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As for joining EU, what advantage would Serbia's entry into the EU provide? I have yet to see tangible proof that joining that disfunctional, corrupt political oligarchy provides any real benefit to it's members.Rather, destruction of sovereignty and an increase cost (not standard) of living are the "benefits" of membership. Larger nation's such as France, Holland and Poland cannot ratify the EU constitution as it obviously waters down their cultural identity and traditions and Italians pine for the return of the Lira.Serbia would be much better served staying an impartial outsider. Although, the standard of living may be lower, Serbia enjoys many advantages over it's EU neighbors including, lower costs of production and corporate ownership, less bureaucracy and more business friendly labor laws. Serbia has tremendous human resource capabilities and of course is at the cross roads of trade in Europe.That being said, the climate for business opportunity in Serbia is not perfect but anyone doubting their potential and see entry to the EU as the only path to prosperity can look at how China has engorged itself on the U.S. market without "playing ball" or even being a WTO member until 2002.Regardless of tariffs or lack of a trade agreement, European manufacturers will start looking at Serbia as a place to outsource production. This will not take place if Serbia "integrates" into the EU and is bound by the same costs and restrictions as other members.******************************************************************As for Kosovo,Kosovo is much more than 15 percent of modern Serbia's territory, or a depository of mineral wealth, as some materialistic analysts dub it. It is the birthplace of Serb ethnic identity. Every nation has its own "creation myth." Americans celebrate their own every 4th of July: the Declaration of Independence, George Washington and the Continental Army, the Boston Tea Party… For Serbs, it is a hot summer day in 1389 when their quarrelsome nobles rallied to offer battle to the invading Turks. Perhaps the actions of Prince Lazar and his nobles were not so pure as the oral tradition made them out to be – but they nonetheless inspired such a tradition, and ensured that a spirit of liberty and honor persevered for the next 400 years under the cruel Ottoman yoke. This tradition infuriates the modern "liberals" and "democrats," who – true to their Communist roots – fear and despise religion, deny objective morality, and wallow in relativist drivel. It is not a coincidence that the loudest and most obnoxious Serb-haters in Serbia itself are formerly privileged members of the Old Regime and their young protégés.The Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Imperial or Nazi Germany, the Comintern, or the American Hegemony: every force that saw Serbia as a threat throughout its modern history has sought to deprive the Serbs of Kosovo in some way, recognizing its value to the Serb identity – sometimes more than the Serbs themselves. A Serb poet commented last year: "If Kosovo is not ours, why are they asking us to give it up? If it is theirs, why are they taking it by force? And if they can take it by force, why they are so circumspect about it?"The Empire is pushing hard for the ruling circles in Belgrade to give up Kosovo, declare the rape of 1999 consensual, and abandon claims to law and principle in favor of temporary expedience. It is not a trade; the Empire is not offering anything. To take Kosovo, the Empire needs Serbia's consent. Much as some people in Belgrade would be happy to oblige, that consent is not theirs to give.The battle for Kosovo is not over yet.
Eu divided?! Perhaps because Kosovo 'state' is a lie!Failed From The Start.Declaring "independence" of Kosovo, leader of the terrorist KLA and "prime minister" of the separatist province, Hashim Thaci, boasted how he would get a hundred recognitions in no time. Declaring "independence" of Kosovo, leader of the terrorist KLA and "prime minister" of the separatist province, Hashim Thaci, boasted how he would get a hundred recognitions in no time.On February 27, the New York Times and International Herald Tribune published an op-ed by Serbia's Minister Vuk Jeremic, arguing against the carve-up of his country. Jeremic, educated in the U.S. and the UK, was personally appointed by Empire's fair-haired boy, Serbian president Boris Tadic. His appeal drew on themes from American history (borrowing the title from the Pledge of Allegiance) and used the very latest in politically correct phraseology.It did him absolutely no good. The outgoing undersecretary of State, Nicholas Burns (for the past three years at the helm of the Bush administration's Clintonian Kosovo policy) condemned Jeremic's reasoned statement as "invective" and called it hypocritical (!). How dare they complain, said Burns, when they "marched into Kosovo" in 1999 and "tried to drive a million Kosovar Albanian muslims out of the country"?It was a typical Burnsian torture of truth; the only people "marching into Kosovo" in 1999 were NATO occupiers. The alleged plan to expel Albanians was shown to be a fabrication. One more thing of interest; Burns has on multiple occasions emphasized the Albanians' Islamic faith. Yet U.S. officials and the Albanians themselves jeer when anyone brings up the issue of Islam. Well, which is it? Are they Muslims first and foremost (and therefore one can discuss Islamic radicalism), or not? It can't be both, or neither, whenever convenient. Secretary Rice herself demonstrated either ignorance or stupidity when she told the press that Kosovo was a done deal and the Serbs should get over it: "I mean, after all, we're talking about something from 1389. It's time to move forward." Her spokesman, Tom Casey, told the press on February 25, "it ought to be clear to everybody at this point that Kosovo is never going to be a part of Serbia again."One doesn't know where to start, confronted with such arrogance, hypocrisy, stupidity and mendacity. Perhaps it is best to quote an observation by Joshua Trevino of the Brussels Journal:"They wished to bring to an illusory close the feel-good narrative of America's last 'good war,' in an era were such narratives are pitifully thin; and they simultaneously wished to isolate that narrative from history in toto. Their desire is strong enough that they will lie to the American people and the world as needed: see here, for example, Under Secretary Burns reversing the chronology of the 1999 Kosovo war, and egregiously mischaracterizing the explicit content of U.N. Resolution 1244. The exercise deceives no one but themselves."Pompous pronouncements from Foggy Bottom notwithstanding, the declaration and recognition of the KLA regime in Kosovo has opened a veritable Pandora's box in international relations. Countries all over the world are observing the trampling of law and order by the American Empire, and wondering if they are next.Ten years ago, Kosovo was a local conflict, one that Serbs and Albanians have waged for control of the territory since the 1700s. By arming, training and funding the KLA, then stepping in as its air force, the Empire has made it into global issue. By recognizing the occupied province as an "independent," ethnically cleansed, Albanian Muslim state, it has rejected law in favor of force, and morals in favor of power. It is hard to predict what will follow, but whatever it is, it won't be good.
Well the facts are popping up. The lies and massive media production are losing the race. The author of the article is copying and pasting the same paragraph over and over again, misleading the readers with the numbers and %. Intentionally or purposely this magazine is publishing 90% of the 2 million over and over again. The CIA and some western sources are coming with significantly different percent excluding the "others nations" deported kicked out, sold or killed after the NATO occupation.
Serbia population: 10,150,265 people, Serbs 82.9%
130,000 Serbs in Kosovo today 228,000 (mostly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled Kosovo in 1999)
Just by using very simple calculator we are talking about 358,000 Serbs and Roma who were in the province before the separatist war by KLA (started by today's prime minister of Kosovo). Even using the number of 1.8 millions of Albanians (hard to prove that population never responded to any census and the border with Albania was widely opened like Mexican and USA) we are talking about 17.7% of the total population of Albanians on the territory of Serbia. The readers are getting a wrong imprecision and 90% of population is leading some of them to the wrong conclusion.
It is also nice to say that big brother (CIA) updated its book and came with the new numbers. (This page was last updated on 15 May 2008) Population of Kosovo 2,126,708: (2007 est. significant jump from the previous year) and Albanians 88%, Serbs 7%, other 5% (Bosniak, Gorani, Roma, Turk, Ashkali, Egyptian). Can you imagine what is going to be with the numbers ten years from now and what this multiplayer of fabrication is going to do? At the same time if you keep the track of the record of the Albanian (citizens of Albania the existing state of Albanians) and census over there you may see where those cia people were coming from.
Also the comparison EU with the Austro-Hungarian Empire is slightly shifted from the subject. If the good article is ultimately a goal, than please straight to the point. This time it is not EU who attacked Serbia it is NATO. Yes that beast the cold war survivor and the angel of peace spreading democracy around the globe. 1200 war-planes bombed the hell of the country of Serbia with the size of 88,361 sq km for straight 3 months living the contaminated soil from the depleted uranium and totally destroying the infrastructure and industry. Entire west should be really proud on such heroic war in order to save 100,000 Albanians (according to the press at that time 1999) special these days when Carla Del Ponte, former Hag Prosecutor published her book and explained the "reality on the ground" and hundreds of kidnapped young Serbians who were slathered for "the body organs black market". Reminder that the last year Israel lunched the war for three kidnapped solders, according to the west and objective information, Yugoslav army used inappropriate force to stop the smugglers and organs trafficking on its own territory organized under KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army. Any of us should ask honest and simple question WHAT IF THIS HAPPENED IN OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gangs and traffickers are kidnapping our young citizens and selling their organs on the black market what our government should do??????? Did Serbs had rigt to protect themself?
EU losing the ground, well you may monopolize the English language media, you may print propaganda and the articles 24/7/365 but Serbian are going to find the way to survive this "Virtual State of Kososvo", the bottom line it is Serbian Land and the life of the Serbian people on the line, I cannot blame them.
XEPCT yo are simply wrong about Tadic being correct and EU.That Serbia today is weak, confused, and angry, Brussels and Washington have only themselves to blame. A decade of sanctions, threats, aggression, occupation, humiliation, extortion, and false promises would have tested anyone's patience. For a decade, everything was said to be Slobodan Milosevic's fault; but in 2000, Milosevic was deposed, and Serbia's subsequent rulers have been downright sycophantic toward the Empire ever since. But if anything, Serbia has been kicked around even more, and the demonization of Serbs in the Western mainstream has gotten even worse. The brief hope in the aftermath of 9/11 that America's awakening to the danger of Islamic terrorism would help change some of its Balkan policies was crushed shortly thereafter. No matter how many demands of the "international community" the government in Belgrade fulfills, often at the expense of its own sovereignty and laws, all it ever gets is more demands, and comparisons with either Wilhelmine or Nazi Germany. For a nation that has suffered greatly at the hands of both, it is the paramount insult to go along with its grave injuries.Contrary to propaganda, Serbia has always sought a relationship with the West. Milosevic tried to deal with the West as an equal partner in an international system governed by law, not realizing that such an attitude marked him as "uppity" in the New World (dis)Order. His successors tried a groveling approach, to no greater effect. The appeals of Kostunica and Tadic for "partnership" and "reciprocity" fall on deaf ears in Washington and Brussels, who expect nothing short of unquestioned obedience.This expectation will not change, despite the "concerns" in Brussels. Pressure will continue to force Serbia to accept the separation of Kosovo, assume responsibility for the 1990s wars, and obey any demands of the Hague Inquisition. No government in Belgrade can survive this sort of policy for long; the fact that Kostunica has done so illustrates his remarkable political dexterity, but without any actual achievements beyond staying in power, he will be doomed come next election. Both Brussels and Washington are keenly aware of this.The question, then, is why the continued flogging of Serbia, if it's bound to bring the Radicals to power? And the only logical answer is that to the Empire, it makes absolutely no difference whether the government in Belgrade is "tyrannical" or "democratic," "ultranationalist" or "pro-Western." To those who desire to "solve the Serbian question" by crushing Serbia, both sycophancy and defiance will be treated with equal hatred and contempt.Once the people of Serbia understand they have nothing to gain by crawling before the Empire, and nothing to lose by resisting its dictates, they will see the clarity of the choice facing them. Standing against the Empire does not mean "going against the whole world." Bowing to it does.
Any hopeful country must have working administration and budgetary incomes. Kosovo has neither, nor a realistic perspective how they might become. At present, there is no sign of optimism. Serbs might get Kosovo back simply by doing nothing - in 5 years EU might beg anybody to take this problem away.
MospytWhy don't you look to demografic statistics about Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo and Metohija abefore and after the war... Where did all those Serbs from these territories gone after the war? Which country broke SFRJ constitution in 1991? Croatia! Who broke internation law in 1999? NATO! Who broke the international laws in 2008? Albanian leaders with EU and America support!Pro-Serb propaganda in european magazine... Don't be silly.
On March 24th 1999, NATO began bombing civilian Serbia because, it claimed, this was the only way to stop widespread ethnic cleansing against Albanians by the Yugoslav government.Ordinary Westerners accepted this.One cannot blame them, exactly. For years, the Western media had been alleging that nationalist unrest by separatist Albanians in Kosovo stemmed from the fact that they were supposedly a besieged minority, persecuted by an ultranationalist Serbian state. Given this media barrage, by the time NATO bombed Serbia, the Western public easily believed NATO's claims that this was necessary to prevent a genocide against Albanian civilians in Kosovo. But suppose I told you that the following list summarizes the political facts in Kosovo in 1981, when the separatist activity by radical Albanians began in earnest:(1) Kosovo Albanians controlled the provincial government;(2) Kosovo Albanians controlled the cultural institutions;(3) Albanian was the official language in the province (and in fact Serbs in Kosovo were forced to learn Albanian, not the other way around);(4) Education was conducted in Albanian;(5) Albanians were the overwhelming majority of students at Pristina University;(6) Albanians were the overwhelming majority in the Kosovo police force;(7) As The Economist reported in 1981, "Mr Fadil Hoxha [was] a member of Jugoslavia's collective state presidency and a Kosovo Albanian." What does this mean? The collective presidency of the Yugoslav federation was composed of representatives from its constituent republics, and also representatives from Kosovo and Vojvodina. However, Kosovo and Vojvodina were not republics of Yugoslavia but provinces of Serbia. Thus, Kosovo was treated as if it were a republic of Yugoslavia as far as the collective presidency of the federation was concerned.(8) Since 1974, the Kosovo parliament in Pristina (Kosovo's capital) could veto decisions taken in Belgrade that corresponded to the entire Republic of Serbia (of which Kosovo is a province), but Belgrade had no say on matters that were decided in Pristina (!).(9) Albanians were discriminating against Serbs in industry and in the political administration.(10) Kosovo Serbs, apparently starting in the 1970s, were subjected to low-level terrorism and harassment by either the Albanian KLA or its precursors. This caused a trickle, then a flood of Kosovo Serbs to flee the province out of fear for their lives.Is this the picture of an oppressed Albanian minority in Serbia? Or is this the picture of an oppressed Serbian minority in Kosovo?But should you believe me that the above list summarizes the political facts in Kosovo when Albanian separatists wrecked it? You don't have to. In 1982, the US military — the same establishment that would later make the decision to bomb Serbia — published a country study of Yugoslavia:Nyrop, R. F. 1982. Yugoslavia: A country study. Headquarters, Department of the Army, DA Pam 550-99: American UniversitySuch country studies are published all the time to assist diplomats and others who may need a crash course on a particular country. This particular study was completed immediately after the 1981 riots that set in motion the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and it comments at length on the social and political situation in Kosovo, as well as on the riots themselves. As you will see below, this country study substantiates — and for most points explicitly and directly — the above assertions about the political facts in Kosovo, as I will document further below. Skeptics can get the book above from a library, and check whether I misquoted or distorted.Now, as it bombed Serbia, NATO claimed that, underneath the shower of bombs, Milosevic was murdering 100,000 — or else 500,000 (who's counting?) — Kosovo Albanians.A large number. But what if I told you that all the people who died in the bombing, put together, add up to no more than 788 people?And that's not even the Albanian civilians — that figure represents all deaths, and therefore includes dead Serbian soldiers and civilians, as well as Albanian KLA terrorists.You reasonably might suspect that I got my numbers wrong. But these are not my numbers, they are NATO's! In fact NATO has not produced even one Albanian civilian murdered in Kosovo by the Yugoslav army or security services! [1]Are you scandalized by that?If not, then perhaps this will do it: NATO's excuse to start the bombing was an allegation that there had been a massacre in the Kosovo town of Racak, but Racak was a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) hoax set up in collaboration with NATO!
In other words, the entire war against Serbia was a put up job by NATO and the mainstream Western media. Those who know a bit about the war on Viet Nam, which was justified with a faked attack on US troops that never happened (Gulf of Tonkin, and which was carried out by lying to the American people repeatedly, consistently, and massively, will see the similarities.And which is the bigger scandal, here?Is it that NATO lied to us repeatedly in order to start a war of aggression against innocent Serbs? Is it that NATO allied itself with the worst fascists, terrorists, and Islamic fundamentalists — people who took pride and joy in massacring thousands of Serbian civilians?Or is the bigger scandal the fact that none of this ever became a front-page-headline scandal in the Western press (unlike Viet Nam, where the lies did, eventually, surface)? Is the bigger scandal the fact that ordinary Westerners, whose taxes paid for the slaughter of innocent Serbs, still don't know what truly happened in Yugoslavia?It's a tough call…The KLA, on whose behalf NATO bombed Serbia, claimed to be defending Kosovo Albanians from the oppression that the mainstream media said they were suffering at the hands of Serbs, generally, and at the hands of the government of Serbia in particular. It is this media portrayal that helped build plausibility in Americans' minds for the idea that the Yugoslav army was about to commit genocide. Since Americans did not — and still do not — know much about Yugoslavia, the portrayal was believed, accepted on the faith and trust they place on what they perceive to be an 'independent' and 'free' press.Had Americans known a bit about Yugoslavia, however, they would have laughed out of court the claim that the Serbs had been oppressing the Albanians, let alone the accusation that a genocide against Albanians was in the wings. Had Americans known what the social and political situation was in Kosovo in the early 1980s, when violent separatist activity in Kosovo began in earnest, the propaganda campaign that explained Albanian terrorist violence and secessionist sloganeering as produced by Serbian oppression of the Albanians could never have succeeded.As for "humanitarian justification for intervention this "victim argument" has long been used as justification for NATO's bombing, the subsequent expulsion and persecution of Serbs ("revenge attacks") and others by Albanians, and indeed for claiming the "right" to independence. Supporters of independence have repeatedly claimed [link available in the original article] that Serbia has somehow "forfeited" its sovereignty through actions in Kosovo in 1999 and before.As NATO bombs began raining on Serbia and Montenegro in March of 1999, media in NATO countries began manufacturing atrocity stories from the mold perfected just a few years earlier in Bosnia. Refugees, ethnic cleansing, genocide, massacres, rape camps — everything was there. In addition to propaganda injected into the mainstream media by U.S. and other NATO governments, there was also KLA propaganda directly fed to gullible reporters.Even today, veteran propagandists dutifully repeat the claim that Serb "ethnic cleansing" of Albanians led to the NATO attack. Nothing can be further from the truth. NATO launched the attack in March 1999 after failing to coerce Serbia into accepting an occupation force, during the false negotiations in France. The official justification for the bombing was to force Belgrade to sign the "agreement" presented by the U.S. envoys in Rambouillet. Alleged atrocities are all said to have happened subsequent to the start of the bombing. Indeed, the ICTY indictment against Slobodan Milosevic included only one alleged crime dated prior to March 23, and that was the faux massacre at Racak.By late 1999, it was obvious that the death toll in Kosovo was much less than the alleged 100,000 — or even the more commonly used 10,000, often falsely qualified as Albanian civilians (That number was actually a wild claim by UK Foreign Minister Geoff Hoon, who sought to justify the bombing.) The total number of bodies exhumed by ICTY's investigators was 2,108, of all ethnicities and with varying causes of death. It is unclear whether that death toll included the numerous Albanians killed by the KLA, the KLA's own substantial casualties, or those of the Yugoslav Army. In any case, horror stories presented as facts in a State Department "report" were later proven false. For example, the "Trepca mines" story was debunked by Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl. True, several other mass graves were discovered in the province since 1999. However, the victims buried there were Serbs, so the discoveries quickly faded from memory.Although many Kosovo Albanians suffered terribly during the KLA insurrection and the NATO bombing, their claim that "Serb atrocities" have earned them the right to independence holds very little water.
http I assume then that you think Kosovo Albanians DESERVE independence as other minorities? People of good intentions would be inclined to first ask: What are the rules of the game?OK, they would say, if that's possible, why not? But in this case the rules are clear: It is not possible without agreement from Serbia! International law, above all the UN Charter and its fundamental principle of sovereignty, guarantees territorial integrity and equality of states, and Kosovo is part of sovereign state - the Republic of Serbia. That has been approved once again by Resolution 1244 of the Security Council. Regarding the rights of national minorities, Albanians of Kosovo included, it is clear that creating a state of their own is not one of those rights.That's way you hear from pro-Albanian supporters claims that Kosovo deserves independence; they do not say that it HAS THE RIGHT. Clearly, the example of Kosovo shows that statehood can be achieved with the support of key countries across the world. Even without the advent of a UN resolution and particularly support from Russia and China, fervent US support was all that was necessary.Perhaps the most ironic recognition of Kosovo was by Turkey, who was never an avid supporter but its 'thumbs-up' to the new state was symbolic nevertheless. Undoubtedly, Kosovo has paradoxical implications for Turkey. On the one hand, it strengthens their claim on the rogue state of Northern Cyprus which they have held by force since 1974 despite no official international recognition. On the other hand, it undermines their bloody war with Kurdish separatists that they have relentlessly tried to quell and have even invaded a neighbouring country under the banner of preserving national security.The old saying, 'what is good for the goose is good for the gander' cannot be discounted. The situation begs a critical question, as Kosovo and by Turkish implications, Northern Cyprus are justified separatist causes then how can 15 millions Kurds with a rich culture and history dating back thousands of years in the same region be classified as terrorists by the same brush?.It only goes to highlight the importance of perception. Kosovar independence was endorsed by the US and other powers because its people 'deserved' freedom and unmolested sovereignty and by virtue that Serbia had forfeited the claim to the province after a highly-publicised genocide that was conducted in the late 1990's that culminated in the region becoming a UN administered zone, protected by NATO.However, the similarities with the Kurds by that same token stretches even deeper. As Kosovar's suffered under a dictatorship, so have the Kurds for many decades under multiple regimes. Kurds form a great minority in Turkey, Iran and Iraq as Albanians do in Serbia, Greece and Macedonia. Kosovo Albanians also border their ethnic brethren as do the Kurds in four adjacent countries.However, whilst Albanians already have a country of their own (Albania), the Kurds have nothing. The struggle to establish a 'Kosovar' identity in the aftermath of statehood is well documented. Kosovar's have yet to build a distinctive national image with a lack of an official flag, army and national anthem. After all, it was the greater Albanian flag that was ubiquitous on every corner of Pristina.The tale of double-crossings and double-standards has been the bane of modern Kurdish history. Forcefully divided, a national of 40 million with its own flag, language, history and distinct national identity has never received the support of global powers.If the principle of self-determination as touted by former US president Woodrow Wilson or the modern model used for Kosovo is applied equivocally then Kurdistan would have been independent long ago.At least Iraqi Kurdistan can take some heart for the new benchmark set by Kosovo and perhaps even a few tips on Kosovar marketing and systematic approach to achieving their goals.However, even in the days of so-called equality and globalisation, out dated colonial philosophies are widely in circulation. If Kosovar's are worthy of independence and freedom then based on what international criteria are separatists in Romania, Georgia and Spain classified as any different?
To add more to Kosovo was part of Albanian, APSURDITY! And ladies and gentlemen that was Hitler's solution! Only during the Hitler period did a so-called Greater Albania exist, and only during the Nazi regime was Kosovo treated as a separate region by itself, named New Albania.That was a time of ethnic cleansing which produced the Albanian majority in the area. How could anyone justify such an approach today? Wherever you look in history, Kosovo was part of either Serbia or some other empire that occasionally dominated in the Balkans, but never part of the Albanian state. In fact, there was no Albanian state until 1912 as 'bubobubo' pointed it rightly so.A MODERN Serbian state was established after the war in the Balkans. The Kingdom of Serbia, on most of the territory of the old Serbian Empire, included Kosovo and Macedonia.Distorting history can only have a boomerang effect. My Albanian colleague claims: "The area was annexed by Yugoslavia against Kosovar resistance in 1918. This annexation violated the right of the Kosovars to self-determination and, therefore, violated international law."He is wrong on three counts.First, in 1918, Yugoslavia did not exist at all. With the downfall of Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires in 1918 the "Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians" was established.Second, the pillar of that new state was the Kingdom of Serbia, and Kosovo was part of it. Finally, since the right to self-determination never belonged to the minorities, it became proof that Albanians in Kosovo always had a status of a minority.Since there was no annexation of Kosovo in 1918, that raises the question: Where does that idea come from?There is only one case in history when the notion of annexation was connected with Kosovo - from 1941 to 1944 when the Nazis annexed Kosovo to Albania and it was called "annexed territories."So, here we are again at the idea of Greater Albania, which besides Albania and Kosovo, at that time included large parts of Macedonia, Montenegro and South Serbia. The idea of Greater Albania established by the "1878 First League of Prizren," was and still is the dream of Kosovar irredentists, who organized a so-called liberation movement on the eve of the last century which Serbia treated as a terrorist organization.It is worth recalling that during World War II the 21st SS Division "Skenderbeg" was created and comprised primarily of Kosovar Muslim recruits. They committed genocide against the Serbian and Jewish populations in Kosovo as well as in Bosnia and Croatia. Therefore, trying to make the Albanian case to Israelis - as the ambassador did in his op-ed - using the example of the 200 Jews who survived the Holocaust in Albania (under Italian control) is disingenuous.It is equally cynical to claim that "Kosovo is not and will not be a Muslim state" considering that during the past eight years over 150 Christian churches have been destroyed while 400 mosques financed by Islamic countries have been constructed. Albanians fail to mention the dozens of new Islamic mosques that have been built in Kosovo including the Osama bin Laden Mosque. I wonder what the attitude will be once Serbia is totally destroyed and the Muslims start coveting Bulgarian territory?
'K-Oskar 's comments on Kosovo are immoral and outright lie. Forging History to Fit your Political Agenda . All people like yourself are trying to do is Carving-Up the World Anew and Rewriting History! That's all! No evidence whatsoever to back up your assertion. You cleverly ignore the more than 1,500 Serbian churches and monasteries built in this area since the 12th century. Immorally he ignores church ruins that date to the 10th century. Arrogantly yo conceals the fact that the first Islamic mosque was not built in Kosovo until 150 years after the battle of Kosovo in 1389, because these facts betray your rabid Serbophobia. The ugliest form of racism is to demean an ethnic group's religion, history or culture.People of your ilk have found it easy to paint Serbs with collective guilt by demeaning them in this alleged "historical" context. What we see at play here is the Goebbles concept of "Tell a lie a hundred times and it becomes the truth." Kosovo independence is not about history, it is about equal human rights, and the absurd violation of UN Resolution 1244, the amputation of sovereign territory and in the process the violation of the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, and the Geneva Conventions. At least you admit that ...the Serbs ruled Kosovo for 250 years, but omit the fact that when The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was formed in 1918 the Albanians represented less than 5% of the population—a fact that is historically documented. Saying that the Serbs were always minority is historical revisionism but taken at his word why someone like you looked the other way as Serbs have been reduced to less than 3% in Kosovo over the last decade? The real Serbian Genocide by Albanian Nazis in WWII that liquidated tens of thousands of Serbs or the Genocide that is taking place in Kosovo today is never included in lunatic version of history, not shared by most respected historians. People like you are ignoring the cleansing of 185,000 Serbs in 1690, the 170,000 forced to flee in 1739 or the 150,000 that were forced out of Kosovo after the Congress of Berlin in 1878, when Serbia was internationally recognized as a nation, or the more than 100,000 Serbs forced to flee after Croat Communist Tito granted "Autonomy" in 1974,also ignoring ignoresthe more than 300,000 Serbs cleansed in the past 9 years. No reference is made to the fact that 40% of the Albanians in Kosovo are illegal aliens who cross the border into Serbia as easily as Mexicans cross our border each night in San Diego.I repeat again,Serbs were the majority (80 percent) in Kosovo for a thousand years and built more than 1,500 churches and monasteries. Serbia was internationally recognized as a nation at The Congress of Berlin in 1878 and it was ONLY Serbia who gave up her statehood to form Yugoslavia with her former Slovene and Croat enemies in WWI. A good reason why the new nation was called The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918. When that country was formed the Albanians represented less than 5% of the population according to numerous historical documents. It was also a time when the nation of Albania was formed, do we really need two Albanian nations in the heart of Europe or all we all pretending, like K-Oskar, that a "Greater Albania" is not the end game here?In my lifetime, Serbs have become a minority in Kosovo, starting with the Holocaust under Benito Mussolini when the liquidation of Serbs reduced their numbers to 45 percent. After the war, Broz Tito forbade the 155,000 ethnically cleansed Serbs from returning to Kosovo, giving their land to Albanian Nazis thereby reducing Serbs to 39 percent.When the dictator Tito granted Albanian "autonomy" in 1974, the Serbian language was banned and 100,000 Serbs lost their jobs—in the process over 2 million books on Serbian religion, history and music were burned—more than 120,000 Serbs were cleansed as Serbian farms were burned and Serbian girls and nuns were raped, reducing the Serbs to 29 percent. Just seven years ago the Serbs represented 21% of Kosovo, how shocking that West, Albanian masters now acknowledge that Serbs are now "6%" but looks the other way as to why they suddenly dropped to this appalling level. It is apparent that Albanian supporters in West do not believe Serbs are entitled to equal human rights or justice. If the 350,000 recently cleansed Serbs and the 90,000 non-Albanian minorities were allowed to return to Kosovo and the 40 percent undocumented Albanians were forced to go back to where they came from, there would not be this fictitious "90 percent Albanian" population to seek independence. It is more than clear that there is a "Greater Albania" at work here as the Albanians have already exposed their hand in wanting other parts of Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and northern Greece where large minorities of Albanians live.
However, neither the Albanians nor their Western sponsors actually believe the "atrocity argument" on principle. For if they did, and it was universally applicable, they would have forfeited all right to Kosovo themselves!We could start from the beginning: NATO's war itself was illegal and illegitimate. In the course of the war, NATO pilots targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure. The Alliance naturally claims those were "unfortunate mistakes" and that bombs were dropped "in good faith," yet Gen. Michael Short publicly stated that the campaign was designed to force Belgrade to surrender by terrorizing civilians.Korisa, Grdelica, Aleksinac, Surdulica — these were just some of the NATO atrocities during the "humanitarian" war of 1999.Once the government in Belgrade agreed to withdraw from Kosovo and allow the UN to occupy the province (in practice, it was NATO occupation), Albanian separatists began terrorizing Kosovo. Violence against Serbs has been amply documented, in photographs, in print, and on film. It is important to note that Serbs were not the sole victims of Albanian attacks; Roma and other communities in Kosovo have also been exposed to violence, intimidation, extortion and murder.Here are just some of the more gruesome incidents of anti-Serb violence:* July 1999: fourteen Serb farmers massacred in the fields near Staro Gracko (graphic photos);* October 1999: Valentin Krumov, UN official from Bulgaria, slain for "speaking Serbian";* February 2000: bus carrying Serbs to a cemetery service hit by a missile;* February 2001: roadside bomb blows up another bus;* June 2003: brutal slaying of a Serb family in Obilic;* August 2003: Serb children swimming in the river near Gorazdevac machine-gunned down;* March 2004: massive pogrom throughout the province targets Serbs; 8 dead, 4500 expelled, several villages razed.All this was accompanied by systematic destruction of Serbian Orthodox churches, chapels, monasteries and cemeteries.Albanian separatists and NATO leaders claim that Serbia's violent suppression of the terrorist KLA in 1998-99 merited not only an illegal aggression in response, but also forfeited Serbia's sovereignty over Kosovo. Yet the Albanians have not "forfeited" their right to Kosovo because of systematic terrorism under NATO occupation — they are being rewarded for it by independence!The Croatian PrecedentFurther proof that the "atrocity argument" was made up for the specific purpose of fabricating a reason to separate the occupied province from Serbia and make it into an Albanian state is the absolute absence of any such argument in the case of Croatia, which once had a considerable Serb population.No "humanitarian" interventionist has ever claimed that atrocities of the Ustasha regime between 1941-1945, in which hundreds of thousands of Serbs perished (Croat and Nazi estimates were over half a million!), somehow disqualified Croatia from sovereignty over territories with majority Serb population that rebelled in 1991? Nor have any of them claimed that Croatia "forfeited" its sovereignty after the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in 1995, following a brutal Croat military incursion that ended the Serb rebellion and "reintegrated" the disputed territories. So how is Kosovo different?When Croatia engaged in suppression of a Serb rebellion, it was an ally of the United States and NATO, enjoying their full support — military, political, intelligence and diplomatic. When Serbia tried to suppress the Albanian rebellion three years later, the U.S./NATO support was there again — on the side of the Albanians! This is why the same logic does not apply to Krajina and Kosovo, Croatia and Serbia, or even the Serbs and the Albanians. There is no logic here, no principle, no coherent concept of right or wrong — beyond the naked argument of force: whomsoever the Empire supports is a righteous victim, and its enemy an irredeemable villain.The Final LeapEmpire's pattern of aggression has by now torn the fragile tapestry of international law to shreds. The UN has already lost so much credibility and respect in the world, unable to stop the abuses by the Washington-run "international community," the Ahtisaari Show is but a final nail in its coffin. Over the past fifteen years, many lines have been crossed. Appeasement of NATO and Albanian aggression in Kosovo might just be that last step over the edge, and into the abyss from which what remains of Western civilization may never return.
Eu divided?! Perhaps because Kosovo 'state' is a lie!Failed From The Start.Declaring "independence" of Kosovo, leader of the terrorist KLA and "prime minister" of the separatist province, Hashim Thaci, boasted how he would get a hundred recognitions in no time. Declaring "independence" of Kosovo, leader of the terrorist KLA and "prime minister" of the separatist province, Hashim Thaci, boasted how he would get a hundred recognitions in no time.On February 27, the New York Times and International Herald Tribune published an op-ed by Serbia's Minister Vuk Jeremic, arguing against the carve-up of his country. Jeremic, educated in the U.S. and the UK, was personally appointed by Empire's fair-haired boy, Serbian president Boris Tadic. His appeal drew on themes from American history (borrowing the title from the Pledge of Allegiance) and used the very latest in politically correct phraseology.It did him absolutely no good. The outgoing undersecretary of State, Nicholas Burns (for the past three years at the helm of the Bush administration's Clintonian Kosovo policy) condemned Jeremic's reasoned statement as "invective" and called it hypocritical (!). How dare they complain, said Burns, when they "marched into Kosovo" in 1999 and "tried to drive a million Kosovar Albanian muslims out of the country"?It was a typical Burnsian torture of truth; the only people "marching into Kosovo" in 1999 were NATO occupiers. The alleged plan to expel Albanians was shown to be a fabrication. One more thing of interest; Burns has on multiple occasions emphasized the Albanians' Islamic faith. Yet U.S. officials and the Albanians themselves jeer when anyone brings up the issue of Islam. Well, which is it? Are they Muslims first and foremost (and therefore one can discuss Islamic radicalism), or not? It can't be both, or neither, whenever convenient. Secretary Rice herself demonstrated either ignorance or stupidity when she told the press that Kosovo was a done deal and the Serbs should get over it: "I mean, after all, we're talking about something from 1389. It's time to move forward." Her spokesman, Tom Casey, told the press on February 25, "it ought to be clear to everybody at this point that Kosovo is never going to be a part of Serbia again."One doesn't know where to start, confronted with such arrogance, hypocrisy, stupidity and mendacity. Perhaps it is best to quote an observation by Joshua Trevino of the Brussels Journal:"They wished to bring to an illusory close the feel-good narrative of America's last 'good war,' in an era were such narratives are pitifully thin; and they simultaneously wished to isolate that narrative from history in toto. Their desire is strong enough that they will lie to the American people and the world as needed: see here, for example, Under Secretary Burns reversing the chronology of the 1999 Kosovo war, and egregiously mischaracterizing the explicit content of U.N. Resolution 1244. The exercise deceives no one but themselves."Pompous pronouncements from Foggy Bottom notwithstanding, the declaration and recognition of the KLA regime in Kosovo has opened a veritable Pandora's box in international relations. Countries all over the world are observing the trampling of law and order by the American Empire, and wondering if they are next.Ten years ago, Kosovo was a local conflict, one that Serbs and Albanians have waged for control of the territory since the 1700s. By arming, training and funding the KLA, then stepping in as its air force, the Empire has made it into global issue. By recognizing the occupied province as an "independent," ethnically cleansed, Albanian Muslim state, it has rejected law in favor of force, and morals in favor of power. It is hard to predict what will follow, but whatever it is, it won't be good.
The US (and its EU followers) are following the same policy with Kosovo as they did previously with Croatia. In Croatia it ended - as they desired - with the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs and in Kosovo the same will happen if they get their way. But of course they will try to put the blame on Belgrade.
Please don't put any trust in Kosovo's rulers. They are held back by the UN. But their statements leave little doubt about the intolerant policies that they will implement once they get a chance.
Ahtisaari told Serbia that they could only negotiate about minority rights for Kosovo's Serbs. His "solution" might work elsewhere in the world but is clearly inadequate in a province where even after 9 years security of movements is not guaranteed for the Serbs. It is time for real negotiations.
It seems like Bush and Rice still believe that they live in the time of the Panama Canal, when the US led insurrection led to the secession of Panama from Colombia. For most people who care about international law this is a horror scenario.
What to say about some comments, Serbs do not deserve right to protect their interest or to speak up; one article in the economist is too much of space for that bloody worriers and trouble makers. We (who ever we are) are sick and tired of that nation, how this sound or would you prefer article like this and yellow ribbons around Serbs left hands? "There are plenty of things which are true"..... "Complete garbage peddled by people who have never been in the Balkans" well how these two goes together in the same comment. "Economist lets people do this just to gain a few clicks" if this is all behind, than with the article about China you would have like 10,000 clicks per article easily and without wasting the space on Serbian and 30-40 comments (clicks).
There is a problem over there on Kosovo and EU is not even close to the solution. There is a war over there that actually never stopped, fighting as we speak, yesterday in Macedonia during the election a few killed. There is a miserable life regardless of religion or nationality for everybody over there, there is a crime, organized prostitution, narcotic trafficking, human bean trafficking, human organ trafficking and organized crimes in taking the organs from the kidnapped, healthy and mentally capable people using the force (Mengele style) not from the people killed by traffic accident or already dead.
There is a back at the end of April of 2000 from the conference about Balkan in Bratislava, a William Vimer's report to German Chancellor Schrader about NATO expansion and what has to be done and what steps to be taken and how. There is a documentary movie Stolen Kosovo-"Uloupene Kosovo" by Czech Directors Vaclav Dvorzak and Ales Bednarz on YOUTUBE.com, there is a lot of articles opinions and finally as this article stated huge number of countries who are not willing to recognize the "Virtual State". That is the fact and also the most of EU-countries who recognized Kosovo were involved in bombing.
For some of the commentators who are using the history just reminder that there are the books, maps and archive documents in museums around the globe that cannot be redrawn by new world order and there is a border of Serbian State from very beginning and its establishment. There is report of people killed and the final number is less than 10,000 (not small) but significantly different than reports of CNN back in 1999 and the 100,000 killed, genocide and brutally murdered. It is fair to say that 2500 was killed by also brutal NATO bombing as well.
Comments like 25,000 killed in three month, Serbia build over 1500 churches from the middle centuries since 1912 on Kosovo and stop everything right now because this is the third time that Kosovo enjoyed independence 1941-1944 under Hitler, and also how one commentator stated, 1974-1989 under bloody dictator Joseph Broz Tito and his communist rules and now since February 17 under NATO. May I say God bless America, Tito and Hitler in the name of somebody here.
Actually, Kosovo has both. The administration is up and running, and albeit the job market and the economy still being fairly weak at the moment (which is understandable for a newly elected government). To say that the EU will give up on Kosovo is absolutely ridiculous. Kosovo is a done deal now, and with all due respect, for you to say that Serbia might get Kosovo back is a rather unintelligent thing to say. I'm wondering, do any of you actually come from the Balkans, or from Europe in general? And what do you study? I myself am an International Relations major, so I deal with this nearly every single day. I just find it astonishing (in a general sense), how people can just predict things with no real knowledge behind the underlying subject.
To K-OskarKosovo never was part of Albania. Albania was made in 20th century because of Italian and Austiran geo-political interests. Since 10th century Kosovo and Metohija(albanians like to call it kosovo because word "metohija" means holly orthodox land aroud ordhodox monesteries and churches) is serbian! Thing about ethnic cleaning are just nonsenses.Now to get to the point, EU is diveded about this question, but the greatest counries with most influence in their hands are for indenpandance of this south serbian region. This coutries are american closest allies,and the main resaon for their decision lies over the ocean. Dicision doesn't have anything with international laws and justice, same like the NATO bombing in 1999. Its true nature is related with global fight for power and domination. Getting cloaser to Russia, having bases in traditionaly prorussian Balcan, great coal reserves in Kosovo and Metohija, and intercepting ways of eastern oil and gas pipelines... When the EU manage to deal with US influence and when governments of EU countries(esspecialy Germany and France) stop with listening their great boss, Europe will again live normaly.
This article, unfortunately, covers some very "slim" researched topics about Kosovo's present state. It also seems that the author possesses very little knowledge about the region, especially the practical constitutional aspects of former Yugoslavia.1. Kosovo was never part of Serbia. Hence, Kosovo did not have to be separated from Serbia, but liberated from Serbia's oppression. If you research more thoroughly, Kosovo was part of Yugoslavia and not part of Serbia. Why does Kosovo have to go "back" under Serbia's sovereignty then? Kosovo's declaration of independence was no surprise to anyone; only its natural development process has been highlighted!2. Serbs do not want, do not need, and do not like Kosovo to be "back" under Serbia's sovereignty. It is only the will of Serbian politicians, most of them not very clean from criminal and corrupted background (remember they still owe people to Hague); hence they can stay in power, because if not, their lives would change (i.e. no money, jail, no control, etc). Why would it be normal for Serbs not to want Kosovo "back"? Taking into consideration Albanian natality in Kosovo and Serbian mortality in Serbia, by 2050 (remember will come very fast) Albanians would climb to be majority in Serbia!3. Lastly, even if Kosovo ever was part of Serbia, Kosovo's people do not want to live under Serbian rule (oppression). Remember, constitutionally, if Texas wanted to be out of USA's sovereignty they could, but they do not want to. Kosovo does not want to be part of Serbia, and when I say Kosovo is its people. Kosovo is not the only place where Serbs have caused trouble. It is the whole Balkans. Come on even their Montenegrian brothers did not want to live with them.Therfore, it is very unlikely for Kosovo to go "back" under Serbia's sovereignty. P.S. Regarding the administration and the wellbeing of all people in Kosovo. Believe it or not, UN and EU representatives (whichever you pick) would take their families to live in Kosovo if they could. You would know what I am saying only when/if you visit Kosovo
Mospyt, nice try! Propaganda only lies with you! Walter Hallstein was using WESTErn sources,your own ally, the Economist too, as his reference,and U.S. Army own study mind you, that was done before KOSOVO was hot spot and when actually USA pretended to be neutral. NATO claimed that the government in Belgrade was oppressing the Kosovo Albanians. This was a lie. The Kosovo Albanians, in fact, were the best treated ethnic minority in the world -- bar none. What was true was that the Kosovo Albanians, who were a minority in Serbia, but a majority in Kosovo, and in control of all Kosovo institutions, including the government, the police, the educational system, etc., were persecuting the Kosovo Serbs, who were a minority in Kosovo. This piece (Nyrop, R. F. 1982. Yugoslavia: A country study. Headquarters, Department of the Army, DA Pam 550-99: American University) documents that this was the assessment of the US army, no less, though this was never shared with the public after the NATO demonization of the Serbs began.Walter Hallstein REASONABLE told us, that "Skeptics can get the book above from a library, and check whether I misquoted or distorted." What the heck you are disputing ? Your own U.S. Masters?Neutral observers I ask you to see for yourself, on this page, http://www.sarantakos.com/kosovo/ksm.html, a collection of articles written in the 80s about Kosovo See what was reported by Western media in the 80s, when the name Kosovo was familiar only to avid students of geography.And with your absurd claim Serbs started it all, presumably Milosevic,Aside from the province's chronic poverty, unemployment, and mismanagement of development funds contributed from the rest of Yugoslavia, the main social problem was the constant exodus of Serb and Montenegrin inhabitants under pressure from ethnic Albanians. At the time, this problem was reported in leading Western media.For instance, as early as July 12, 1982, Marvine Howe reported to the New York Times that Serbs were leaving Kosovo by the tens of thousands because of discrimination and intimidation on the part of the ethnic Albanian majority: "The [Albanian] nationalists have a two-point platform," according to Beci Hoti, an executive secretary of the Communist Party of Kosovo, "first to establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger with Albania to form a greater Albania. Mr Hoti, an Albanian, expressed concern voer political pressures that were forcing Serbs to leave Kosovo. "What is important now," he said, "is to establish a climate of security and create confidence."And seven months after Milosevic's visit to Kosovo, David Binder reported in the New York Times (November 1, 1987): Ethnic Albanians in the Government [of Kosovo] have manipulated public funds and regulations to take over land belonging to Serbs. Slavic Orthodox churches have been attacked, and flags have been torn down. Wells have been poisoned and crops burned. Slavic boys have been knifed, and some young ethnic Albanians have been told by their elders to rape Serbian girls. The goal of the radical nationals among them, one said in an interview, is an "ethnic Albania that includes western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, part of southern Serbia, Kosovo and Albania itself." As Slavs flee the protracted violence, Kosovo is becoming what ethnic Albanian nationalists have been demanding for years, and especially strongly since the bloody rioting by ethnic Albanians in Pristina in 1981--an "ethnically pure" Albanian regionThis was in fact the first instance of "ethnic cleansing" in post-World War II Yugoslavia, as reported in The New York Times and other Western media, and the victims were the Serbs. The cult of "memory" has become a contemporary religion, but some memories are more equal than others. In the 1990s, the New York Times evidently forgot completely what it had said about Kosovo in the 1980s. Why? Perhaps because meanwhile, the Soviet bloc had collapsed and the unity of independent, non-aligned Yugoslavia was no longer in the strategic interest of the United States.Thankfully after nearly 20 years of relentless anti-Serb propaganda and slander, the truth is emerging. Maybe it is the increasing numbers of visitors to Serbia, maybe it is the power of the internet, has made people question received wisdom and reject the media's Manichean anti-Serb narrative. But I can assure you of one thing There are plenty more where I came from. The ranks of Pro-Serbian westerners like me swelling fast. It is going to get harder, and eventually impossible for people like you to write filth l without being righted and outed as bigots by us. Your time is over Serb-haters, the truth is coming out, and it is against you
The most important fact is the demographics. If 1,8 million Albanians constitute the solid majority now, what can one do about it? It doesn't matter who was there first but who is now.
In North America there only native Amerindians at first, but who cares about that, if the Caucasians are the majority now? In Pomerania and Silesia there were Germans, but there aren't any now, so nobody is fretting about who was there first. In Sudetenland there were Germans until 1945, but who cares about that if there aren't any now?
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
A Ballad of Freedom Poem by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Now Mr. Jeremiah Bane
He owned a warehouse in The Lane,
An edifice of goodly size,
Where, with keen private enterprise,
He sold imported napery
And drapery - and drapery.
His singlets and his socks were sent
Out over half the continent;
In clothing for the nursery
And mercery - and mercery
He plied a most extensive trade,
And quite enormous prodfits made,
And barracked, with much fervency,
For foreign-trade - described as 'Free.'
He said,
It was
His creed.
The trade described as Free.
And this good man was known to fame
For charity; indeed, his name
Shone often in the daily press.
When needy folk were in distress
He aided - (with publicity)
Mendicity - mendicity.
And though much cash he thuswise spared
There still were people who declared
His act of private charity
A rarity - a rarity.
Donations, duly advertised,
From business point of view, he prized;
But 'good by stealth' he ne'er could see
Was any use to such as he.
But still,
The press,
With much
Declared his hand was free.
Now Mr. Bane's employees were
Wont to address the boss as 'Sir,'
To show him most intense respect;
And there were few who would neglect
To couple with civility
Humility - humility.
They dressed in cheap but pretty clothes,
And ev'ry man turned up his nose
And scorned familiarity
Or parity - or parity
With ill-dressed toilers who 'combined.'
They thought proceedings of that kind
Were of a very 'low' degree,
For they were 'cultured,' don't you see.
'Tis true
Their pay
Was mean,
But they
Felt proud to be so free.
Though they were vilely underpaid
They were too proud - or else afraid
To advertise the fact abroad
Or see to get a Wages Board.
Besides their meek servility,
Gentility - gentility
Forbade so rash an act; but still
One man there was - (his name was Bill)
Who vowed their fool propensity
Was density - was density
An unenlightened state of mind,
A lack of wit that made them blind.
'You're but a lot of worms,' said he.
'If you were men you'd clearly see
You band
And make
A stand
You never can be free.'
And ev'ry day this person, Bill,
Conversed with them of unions till
They owned his arguments were true,
And one by one waxed eager to
Embrace an opportunity
For unity - for unity.
They talked about a Wages Board
Which, formerly, they had abhorred,
And girded at their slavery
With bravery - with bravery.
Each man began to feel 'The Firm'
No longer owned it for its worm;
Their independence they could see
Achieved by simple unity;
Their clothes
And mixed
With those
Who battle to be free.
When Mr. Bane one morning heard
About his thing he cried, 'Absurd!
They'll never get my clerks to horde
With those who seek the Wages Board,
And lose respectability!
Futility! - Futility!
My clerks are gentlemen who'd scorn
To mingle with the lowly born.
Such bosh I've never heard!' said he.
'Absurd!' said he - 'Absurd!' said he.
'As for their pay, they're quite content
They've never asked an extra cent!
And in
The morn
They'll mark
Their scorn,
And show you they are free.'
And on the morrow Mr. Bane
Called them together to 'explain':
'I have a small petition here
But first, I wish to make it clear,'
Said he, with simple gravity
And suavity - and suavity,
'That no man here is asked to sign.'
(His voice was gentle and benign)
'I trust to your humanity
And sanity - and sanity
To guide you; but I feel quite sure
That Wages Boards you can't endure.
I leave it all to you,' said he.
'It makes no difference to me.
My views
Are known,
But still,
I've shown
Your choice in this is free.'
The staff it looked at Mr. Bane,
And in his eye it read, quite plain,
'Neath that expression so benign,
The fate of him who did not sign
A vision of futurity
Obscurity - obscurity
A dearth of work - in short, the sack.
They knew that he who answered back
Would earn, by his temerity,
Severity - severity.
So one and all, with shaky pen,
Signed this refusal to be men....
But surely, as you must agree,
Their choice was free as it could be,
They said
The Board
They all
Preferring to be free.
Still Mr. Bane grows fat and sleek,
And still, at thirty bob a week,
His clerks slave on from morn till night,
No hope of better things in sight.
But Bane, with much benignity
And dignity - and dignity,
When talk of Wages Board is heard,
Declares the notion is absurd:
'My clerks with prompt celerity
And verity - and verity
Refused the thing with one accord.
The clerks themselves don't want the Board!
It is preposterous,' says he,
'To force it on who don't agree
And still
His men
With brain
And pen
To fatten him are free.
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a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Apr 29, 2011 at 2:06 pm
"concerns about bus evacuation mediate against having them" --
It looks like government jargon users have found a new use of the word "mediate."
Also, you could use the same argument for not using seatbelts in cars. I think seatbelts in buses are a sound idea.
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on Apr 29, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Another drunk driving incident--this time involving a school bus loaded with kids! Why do we give these drunks any leniency? People who get behind the wheel of a car when they're intoxicated (at 7:30 in the morning no less) are idiots, and the law should treat them accordingly. Are people with brain impairments allowed to drive?
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For the game, Nicholls State pounded out eight extra-base hits and left six runners on base.
Seven of NSU's nine starters recorded hits in the win.
Behind 1-0 heading into the fourth inning, the Colonels went ahead to stay on Hickman's blast and an RBI single off the bat of Gill. Nicholls State extended its lead to 8-1 before the Roadrunners mount a comeback, scoring one run in the seventh and eighth innings and threatening with a pair of runs in the top of the ninth.
Senior southpaw Ronald Gilchrist (2-1) was the winner, going eight-plus innings, allowing five runs and 11 hits while fanning 11 Roadrunners. Senior Alex Velazquez came on in the final inning to record his fourth save of the year.
The Colonels and Roadrunners will conclude their three-game weekend series by playing a doubleheader today beginning at 1 p.m.
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