While Metropolitan Joanikije sang to the leaders of the state at the Easter liturgy about "returning to the true path, into the arms of Jesus Christ, our Savior", Milatović, Spajić, Mujović, Mandić, kept their fingers in their pockets. For Jesus, but more - for themselves. While Joanikije convinced them that "we are all children of God, in a deeper sense one family", Milatović, Spajić, Mandić, Mujović, with their wives, watched him from the front row and possibly thought according to the system - if we are brothers, our bags are not sisters.
The sinners were there because of the believers, or voters, and not because of Christ and his resurrection. Which, after all, for agnostics is just a metaphor in a philosophical text like the Bible, and not a "report from the scene"!
And while Joanikije openly showed that he was the head of the parade, because "all those who lead this people" came to his "feet", that is, to his "holy service", Milatović may have been thinking about much more concrete, earthly topics. For example, how to get back in the saddle and jump over Alabar to Spajić. On the condition that this does not result in the confiscation of the seven-seater "Skoda", the spare tire and the rims. Or God forbid, sending a milling machine to the field and removing the millions worth of freshly laid asphalt on the road to the Milatović family house?! Because "heaven and earth rejoice, the bird in the mountain and all of us", as the metropolitan says, "because of the resurrection of Christ"... Whatever that means. In any case, it hardly has anything to do with Jakov, who hopes most for his resurrection.
Spajić accompanied Joanikije with the "Our Father", but he was ready to throw in "Selam aleikum", or in translation, peace be with us and with Alabara! And not with Vanja! Because Alabara has the money and Velika plaza is spreading its arms to swallow a paltry 35-40 billion, according to the conservative estimate of the Prime Minister himself. Like Joanikije, the Prime Minister fears "that the people who rule this country cannot agree" on what is "salvation for Montenegro and its people, for all the people who live in this country"! Perhaps the Metropolitan meant by this the return of the Chapel or the defense of Kosovo's holy sites, but I'm sure Mickey understood him just as I did - agree on Alabara or, even better, on the money.
But there is no agreement with Vanja and Milka, obviously. That is why the entire propaganda menagerie has risen, from PES to DPS, from SPC to ZBCG, from Ulcinj to Tokyo, and from Cetinje to Kabul, the burned columnist from Ulcinj has also been resurrected in order to directly or indirectly defend the "deal of the century". While the NGO leaders are saying, like their brothers and sisters from the USA to their master - hands off. Or in Montenegrin - not a grain of sand to the enemy! That is, to the "liberators" after August 30, but also to those before them! If the fingers of the "honorable" are in Spike's dough.
Still, in that confrontation with Jesus, and all in front of Papa Joanikije, Andrija Mandić had the hardest time. He didn't want to live. Neither did Marta, from Chapter XI of the Gospel of John. Namely, on Holy Saturday, when we mourn because our Jesus was crucified, and when no one, not Joanikije, let alone Andrija, suspects that he will be resurrected the very next day, on that Holy Saturday - a member of the security guard of the head of parliament shot two of his fellow citizens. Two brothers from the list of persons of interest for security reasons. Fortunately, without fatal consequences. The attack, which the prosecution qualified as an attempted murder, also involved an official car of the state of Montenegro, while DM may have fired from a pistol that is registered as an official one. Crime, therefore, in the signature of the state. Sounds familiar.
Finally, there is one more detail that proves that Murta is the same or worse than Kurta. Namely, the perpetrator of the crime that the prosecution is treating as attempted murder is not only the bodyguard of the Speaker of the Parliament, but also Andrija Mandić's nephew.
It is unlikely that Joanikije did not know about the event that took place about 30 hours before the Easter liturgy, but that did not prevent him from anointing brother Andrija and then serving him from the holy spoon for communion. It is hard to believe that the metropolitan himself was not called by someone from the top of the DF to appeal to the believing Aleksa, and the believing Danilo, as well as the omnipotent Šćepan, so that they would turn a blind eye to the Easter shooting?! And the attempted murder. That in this matter they would repeat or even surpass what the previous criminal regime did many times before August 30?!
To cover up and then falsify the investigation and, together with the prosecution and the courts, prosecute some volunteers for the committed crime and not the real perpetrator. The fact that it took over 30 hours for the UP to come forward raises suspicions that there was some deliberation. And negotiation. So that in the end, it probably prevailed that it was better not to try to outdo Veljović. The only thing they seem to have "done" to Mandić was to highlight the detail that the perpetrator DM himself reported himself to the police, accompanied by a lawyer, which the people's court will treat as a mitigating circumstance when pronouncing the verdict?! As if the police PJ could not have arrested him a long time ago, if there had been a will. That is, if there had been no negotiation in order to agree on the least damage for the head of parliament and the majority itself.
I'm going to go, as unpleasant as it is because it's unhygienic, to In4s, RTCG and Borba. To check how our "informers" covered the aforementioned event. When there - not a word! Or even worse, a terse statement from the UP, which mentions some insignificant city shooting by an anonymous person with the initials DM. Not a word about who specifically it's about. Everything is bursting with Easter and robes, the glory of Christ and worship, where Joanikije stops, Porfirije continues, plus a little Christian happiness and joy with reminders of Jasenovac and Ustasha crimes... Nothing on the topic of the earthly assassination attempt by the bodyguard and nephew of the head of parliament Mandić. It's no wonder then that Andrija, when needed, returns their love, and claims for our "informers" that they are "serious media, very influential and reputable"! To make the parody complete, the next day, after all domestic and numerous regional portals were buzzing about Mandić's bodyguard and nephew, the scandalous RTCG, instead of initials, announced, lo and behold, the full name of Danilo Mandić. And again, without mentioning his uncle, the Parliament, official cars, etc.
So, at the moment I send the text to the editorial office, over 70 hours have passed since the shooting in the center of Podgorica in which two people were wounded - and the AM announcer is silent. He has not yet spoken out, let alone resigned. Probably the newly minted advisor Biljana Vučurević is encouraging him to endure like she did, not to resign because, otherwise, neither of them will have anywhere after the fall! The only place he could be is with Joaniki.
In addition to the example of the BV advisor, boss Andrija, he is also being restrained in his decision to resign by the simple knowledge that there is no majority in parliament that would hold him accountable when he himself does not even think of resigning. Because Spajki, Bečić, Ervin and Nik know that with the fall of Mandić, the majority for Alabara and Velika Plaža, for Hajla and Žarski, for Velje Brdo and Velje Puteve and expressways would also fall, where they could all be incorporated and paid for. Just like Kurta before them.
That's why there's no point in Mandić resigning. Or being dismissed. A politician whose nephew was illegally recruited as his bodyguard, now arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, all with a company car and possibly even a company gun - remains the speaker of parliament! And Aleksa Bečić continues to play dead in the position of head of the BOK. And all this in the IBAR country, the only current candidate for EU entry in 2028. But can someone who rehabilitated the director of a high school by appointing her as an advisor show a different face in his own case! And punish himself?! Especially since they are not ordinary pawns of the DF like that state secretary in a ministry, who resigned last year as soon as the information was published that he caused a traffic accident under the influence of alcohol. It turns out that the parties in Montenegro are the business of leaders and the closest management, and that everyone outside that "first ring" of authority and power in the party, ordinary bashibozuk and cannon fodder. Which is used when necessary, to show alleged principle and respect for the law. Provided that you are not Andrija Mandić's nephew or Jol Vučurević's wife.
Glory and grace to them, Joanikije would say.
Therefore, in the end, I join the Metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church in congratulating the holiday and those from the "first ring" who were "elected by the people to lead the state". Because we all look forward to Easter, especially our leaders, "our pure-hearted children who deeply experience the joy of Christ's resurrection". Amen. And maybe Salam. It comes to the same thing.
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