Good morning! The citizens of Montenegro were able to see with their own eyes the other day what it looks like when the government literally beats the citizens. In Budva, company directors beat and mistreat people, and this has never happened before.
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Budva’s reign of terror
I would prefer to live in space Montenegro, which is being talked about these days at the Zuzalu conference at Lustica Bay. Montenegro, where the government is working on dismantling the large state apparatus and deregulation, in which the minimum state is the ideal, and in which the conditions are created to enable the individual to be rich and economically independent. An economically independent individual is a potential for a citizen. A society of wealthy citizens elects a quality government, which maintains the wealth of a community and paves the path to development and prosperity. Reading Spajic’s interview in Forbes, which was paid for or perhaps lobbied by believers of mutualism, I would not hesitate to support such a policy. Montenegro has no natural resources, Montenegro has no trained workforce. Its resource is its nature and the beauty of the landscape. Emotionally, for those of us who live here, the sky has a different shade of blue here, but Montenegro is not unique in the world in that respect. Nevertheless, it can be a space of freedom in which even these alchemists of today will feel comfortable. Maybe something will come of it in the end.
However, I am very skeptical that Spajic and Abazovic can deliver it to Montenegro. First, a strong mental effort is needed to create a system that would enable the harmonization of legislation with the EU on the one hand, and space open for the above-mentioned initiatives on the other. Second, the government in which Dritan and Mickey participate resembles anything but a minimal state. The whipping of a civil servant in Budva inspired me to convey to you a realistic dystopian picture of the government in Montenegro, because we are already living that dystopia in Budva.
A criminalized structure is in power in Budva. Our utility company is managed in the style of Tony Soprano, who also happened to be in the “waste management” industry. You have seen how our sports center is managed. With a rod. Everything works that way in Budva. When a local criminal-political authority enters the room or the municipal office, try not to answer “May God help you” with “May God help you”, and you will see what happens next. So, these days the unprotected and the weak spend their working days in fear. People are employed in large numbers, and there is no room in the offices. Literally, the workers have nowhere to sit. You will not read about it in the texts of local correspondents of the Podgorica newspaper, not to mention the local public service. Their information program has long since become a propaganda tool of the cheapest quality. So, this arrival of Mr. Gojko Raicevic from IN4S to the head of RT Budva can only make propaganda techniques more effective and creative, by no means different and worse.
In Budva, nothing has changed in the field of sustainable development and corruption. Living space is destroyed, no investment is made in infrastructure, if there is no interest and charm of local kabadahs. The apparatus is growing and the quality of life of citizens is being destroyed and degenerated by theft. Europe does not participate directly in such a government, but I do not see that it is handled differently in Danilovgrad, Berane, Mojkovac, and other places where they exercise power.
Mickey has ridden the horse of populism, and the laws of inertia say that he will have a big problem keeping the party together and implementing the super-progressive policies that are launching him into the pages of the global media these days. That requires knowledge and capacity. And autonomy, especially in relation to local and regional powers. As long as the people of Budva are harassed and literally slapped because of politics, because they are Montenegrins or they criticize the government, for me, Europe and the rest of their partners will now be associated with that, and not with a minimal state, coordination, blockchain, longevity, and other super things that are being talked about in Lustica these days. The American brothers would say “stop talking the talk, and walk the talk” when you are in power, and then you can be trusted. If you “walk the talk” like you do in Budva, you will face no bright future you, Europe Now comrades.
That’s it for today. See you tomorrow at the same time, in the same place.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst and columnist
