tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839047975110064239.post1707715265301015782..comments2024-02-06T10:14:55.854+00:00Comments on Balkan Ⓐnarchist: Serbs, Media, Justice and Me!Balkan Ⓐnarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13493330107738092712noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839047975110064239.post-92029982923174403862010-04-05T23:29:43.237+01:002010-04-05T23:29:43.237+01:00Alan, I'm afraid that too many Serbs in London...Alan, I'm afraid that too many Serbs in London thought that they'd established a permanent moral right to have the UK on their side. That was partly a case of propagandists believing their own propaganda, but they were also badly misled by the attitudes and opinions of the likes of John Major, Douglas Hurd et al. They should have had the perspicacity to see that Blair was coming at them from a different direction, but too many had been blinded by their own super-logicians into believing that no-one intelligent could ever understand the Balkans differently from themselves.<br /><br />It was sometimes very hard not to be convinced by the very precise and coherent analysis these people used to serve up with an air of effortless intellectual superiority, until you became aware of all the unspoken truths that were so rigorously excluded from their arguments. It wasn't always easy to see what thin ice they were skating so skilfully across.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839047975110064239.post-29946967338338168992010-04-01T17:02:00.416+01:002010-04-01T17:02:00.416+01:00That's all very true what you say Owen. But it...That's all very true what you say Owen. But it looks like I've forgotten to mention a few other things in my article! Dammit!<br /><br />1. For me, I found the very idea of "Greater Serbia" as detailed by the Western media utterly repellent, and as far as I was concerned, completely <i>un</i>-Serbian.<br /><br />2. I also refused to accept that Slobodan Milošević was responsible for all the bloodshed of the 1990s and for leading that "joint criminal enterprise"; such accusations I deemed unbelievable and part of a wider scheme of slur and slander at the Serbian people's expense.<br /><br />3.For me and for many Serbs, the whole idea that we started the wars and, even worse, committed the most number of war crimes and the worst atrocities of all the sides, was completely unacceptable.<br /><br />4. And how could I forget to mention the anti-NATO demonstrations in London by diaspora Serbs in response to the bombing of Serbia during the Kosovo war, and how they were left feeling disregarded by Blair's government, whom many of them helped elect two years before, and how such sentiment has lead to general apathy among British Serbs vis-à-vis politics in the Balkans and at home in the UK?<br /><br />Rewrite Alert!!!Balkan Ⓐnarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13493330107738092712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839047975110064239.post-47678581849418000252010-03-30T11:05:19.574+01:002010-03-30T11:05:19.574+01:00All of life is a journey of exploration. Fortunat...All of life is a journey of exploration. Fortunately you've set about the business of finding your compass long before many people do.<br /><br />The ICTY is not a perfect institution, nothing is ever perfect, but it is a process that reveals more of the truth than would be available to us otherwise.<br /><br />The same goes for blogs and books and whatever. We always have to use our own judgment, but it's the quest for knowledge and understanding that hones that judgment, and gives us a gradually building confidence in the reasonableness of our analysis.<br /><br />That's what's important about the account you've given in this message. You've described how you went back as far as you could to basic principles, and built upwards from there, rather than relying on the framework of ideas that was handed to you by the media, community, whoever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839047975110064239.post-45198834157773740362010-03-21T03:54:29.844+00:002010-03-21T03:54:29.844+00:00Hi Alan,
I am afraid you just went from one extre...Hi Alan,<br /><br />I am afraid you just went from one extreme to another.<br />Example: You said "how could all this Media be against Serbs or manufacture all this dehumanizing "news"...etc.<br />Ever heard of the daughter of Kwaiti ambassador to Washington, in Washington, testify to the US Congress, acting as nurse in Kwaiti hospital, stating she had seen the Iraqis "throw babies out from incubators". Well she did the job so well that many people were brought to tears and shouted at President Bush to go and burn those Iraqis in a hurry.<br /><br />Its that simple. Yet you now have come to denying the possibility that nothing was manufactured or video doctored against the Serbs.<br /><br />Good luck with your new found "reason or logic". I hope for your sake you will not be shocked again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839047975110064239.post-8496197955615868712010-03-15T21:05:11.074+00:002010-03-15T21:05:11.074+00:00True..Just like so many Grandparents and parents f...True..Just like so many Grandparents and parents from ww2 teaches the young Serbs about what there neighbors did to them...Deja Vu again this time its the Bosniaks and Croats teaching the young ones not to get along with its neighbors..Specially in Bosnia where all three ethnic groups are living..I see so much segregation in Bosnia its sickens me...Even tho we arrested all these war criminals(well most) but the people in RS and FBIH elect the same type of nationalists...the only difference is this guy doesn't have Criminal record YET!!!...Samnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839047975110064239.post-50104934146929069892010-03-15T12:26:46.831+00:002010-03-15T12:26:46.831+00:00Hi Sam, it's nice to read your views. Keep the...Hi Sam, it's nice to read your views. Keep them coming!<br /><br />You see, I used to think that the media fabricated and invented stories to attack my people's good name, all with the purpose of blaming my people for the Yugoslav wars of the 90s. Of course, this attitude was promoted by the Serbian state media in the nineties.<br /><br />What I realised during that "period of exploration" I go into detail in my article above, was that there is too much evidence to prove all the things I thought were not true. I also found that there are also too many witnesses to confirm the very allegations I thought were untrue. Could I really expect them all to be paid to say those things and think that way?<br /><br />And so, I slowly realised that there is no way that anyone can disprove any of these harsh accusations. Not only is that a "fool's crusade", but it's also <i>immoral</i>. How can you look at someone who claims to have suffered so much that they're lying, especially when they have so many people to back them up?<br /><br />And like I've described, not only was this shift in thinking a 180 degree turn, it was most of all a deeply moving experience for me. Not an easy process.<br /><br />But, I forgot to mention something in my article! One of the reasons why it was difficult for me to believe that my fellow Serbs could do so much wrong to our neighbours, was because our parents, grandparents and more distant forebears have been victims of similar wrongdoing. So how could the Western and local media accuse us of committing such terrible crimes; what about the suffering that our people have endured in our history? This also made this "re-education" process I underwent very emotional for me.<br /><br />Živili!Balkan Ⓐnarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13493330107738092712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839047975110064239.post-4323424554693191962010-03-15T05:32:07.061+00:002010-03-15T05:32:07.061+00:00I read your blog even tho it was too long lol...Bu...I read your blog even tho it was too long lol...But I agree on some what u have to say,many Serbs today feel like there being attacked by the media and some what is true!!..(and I'm a Bosniak/Bosnian Croat)...I feel the western media is bashing the Serbian people like they do the middle eastern people and I wish that would stop!!!..and I do believe the media does fuel the hate towards the Balkan people because the newer generation is learning today and the teachers are television and nationalists But putting media aside...The Genocide did happen my people of my both ethnicitys were murdered and still counting from the Srebrenica and Foce Massacres(Don't forget FOCE)..and many Serbs need to open there eyes like you did and hear the truth what happened to there neighbors.Germans one day had to admit and accept of what they did to its Polish and Jewish and Czech neighbors..today the Germans live with peace with there neighbors.And I believe one the Balkans will do the same..But the Serbian Government still didn't recognize the genocide they did in Easter Bosnia!!...Instead they trying chase former Bosniak politician Ejup Ganic to jail for not letting JNA take the weapons to RS to kill Bosniak and Croats....BYE!!!Samnoreply@blogger.com