Trading Kosovo for Nikes
This appears to be one of the top impressions from yesterday’s protest in Belgrade. The protest called “Kosovo is Serbia” was triggered by the declaration of independence of Kosovo that took place on Sunday, February 17. Here’s an example of partizan journalism where the worst in people gets caught on tape disk.
Someone duly noted that “it didn’t happen if it wasn’t on the tube” so here you go!
I know that this paints an ugly picture of Serbia, the country where I was born and live, and I’m very unhappy about it. Sights like this and everything making it happen is what drives educated, intelligent, and/or capable people to emigrate and become engineers, doctors, athletes in some other society, contributing to it instead of their homeland. When your country is constantly pushing the best 10% out of it, you can figure out what will fill the vacuum.
Unforunately, for all of you who do not speaking Serbian it wouldn’t help sending video clips of intelligent people (still in Serbia) who are (verbally) opposing the now futile and mindless manipulated attempts to “bring back Kosovo”.
As it goes in any mass protest, a small group, which counted a couple of hundreds among 100-200 thousand protesters), abused the opportunity to:
- convert agression into destruction; esentially unesponsibly present their unstoppable and mindless rage as “patriotism”, since what they’re really looking for is a reason for spill their agression towards anyone else by members of their tribe. I’m sorry to see that symbols of US presence (embassy, McDonald’s and the like) are becoming a favourite target in Serbia, just at it was/is in Afghanistan, Lybia, Somalia… (fill in the gaps)
- steal something; like these two f*cking b*tches who probably idolize (war) criminals and look up their moral attitude (or lack thereof). What’s both tragical and comical, what these really did is trade something they didn’t really have in the first place (i.e. Kosovo) for something concrete (like Nike shoes).
Any of these two types does not really give a damn about Kosovo, nor Serbia, nor Belgrade, you and me, and any consequence that might/will follow. What results is that tax payers will pay for all the damage, while the Serbian national has been thoroughly shaken by this event. Unfortunately, the experience continues to prove that many Serbians will continue to ignore the events of yesterday, NATO bombing in 1999, Yugoslavian break-up and war, Srebrenica genocide or anything before which does not suit their false national pride.
Hopefully most of similar small groups have been indentified (and/or some of them filmed like these …) and will eventually be prosecuted. Unfortunately (I’m using it too often lately), I know who is supposed to put perpetrators in jail - they’re not seeing much interest in doing just that since they have daydreamed of even greater outburst of Serbian rage so that they can continue manipulating with the mindless bunch. For you not in the know - those are prime minister Vojislav Koštunica (a.k.a. Milošević 2.0) and radical leader Tomislav Nikolić.
