During the blockades on Friday, it was only by crazy luck that no one was killed. But the fuses are getting shorter. That's how it happens where the government has only one principle - to stay in power
The driver is in Belgrade ran people over with a car who intended to block the street for fifteen minutes as a sign of honor to the victims of the fall of the canopy and as a sign of protest. Elsewhere there were fights, fights, swearing.
The fuses in Serbia have never been too long, and now they are getting shorter. Progressive provocateurs are no longer needed for an explosion.
Will anyone lose their head?
One colleague has the thesis that political tensions in Serbia never become social - people may have an attitude, but because of it they don't get at each other's throats with colleagues, neighbors and relatives, except in ritual arguments at celebrations.
But now that thesis is being tested. All kinds of small and large-scale protests due to deaths under the canopy of the government are dangerous because they are unpredictable. They are not so massive, but they are numerous.
Because they are dangerous because of their own misery - the government is there to leave once. But the matter has become dangerous for the lives of citizens.
Some are determined to show their anger at the injustice. Others look at the regime's media poison beds and think that it is protesting by traitors, vultures, drug addicts and idlers.
And they are in a hurry, so the roadblocks annoy them. They are sitting in the car and honking. They say, as long as there are no more protests. They say, I have to go to work. Bizarre, especially in Belgrade, where traffic is collapsing anyway and without blockades.
This Friday, it was only by crazy luck that there were no deaths. How will it be on another day?
Will any citizen carry a gun in the glove compartment? Or a machete in the trunk? Who can guarantee that someone won't have a butt fall out of that powder keg and that everything won't go to hell?
We know who is responsible
In countries where the government gives at least five cents for democracy, tensions are channeled through parliamentary life and media debate, open, without censorship and political dictation.
Serbia under the rule of the Serbian Progressive Party is not such a country. Vučić decided a long time ago that he would never leave power if possible. Concessions are obtained from him extremely rarely, and even then only with enormous pressure from the "street" on which he pelts trees and stones.
It is the same now - the regime says that the opposition is calling for blood and civil war and thinks that this is the end of the matter. That the students in the blockades of the faculty are mercenaries.
But nothing is solved that way. Thus, the barrel is only filled with gunpowder. And whose is all the power, all the institutions, all the power - it is also his responsibility when it explodes.
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At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
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