Photo: Sava Radovanović/TanjugThe President of Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party respond to the "Serbia against violence" protests with even greater verbal violence. The alleged invitations to talk are disingenuous and grotesque. The head of state is leading the country in the direction of conflict
In the early 1980s, a Belgrade crew liked to cause fights in the Monvi discotheque in Rovinj. The victims were mostly foreigners. The tactic was simple: they send one of their goons to provoke some guys, insult them, curse them, call them names, challenge them until they go after the provocateur in order to shut him up. At the moment when the targets would finally lose their nerve, the rest of the trained Belgrade thugs would jump in and trample the poor people. These Belgraders did it for fun, when they didn't like someone's nose, when someone had something they wanted but couldn't have, or when they felt that the space they declared theirs was being threatened. They started from the fact that most ordinary people are running away from violence and that no one will come to their victims' aid.
Something similar is happening in the Serbian Parliament and, in general, in the public Serbian space. Some Nebojša Bakarec or Nebojša Krstić, rascals in charge of insulting and belittling, prod and provoke with the aim of making the targeted victims lose their temper and respond to them. When that happens, the whole gang and the progressive media machinery jump in to crush them. Verbally, for now.
Such a system of violence was developed by the progressives over Serbia. It is precisely against this, among other things, that tens of thousands of citizens protest on the streets of Belgrade from week to week.
With the "Serbia against violence" protests, this form of aggression by the government representatives only gained momentum. The President of Serbia and his team don't like the demonstrators, they are irritated by everything they represent, they don't like their slogans, they don't want to see their faces, they threaten the space they declared their own. The progressive response to non-violent demonstrations is constant provocation and provocation in the hope that someone on the opposing side will lose their nerve.
The news that some individuals, provoked by his tirades on Pink TV, spilled water into the coffee and threatened Pink analyst Dejan Vuk Stanković was greeted with pleasure. It was the crowning proof that the organizers of the "Serbia against violence" protest actually wanted to provoke violence. At this point, we publicly condemn the physical attack on DV Stanković, no matter what he said.
Before our eyes, the conflict between the normal and the abnormal is unfolding, in which the administrators of abnormality present the abnormal Serbia as they have created it as normal, and those who oppose it as summoners of abnormality. The violent policy implemented by Aleksandar Vučić is so bizarre, the gap that the progressives with the Prilepists have created between themselves and everyone who saw through them is so deep, the reluctance to compromise is so pronounced, that conversation is not possible at this moment. The thugs managed to provoke the citizens to take to the streets. Now it seems that week after week they are being challenged to take a swing at that irritating cripple from the Rovinj disco. Serbia has reached a turning point.
Every march, no matter how nonviolent, in which tens of thousands of long-disaffected people participate, carries with it a certain risk of getting out of control. The risk is all the greater, if the representatives of the authorities increase the volume and extent of insults and distortions of the truth, provocations and provoking the protest participants.
The greatest responsibility for safety in society is borne by the one in whose hands are the levers of power, namely Vučić and his team. And they seem to want to bring this situation to a fever pitch, aware that they have all the power of the state and because of that, they are sure that they can beat up whoever they want.
Once, the Belgrade team that liked to fight in Monvi overlooked that the young men they were targeting were part of a group of German bikers who came to the aid of their comrades who were being attacked. The people of Belgrade took a solid beating.
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