anaeot7 Pesanik Another porspactve -PoStanik Béanik ~ http:/ /pescanik.net ~ Another perspective Posted By Dejan Mié On 23/09/2016 @ 09:45 In English Summary | Comments Disabled Users phates, Predrag Trokicié MPs fram the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SPP), Serbian Radical Party (SRP) and Dveri lied yesterday at the meeting of the Parliamentary board for Judiciary, state government, and local self-government when they attacked the Ombudsman's report for 2015 and Sasa Jankovic himself They said that the Ombudsman has flled to protect the citizens from bad government”, but made .tentative claims", ,with no ground”, It would be both correct and banal to point out that SPP MPs (end thelr satellites) acting as members of the Parliamentary board for judiciary, state government, and local self-government are clearly in a confit of interest. The ruling party has usurped the state, identified with it and is using it to implement its own selfish interests, Yesterday's meeting once again showed what an overlap ofall three branches of government looks like ~ In a case lke that, omnipotent government can only be restrained by indepencent government contral institutions. Atleast unt they break under the pressure of the entire misused government apparatus. ‘The Ombudsman’s report says that 2015 saw economic adversities of many people and lack of legal security’ Furthermore, “the state anc the administration ware engaged in thelr own reform which is yet to produce clear benefit for the citizens”. The same remark was made a month ago by the new minister for state administration and local self-government, but SPP MPs didn’t criticize her for that, nor discard her ‘pinion as tentative and ungrounded. (For example, the new minister praised her predecessor, but added that now she has to “implement” everything the last minister did. She didn’t explain what her predecessor actually di¢ if nothing was implemented. The Ombudsman's report, however, says the same thing - there were no benefits for atizens, which could be explained by the lack of “implementation”. The new minister went on to explain that sometimes reforms have to be put on hold, because ‘when you're running a state you sometimes have other priorities”. She clcn’t say what those priorities are, but that remark confirmed the report's stipulations.) Mario Relianovic regularly writes about economic adversities and lack of legal security on this website, so there's no reason to repeat his claims, Demolitions in Savamala are @ compelling proof of an obvious “lack af legal security’ With al this in mind, exactly which part of ‘the Ombudsman’s report is tentative and ungrounded? But, by trying to catch SPP MPs and their boss lying we're missing a point. They didn’t really care about the truth at the Committee meeting, nor cid they try to act as if they did. Just Ike always, they used this meeting ‘to brutally demonstrate their ability to do and say Iterally anything, with firm belief that chey won't be held accountable by anyone, not even independent gavernment contral institutions, Instead of the truth, the mere important thing was to talk about the possibility of Sase Jankovic running for president at the next elections: an old catcnohrase of SPP and its boss for presidential elections is "the end justifies the means” - the end, of course, being (unhinged) power, and the means, as we all know, a lie (and, ifthe need arses, violence). Once you seize power ~ they believe and have been clearly demonstrating It forfour years ~ the fact that you lied and continue tole Is completely irrelevant. ‘The fact that SPP MPs and thelr boss led is no surprise to anyone, especially with the elections coming. However, the fact that the Public prosecutor's afice joined them isa troubling one, The prosecutors office attacked another independent control institution: the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance. The prosecution claims that the Commissioner has endangered national security ‘Against the complaint fled with the Administrative Cour, the Commissioner responded by listing articles ofthe law which authorize him to reque ion about the participation of officers of the Yugoslav Army in the conflicts in Kesove, and, thus, missed the point. Because the lawsuit is not about the aw and authority, but about legal arbitrariness of the Prosecution. On the one hand, the effort to establish the truth about crimes in Kosovo is treated as a threat to national securty. On the other hand, they wil Bend the law as much as needed, in order to protect the war criminals uncer the guise of respect for human rights (the famous domestic “legalisn”) inform: ‘And s0, we are witnessing a conflict of the state with Itself. Unhinged government, represented by all three of its branches, is attacking the last shreds of state control mechanisms. By doing this, they are trying to hige their criminal past, wile, at the same time, trying to secure thelr (criminal) future in the government. That’ rational poltcs, there isn’t one without the other. But It’s rational only if viewed from the criminal perspective. There isn't a single reason for us t follow them in doing so and accept that perspective as our on ‘Translated by Marijana Simic Pestanikinet, 23.08.2016. ‘The folowing two tabs change content below. Biosraiia Neinovii tekstovi Dejan Tie Dejan ThE (1965, Zemun), urednik idavetke kuée FABRIKA KNJIGA | Zasopisa REC. 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