Don't Trust Prometheus!

Milosevic advertised himself as Prometheus: he disclosed a secret to the people that NATO was vincible and - there he is chained in Scheveningen where a swan will rise out of the local fountain to pick at his liver.

Prometheus doesn't want any visits, he doesn't want telegrams of support, he doesn't want newspapers, he tears them into tiny pieces and throws them into the toilet bowl, those who are on his side are only ruining the contrast he has devised, even Ramsey Clark is getting on his nerves... His decision to refuse any assistance is only the other side of his megalomania - either everyone will be with me, just like when I visited Gazimestan, or, if that fails, let the whole world be against me.

At Dedinje, he was defended by certain WW 2 veterans and Sinisa Vucinic, in Bacvanska St. he had his wife and lawyers, now he even refuses to accept a defense attorney which he is entitled to, according to the procedure. Possibly even inspired by our very first quiz show (An Individual Against Television, hosted by Miloje Orlic), Milosevic would like to impose his personal scenario, to take control of directing and the leading role in the piece with the working title Against the Machine; he renounces all fees in favor of his self-supporting wife and if anything remains, then in favor of the Serbian people who will also continue to self-support themselves for a long time, despite the so-called donor conference.  

The Messiah complex has marked his entire rule, but it was somewhat curbed by the knowledge that still, still, the parliament, opposition etc. did exist. There's none of that now - therefore, The Hague solitary confinement cell has shown itself to be an empire of unlimited freedom.

Truly, as long as a person has some plans, as long as he has some hope and as long as he fears anything, he can't be totally free. By arriving in The Hague, Milosevic has found himself on the other side of reason, he woke up free of pragmatism, dizzily free! There's no more of Fila's smart talk, no more over the top wisdom from his wife, now he can intensify conflicts to his heart's content! True, the judge turns off his microphone whenever he plunges into a speech, the poor man gets into it as though he is attending a ceremony of the newly opened Bosko Perosevic Bridge or at the Sava Center, the judge then deprives him of his word, i.e. voice, we, who never got a normal answer from either Bora Jovic or him rejoice - finally, here's someone who can tell him: loosen up, I didn't ask you that! Therefore, we who have had it with Milosevic's scorn towards logic and ethics are happy - or at least satisfied - that he can no longer carry on like that, but Milosevic still isn't shaken! He knows that even silenced this way (exactly because he is silenced!) he stands out from all the other statesmen and from all the other prisoners; as a negative character, he's made a full circle, and he must be feeling like a person reborn, at the beginning of a new incarnation.

The role of the greatest individual victim of the new world order will bring him multitudes of fans, millions of people don't know what to do with their bitterness, right? In the way this world is organized, a horrible manufacturing error truly does exist, there is so much injustice, violence and exploitation, and many of the humiliated and insulted will find that Slobek is the spitting image of Jesus. I won't. I view his newest virage, his monodrama from The Hague just like his period of rule, as being more kitsch: by refusing to have even a single ally, he is staggering towards an extreme which appears like a solid basis to him now, but staggering from one extreme to another can't end up anywhere else but in kitsch; therefore, we followed him from heroic kitsch, to reconstruction and construction kitsch to the innocence without protection kitsch.

Slobodan Milosevic understood what the tribunal wants of him and immediately decided to deprive them of it: he came to The Hague to allow them to talk to him (primarily of course about his eventual culpability but also about his non-culpability if his innocence surfaces during the trial!), but he never did like to talk. The only thing he knew how to do was to give out orders or to listen - mostly to the Americans, whenever he found himself in a bit of a spot.

The all-out competition on who will lament and mourn Milosevic better is ongoing, from president Kostunica to a mere candidate for admission into the Serbian Radical Party, soon there won't be a single Serb left who wasn't polled on the street, how did you accept and how much did the disgraceful and illegal extradition of our president, pardon, former president Milosevic, hit you, the citizens answer all too eagerly, some glorify his defiance, others the government which refused to obey the Constitutional Court, pity on us all, all that dignity has flown off for all times with Djindjic's helicopter! I don't seem able to perceive Milosevic as a martyr (not to mention his heroism) even for a second. Why? Well, because he won't suffer, he will once again act in a way which is more convenient for him: instead of answering concrete charges for concrete, albeit, mass violations, he will keep repeating that he is chained because he is a Serb, because he stopped NATO!

Aaa, here's my favorite character, Milosevic's lawyer Tomanovic says that lawyers from all over the world will visit Slobodan Milosevic every day, that's right, Toman, the important thing is to think up some sort of extreme, either Slobek will battle against the international community on his own, or lawyers without borders will form a live shield around his body. Why don't the radicals paralyze The Hague tribunal by constantly taking part in the debates, in accordance with the statute?