive. That no one can insult that party, as it shows itself by the hasty release of the recent feather of the Depees judiciary:
"In this BIA conspiracy, which was designed with the aim of dispersing the coup d'état directed from Russia completely in the media and presenting it as a subterfuge, the following Boris Savić was at the service of every government, with no hole in the High Court - not only the legal one, but also real - she was not enough to finally take responsibility and resign from the position she holds."
And more:
"Boris Savić, choosing whether to protect judges or accused terrorists, chose a side. By taking the side of those who called him all kinds of words and insults, Savić showed that the price of his face and dignity is just as much as the armchair he does not want leave."
And then, as if nothing had happened, the sprinkling of ashes:
"DPS, as before, will never interfere in the work of judicial authorities... Respecting the separation of powers and the presumption of innocence as the key foundations of every state."
What is it... If you don't believe it, ask Boris Savić...
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