Large and Powerful Tribe
The Idiot's Activity
Run mostly by idiots (as defined by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce: “IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but 'pervades and regulates the whole'”), powerful Western organizations have used every dirty trick for the past 16 years to paint the entire Serbian nation as a bunch of semi-retarded children in need of constant supervision and house training -- the combination of insults and punishment reserved for the crudest of dimwits.
Few days ago, part of the ruling journalist Idiot Tribe based in Vienna -- South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) joined the chorus and piped up to say they are “deeply concerned about the worsening situation for journalists in Serbia and Croatia.”
Intoxicating Power Trips
Regarding the alleged “abuses” in Serbia, the Vienna Branch of Idiot Tribe “registered”(!) the following (and I am not kidding): two persons claim they received threats over the phone (once each), two allege they have been “physically attacked” in the streets but suffered no injuries, one director of a local TV station was sued for libel and given a conditional prison sentence (of four months) after the court hearing, and one media correspondent claims she was not allowed to attend a press conference at one of the local City Halls (in the city of Ruma). That's it.
This has greatly alarmed something named SEEMO, buried and forgotten in some moldy Vienna basement, and forced it to crawl out, pointing its sclerotic finger at Serbia for the alleged lack of journalistic freedoms. God forbid a piano should fall down on a journalist passing by in Belgrade - SEEMO would suffer a series of spasmodic shocks and demand another round of purely pedagogic NATO bombardment.
Although journalists in the West are often exposed to far worse abuses, including being fired for publishing the kind of truth their editors wish to smother, “SEEMO strongly condemns” Serbia for anything and everything that might happen to a journalist in Serbia.
As long as the Serbs are willing to put up with insults and grind their teeth in silence, every moron under the sun seems to be reveling in the intoxicating power trips fueled by the gratuitous Serb-bashing. If the Idiot Tribe was less idiotic, it would realize by now that the cycle of abuse is becoming increasingly intolerable for the victim which is far from being ready to lie down and die. Fed up with every lunatic on earth with delusions of grandeur waiving a finger in their face, Serbs are fighting back:
Insulting Serbian Demand for Balanced Reporting
Dear SEEMO:
As the author of 5 books on Balkan history and the publisher of numerous books on Balkan politics, I take exception to your current attack against the alleged lack of press freedom in Serbia. No Serbian in his right mind wants to become part of a European Union that betrayed the Serbian people twice in the last century. It was the EU that allowed its media to distort the facts, or worse, to openly defy writing about the Serbian side of these wars.
CNN's Ms. Amanpour was at the top of the list of those correspondents who parked their backsides at the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo and relied on Muslim runners to collect the data for their stories. Nearly all journalists who went to Bosnia could not communicate in the language of the country and the vast majority relied on Muslim translators for their so-called facts. Now your organization is insulted that the Serbs demand balanced stories rather than more of the same?
Corrupt Media Deceiving the World
I am the publisher of the recent book, Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting... Journalism & Tragedy in Yugoslavia by Peter Brock—an award winning investigative reporter who has written a scathing expose about how journalists conspired and colluded with their editors and newspapers to deceive the world about the wars in the Balkans. You and people of your ilk were more concerned about toppling the Milosevic regime than you were at telling both sides of the story—the millions of Serbs who protested and marched in the snow for 60 days and nights against the Milosevic government were simply ignored. Millions more who protested in the streets of other countries, especially in Greece, were never shown to the U.S. audience. Little wonder why the snow job done on the minds of the American audience was so successful.
More than 30 foreign correspondents are called to task in Brock’s book for their deceptions, omissions and pure fabrications that condemned the Serbian people with collective guilt. However the passage of time reveals that you in the press were all guilty of corrupt and irresponsible reporting.
Cover of British Independent revealing the Bosnian Muslim frame-up of Serbs. Subtitle reads: “Bosnia bread queue massacre was propaganda ploy, UN told”Evidence then, as well as now, proves that the Markale Market bombing, was perpetrated by the Bosnian Muslims who murdered their own people to gain international sympathy. This war crime was successfully used by the media to condemn the Serbs for a crime they did not commit and to place sanctions on Serbia including the withholding of food and medicine. Dozens of babies died from a simple lack of antibiotics. These were crimes against humanity that the media and SEEMO simply swept under the nearest rug.
Malignant Numbers-Game
Five years later we also know that “350,000” people were not killed in these conflicts as President Clinton insisted in his last inaugural speech and these inflated figures were used continuously by every news agency in the world over a seven year period. NONE of you did any real research. Instead, everyone copied each others' alleged facts. Recently, Reuters reported that after 5 years of research, human rights organizations were having difficulty coming up with 90,000 victims on all sides in these wars. You should hide your heads in shame for condemning the Serbs for a so-called “Genocide” when the facts now reveal that Serbs and Muslims were killed in nearly equal numbers. The fact that these were Civil Wars seemed to escape journalistic common sense as correspondents stampeded to get their bylines in the latest editions.
We also know that “60,000 Bosnian women” were never raped but what Peter Brock reveals is document #S24491, the only document on rape submitted to the United Nations throughout this conflict. That document contains the video taped depositions of 800 Serbian rape victims who identified their perpetrators...not one has been indicted. These depositions were recorded in the fall of 1991 at a time when every news agency in the world were telling their readers that “Women in this culture will not step forward in rape cases as this brings shame to the entire family.” That was pure media driven rubbish and document #S24491 made fools out of all of you in the press. The same media that told the world that “Muslim women were being raped 8-10 times a day until becoming pregnant—then held prisoners for 9 months so that they were forced to give birth to Serbian babies.” Where are the 60,000 babies? The facts speak for themselves, there are 683 babies born to rape victims, one-third to Serbian women. This was NEVER a weapon of war as alleged by dozens of reporters who were more interested in racing toward the Pulitzer than writing the truth about these conflicts.
An old hoax -- Dubrovnik burning! Actually, it's only smoking from the old tires piled up, soaked in gasoline and set on fire.“Dubrovnik destroyed by the Serbs” were the kinds of sensationalized headlines reported by Anthony Lewis in the New York Times who repeated this hideous lie six times in six weeks. Peter Brock reveals how the Croats used old auto tires covered in petrol and burned throughout the walled city to give the impression that Dubrovnik was burning... NO, IT WAS ONLY SMOKING. Yet, these images were beamed around the world and placed on the cover of Time, Newsweek and numerous major newspapers—a disgusting example of pack journalism at its finest. Those who took those pictures of “Dubrovnik burning” knew full well that this was a media hoax but kept their ugly secret.
Political Trials and Manipulations
We now know that the 42 victims at Racak were murdered in another location and “their bodies were mutilated after their deaths and moved to the crime scene,” according to a number of forensic experts who investigated this alleged crime which was used as the pretext to bomb the Serbs. How utterly appalling that the trial chamber at The Hague recently proposed that cases of Racak and Dubrava be erased from the indictment of Serbs currently on trial. It is obvious that The Hague sees through these Muslim scams but morons in the press seem incapable of pointing out any Muslim image manipulations. In whose interest do you work so diligently? It certainly is not the truth.
War criminal Albanian Commander Agim Ceku who led Operation Storm in Croatia in 1995 in which 200,000 Serbs were ethnically cleansed and dozens murdered was also responsible for the deaths of more than 500 Serbs in Kosovo who were brutally mutilated and murdered. He received the lightest sentence thus far for war crimes. If Serbs cannot trust the politically inspired Hague Tribunal how can you expect them to trust dishonest journalists who seem to excel at writing articles packed with their own political agendas?
Tudjman Propaganda Machine
In my opinion, Roy Gutman is likely the most dishonest reporter of these wars and he was given half a Pulitzer? In the introduction to his book A Witness to Genocide an oxymoron for a title since Mr. Gutman never witnessed a single war crime—he wrote: “Having set such lofty standards, I immediately made an exception and wrote about the Omarska camp which I had not visited, based on the secondhand witness accounts.” In other words, Gutman decides for himself when to be lofty and ethical and grants himself permission to decide right or wrong and then admits that he was never at Omarska and that he relied on ‘secondhand’ sources. One of his sources, Jadranka Cigelj, a Croatian woman and member of the CIC Croatian Information Center, a known Tudjman propaganda machine, was later exposed for filing rape charges under five different aliases. These facts about her came to light after she came to the United States and appeared on national television and before members of the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committee where she embellished her stories to a naive American audience and to even more gullible elected officials. And they believed!
Guardian of Truth... Yeah, Right!
Gregory Copley, Editor of Defense & Foreign Affairs sums up the media with the strongest condemnation in his endorsement of Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting when he wrote: “The free press of the world fought to be recognized as the guardian of truth and as a pillar of good governance. It cannot now deny culpability and reject criticism, or avoid the growing sentiment that it—as with all aspects of public life—requires constant review, and reform. It is evident from Brock’s vital and eminently readable book that for freedom to parish, all it takes is for the media to exempt itself from its ethical responsibility toward impartiality.”
The brand of ugly journalism during the Balkan wars nearly destroyed the Serbian nation and the lives of 7 million Serbs. The lies led to 78 days of bombing that did more than $50 billion in infrastructure damage to that country, where international assistance in repairing this damage has been ignored now for six years. Why should Serbs openly grant hospitality to foreign journalists who like all of the previous reports could once again fabricate their stories to the complete destruction of Serbia? The Kosovo “independence” story is a perfect example of the Serbian side being totally muzzled by the media.
KLA: bloodthirsty terrorists promoted to a “legitimate police” in Kosovo and Metohija, SerbiaAlbanian Goons
Since the end of hostilities in the Balkans in 1999, Albanian goons and thugs of the KLA have shed their terrorists clothing and replaced them with so-called “legitimate” police uniforms. Former Albanian War Criminals are now heads of state as the world looks the other way. Not many journalists have told the world that these Albanian terrorists have destroyed 155 Ancient Serbian Orthodox churches in Kosovo since the arrival of KFOR. In March, 2004, Albanians created a Kristallnacht in Kosovo destroying 40 Serbian churches, monasteries and 500 Serbian homes. The story of that four nights of Kristallnacht was only briefly mentioned in the mainstream media in the U.S., as though Serbs deserved for their religious shrines to go up in smoke.
Muzzling the Serbs
Imagine how the Serbs feel when for the entire decade of the 1990’s not ONE SINGLE article written by a Serbian journalist, author, scholar or political leader was published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times or the majority of American newspapers. Serbs were made persona non grata in Washington and were not permitted to appear before House or Senate hearings on the war. Serbs were simply silenced, just like your organization seems to take pleasure in muzzling those with whom you disagree. And you expect the Serbs to be even-handed with Journalists who mock Serbia’s human rights and openly deny them equal justice? You people are word fascists and its time countries start ejecting you from their territory until you learn to practice your profession with honesty and balance. However, the evidence is quite clear… SEEMO does not rise to this level of journalistic ethics or morality.
It is time for SEEMO to stop worrying about the possible limited freedom of your reporters and start being concerned about the total lack of freedom for the Serbian people in their own country.
A Pox on all of your houses.
Letter to SEEMO by William Dorich, Los Angeles Publisher and the author of 5 books on Balkan history including his 1992 book Serbian Genocide 1941-45 co-written with the late David Martin and Michael Lees published on the 50 anniversary of WWII. His 1992 book, Kosovo, was the first book published in the United States on this region of the world when most Americans could not find it on a map or pronounce the word. The 1993 book, The Suppressed Serbian Voice and the Free Press in America exposed the biased media in the U.S.; the 1995 book A Brief History of Serbian Music and the 1996 book, Hilandar Octocentenary, published to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Serbian Monastery on Mt. Athos. He is the recipient of The Order of St. Sava, the highest recognition given to a layperson by the Holy Synod of Serbian Bishops and an Award of Merit from the Serbian Bar Association of America. His article have appeared in numerous newspapers including the Washington Times, The Arizona Republic, Southwest Jewish Press. He was a correspondent for the American Srbobran, the Serb newspaper published in Pittsburgh since the turn of the century.