OUR HOME

Feral Tribune, Split, Croatia, August 16, 1999

Well then, is it possible to break into one's own home? Ah, sometimes I can really overdo it with silly questions. Of course it is impossible to break into one's own home. Although, things like that can happen in this country. However, before you've even made it through the front door, the Police would be there and write in the official report that "the owner John Smith has broken into his apartment".

What was the owner doing in his own apartment? Sometimes there is no end to silly questions. Of course, he was uninvited. He returned to his home without telling anyone about it. No one was waiting for him at home, apart from numerous problems. And the Police already has enough problems without him. Of course, it hadn't occurred to the frivolous owner that someone could smack him with one fist, and then with another, as many as necessary. It hadn't occurred to him that he cannot live forever with all those blows, and that finally he may die from them. And then, we'd have to deal with UNHCR, the International Red Cross, OSCE, the State Department... All of them phoning and asking what is going on, then "is there the rule of law in your state?", "how is that possible?"... And what can you answer except that some people in their unreasonable desire to live in their own house are causing trouble?!

Djuro Mutic from the village of Berak made an even more stupid mistake than those owners who break into their own apartments and houses. He never left his own house, utterly failing to understand that to own a house is not the same as to have a home. The legal state of Croatia has never (God forbid!) even considered to confiscate his house. However, it also never failed to indicate to him that he is simply not suitable to live in his house as if it were a home. Unfortunately, he just would not get it into his head that by whiling away his days in his house he was disturbing the peace of our Great Croatian Home. Hence, what had to happen, happened.

And what happened? Again, a silly question. Of course, Djuro Mutic was beaten up in front of his house and what else is there to explain! Had he by any chance survived he could have, if he cared about explanations at that point, hear the words of the Master of Law Ante Djapic who several days after the beating said in the nearby Jagodnjak: "We came here to let those who intend to stay in Jagodnjak know that HSP does not intend to spread hatred and revenge because our fundamental motive is love towards the homeland. However, those Serbs who intend to stay must state who during the war expelled and killed Croats. They also must understand that we shall not accept as equal citizens those Serbs who only have rights without obligations." Thus, Djuro Mutic was beaten to death because the human body is not perfect and cannot stand to be taught rights and obligations by being kicked in the head and hit everywhere else. He was beaten to death because his obligation to leave Croatia was more important than his right to live on the Croatian soil. Since he refused to leave while alive, he shall do so as a corpse.

Since, Djuro Mutic is a Serb and as such he should not be here. Exactly as Ivan Sprlje should not be the head of the Dubrovnik-Neretva county, since well-informed volunteer [fighters from the war against Serbs] know that his wife is a Serb. Or exactly as Boris Martinovic is not needed here because, who needs a singer who refuses to sing a national anthem while being suffocated by smoke!? A throat that betrays in such a solemn moment has committed an act of treason, and the beating he received from the head of the Zadar county is a too lenient punishment. The Association of Slain Defenders of the Homeland is dissatisfied and emphasizes that the wimp should have been thrown into the sea. And then, we would have seen if he dared not to sink to the bottom!

However, Boris Martinovic is a friend of Momir Zuzul [Croatian ambassador in the USA] and he has done a lot for our cause with his singing. Consequently, a reconciliation meeting with the head of the Zadar county was immediately arranged. A handshake was exchanged, memories of a Catholic upbringing were swapped and the two heroes listed what they had done for the homeland. Justice is, after all, blind but Our Justice is, as the unsung national anthem says, beautiful, so that the singer will depart the homeland with a broken nose but not with a broken spirit.

Well, what about Djuro Mutic and those like him who insist on hanging around their own backyards? I really cannot stop asking silly questions. Of course, who is preventing them to live until they are beaten to death?! And it is nobody's fault that that evil Clemency Law only applies to Serb criminals, rather than on those who are Serbs, but are not criminals...

Is there life before death in the Land of Croatia? I really cannot stop with silly questions. Of course, there is only one difference between life and death in this country. The death penalty has been formally abolished, while lives are abolished absolutely informally.