Less than two days of blockade - that's how long it took to see how weak and powerless the public media service is, both from the outside and from the inside. At the moment of writing this text, it is the eighth day of the blockade, and the sixth that RTS is not broadcasting its program. They also seem to be facing a strike inside the house. And the essence of blocking RTS is not in what it publishes, but in what it keeps silent
In the months after the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, the flames of rebellion spread throughout Serbia. The first protests started in Novi Sad right after the tragedy. The authorities responded with arrests, police cordons and intimidation, but instead of calming down the protesters, new protests followed.
The rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, has been the target of top state officials and regime tabloids for months, who label him as an insidious instigator of student protests, an opportunist, "the face of evil" and "the leader of the criminal octopus." How and why a rector became "state enemy number one"
"I'm standing in the cordon, and my daughter is shouting at me 'aw, aw, killers'. What should I do? If they ordered me - I would throw down my baton and bulletproof vest and stand on the side of my child," a police officer from the south of Serbia, who works as needed in the Belgrade Police Brigade, told "Vreme"
The recent formation of the Đura Macuta government is part of the regime's revenge and cynicism. This can be seen most in the "black troika" of new ministers appointed to deal with the parts of society that are the leaders and symbols of the big rebellion that lasted for several months, the cause of which was the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, which claimed 16 human lives. Education, universities, unsolicited media and parts of the judiciary that refuse to listen to orders, either publicly, with announcements, or hiding behind legal procedures, should be dismantled. Those who will have no problem doing everything they are told, even reinforcing the orders with their own inventions, are chosen for this.
There has not yet been a recorded case of anyone being surprised that the authorities in China, Russia or Israel did not support the democratic forces in Serbia. The threshold of expectations, established in the last century, is drastically different when it comes to the EU. She is expected not to turn a blind eye to the abuse of institutions, to the thugs who, under the direction of the authorities, break the jaws of female students, to political prisoners, of which there are too many in Serbia today, starting with six people in Novi Sad who have been in prison for the second month as hostages of a crazed regime. This disappointment also manifests itself on the streets, where there are no European flags. Although I would prefer to have them, I not only understand why they are not there, but I think that their absence can be beneficial for the EU as well
In a short period of time, the government tried three different strategies on the issue of lithium, ranging from aggressive imposition to quietly sidestepping the issue, and the epilogue was the same each time - a further decline in support for the lithium mining project in Serbia. Practically, the political, demographic and social corps of the ruling party (that is, the coalition) represents the only remaining stronghold and bastion of the lithium mining project. But even there, there is a noticeable degree of vacillation and shedding
My grandfather Josif was 21 in Zagreb, I was 22 in Paris, my daughter was 17 in Budapest. That's why I go to the protests. That's why Joseph went, that's why his descendants also go, luckily there are a lot of us. We are sick of various usurpers and their associated scumbags, thugs and some kind of coterie, clowns and animists--ladies who can never get enough as they take turns like on a tape. Jer - as it was written some 150 years ago in London by that one guy after whom the street in Berlin's Neukölln district is named, where there is an attic apartment where I spent some of the most beautiful and fateful days of my life - society does not consist of individuals, rather, it expresses the sum of mutual relations, relationships in which these individuals find themselves. And that's why it's important how those relationships are established
The article "Overview of the State" by Jevrem Grujić was printed in Zemun in 1849 because censorship banned it in Serbia. The words devoted to "inner liberation" are still very relevant today, and it does not help today's "mature" generations that today's youth have to repeat them as if we were not 170 years away from the time of their origin. In short: "For internal liberation, it is necessary to present to our people: What is it as a nation, what rights should it have? - What is the government, why and from whom, and what are its limits? Tell it precisely: What does it mean for a nation to live in a state and invite it to live that way too"
"I believe that the members of the SPS and JUL, those who are not mentioned in the newspapers and on television as thieves, rich or that they are suspicious and responsible for some other reason - I believe that they are the ones who made an agreement with the new authorities to that government protects their material and other interests, their rather large wealth, and that in return they contribute to the bribery of their yesterday's comrades and personal friends"
"Refugees have been manipulated like no other population in recent times. Perhaps only the mentally ill were manipulated that way in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign of terror."
The new authorities shout at the top of their voices that those responsible for the collapse of the state will be tried. Wouldn't it be more logical to rehabilitate the victims first?
In some reflections on the latest events not only in Macedonia but also in the south of Serbia, one hears how the Albanian side is allegedly trying to catch the "last train" for a more comprehensive solution to its own issue and to reach, possibly, a new Dayton by radicalizing the situation on the ground.
Ministers often call Vučić a class teacher. There is no joy or critical reflection in his classroom. Everyone has to bow their heads over the benches, hum and listen. What this is about, the reader sees on television every day
RTS is blocked, universities do not work, and threats, insults and calls to the prosecutor's office and the police to arrest blockers, rioters and terrorists are pouring out from the top of the government. The Serbian state has turned into a farce
Anyone who condemns the regime's targeting of people from the media, the non-governmental sector, the opposition and universities, must not agree to this targeting of RTS editors and journalists either.
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