REply to Wool's Celebration of Albanian Secessionism

[<Borba100@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr. Wool:

Well, we do appear to be on different sides of the barricades, don't we?

FIrst of all, your history is hogwash. Serbia did NOT outlaw the Albanian
language, it did NOT close ALbanian schools or fire doctors or teachers or
eliminate the Albanian language in courts, etc., etc.  You are simply
parroting what the racist-secessionists have told the press which has told
everyone else and which has been picked up by some on the "left".   You gave
it all away when you referred to Rugova's movement as "peacful
non-cooperators" (peaceful only by comparison to the UCK/KLA) - their
non-cooperation consisted of  BOYCOTTING ALL INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE -
including schools in Albanian, ditto state run hospitals (rather good ones).

THis was a tactic conceived in collaboration with Bob Dole and Yugoslavia
Amb. Zimmerman (who made clear he supported secession by his public actions
in 1990 around the Chicago Architectural fair, held in Kosovo) .  The plan
was: boycott, claim the Serbs have locked you out, then bring in fools and
knaves ((reporters, pols, NGO whores) and show them just how terribly the
Albanains were FORCED by the evil serbs to live since Milosevich took away
their autonomy.  The power to get half-willing Albanians to concur in this
self-deprivation came from the MANIFEST support from the US - Bob Dole's
congressional actions, the trip by him and 5 other Congressman to PRistina in
1990 where he denounced the evil Serbian govnernment, and Zimmerman;'s
explicit support for the secessionist leaders. (For those who aint familiar:
he organized this Fair and then very simply used it to honor ONLY those
Albanians who supported secession - and no one else - thus BOYCOTTING not
only Serbs but Albanians who were part of the government to which he was the
Ambassador! For a diplomat, this was akin to screaming - but then, the US
diplomats are not overly subtle)

 Albanian culture is VERY conformist - that's not a slur, it's a fact - with
extreme domination by the male leader of the clan and EXTREME vendetta
mentality (how to do vendetta's is actually codified!)  -- so the
significance of US support for the racist-secessionists was even greater than
it would have been for a more modern population.

If that was not enough, the 1990 Foreign Aid Apppropriations bill which
slaughtered Yugoslvai was described in the Times and elsewhere as punishment
for the 'repression" of KosovA.  So, Mr. Wool, you is in bed with the bad
guys - please explain how come the US has put so much effort into helping an
oppressed people (for the first time in 100 years!)

The Persecution of Serbs and Roma by a section of Albanians in the 80s was
not a fabrication at all - it is documented in a bourgoeis press which only
reversed itself when it got the word from on high (starting in '87) that from
now on, Albanians are the persecuted ones.  Many of these pre-1987 articles
can be found in emperors-clothes.com, see articles by author, look under Ben
Works. David  Binder, who wrote some of them, was punished for not changing
his line fast enough - he was switched from head of the NY Times Balkans desk
to - obituraries.

The concept of illegal aliens is OF COURSE only relevent in a society in
which national boundaries are in force.  But that's what we live in (like
du-uh!) and that's what we're talking about - that is, if Albanians were
flooding over the border (what possible difference, by the way, does it make
that these are as you say small countries? are borders only valid for big
countries? and OF COURSE people divided by borders are often related - what
else is new?)  - if they were flooding over the border and thereby either
intentionally (in some cases) or due to economic disparity (Belgrade POURED
money into Kosovo - that is fact) - if by flooding over the borders they were
shifting the population of Kosovo - and if that has had an effect on the
ability of the US/Secessionist alliance to mount a powerful secessionist
campaign - then of course it is important that these non-citizens were
present in the hundreds of thousands.  After all, secssion is ALSO only
relevent in a society which has national boundaries.  If you want the Serbs
to consider citizenship irrelevent, then how can you support a movement which
wants to make KosovA a seperate COUNTRY (that's COUNTRY with BOUNDARIES ) and
in the process define citizenship racially  and actually drive out everyone
who is not Albanian?

By the way Serbia does NOT define citizenship by ethnicity. Serbia
constitutionally requires the recognition of 9 languages in all legal
matters.  That's right, court proceedings in 9 languages.  Nobody else in the
world has this extreme degree of national minority recognition.  And it was
NEVER taken away from the Albanians, that is simply a lie, stated  by you (I
hope) out of ignorance - I hope.

Your really shocking justification of the racist slaughter and robbery and
expulsion of non-Albanians since the US/KLA takeover of Kosovo puts you in a
more extreme position than the KLA, which denies it is doing these things,
calling theese actions the work of mysterious forces.  Even the UN says the
racist-nationalists are driving out EVERYONE who is not Albanian.  And
evidence is there are about 150,000 Albanian refgugees from their rule as
well - people who are pro-Yugoslav, i.e., want multi-ethnic unity.  The
refugees include tens of thousands of Roma people who are hated by the
racist-secessionists for cultural reasons - Roma are the cultural opposite of
the Albanians' strict, male dominated, clan-controlled culture with its "law
of revenge" - a medieval Canon which lays down rules of proper feuding, no
less. (For the first year you can kill anyone in the offending family; after
that, only the murderer or those who live with him.  REports are there are
8000 Albanian children hiding from death by vendetta since they are
unfortuantly related to a target...)

By the way, given that Albanians from Northern Albania and Kosovo ("Ghegs")
are ruled by this medieval text that REQUIRES revenge if ANYONE in one's
family is killed (this includes distant cousins) - justifying Albanian
actions by revenge is black humor.

ALso by the way, Kosovo/Kosova is NOT a different pronuciation of the same
word. I can see from the language of your repsonse that you lingered briefly
- alas too briefly - at Emeperors clothes, long enough to read Maher's
article on Kosova (everything you wrote about blackbirds and Northern Ireland
of course  comes right from there, as you do not ackonwledge) - but you
lingered too breiefly and with insufficient thought.  KosovA is not a silly
point; it is an attempt as Maher notes to alter the cultural character of an
area - KosovO is a real Serbian word and the use of the non-sense word KosovA
is not a mispronuciation, it is a bitterly defended secessionist attempt to
create an alternate history of the area in whcih Kosovo is Albanian so they
can justify driving the Serbs out.  It is part of their general thrust to get
rid of the Serbo-Croatian languge. The Albanian attempt to alter the cultural
character of the area has resulted, at present, in the destruction of 70
pricelssss ancient churches, the removal of the Serbian lanaguage street
signs (they left the Albanian language signs - that's right, the evil Serbian
gov't had street signs in both languages, just as they had EVERYTHING in both
Serbo-Croatian and Albanian) and to ban the use of Serbo-Croatian. (People
who speak Serbian are subject to arrest. - That's documented)

The point here is that the KosovARS NEVER saw their movement as one of
indepdence for Kosovo - but rather as a movement to purge non-Albanians from
the area.  That is, they rejected the Yugoslav idea of multiethnic society.
This was true when they ran the area for the Italians and Germans during
World War II and it is true today and it was true of the nationalist/racist
movement throughout the 80s including when Rugova became the leader in the
late 80s.  That movement was not for armed rebellion - it was for driving out
the Non-Albanians - and when Serbia limited POLITICAL autonomy (not cultural
autonomy) it switched to a plan to create conditions that would allow the US
to sell NATO intervention to the US population - that is, for the creation of
the the (false) appearance of oppression.

Contrary to your nonsense-history, there was much violence against Serbs
during the 80s and 90s - though in the 90s the secessionist movement switched
a lot of its violence to disciplining Albanians who were pro-Yugoslav.

The KLA was created by the Germans as a maneuver to outflank the US - which
had RUgova in its pocket.  The US, realizing it was being outflanked, created
the crisis of COtober 1998, forced Milosevich to allow in the OSCE verifiers
under US domination, led by that Butcher of El Salvador, WIlliam Walker,
whose experience in the training of fascist death squads was invaluable.
Walker was then assisted by a Company made up of "retired" generals and cia
men - Retired! - and their collective job was to take over operational
leadership of the KLA - which they did.  Once that was accomplished, Walker
took a page from Hitler's method of justifying the invasion of Poland - he
created the Racek fabrication/provocation - he had the KLA dump some dead KLA
fighters in a ditch (re-dresed as civilians) announced to the world that he
(the butcher of El Salvador, the front man for Ollie North during Iran Contra
- where he set up a phony humanitarian organization in Honduras to smuggle
arms to the contras, by the way) - he, Wiliam Walker,  was SHOCKED at a level
of brutality NEVER WITNESSED BEFORE.  This was used by Albright, friend of
revolutionary self determination, to issue the Rambouillet ultimatum, and so
on.  What nice comrades you have, Bern

By the way, the Partisans I was referring to were the World War II ones -
seriously, do you have a reading difficulty? They had a problem not with the
serbs but with the Albanians.  They could not recruit them.  They reported
that the Albanians were too pro-fasicst and racist.  This is documented.
(Note: EVERYTHING I am sayaing is documented - EVERYTHING you have written is
just prattle whose source is the racist-secessionists, as trumpeted to the
world by AP, UPI, NGOs, Soros, tghe State Dep't, Mr. CLinton, Amanpour and
spouse, etc. etc.

I could go on and on, but really: you are simply in bed with fascists..This
movement which you champion in your "revolutionary fervor" was championed
fisrt by Bob Dole and Joe DiGuardi, as the opening wedge in the
destablization of Yugoslavia.  The US government was fully aware that Kosovo
was the weak point for Serbia, I will close with a US army description of
this in the early 80s, when they had already figured things out:

The commentary notes are from my friend Petar Makara.  By the way, Petar,
whom I am closest to politically among the Serbs, is a fierce critic of the
Miloseivch government. Regarding your rather stupid remark that I seem to be
close to the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry. - I was pleased that DESPITE my
criticisms of them they thought my work of sufficient quality (in defending
them from attack) that they posted it, but that also they posted an article
(A TRULY HEROIC RESISTANCE or as it appears n emperors-clothes.com THIS PEACE
MEANS WAR) which predicted that their signing of the June 8th peace agreement
(which they did sign ) would lead to disaster (which it has.) and a fascist
reign of terror with the KLA doing NATO's work.  (Amazing - revolutionary
selfd-etermination by a group supported by a US led occupation force - will
wonders never cease???).

Anyway, here are some excerpts from the Army book, with Petar's rather angry
notes.
Readers will note his mis-uses of the definite and indefinite article, the
sure giveaway that a Serb is writing:

"Area handbook series.
YUGOSLAVIA, a country of study"

Petar writes:

Book is published by Headquarters, Department of the Army (DA Pam 550-99),
Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. It is well done.
Each study in series (as said in Foreword) is done by a multidisciplinary
TEAM of social scientists. The bibliography list is 31 (thirty-one) pages
long! As said in the Foreword (written by Dr. William Evans-Smith, Director,
Foreign Area Studies, The American University, Washington, DC):

"The study focuses on historical antecedents and on the cultural, political
and socioeconomic characteristics that contribute to cohesion and cleavage
within the society."

{Petar's comment: One would expect that from a study that is to serve
Department of the Army. Cleavage - in particular - is of immense importance.
The Army has to study it thoroughly in order to have a bit easier task when
the time is ripe to dismantle a country. We will see here what they found.

But, back to the subject: The best thing about book is the fact that the
edition that we are presenting here was published in the 1982 (i.e. nine
years before American officials, with help of Spin Doctors, started working
on expending the cleavage).
Here is one quote about Kosovo Albanians: }

Albanians (pages 75-76) Quote:

"Yugoslavia's largest national minority was its Albanian community, in 1981
numbering some 1.6 million, nearly 7 percent of the population. Most
Albanians were concentrated in Kosovo where they constituted roughly 80
(eighty) percent of the population; another quarter million resided in
neighboring Macedonia and Montenegro. All told, an estimated one-third to
one-half of all Albanians lived in Yugoslavia - MAKING THEM ONE OF THE
LARGEST POTENTIALLY IRREDENTIST COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD... "

More quotes from book:
" Some demonstrators {in the 1981 Albanian riots} suggested that the proposed
Kosovo republic ought to include Albanians in Macedonia and Montenegro too.
SOME EXTREMISTS EVEN VOICED SECESSIONIST SENTIMENT CALLING FOR A "GREATER
ALBANIA."
End Petar's notes and quote from army book.

Note that in '83 the Army recognized, for its own readers - not the general
public - that the demand for greater albania is extreme.  This is precisely
what the US has backed today, and it is what Rugova (the peaceful nobel prize
winning ghandieseque etc.etc.) advocated ten years ago.

Anyway, for those who don't think the bad guys plan: the army had it figured
out 15 years ago.

Jared