Friday, June 21 - Vidovdan is coming, and IBAR integrations are going well for us, if only he would support like this...
Montenegro joined the commemoration of that holiday for the first time at Gazimestan in 1989, under the motto "If we can't work, we can fight"...
Thirty-five years later, Vidovdan will be celebrated at home, adapting the old motto to the new political and linguistic situation: "If we don't know how to build an honest state, we know how to lie"...
I guess that's why I remembered that story by Karl Collodi about the wooden doll. Who was inclined to lie and make up stories all his life, and at the same time dreamed of becoming a real boy...
Well, that Pinocchio doll was known for its small nose that grew drastically whenever it agreed or was under stress.
In the original version of the story, he was a hateful brat and a selfish person, but popularity over time made those traits almost imperceptible...
Pinocchio came into the world quite by accident, but that's why he deliberately caused trouble for everyone who had to do with him.
Even the few good intentions he had towards some people ended up very badly.
He fantasized about how he would study, then find a job, earn a lot of money, but in reality he was constantly causing accidents.
Life tried in vain to teach the unbearable boy something, he learned very slowly and had a hard time extracting lessons from what was happening to him.
Getting into new difficulties, Pinocchio would repent for a moment, and then immediately forget about his remorse and embark on new adventures.
Finally, one day a good fairy appeared and promised to help him become human, but he had to earn it.
- How? - asked Pinocchio.
- By stopping lying - replied the good fairy.
So what happened?
Uh, don't ask...
Pinocchio didn't want to listen to her...
The good fairy went to help other children...
Karlo Kolodi also raised his hands from the lying boy...
A century and a half later, the continuation of the story of Pinocchio wrote is Mihailo Jovovic...
So, what are we going to do now?
Nothing special, to change the method of electing the prime minister before amending the Constitution. Thus, in addition to the exposé and composition of the cabinet, the representatives will also have to present written evidence of their own cognitive abilities to the deputies.
And that with special emphasis on the ability to understand the environment, make decisions, correct reasoning, correct use of words and reliable memory...
What would we do?
Nothing new, the past work of Milojko Spajić plus today's statement that he desperately wants to talk about the economy, the rule of law, IBAR and European integration, but he is prevented from doing so by programmed journalists who are only interested in nationalism and the past.
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Saturday, June 22 - Now that the Montenegrin Prime Minister has succeeded in declaring the most important task of all Montenegrin journalists - confronting Montenegrin society with the crimes of Montenegrin citizens during the war nineties - an obstacle on Montenegro's European path, I have to tell two more stories.
The first one was discussed at the forum of the normalizuj.me portal and the NGO Women in Black and Anima, when some of the rape victims in Foča in 1992 and 1993 spoke for the first time in Montenegro.
During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Foča was a place of systematic sexual violence and rape, in which, according to the testimonies of the victims, soldiers from Montenegro also took part.
None of them have been tried (yet).
Despite the fact that the testimonies of the victims speak of multiple crimes by Montenegrin soldiers.
Three decades later - instead of apologizing to that and all other victims of Montenegrin criminals on behalf of Montenegro and reminding special prosecutors that war crimes are within their jurisdiction - Prime Minister Spajić accuses journalists of writing about a morbid part of Montenegrin's past endangering Montenegro's European path. .
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Sunday, June 23 - About the extent to which the European path and - what is drastically more important - public morality are endangered by Marko Kovačević's statements, everything that needs to be said has already been said.
And too much, if you take into account that both he and his leader make such statements in order to be talked about.
And then, as soon as they feel that the public's interest has waned, they try to bring themselves back into focus by trying to extract it.
- I mentioned the Turks in the context of the past and the struggle that our ancestors led, first of all, to defend their hearths and to free themselves from the yoke of that time, and not in the context of today's Turks and relations with Turkey - that's what Kovačević did this time.
In vain, not everyone in Montenegro was affected by the collective aMNEsia.
- Here we are on July 11, 1995, in Srebrenica. On the eve of another great Serbian holiday, we are giving this city as a gift to the Serbian people. Finally, after the rebellion against the Dahi, it was time to take revenge on the Turks in these areas - a long time ago, General Ratko Mladić explained to the cameras that their "Turk" did not refer to the Ottomans from the Middle Ages, but to the Bosniaks.
And all of that, wherever they were, not just those killed in Srebrenica.
And that it was not a "random, spontaneous crime", the instruction of the commander-in-chief Radovan Karadžić also testifies.
His Directive no. 7 of March 8, the Drina Corps is ordered to "create an unbearable situation of total insecurity, with no hope for further survival and life for the population of Srebrenica and Žepa".
And that's why now I desperately want to explain something, but not to the president of Nikšić, but to the prime minister...
If all journalists had written the truth about every Foča on time, and not only in Bosnia and Herzegovina but also in Croatia, even he would not have desperately wanted to talk about IBAR today...
Rather, all happy, he would celebrate the tenth anniversary of Montenegro's accession to the European Union at a reception in Villa Gorica...
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Monday, June 24 - All happy, Duško Marković presented himself today as the leader of the Party of European Progress.
And that's good, finally a new character with new ideas on the Montenegrin political scene...
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Tuesday, June 25 - While waiting for the white smoke from Brussels, I remembered another story from my early youth, but not from a book like the one about Pinocchio, but from life...
In a village near Podgorica, a young man came to get married. He wasn't really hit, that's what was said in the last century about those with significantly weakened cognitive abilities, especially intellectual...
He was an only child and immediately after coming of age, the family decided to find him a bride. On the way to his future friends' house, his uncle taught him how to behave during the proposal...
- Don't say anything until you are asked, and even then don't spread the story on nonsense, but find some big word - that's how the most important warning read...
The young man was humming all the way, and when both families were seated around the hearth they were trumpeting with all their brains:
- Badanj, uncle, should I say Badanj, is that big?...
There was, and so much so that the hosts sent the guests home with unfinished business...
It is already certain that the guests from Montenegro will fare drastically better tomorrow in Brussels.
Why - I don't know, if it is not for the reason that the groom was not taught by his uncle but by his uncle...
And that this time the big word is not badanj but IBAR...
Just as empty, but who cares...
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Wednesday, June 26 - If the local and Brussels commissars do not come to their senses, Montenegro will echo with emptiness for a few years.
If the carrot of accelerated membership is not replaced by the stick of accelerated changes in Montenegrin society as soon as possible, the day after admission to the European Union, accelerated emigration will begin.
And not only the groom and the bride, but also older working-age relatives by family and home...
A normal person would not run away from a morally, educationally, culturally, healthily and economically ruined country...
Whose democratic government, four years after the fall of the former autocracy, managed to kill the hope...
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Thursday, June 27 - The new hope of European Montenegro is definitely - Andrija Mandić.
- By receiving IBAR, Montenegro became an absolute leader in the process of European integration... We continue to work for the future of Montenegro - he said yesterday.
A day later, that sequel looked like this…
- Based on Article 92 paragraph 2 of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament of Montenegro, I propose to supplement the agenda of the Ninth Session of the First Regular Session in 2024.
1. Proposal for a resolution on the genocide in Jasenovac.
The session begins on June 28, on Vidovdan, and will be broadcast on the Third Channel of TVCG.
You asked, look...
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