Once upon a time, the Chilean poet Gaston Salvatore explained to me what a dictatorship is: when you hear tires screeching outside your house at night and you think they've come to get you. He had run away from Pinochet.
The regime of Aleksandar Vučić these days shows his true face. Some men dressed in black girls meet, they put them in cars without license plates and drag them in an unknown direction.
Men in civilian clothes attack citizens who are protesting, grab them and drag them somewhere.
Those plainclothes men are policemen. They do not legitimize themselves. Civil servants who are supposed to protect the law in the first place break the law because they are ordered to do so.
Intimidation
Young people whose blood boils because of the injustice in which they grow up, who are a little carried away by the feeling of rebellion for justice they break the glass at a branch of the SNS or the Old Palace in Belgrade, the prosecutors are charging with an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order.
Ordinary citizens, students, activists are ordered to be detained for 30 days as an educational measure and demonstration exercise for others.
Thus, the constitutional order is not defended, but the government that violates the Constitution, which in Serbia is also based on civil rights.
Regime employees and their leaders are increasingly crying in the rain of Novi Sad 14 people die the flowing makeup pleasing to the eyes with which they painted over their faces wrinkled by the sins of the past that they have not forgiven.
Overheating
The degree of repression in Serbia is inversely proportional to the rating of Aleksandar Vučić and the Serbian progressive elite: the more their rating falls, the stronger they feel that their power is threatened, the greater the degree of repression will be.
This is just the beginning.
Police Minister Ivica Dacic would have to tell the public who the people were and on whose orders they illegally arrested citizens on behalf of the Serbian police.
The current head of the transformed Milosevic socialists should remember how the overheating of the repressive system once ended; to wonder what he needed with so much political experience to abduct himself as the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; he should have known that this apparition of state power would someday be openly abused for the sake of protecting individuals in power from the law.
The last anti-democratic regime fell when the police and soldiers refused to shoot the people. Among other things, because of that, because their children were in the mixed crowd that was looking for changes.
They know all that. But it's like the story of the scorpion and the frog.
Everyone's question is whether fear is greater than the need for Serbs self-esteem.