Let's face it, Novi Sad's "Dnevnik" has never been an example of a media that strictly adheres to high professional standards, resisting malignant political influences. But it is safe to say, without any exaggeration, that compared to what it has turned into in the last ten years - during the "unpopular government", especially in the first half of the 2000s, it was the "New York Times". In the meantime, journalists who respected human dignity left the paper, and it permuted into a miserable provincial, propaganda-political set of tabloid type that unreservedly supports the progressive destruction of the city, province, state and society, and participates in the persecution of critics of the regime, comfortably living on state and parastatal nurseries.
There are countless examples of this, and here is the latest one. Violating the most elementary ethical principles, "Diary" is in the text under the title "This madness in Novi Sad must stop! Yesterday the Serbian flag and the bridge, today the church and priests; Who's Next on the List of Professional Political Protesters" explicitly accused young political activists from Novi Sad of being behind the attack on the priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church, who - how is it announced by the Diocese of Bačka – happened a few days ago in Liman (the famous Novi Sad neighborhood, where the progressives lost the elections for local communities).
No one, especially not the media, should claim the nature of this attack, for the simple reason that the competent authorities have not revealed who the perpetrator is.
Considering that the more informed citizens know that, previously, the progressives hired criminal groups to attack the City Hall or to break the windows of their party offices (the perpetrators, of course, were never discovered), with the aim of accusing the opposition of this, it would be very important to the attack on the priest should be resolved as soon as possible and properly sanctioned. How could someone, for example, not think that it was also constructed, with the aim of declaring at least part of the opposition to be violent, destructive, anti-Serb and anti-Orthodox.
Things like this are really not to be trifled with, the consequences can be serious.
Drawing targets on activists' foreheads
Let us remind you that the attack was preceded by the disclosure of the "strange" progressive-diocesan idea to build the newest church building on the banks of the Danube, right next to the "Strand" swimming pool. Activists rebelled against that idea, considering that it has no place there, and that thus another one of the green areas that are systematically disappearing under the progressive tsunami is being abolished. By the way, in recent decades, Novi Sad has received dozens of new Orthodox churches that are lying empty.
In the text, "Dnevnik" draws targets on the foreheads of two activists of the political organization "Bravo", which was founded by mostly young people who in recent years fought against the construction of the megalomaniac, multiple controversial and unsafe project "Novi Sad on the Water", but also the overall urban planning devastation of the capital of Vojvodina. Novi Sad is rapidly turning into a hypertrophied town under the progressives.
He is one of them Brajan Brković, an old "acquaintance" of the regime, who from time to time is "spoiled" by Vučić himself. He has been going through the terrifying media "rabbit" for a long time. Tabloids declare him a "hater of everything Serbian", and almost some kind of "Ustasha butcher". He is not the only Novi Sad activist targeted by the regime media, but he is the most prominent. Tabloids like parrots abuse the fact that Brian is the grandson of the Montenegrin writer and political activist Jevrem Brković. In "Dnevnik", Miran Pogačar, also a well-known Novi Sad activist from "Brava", was also accused of anti-Serbian activities and an attack on a priest.
Against Brković and others (young people gathered around the organization "Bravo" and those from the city committee of the party "Together"), a political-judicial manhunt is being conducted, along with the media one. Due to their political actions, dozens of misdemeanor and criminal charges were filed against them (about fifteen against Brković alone). Although lawyers claim that they will not, at least not in the second-instance proceedings, end in a conviction, unless the courts are maximally instrumentalized, because it is evident from the plane that the lawsuits are politically motivated and to a large extent meaningless - the activists have practically already been punished. They have to respond to subpoenas every now and then, and the courts and the police always find ways to make their lives even more difficult along the way. The burden of evil that fell on the shoulders of those young people is an injustice that screams to heaven.
The signatory of these lines knows them and is sure that they would not step on an ant. It is tragic that they are accused of violence and crime by those who are unadulterated thugs and criminals.
Will someone stand up for the attacked
It remains to be seen how Novi Sad will react to the persecution of Brković and others. Will they continue to calmly observe the media and political-judicial harangue that is being waged against them, and which endangers their security, takes away human dignity, makes an elementary normal life impossible - or will they provide them with real and concrete support?
Will the non-governmental sector, destroyed and numbed by the actions of the progressives and their left and right satellites - provide real help or will they just, possibly and maybe, issue a "copy-pasted" statement?
Will Novi Sad's intellectual elite stand behind the freedom of political action of these young people, even if they may not like their methods of struggle, or will they, as before, sit in a pub, clarify world politics and wait for them to be blamed state salary and other entitlements?
