Posted on 05/27/2006 2:34:53 PM PDT by kronos77
After seven years of frustrated attempts, the separatist regime in Montenegro celebrated victory Sunday night, as it managed to drum up the 55.5 percent of the votes necessary to win the independence referendum. What would be a landslide in any Western election was actually the narrowest of margins in Montenegro, as the acceptable threshold set by the Brussels bureaucrats was 55 percent. It took weeks of pro-independence propaganda in government-monopolized media, multi-million-euro public works timed for the referendum, shady political deals with ethnic minorities, and voter shenanigans to secure that .5 percent margin between victory and defeat. And though the unionist parties are demanding a recount and complaining about irregularities, Milo Djukanovic and his separatists have already declared victory – and more importantly, just about everyone, including Belgrade, has accepted it as fact.
The outcome caused outpourings of joy at the International Crisis Group, among the Kosovo Albanians, and in the ranks of Serbophobic media. Their eagerness to celebrate the "demise of Greater Serbia" suggests that external support for Montenegrin separatism was never about Montenegro at all. What happens to the rocky republic next will be of little interest to its erstwhile partisans, as they continue to redraw Balkans maps to match those of 1941.
Democracy in Action
It has been said that it doesn't matter who votes as much as who counts the votes. In Montenegro this weekend, what mattered was who counted the voters. In the run-up to the referendum, tens of thousands of "Montenegrins" living abroad were registered to vote, while hundreds of thousands who lived in Serbia were denied that right.
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Mafia-muslim supported country of Montenegro...
Like Somosa with Muslim supporters
Stalin said it.
Serbia needs to be careful here because they are judged by a different standard than most other nations on the planet.
Even if that were not the case, they should allow Montenegro to depart in as agreeable a manner as is possible. No bridges should be burned behind anyone.
If it turns out that the vote was rigged by anti-Serb forces shipping Muslims across borders, there will be hell to pay when the Montenegrins find out about it. These are not a people to be trifled with.
I'll say it again. In the eight year reign of terror of the KKKlinton regime, I only saw two groups of people stand up to the beast and try to face it down, that being the Serbs, and the Mormons in Utah. That rates a lot of respect in my book. Mormons have not suffered over much for their activities other than having the Grand Staircase coal region declared a national park, but Serbs have suffered major grief and to the best of my knowledge, the only nation which has raised a finger to try to help them is Russia. Mormons don't need any financial assistance from me; I figure Serbs do. The most major charity of that sort which I'm aware of is http://www.suc.org/, the Serbian Unity Congress.
Serbia should have voted to pull out of the union with Montenegro. Then the EU would have said, "Oh no, you must stay together"!
Expect an endorsement of the election from ol' Jimmah any time now.
This is precisely what I told a friend of mine in Serbia, who is just heartsick over this. But the problem is less "the Serbians", than "the Montenegrins" who were against independence -- they are not going to simply go away quietly. Unfortunately, it makes Serbia look like it is inciting the problem.
If it turns out that the vote was rigged by anti-Serb forces shipping Muslims across borders, there will be hell to pay when the Montenegrins find out about it. These are not a people to be trifled with.
I used to think that too, but I am beginning to wonder about this newer generation of Montenegrins. They are weenies as compared to theit grandfathers and great-grandfathers -- and it appears that they have even less in the way of brains to have made this "independence" move.
Kronos is going to kill me for this, but I think that both Serbia and Montenegro have lost a lot of its genetic "brains and balls" to the diaspora over the years -- and is losing more daily as the economic situations offers younger generations less opportunities to prosper. If this trend -- along with the Greater Albania project's expansion -- continues, the only place that you are eventually going to be able to find "real Serbs" and "real Montenegrins" will be in the diaspora, fighting other countries battles for them and helping those countries prosper.
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