It started as a mockery of an unknown and illiterate progressive activist who wrote the graffiti "Go to school". But when regime students, followed by party activists, bullies, provocateurs and girls who are not sure what they are studying, gathered around their "church" embodied in the Presidency building and started a dangerous plagiarism performance, it was no longer funny. The more tents bought and tattooed characters sat in Pionirski Park, the more revolt and fear of staged conflicts spread among the public.
A GOOD EXAMPLE IS WORTH GOLD
The top government has been repeating for a long time that there are only a small number of students in the protest and that there are many more "good kids who just want to study". Even the pro-regime media asked the question - where are these children? And then they appeared... Of course, there are people who "managed well" in this regime and who raise children in the spirit - fight only for yourself and don't resent yourself, maybe you will become the president of Serbia. Well, didn't he show that if you join a leader in time, who cares what your colleagues say? Aleksandar Vučić used every opportunity to repeat how he took the exams and got scores at a time when his colleagues from the Faculty of Law were protesting against the regime of Slobodan Milošević. He says he wasn't interested in that, he just studied and studied...
There is also a medical student in Pionirski Park who has set himself up as a leader and a symbol of "students who want to learn". This is the same guy who was in the front row at the last few gatherings of the Serbian Progressive Party and is visiting the media telling his story about his desire for education and pointing out that he has an average of 10.
By the way, the public has heard that narrative about the best students many times before: the best of their generation were supposedly the eternal minister Ivica Dačić, the former minister Jadranka Joksimović, Vučić himself...
No one diminishes their efforts, but when you get to some years, those dozens from college, and even the diploma itself, do not have priority among decent people. It's a little childish to wave the index and shout - "I have an average of ten zero, ten zero".
WHO ARE YOU?, PEOPLE?
There are certainly real students in Pionirski Park. Maybe they all stocked up in the same place with the same tents, sleeping bags and chairs. Let's also say that some good people donated heaters, Lazy Begs, unwrapped blankets, all on the first day.
Why then did many of them run away from the cameras and cover their heads? Why were those from private colleges there, who work without interruption and are not blocked at all? To support colleagues, at the expense of their exams - it's somehow illogical if they just want to study?
One of the campers in Pionirski Park told the media that he did enroll in college, but is now on a break. The second one that he has already finished, but he supports his colleagues throughout the working day. Some did not know what year they were in or when and with which professor they passed their last exam. And there were those with completely new, unopened indexes who brazenly say: "I have an index, that's enough."
Later, in the pictures, citizens began to recognize people employed in public companies, health centers and municipalities, as well as those who, as members of security, attacked demonstrators in front of the city assembly. Indeed, is it possible that a party that claims to have more than 600000 members cannot find someone else to come and "defend the real students", but has to use these very same characters?
WHAT IS AN IDEA??
The whole camp with apples and sandwiches, grandmothers and cakes, flags and slogans - most resembles the props of a poorly staged play. Their goal is for suitable television stations to capture good footage and show how students really support the government and distance themselves from the opposition. They have flags and demands, they want the removal of the Minister of Education and bigger scholarships. It is important that the students are "ours" and that they will "win together", as the President of the National Assembly exclaimed in a strange ecstasy.
WHO ELSE SUPPORTED THEM??
Apart from the fact that "Ćaci" are the stars of pro-regime tabloids and television every day, RTS also shows them in every daily newspaper in parallel with thousands of students who have been demanding justice for months, guarded by police cordons - for them it is a job, not support.
"Students who want to learn" was visited by a professor from the Faculty of Medicine, a renowned expert, but recognizable for the fact that she gave a speech at a meeting of the Serbian Progressive Party. Then she thanked the President of Serbia "for all the babies born, as well as those to be born". There was also a professor from the Faculty of Law, and several of his colleagues from the University of Novi Pazar.
The biggest scandal happened on the eve of the anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. Then veterans of the Special Operations Unit marched into the camp in Pionirski Park, wearing uniforms and wearing red berets. Just for the record - the actual commander of this unit is one of the two organizers of the assassination of Prime Minister Đinđić, the trigger was pulled by a JSO member, and the formation itself was immediately disbanded in March 2003.
I guess they just want to learn too. Perhaps the term "Ćaci" will be forgotten, but if it survives, it will be synonymous with something particularly shameful.
