Differences: How Ristovski and Bakarec do it, and how Kojo does it

The Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia today sent an Appeal to everyone "to make at least as much effort, to allow each other the same right to different political views and to suspend the name-calling, provocations and threats that some of our colleagues were exposed to in the past days".

"As an Association that unites members of the most diverse political views and beliefs in its membership, we first of all emphasize (and insist!) that this Appeal is not taking any political side, but is an invitation to all those who are ready to show good will."

Attacks on actors, on their political orientation and property status, are a common phenomenon in our country.

This year, they started at the beginning of April, before the protest, when Marko Janketić said that "you should leave here, pick up your bags, buy a one-way plane ticket and set fire from here." It will never get better here." Because of this, he was attacked by DJVučićević, the owner of "Informer", and those who followed him based their accusations on the actor's, according to them, high fees awarded to them by the state, which they criticize.

These current attacks continued on that wave, during the protests. Now the most agile attackers are pop star Jelena Karleuša and MP Nebojša Bakarec, followed by Ana Brnabić, Maja Gojković, Aleksandar Vučić...

Three days ago, their attacks were given something like an extension, an addition, with the intention of creating the impression that the one who attacks is not actually attacking but calling for cooperation.

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Namely, at the meeting "Serbia of Hope" on Friday Lazar Ristovski, actor, director, producer, member of SNS, spoke, and as an opening group for the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, he prepared the angry people for a new form of attack on dissenters, which he articulated a little later, by inviting the opposition, about whom he thinks the worst, to a conversation the president of the state.

This new form reminds of the feeling in which someone slaps you and caresses you, and you feel an unequivocal demand for obedience.

In that style, Lazar Ristovski said that a different opinion does not mean a conflict, but also that "actors today earn more than ever, and live better than ever", as well as that although "those who think differently, no one can take away the right to disagree , it is known how it is done", and in the end he accused them of expressing their disagreement with "hate, insults and curses".

So he addressed his colleagues, not Karleusa, Bakarac, and the like.

In the end, Ristovski said that he is a "people's actor", that he is a "builder, not a destroyer", I guess like those who have objections to the state. And yet, since he declares himself as a national actor, it is not recorded that Ristovski was also at the "Serbia against violence" protest.

Second stage

And at that protest, on Saturday, there were other actors. They did not address the people from the pulpit, they were among the people.

Thus, Nikola Kojo was part of the protest in the action of the Local Front from Kraljevo "One Hundred for One", in which the citizens carried on their chests cards with the names of the victims of the system, for whose death no one has been held accountable to this day.

Nikola Kojo was named after Major Omer Mehić, a pilot who died along with seven others in a helicopter crash in May 2015, in a failed rescue mission, for which the opposition public holds Vučić's government responsible for launching it under impossible weather conditions.

In addition to the major, people also bore the names of Kosovo politician Oliver Ivanović, lawyer and progressive Vladimir Cvijan, Stanika Gligorijević, who died in a traffic accident caused by a progressive driver Zoran Babić, Slobodan Tanasković, a security guard in Savamala who died after a night demolition in 2016...

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Even without saying a single word, Nikola Kojo and the other participants in this action were sufficiently clear and convincing.

Today, in the National Assembly, MPs gathered to continue the session interrupted on Friday. Of course, they did not forget to deal with unruly actors.

First of all, Nebojsa Bakarec. He said first that "the state sponsors all the actors and pays them and they are free to be paid by Telekom", and then he mentioned by name how much money Marko Janketić, Gorica Popović, Branislav Trifunović, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Nikola Kojo, Svetlana received from Telekom Bojković, Gordan Kicić, Milan Marić and Sergej Trifunović.

At the end, he told them that "they are all free to act and that we will not worship them", which was supposed to show the government's mercy towards disobedient actors.

However, the truth is that the state does not pay the actors, let alone sponsor them, because they earn their own fees, so the state does not need any mercy. And that is why Bakarec, who knows this, abuses the House of the National Assembly with such messages to those who trust him.

The impression is that today's Appeal of the Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia, intended for everyone, will not be heard by those who imagine that in this country it depends only on them how to live.

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