While watching the film "In Four Rows", written and directed by Aralica and Sedlar, I was happy for the first time in my life that my parents were dead. In time! Because they didn't live long enough to see the end of the power that finished the cycle of its rule in the same way it had started it ten years ago, and which can be described with only one word: vulgar! The highest achievement of the two HDZ literary-film-making masters is a public demonstration of their mentor's [Franjo Tudman] teaching: contemptuous vulgarity, equally for the alleged executioners (partisans and Communists), and for the victims of Bleiburg.
Therefore, the problem with their pre-election product is neither primitive revisionism, nor the abuse of a huge sum of Croatian taxpayers money for the purposes of one party's election campaign. The painful thing is the truth about the ultimate vulgarity of a party that pushed its concentrated essence into our faces from the TV screens, just before another parliamentary elections. Do we need to imagine our future if HDZ wins once again? We don't need much guesswork: what expects us is precisely what we have had all this time, and what even the cleanest HDZ leaders couldn't give up - continued disgrace of the whole people.
A vote for them means a vote for the same horde of HDZ executioners who dared to desecrate the home of one authentic lady from Dubrovnik, who was so connected with communism that she did everything she could during the former Yugoslavia to establish and maintain an elite European institution, Inter-university Centre in Dubrovnik. These wild dogs broke into the house of Ms. Berta Dragicevic, the deputy mayor of Dubrovnik and a member of the Liberal Party, stole her paintings (the paintings will probably be sold somewhere in Herzegovina) and left the following message: "HDZ rules! Yugoslavs, next time we'll blow up your house"; they are the best description of the character of HDZ's supporters, but also of the kind of "citizens" that this party has brought up.
A vote for them means the continuation of the agony of Croatia on theaccount of setting aside money for the phantom state of Herceg-Bosnia and the contempt of Europe because of permanent aspirations of the authorities to seize the territory of another country. No one is so precise in this as Ivic Pasalic, who "would like to finish what [he has been] working on for seven years with president Tudjman", and who has been stomping for HDZ all over Mostar these days, saying that only his party will continue to "take care" of Croats in Bosnia (which actually means that it will enable further enrichment of the people from Herzegovina's crime gangs).
What does a vote for Pasalic, who again unambiguously says "I advocate spiritual and political unity of the complete national corpus" (In Croatia and Bosnia) mean? For the man who advised those who consider Hercegovina a part of another country to read Macek and certain Juraj Sutej, who fought for every inch of Croatian land, even those in the neighbouring country, which he still calls Herceg-Bosnia? It simply means a re-election of the shameful policy of false promises about creating Tudman's Greater Croatia to the detriment of Croats - both in Croatia and in Bosnia. It means legitimating once again the man who literally ruined Croatia with his intelligence services, to finally, at the very end, with his incompreable cunning try to persuade voters that there is no split within the top of HDZ. In order to preserve his power and become a new Tudjman (the one at the place of the president of HDZ) he suddenly supporter his greatest opponent, Mate Granic, as a presidential candidate. Pasalic praised this anaemic HDZ official with these words: "I believe that Granic, as the president of the Republic, will successfully promote the rule of law and democracy, which is very important in the days to come (it seems that this wasn't important by now), and speed up Croatia's entry into Euro-Atlantic integrations." (Vecernji list, December 27 1999)
In this transparent trick of the alleged "reconciliation" with Granic, who is favoured by the international community (god knows why), and by a great part of citizens who were brought up to never choose quality but something in between, Pasalic sees only his own interes: himself as Tudman's heir as the president of the party, with the aim of "more courageous and more thorough development of the multi-party democracy, social justice, protection of human rights, and the rule of law."(Vecernji list, 27 December)
One has to have a good stomach to read without nausea the words of a man who built his power on permanent hidden intelligence games, and who is so in love with the underworld that he employed his wife in one of the Croatian secret services. When Ivic Pasalic speaks about the multi-party system and human rights, than everything has really gone to hell. Then all these final tricks of the important HDZ officials, from Pasalic and Seks, to Mintas-Hodak (who will give up her ambitious presidential candidacy for the president of Croatia, most probably in a cunning agreement with Pasalic, and knowing that something is better than nothing) should be understood only as an obvious fraud of a dirty little gang, that doesn't deserve to receive a single vote from a polite person. With the electoral victory of that team, inimical, but ready to play the last role of party brotherhood and unity on the electoral scene, along with the well-known immorality, plundering, self-enrichment, violation of all possible rights of their citizens, Croatia can take only one road: the road towards its definite destruction. Therefore, no matter how pathetic this might sound, we have decided to do what we usually wouldn't: warn the citizens of Croatia that the vote for HDZ (equally for Granic, Pasalic, Seks, or Valentic) means a direct blow to the future of their children.
These elections are the last chance to make sure that the long-term vulgarity of one ruling system stops being a collective guilt of the whole people.