by Viktor IVANCIC
The fact that Jovic was promoted by the party, rather than by the church, is important for the understanding of the fact that Josip Jovic, despite his maudlin references to the altar and sacred greats, is nothing but a convinced atheist. If it were different, if he perhaps did believe in the divine savior, he may have had at least a trace of fear from the last Judgment. And if he had that fear, he may have wondered: at the end of this earthly life, will I endure the wrath of God far publicly denouncing a man whose mother was murdered as a “fake witness”? Will I feel on my own skin boiling oil and fires of hell because I referred to the son whose mother was taken to a killing field and finished off by an axe blow and a few bullets from a handgun, so that he testified about her murder in court, therefore, would I be punished by the Divine Being for writing that that man is a “fake witness” who “talks about alleged crimes of the Croatian Army”?
But Josip Jovic is not troubled by such worries. He is an example of a religious fanatic, especially popular sort recently, who does not believe in God, but only believes in the Church; he does not believe in principles, but believes in dogma; he does not believe in justice, but does believe in Croatia. That is why he found it so easy to switch his ideological suits – from a Bolshevik youth to an anti-Communist exorcist, from a Yugoslav centralist to a pro-Ustashe militant, from an anational bureaucrat to a hyper-patriotic moron – all the time remaining faithful to himself, namely, to the nurturing lack of conscience that makes his personal contribution to the “common cause” so irreplaceable. He concluded his last book before the break up of Yugoslavia with a warning that gangsters intended to destroy Yugoslavia, while his most recent article after the establishment of the independent Croatia concluded with a warning that gangsters intend to destroy Croatia. Namely, it’s always infamous gangsters of some sort, and Jovic always takes it upon himself to defend the current institutional phantasms from them, standing, with his AWOL conscience, firmly on the ramparts of nothingness.
In the article published last Wednesday in Slobodna Dalmacija (under the headline “Dirty Communist Propaganda”) Jovic denounced an impressive number of bandits in the name of protection of his phantom Croatia – from Banac to Snajder, from Zafranovic to Latin – but in one paragraph he stooped lower than ever before. He writes: “Feral Tribiune, as is indicated by the statement of one witness in the trial of Norac and Oreskovic, paid, probably with Soros’ money, fake witnesses who talked about alleged crimes committed by the Croatian Army”.
The facts, on the other hand, stand like this: Jovic’s “fake witness” is Dusko Knezevic, whose mother, Dusanka Vranes, was brutally murdered in the ethnic cleansing action in Gospic in the winter of 1991, while Knezevic was on the front line fighting with the Croatian Army. Feral, together with the IDS [Istrian Democratic Assembly, regional political party], paid for the burial of Knezevic’s mother, full six months after “fake testimony” was published and after Knezevic in vain knocked on doors of numerous state institutions requesting financial assistance for a dignified burial. Feral thoroughly described the whole story at the time. Then Slobodna Dalmacija maliciously falsified Knezevic’s testimony in the trial of the Gospic group, claiming that “Knezevic sold his story to Feral for 20,000 kunas”. Only when that dirty lie was publicly denounced, Slobodna found it appropriate to publish Knezevic’s denial. Jovic, naturally, knows very well all of that, but he uses the tested tactics of the shameless: repeat a lie as frequently as possible, until it is accepted for the truth.
Putting aside Jovic’s obsession with Feral’s Soros’ gangsterism, there nevertheless remains, as a deeper layer of moral sludge, his assertion that someone whose mother was shot, finished off by an axe blow, is a “fake witness” (who “talks about alleged crimes”). Consequently, one guesses that remains of Dusanka Vranes, at one point held at the Forensic Medicine Institute in a plastic bag with the mark US 22, were also “fake” and “alleged”. And if that butchered body is real, after all, Jovic has an even more monstrous charge up his sleeve, the “questioning of the right of the Croat people to its own independent state”. In this case the culprits are Knezevic and Feral: “One even gets the impression that they would gladly kill themselves, only to get as much material as possible for their attacks!”
In other words, Dusko Knezevic was prepared to murder his own mother, only to falsely accuse members of the Croatian Army of a crime! The fact that his mother was murdered and that he dared accuse members of the Croatian Army of her murder, turns him into a murderer! That type of condensed madness, pushed to its limits, could not in the past be found in the Croatian media, but it does not mean that it will not be found in the future. The origin is exactly in the triumph of dogmatic obedience over any content, in atheistic adoration of the Church, of spraying of the altar with somebody else’s blood in absence of fear from the last judgment.
Namely, Josip Jovic has the appearance of a criminal, which he hasn’t been able to put to work only because of his preference for desk jobs and surplus of tender love for his own skin. While Dusko Knezevic was braving bullets on the front line, Jovic urged his comrades in arms to kill his mother. But, how can anyone compare anyone’s mother with Jovic’s Mother Homeland?
However, he loves his current mother with temporary love, just like his editors, who, one guesses, consider the worst lies and most monstrous fabrications for expressions of freedom of speech. Exactly because temporary love has such a murderous zeal. And is full of fake Christianity, because the columnist-atheist describes “historical position of the Croat people” as the “body of Saint Lovre” that “spins on a spit above fire”, and all of that because of its yearning for the Mother Homeland.
If things turn somewhat different, if “Saint Lovre” turns up above the flames in a different “historical position”, one should have no doubt that Josip Jovic, a former Communist official, would cut all the links with his current mother equally forcefully as he cut them at one point with his beloved Yugoslavia: we would put them away in the Forensic Medicine Institute in a black plastic bag with mark CRO 22. Naturally, Feral would pay for the funeral.