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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <nettime-l-temp@material.net> is the temporary home of the nettime-l list while desk.nl rebuilds its list-serving machine. please continue to send messages to <nettime-l@desk.nl> and your commands to <majordomo@desk.nl>. nettime-l-temp should be active for approximately 2 weeks (11-28 Jun 99). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:35:35 -0400 From: nettime's_digestive_system <nettime-l@desk.nl> To: nettime-l@desk.nl Subject: Digest: Mihajlo Acimovic 1.......About "Alliance for Change" & Democratic Party 2.......About Vuk Draskovic 3.......Re: Collective responsibility 4.......Re: Collective responsibility - Church hipocrisy Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 10:51:21 +0200 From: Mihajlo Acimovic <mihajlo@angelfire.com> To:nettime@desk.nl Subject: About "Alliance for change" & Democratic Party About "Alliance for Change" & Democratic Party The "Alliance for change" in Serbia is made up of a few parties that were parliamentary, until they boycotted the 1997 elections, two (i think) that became parliamentary, because of the boycot and many others whith no influence whatsoever, but strong sponsors, who are funding their stay on the political scene. There are only two things that could gather this wide an array of parties, going from "civic" to fascist-like's that promote "A return to the cult of the family, to the serbian religion (meaning orthodox christianity) and to the Monarchy". The first thing are their pro-western attitudes and the fact that all of them pay most of their higher members (employees) from unknown, but obviously lage financial sources in the European Union and USA. The other is that they all Looooove money. They would kill for money. They would be beaten by the police for money. In short, they would do anything for money. I will start whith the biggest party in the alliance - the Democratic Party, led by Zoran Djindjic. The Democratic Party is actually owned by Djindjic, since all the people who have tried to openly attack him whithin the party have been marginalised. He brings huge amounts of money to the party, mainly from Germany and Switzerland. The party has also prospered under him, since it has made ruling coalitions in many municipalities whith Draskovic's "Serbian Renewal Movement", The Civic Alliance, ruled by Vesna Pesic and, in some places whith Democratic Party of Serbia, and the parties of the "Vojvodina coalition", which has fallen apart since. This has allowed even lower party members to steal or to be bribed in their municipal governments, leading to economic prosperity of the party. naturally, those who didn't pay the party's provision from each of such buisinesses were thrown out. This has led to an increase of party propaganda, organising parties (as in fun), featuring the most stupidising kind of music they could think of and gaining youth votes in towns and villages, places where the Democratic Party is traditionally weak. This might even make up for the tremendous loss of votes in cities, mainly Belgrade, which will show at the next elections. In some cities, however, the municipal governments have worked fairly well and whith minimum corruption. Nis and Kikinda are such examples. The mayor of Nis, Zoran Zivkovic has done everything he could to help create an NGO scene in the city and has even succeeded in negotiating the release of Antiwar Campaign activists who were arrested in Nis in 1998. The Alliance for Change is expected to do well there. Their attitude basically comes down to the point a high member of The Democratic Youth Club (youth of the Democratic Party) from my municipality had made to me, during a cofee and conversation in the Center for Free Elections and Democracy: "Fuck those human rights activists! If I got to power I would shoot them all! Serbia doesn't need human rights. It needs money!!! Money! Money man!" by Mihajlo Acimovic macim@angelfire.com http://www.angelfire.com/nv/mihajlo ------------------------------------/////////-------------------- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 10:22:09 +0200 From: Mihajlo Acimovic <mihajlo@angelfire.com> To: nettime@desk.nl Subject: About Vuk Draskovic As I have noticed that many people still believe there is a widespread opposition movement in Serbia, I have decided to shed some light on "oppositionaries and civic-oriented parties" VUK DRASKOVIC is still called, by CNN and the likes, the biggest opposition party leader in Serbia. This has but one reason. He openly suggests that Serbia be submitted to the mercy of "The West". He calls his party "Pro-Western" He has not said one word against Milosevic's policy in Kosovo, until the ethnic cleansing was over. instead, he joined the federal government, which was greatly responsible for the war crimes and blamed all the violence on KLA. He called his own party "patriotic" for doing so. He has openly declared on his TV station - Studio B (property of Belgrade assembly. His party controls Belgrade assembly whith support from Milosevic's parties) that "The Serbian Renewal Movement IS NOT AN OPPOSITION PARTY" the declaration came just after he was kicked out of the federal government for "Making statements which are contradictory to the governments' positions". He and Seselj are godfathers to each other. They used to be in the same nazi party, before they split up. Draskovic was the more "moderate" one. Unlike Seselj, who is a pro-russian nazi, Draskovic is a pro-western fascist, meaning that he would reinstall the Chetniks as national sybols, like the Ustashas were in Croatia. He would open the country to "free trade and the free market", which I think explains his economic intentions. The Draskovic clan (his wife is at least as influential as he, both in bed and his party. some say that it's Danica's party, not Vuk's) has done everything to imitate the Milosevic clan, both in ethnic politics, in sacking journalists from their controlled media for disobedience, making the Studio B look like Radio-Television of Serbia and in stealing every penny they could from belgrade assembly. Their robbery of Belgrade lead to strikes of to city's transport and trash disposal workers. The city transport strike was broken by Draskovic's employees (renamed to party members). They used intimidation and physical violence, mainly by Draskovic's security and Milosevic's police, who fought together against the strikers, but they failed. Then they sacked syndicate leaders, but they failed. Then they used strikebreakers, but they failed. Then they brought in private companies, which still dominate Belgrade's mass transit system. That broke the strike. After a week, the public transportation workers went back to work. the trash disposal workers strike was broken much more easily, also whithout concessions, such as paying the law-guaranteed sallaries for the past 6 months. Instead, the workers were payed almost nothing. Many people have been evicted (by Draskovic's security, or by unindentified men whith guns and/or clubs, from city-owned appartments in which they had lived for decades, so that members of Draskovic's wider family, and his buisiness partners could move in. The police didn't respond. Why should they. Their Boss is in coalition whith Draskovic. he doesn't lack ego either. he says that he is not a politiacian, but a statesman and calls himself king of the streets. He calls on the people to stay at home now, because "I alone know when the time will be ripe to take to the streets and bring down Milosevic, and the time is not now" It is also good to notice that, although he has stolen a lot, Draskovic doesn't care much about money. He wants power a lot more. That is what separates him from most of the other "opposition". In short, if Draskovic came to power, it would be a pro-western Milosevic instead of Milosevic - just what the US (or was it the TNC's?) want. by Mihajlo Acimovic Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com -------------------------///////---------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:39:37 +0200 From: Mihajlo Acimovic <mihajlo@angelfire.com> To: nettime-l@desk.nl Subject: Re: Collective responsibility ARE WE ALL GUILTY? My grandfather was/is a member of OZNA. It is the Serbian version of CIA. It has changed names frequently, so I don't know what it's called now. He is a mental sadist. His father was a merchant, like his father before him. My great gradfather traded in the old Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and supported the goverment like a good citizen. Then the war came. He traded whith the Germans. Then, the "liberation" came and he traded whith the Patisans. His shops and warehouse were appropriated by the state, but he bribed his way through and became an executive director of a factory. However, he was spending too much money on whores at that time, so he was noticed, and they discovered he had been stealing huge ammounts of money from the factory. The factory was doing so well that they wouldn't have noticed otherwise. He was imrisoned. He was old and his health deteriorated. he was released for medical reasons and died shortly after that, in 1947, I think. My grandfather was a teenager during WW2, and he went to highschool, which made him suspicious, although he was the leader of a local gang of kids in his hometown (now, city) of Cacak. He was arrested once by the Germans, when they were picking people off the streets in some sort of reprisal (100 Serbs for 1 dead German). His father went to the German officer in charge of the camp, where grandfather was brought, and he carried a bag. He came out whithout the bag and my grandfather was released 2 minutes after. My grandfather joined the partisans and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1944, just after they had "liberated" everything a 100 kilometers around. By 1947 he became the party commisary of a brigade. However, it seems he disliked the job, because, when he was offered a promotion, he chose to be demobilised instead. Do I need to point out that he hadn't seen a glimpse of the fighting, while he was in the partisans? Anyway, grandfather went to Belgrade University and he became an expert in artificial fertilisers. He worked for a factory in Croatia mostly, but lived in Belgrade. All that time he was a spy of OZNA (later known as DB and JB and who knows what else). Actually, grandfather never admitted, but not everyone in the family waas so tight-liped. He still enjoys frequent mental tortures of his family members, whenever health allows him. He calls his wife a creten constantly and says that every word she says is idiotic. He loved putting me into humiliating situations when I was a kid. For exemple, he would take photographs of me when I cried. He would alwaysa mock my tears. He also liked going into debates. Whith him, arguments are null and all he cares about is defeating the enemy in the discusion. If anyone goes into a discussion whith him, hoping for an actual dialogue, that person is bound to be infuriated by his answers. He also likes insulting whatecer he thinks people value the most. He never does this to anyone, but family members. Caution thaught him that. I opposed his behaviour constantly. Does that make me less guilty for what he did? My aunt and her dughter didn't. The two of them are having great difficulties in life, for adopting some of grandfather's behavior. Are they guilty? His wife has suffered the most from him. She has been under constant torment for over 40 years. Her eyes show fear. Is she guilty? Milosevic has ruined the lives of 10 million people. At least 2 million never did anything to openly opose him. Are they guilty? Are we all guilty cause we didn't stop him? I have been so insinuating as to the conclusions, that you may even draw them yourself. Mihajlo Acimovic macim@angelfire.com www.angelfire.com/nv/mihajlo Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com -------------------///----------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:21:06 +0200 From: Mihajlo Acimovic <mihajlo@angelfire.com> To: nettime@desk.nl Subject: Re: Collective responsibility - Church hipocrisy The first paragraph is for syndicate subscribers only, the rest is for everyone. Question for jungle-world: Is this good enough to get published? Same question for Arkzin/Bastard. I was trying to stay out of this collective responsibility debate, because I think it is pointless. However, since nobody seems ready to speak my mind, I'm gonna have to do it for me. If michael.benson@pristop.si had been observing even the media in Slovenia, he would have noticed that THE CHURCH AND THE CRIMINAL The Serbian Orthodox Church had made a very loud denunciation of Milosevic in 1996/7 around christmass, when it officialy declared that Milosevic should resign immidiately. In January 1997, after the police cordons and student protesters had been blocking each other for over a week in Kolarceva street, in downtown Belgrade, the patriarch led a religious procession through this street, before which the police cordons retreated. This, however, does not justify the church's hipocrisy, as many of it's priests have gone to Bosnia and Croatia, during those wars to hold religious services for the troops. Also, Patriarch Pavle was not so eager to oppose Milosevic during his climb to power. In those late 1980s, the church was holding a far more nationalist position. In fact, vladika (a position similar to archbishop) Artemije was one of the leaders of serbian nationalism at the time. In those days, as now, the church was upholding an extremely heavy pressure to force the government to introduce Religious Science - meaning as a school subject at all levels of education, where children would be thaught to live up to the church's hipocrisy. The church's official viewpoint is that Religious Science would not be mandatory, AT FIRST. This was often stated, even on television, by high church representatives, (I think this includes Artemije, but can't remember). The church has also been most persistent in it's attempts to force the government to return the Bogoslovski (means God'S-letters or God-Adressing) faculty, currently church-funded and controlled, back into the wings of Belgrade university, from where it was banished during Tito's government. The government has even been ready to accept this demand, but the church has demanded to maintain control of the faculty, so this faculty would be funded by the taxpayer's money, but the church would have absolute control. This would be a total breach of the University codex, not that anyone cares. The church has also declared that it supports the division of church and state. I'll let you draw your own conclusions from this one. It has also come to my attention that the church has not even suggested that a resignation should be handed in by Radovan Karadzic, the ex-leader (is he ex?) of the Republic of Srpska, the serbian entity in Bosnia. It hasn't made any insinuations about the war-crimes done in, say, Banja Luka, the second biggest city in Bosnia, now capital of the Repulic of Srpska, which used to have a very high percentage of Muslim population. Did they say anything about Srebrenica? What about Vukovar? The answers are, as always, simple. In the Republic of Srpska and the Republic of Srpska Krajina (the latter was the Serb-rebel country in Croatia, 1991-1995), the Serbian Orthodox Church had already succeeded in getting the governments to introduce Religious Science as a mandatory school subject in both elementary and highschools. That's why Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are not criminals. They did introduce Religious Science. That's why Arkan is not a criminal. He had priests preparing his army spiritually (and for good money) for every campaign of looting and ethnic cleansing (amount of bloodmoney donations to the church is not available to the author). The Serbian Orthodox Church has often praised the governments of the Republic of Srpska and of Republic of Srpska Krajina, for their longsighted policy in the introdution of mandatory Religious Science for all students, regardless of religious beliefs. Republic of Srpska is still a country of the Serbian people, according to it's constitution, so any notion like "regardless of ethnicity" would be pointless. Milosevic's government, however, has not introduced Religious Science at all, so Milosevic is a criminal, who should resign, in fact, "Milosevic is a bolshevik" (Artemije). He prevents Serbian (who else could live in Serbia?) children from getting a good christian education and thereby, prevents their spiritual growth. This has been the reason for the downfall of the Serbian people. As a vladika once said, "Children should be thaught christianity from their first year, from the cradle". Mihajlo Acimovic macim@angelfire.com http://www.angelfire.com/nv/mihajlo Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com