Only several months ago, this nation, with overwhelming majority according to the official data, said historic "NO" at the referendum about foreign involvement into internal affairs of Serbia. The proud and untamed Serbia vowed not to bow before the powers of the new world order and with a patriotic crash had slammed the door to an OSCE monitoring mission. Why should some foreigners walk freely across Kosovo.

In mid-October under the NATO "Decision on Activation" threat, the president of Yugoslavia and Richard Holbrooke reached the agreement on the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission. Instead of Felipe Gonsales and handful of his assistants, we shall have as the guests no less than two thousands OSCE verifiers, who will freely walk around Kosovo. As an Annex to the political agreement between Milosevic and Holbrooke, the head of the Yugoslav Army joint staff, general Momcilo Perisic, the commander of the European forces general Wesley Clark and the president of the NATO Military Committee, general Klaus Neumann, signed on October 15, in Belgrade, the Military agreement on the NATO air control. In short, according to spirit and contents of this document, the Common security zone would be established, comprising of the FRY air space within radius of 25 kilometers from the Kosovo borders, where war planes of the Yugoslav Air Force and anti-aircraft defense will not carry out the operations during flights of the unarmed surveillance NATO planes. Except for the early detection radars which can function without barriers, all rocket systems and the anti-aircraft defense weapons will be removed from Kosovo or moved to the barracks and stored where they can be inspected by the OSCE verifiers at any time. Also, all rocket systems and anti-aircraft defense weapons outside the Zone will abstain from radar searches, target-tracking or "illumination" of the unarmed NATO platforms. In addition the training and maintenance on the deactivated systems should be carried out only after previous notification of and approval by the NATO, requested 24 hours in advance.

The patriotic war against the independent media, that had gathered all patriotic and sound national forces, was initiated with the war cry "Catch the domestic traitors". In spite of the patriotic appearances in the Serbian National Assembly during the debate on the new Law on Information, we doubt that anyone among the so-called independent journalists understands, despite their best efforts, what their fatal sin against the homeland was. The new Law does not mention that the authenticity of the public dilemma must be proven within 24 hours, nor that it is equal to spreading defeatism. Therefore, we ask publicly because we haven't received answers from the official interpretators of the truth: what was our unforgivable sin?

Is it sin that we wrote that NATO was ready to react? Should have we been silent about this in order not to cause fear among people? Did the "independents" by their texts force the NATO Council to issue the "activating order"? Did the "independents" give an order to place in all Serbian towns the warnings and instructions on how to use air shelters in case of an air strike? Did we force Milosevic to make such fatal concessions to Holbrooke? If the "independents" are really guilty then they should be put on the pillar of shame for the betrayal of their country. It would be useful if the Serbian Ministry of Information explained what is what, so that we know how to behave in the future. Otherwise, the only thing that will be clear is that Serbia of Radoje Domanovic [Serbian 19th century writer, best known for his short satirical story "The Leader" about a group of people who pick a random stranger for their leader because he seems to know where he is going, and follow him from one disaster to another; finally after almost everyone in the group has perished, they find out that "the leader" is blind] is again among us.