Serbian Tyrant Boris Tadic Declares Outright Dictatorship The
President of Serbia, Boris Tadic, effectively declared his country an
outright dictatorship last week, when he announced that he would use all
of his authority, as Serbia's head of state and commander-in-chief of
its armed forces, to prevent opposition political parties from ever
coming to power. With this announcement, Tadic has dispensed with the
last vestiges of nominal democracy left in Serbia. By publicly stating
that he will use all means at his disposal to prevent the opposition
from ever taking office, Tadic has clearly demonstrated his contempt for
democracy, basic human rights, and the rule of law. This
announcement comes after a series of unconstitutional usurpations by
Tadic, during the last year and a half. Since being reelected in 2008,
Tadic has brought the entire Serbian government, as well as the
country's parliament and judiciary, under his personal control. He has
also enacted laws and decrees that severely curtailed freedom of speech
and the right of citizens to peaceably protest in Serbia's capital city,
Belgrade. With most, if not all, of Serbia's media outlets under the control of his cronies, Tadic proceeded to implement a whole slate of measures that would transform Serbia into a de facto dictatorship. This most recent announcement comes after the publication of statistical information that calls the legitimacy of Tadic's reelection into question. Namely, according to the results of the last census carried out in 2002, Serbia had a total of 7,498,001 citizens. Of that number, 1,672,421 were underage in 2002. That means that, in 2002, Serbia had a total of 5,825,580 adult, voting-age citizens. However, in 2008, Serbia's official voter registry had a total of 6,749,688 registered voters. This means that Serbia had 924,108 more voters in 2008, than it did voting-age citizens in 2002. This also means that Serbia had an excess of nearly 1,000,000 voters, during the last presidential election which returned Tadic to office for a second term. Even if that number was cut in half, to allow for demographic changes that occurred between 2002 and 2008, there would still be 500,000 more voters in Serbia, than there are voting-age citizens. It should also be noted that Tadic won the last election by just over 100,000 votes. The main Serbian opposition party recently collected a petition calling for early parliamentary elections. This petition was signed by over 1,000,000 voting-age citizens, but Tadic chose to ignore the petition, as well as other calls for his resignation. He also said that he would use all of his authority to prevent opposition political parties from ever coming to power. This is something that no Serbian head of state, including the country's late dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, ever contemplated publicly. The regime's propaganda machine has also been busy spreading hysterical reports about alleged death threats and assassination plots against Tadic. The purpose of this fear-mongering is to get the Serbian public to suspend rational thought and accept policies they otherwise would not support. Anyone seen as being critical of Tadic and his personal dictatorship is now branded a "potential assassin." By creating an atmosphere of fear and mistrust, Tadic and his cronies hope to stifle opposition voices and continue their unabated pillage of Serbia's national wealth. Tadic is a dictator with no ideology whatsoever. His only goal is to maintain absolute control over Serbia and its people, so his personal regime can continue plundering the country with complete impunity. It is now painfully obvious that Serbian citizens can no longer change their government by peaceful, democratic means. The country's head of state has officially stated that he will use all means at his disposal (this includes the police and army) to prevent opposition political parties from ever coming to power. This is tantamount to a declaration of outright dictatorship. No nation in the world is obligated to suffer under the arbitrary rule of such a tyrant. In point of fact, it the right and duty of all free citizens to oppose such tyranny, by any means necessary. Thursday, March 4, 2010The Depravities of Tadic's Personal Regime Crumbling
dictatorships always put on the best shows. All corrupt and tyrannical
regimes share some common traits. One of these is the need for theatrics
and empty ceremony, both of which serve to disguise the misery of
everyday life in oppressed countries that are (mis)governed by such
regimes. Serbia is no exception. The country's National Assembly – a
"rubber-stamp parliament" that has been rendered virtually meaningless
since Serbia's President, Boris Tadic, usurped dictatorial powers in
2008 – has enacted a new set of rules that will govern how its sessions
are opened.At the start of each new parliamentary
session, a platoon of soldiers from Tadic's Presidential Guard will
greet Members of Parliament as they enter the National Assembly building
in downtown Belgrade. A "red carpet" will be placed in front of the
main entrance, so that the parliamentarians can go to work "in style."
Just before the beginning of each new session, members of the
Presidential Guard will raise the country's flag, while the national
anthem plays in the background. This is, without a doubt, an excellent bit of showmanship. Not even the United States Congress and British House of Commons engage in such rituals. But, then again, the U.S. and British legislators also have two crucial things their "colleagues" in the Serbian National Assembly lack – legitimacy and real authority. According to the highly-controversial 2006 Constitution, the Serbian National Assembly does not even actually represent the country's citizens (!?), which is one of the primary reasons for the current political and economic crisis facing Serbia. Namely, Serbian Members of Parliament are not given a direct mandate by the electorate. They, therefore, have no constituents of their own, lack legitimacy, and do not represent any part of the country. Instead, they are obliged to obey the dictates of the political parties they belong to. These political parties can hire and fire Members of Parliament whenever they want, as if they were nothing more than common employees. This bizarre practice has given political party bosses, like Tadic, unchecked power, while leaving average citizens literally disenfranchised. Dictators usually like to use malleable "puppets" that will formally fill positions of authority. In Tadic's case, one such "puppet" is the National Assembly President (i.e. Speaker of Parliament), Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, a high-ranking member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). As everyone knows, the SPS used to be headed by the Serbia's late dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, who died while on trial for war crimes (including genocide) committed by his forces in the decade-long Yugoslav wars. SPS leaders never distanced themselves from Milosevic's blood-soaked legacy, but this did not prevent Tadic from accepting them as his "coalition partners," following elections in 2008 (as with all Serbian elections in recent years, there are strong indications that massive voter fraud was committed in 2008).  When
journalists asked Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic what she thought of the new
parliamentary ceremonies, she replied: "I think our Presidential Guard
has the prettiest uniforms in the world." If you are thinking that this
sounds like something only a moron would say, you are right.
Djukic-Dejanovic has never been renowned for her intelligence (or
anything else, for that matter). She would never be able to properly
fill the role of parliamentary speaker in an actual legislature. But,
then again, she does not have to, since Serbia only has a "make-believe"
legislature.This would not present a problem, if Serbia were also a "make-believe" country that only had "pretend" citizens. However, Serbia is very real and it is facing a political and economic crisis of enormous proportions, while its klepotcratic regime wastes hundreds of millions of dollars on "political marketing" aimed at maintaining a façade of stability. The opposition Serbian Progressive Party recently started a petition calling for early parliamentary elections. Within just a couple of weeks, 900,000 Serbian citizens signed the petition, which is a clear sign the current regime has lost all legitimacy and needs to resign immediately. New elections would not resolve the country's problems. They would almost certainly be rigged, and the new Members of Parliament would not have any more legitimacy or authority than the current ones. That having been said, it is interesting to see how regime officials reacted to the petition. When journalists asked Djukic-Dejanovic what she thought about the petition, she replied: "They can collect 2 million signatures, as far as I'm concerned, but there will be no early elections." Serbia is a country the size of South Carolina, with just over 7 million inhabitants, so 2 million signatures would represent a clear majority of voting-age citizens. But this does not concern Djukic-Dejanovic, nor should it, because she does not have any legitimacy to begin with. The Serbian people are living on the verge of hunger. Even though the country has plenty of arable land, the regime has devastated its agricultural sector (along with every other sector of the economy), leaving many without even the barest essentials necessary for survival. But this does not prevent the tyrants in Belgrade (those same opportunistic usurpers that came to power after the brutal assassination of its only democratically-elected Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic) from increasing taxes even further, so they can finance their own self-aggrandizing avarice and brutality. There is, however, one very important thing that Tadic, Djukic-Dejanovic, and the rest of the regime should remember – taxation without representation is a criminal act that they will have to answer for.  The
personal regime of Boris Tadic has increased more taxes and cut more
benefits than any other government since Milosevic's fall from power in
October 2000, while at the same time greatly increasing expenditures and
employing a literal army of sycophants, friends, and blood relatives.
It has enacted laws and decrees that ban freedom of expression and
severely curtail freedom of assembly. It has undermined civil society
and labor unions, while increasing the wealth of war criminals and
profiteers that plundered half the Balkans during the Yugoslav wars. It
has prevented ordinary people from worshipping in churches and mosques
of their own choosing, and established a "state-sponsored religion" that
is under the personal command of the country's President.The regime has also vastly expanded the power of the executive branch, transforming Serbia's parliament and judiciary into mere "puppets" of Tadic's ruling "camarilla." It has continued to destabilize neighboring countries, thereby threatening the peace and security of the Balkans. It has made crime, corruption, marginalization, exclusion, nepotism, graft, clientelism, kleptocracy, oppression, censorship, and propaganda the pillars of its governing system. It has stifled all opposition, refused to engage in any dialogue, and left the country's citizens powerless to change their government by peaceful, democratic means. As such, this regime is an illegitimate tyranny. It is also a clear and present danger to the continued peace and stability of the Balkans, and should, therefore, leave office as soon as possible. The 2006 Constitution is a mockery that needs to be replaced immediately. A Constitutional Convention needs to be convened, and a broad and inclusive public discourse needs to begin right away, if there is any hope of saving Serbia from total collapse and dissolution. The public administration, armed forces, police, intelligence services, political parties, media, publicly-owned companies, and other institutions also need to be purged of criminalized and extremist elements that have brought this country to the verge of disaster. This is not an easy task, but it must be done. The alternative is something that no sane person would wish to contemplate. ================================================================================================
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Serbia desperately needs a Serbian Putin, someone who will understand his duty is to love and protect his people, someone who will want to please his people, who will have compassion for his people first and foremost and who would understand that nobody else will protect them if those in the highest offices don’t.
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Oct 28, 2010 8:15 PM
This is infuriating – what deafness, what level of disconnectedness, a total out-of-touch, from the Outer Space “president”, a complete MORON who figures it’s all about good manners and “less pride”!