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Dr. Joksimovich is accused of plagiarism. This is the post from Sorabia discussion forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/message/93470

Vojin Joksimovich has committed plagiarism of Emperor’s Clothes in his article “Butchering of Serbs condoned by the West,” which is ironically sub-titled “BANKRUPTCY OF MORAL VALUES,” posted on the Sorabia list.

Mr. Joksimovich has stolen an entire section of this article from one that I wrote and published on Emperor’s Clothes in 2001 under my byline and that of Rick Rozoff. (Mr. Rozoff allowed the use of his name because he wished to signal agreement with the article’s defense of the Serbs).

Vojin Joksimovich’s article is posted in full at http://www.serbianna.com/columns/joksimovich/014.shtml It is archived at www.tenc.net/a/joksim.htm The section in which the plagiarism occurs is the second section from the end, with the subhead “Terrorism against Serbia No Crime”

Below I have juxtaposed text from Vojin Joksimovich’s plagiarism and the Emperor’s Clothes original. The Emperor’s Clothes article, which I later rewrote, can be read in original form at http://www.members.tripod.com/kosovo99/might.htm That page is archived at www.tenc.net/a/terr.htm

1) Jokismovich’s sub-head: “Terrorism against Serbia No Crime” 1) Emperor’s Clothes original title: “TERRORISM AGAINST SERBIA IS NO CRIME”

2)Jokismovich’s sentence: “The contrast between the language of UN Resolution 1244 and UNMIK/KFOR practice is striking.” 2) Emperor’s Clothes original sentence: “The contrast between the language of UN Resolution 1244 - ‘respect for Yugoslav sovereignty’, ‘disarm the KLA’, ‘armed Kosovo Albanian groups [must] end immediately all offensive actions’ - and the reality of UN/NATO practice is striking.”

3)Jokismovich’s sentence: “The message they delivered to the Kosovo Albanian terrorists is that secessionist terrorism is legitimate.” 3) TENC original sentence: “[The release of the terrorists says:] But of course we really consider Albanian expansionist terrorism perfectly legitimate.”

4) Jokismovich’s sentence: “The Albanian terrorists were treated as a regular army engaged in a legitimate military action.” 4) Emperor’s Clothes original sentence: “KFOR was declaring that the UCPMB terrorists constituted a normal army engaged in legitimate military action.”

5) Jokismovich’s sentence: “Killing policemen and sniping at civilians obviously did not constitute ‘serious crimes.’” 5) Emperor’s Clothes original sentence: “They were laying land mines, killing policemen, sniping at civilians. By letting these men go free, wasn’t KFOR declaring that these acts of violence against Serbs and uncooperative ethnic Albanians in Serbia (and by extension, against similar groups in Macedonia) do not constitute ‘serious crimes?’”

6) Jokismovich’s sentence: “In the mass media, these terrorists were portrayed as rebels.” 6) Emperor’s Clothes original sentence: “And so the various terrorist forces who are killing uncooperative Macedonian Albanian clan members not to mention Macedonian policemen are described in the mass media as rebels.”

As you can see, Joksimovich altered the sentences enough so that a google search will not take one to the original.

For the same reason, apparently, he misquoted KFOR as stating that: “KFOR screened and released all LAPMB members who are not suspected of having committed serious crimes.” If you enter that text in google, putting it in double inverted commas (”quotation marks”) you will get zero results because KFOR did not use the English initials for the terrorist group ‘Liberation Army of Preševo, Medvedja and Bujanovac’ (LAPMB) but the Albanian version, UCPMB. Why change “UC” to “LA”? Because if you search for the quotation in Google the correct way (”KFOR screened and released all UCPMB members who are not suspected of having committed serious crimes”) Google gives only one result: an article from Emperor’s Clothes. Since people do tend to search for quotes (to make sure they are real), and since of course Joksimovich wished to avoid directing people to TENC, and therefore the possible discovery of his theft, he took the precaution of altering the quotation.

That Mr. Joksimovich has, with such attention to detail, plagiarized my text casts a shadow of shame on him.

That he has stolen the work of someone who has given all that he has - his time - to research and writing, so that people might know the truth about the Serbs, is more than shameful. It is an insult to the Serbs.

Jared Israel Editor, Emperor’s Clothes www.tenc.net emperorsclothes@...