No justice, no rule of law, no consensus, no trust, no….
I could go on with my list of “no’s” but it would not lift your spirit. Is there hope for Macedonia? Of course. I have to believe in hope for Macedonia. But hope alone will get not get you very far. Hope plus action and hard work will. But I’m getting ahead of myself here.
No justice: the Government of Macedonia, aided and abetted by the US Embassy in Skopje and the State Department in general, along with their counterparts in the EU and NATO, have rammed through parliament, yet again, an illegal law, this one on the public prosecutor. You can read the details here and here but the point is, there is no justice in this ironically labeled law on the public prosecutor in the captured state of Macedonia.
Which means there is no rule of law. There has not been rule of law in Macedonia for several years now. The prime example of this is how the current Government of Macedonia, aided and abetted by the US Embassy in Skopje and the State Department in general, along with their counterparts in the EU and NATO, ignored the September 30, 2018 referendum on the so-called name change, and then using arrests, intimidation, threats, and other illegal means, rammed that through parliament, illegally changing Macedonia’s name and identity. (You can read here, how Macedonians, and everything Macedonian, is becoming “North Macedonian.”)
By ignoring the rule of law, and ramming these things through parliament, the current Government of Macedonia, aided and abetted by the US Embassy in Skopje and the State Department in general, along with their counterparts in the EU and NATO, have not even bothered to try to get consensus on issues of importance to Macedonians. Consensus is a hallmark of democracy and necessary for the functioning of democracy and yet the current Government of Macedonia, aided and abetted by the US Embassy in Skopje and the State Department in general, along with their counterparts in the EU and NATO, have ignored the consent of the governed. There simply is no consensus in Macedonia. And that is a recipe for disaster, now, and into the future because that leads to no trust.
No trust in the Government of Macedonia, no trust in the institutions of democracy, no trust in the United States or its Government and certainly no trust in the European Union, most of its members, and certainly no trust in NATO. And they want Macedonia, full of Macedonians that don’t trust them, to be a part of their clubs and partners with them? That just does not make any sense. Trust is a glue that holds society, any society, together. Break down the bonds of trust, and you break down society.
Let me now go back to hope, plus action and hard work. I have to believe in hope because the alternative (there is always an alternative) is too frightening to contemplate. Having been involved in and with Macedonia and Macedonians for nearly a quarter of a century, I have seen periods of hope and hopefulness. I have seen peace in Macedonia, I have seen signs of increasing prosperity in Macedonia and I have seen periods of relative stability. But during those periods, I also saw Macedonians who worked together for the common good of Macedonia and who were willing to set aside their smaller differences; I saw Macedonians who stood up, when needed and said “no” to the Western elites; and I saw Macedonians who said “I believe in Macedonia” and then fought for Macedonia. All of that began with hope, but it took action and hard work.
Everything the current Government of Macedonia, aided and abetted by the US Embassy in Skopje and the State Department in general, along with their counterparts in the EU and NATO, will either backfire, come back to haunt them, fade away, or otherwise fail if and when Macedonians have the courage of their convictions to take a stand and fight back for what is rightfully theirs. Macedonia will continue and the Macedonians will continue long after this Macedonian Government, this SDSM, this DUI, these US State Department officials, these EU officials, these NATO officials and others are gone from the scene if and when Macedonians continue to love Macedonia and fight for their country, their name, their identity, their language, their heritage, their culture, there history, and much more. Notice that I wrote, twice, “if and when.” I’m convinced Macedonians can and will do this, beginning right now, because Macedonians have demonstrated through the centuries that they could and did.
The opening paragraph of “The Strange Death of Europe,” by British author, journalist, and political commentator Douglas Murray reads thusly: “Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide. Whether the European people choose to go along with this is, naturally, another matter.” Will Macedonians, as Europeans, go along with this desire of Europe’s leaders to commit suicide?
