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> From: "Radio Mega.1" <radiomega1@volja.net>
> Date: 13. april 2004 21:27:19 GMT+02:00
> To: <nettime-see-owner@nettime.org>
> Subject: rejected in error - PLEASE post this in mailing list
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> Subject: ANOTHER ASPECT OF THE SAME STORY
> Subject: DENUNCIATION OF 11 years of SISTEMATIC PERSECUTION - HELP us  
> - FREE RADIO
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> Slovenia: The  Erased People
> Slovenia: The  Erased property
> Slovenia: The  Erased land - from land register
> Slovenia: The Erased owners
> Slovenia: The Erased company
> Slovenia: The Erased funds
> Slovenia: The Erased rights
> Slovenia: The Erased ...
> Slovenia: The Erased human rights
> ANOTHER ASPECT OF THE SAME STORY
> THE SO NAMED SLOVENIAN STORY OF SUCCESS...
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> http://www.aimpress.ch/dyn/dos/archive/data/2003/30725-dose-01-01.htm
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> CORRUPTION AND ORGANIZED CRIME
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> Introduction: United Mafia of the Balkan
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> The assessments that the newly created independent Balkan states have  
> ended their wars might be true. But, there is no doubt that most, if  
> not all, post-socialist states of the region are firmly in the  
> clutches of organized crime and corruption which are increasingly  
> manifested as destructive for the local feeble democracies, having  
> become so powerful that they control the key social segments. This  
> might be an expected result in societies in which politics is  
> considered to be the most profitable business which enables making  
> quick money and ensures an abundance of privileges. And it is not  
> subject to any responsibility.
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>  The following several texts from six Balkan countries (SLOVENIA  
> INCLUDED) will make it clear that in this space everybody is  
> declaratively in favour of the struggle against corruption and  
> organized crime. However, these phenomena are becoming increasingly  
> apparent, with an increasingly powerful and decisive role in everyday  
> life of ordinary man. These texts will point out to the similarities  
> between the stories about organized crime and corruption, and regional  
> interconnections among persons engaged in illegal deals, and the  
> stories on empty declarative political language used to fight the  
> battle against these evils. Balkan mafia and local criminals have a  
> long time ago achieved what all the projects for the future of Balkan  
> are striving to achieve - multiethnicity of their networks and  
> relativization of state borders. And that is why cynics say: " Balkan  
> is ruled by multiethnic mafia backed by nationalistic political  
> elites. The opposite probably equally applies. Because for quite some  
> time nobody can determine the demarcation line between politicians and  
> criminals. Moreover, often those who shout "Catch the thief!" are  
> doing it just to raise as much turmoil as possible in order to conceal  
> who is chasing whom. This imposes the dilemma: are these countries  
> developing mechanisms which will protect honest citizens from  
> destruction or institutions which will protect the criminals from the  
> law.
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>  The known saying that all the states have criminals, but only in the  
> Balkan the criminals have their states could be supplemented by the  
> conclusion that in all states you will have to face the law due to  
> your guilt,  only in the Balkan you could encounter misfortune because  
> you are innocent. In the so-called "countries in transition" for a  
> long time there has been an equation mark between politics, business,  
> crime and justice, so you may run into trouble if you naively believe  
> that these professions are separate from each other. It is, indeed, a  
> single river called by all these different names just in order to  
> confuse the naive, a river in which the unprotected shall drown -  
> those who are powerless to do anything - ordinary mortals.
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> Subject: DENUNCIATION OF 11 years of SISTEMATIC PERSECUTION - HELP us  
> - FREE RADIO
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> Dear, Mrs. and  Mr.
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>  Dear Sirs,
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> Pleas assist us in obtaining our objective.
> Pleas intervene with your authority, so we may obtain our denied  
> rights.
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> Kind regards,
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> Radio  Mega.1
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> Vitogoj KODARIN
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> P.S. SLOVENIA MEDIA WAS INFORMED, BUT THEY ARE MANTAINING COMPLETE AND  
> ABSOLUTE SILENCE ABOUT THIS CASE...
> Bostjan PENKO Director ANTI-CORUPTION OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT is living  
> the anti coruption fight...
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> We've got the bananas...republic...
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> http://www.justresponse.net/Drnovsek_appeal.html
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> 'In Slovenia everything is possible for some and nothing is possible  
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> devastating consequences. Corrupt politics, corrupt nation, corrupt  
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> Radio Mega.1, a Slovenian Odyssey: an appeal to President Janez  
> Drnovsek for freedom of speech
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> Slovenian citizen Vitogoj Kodarin is now into the twelfth year of his  
> battle to open an independent private radio network in Slovenia.  
> Investigations into the case by JUST Response have revealed rising  
> systematic corruption in Slovenia beyond the external perception. We  
> urgently invite Janez Drnovsek (top left), President of Slovenia, and  
> Premier Anton Rop (lower left) to take real action to combat  
> corruption in Slovenia, promote free speech and allow Radio Mega.1 to  
> broadcast.
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> An open letter to:-
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> Mr. Janez Drnovsek, President of Slovenia
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> Mr. Anton Rop, Premier of Slovenia
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> - and to the two million citizens of Slovenia
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> RE: We respectfully request  - 1) that you urgently launch an earnest   
> political campaign to combat white-collar corruption in Slovenia  
> before the rest of the population becomes similarly infected by this  
> negative example; and 2) that you provide a positive example for  
> Slovenians on the eve of your accession to the EU by promoting freedom  
> of expression and allowing Radio Mega.1 to function. 
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> JUST Response is an international human rights journal concerned with  
> the worldwide monitoring and promotion of the basic principles of  
> truth, justice, freedom and democracy. We wish to express our full  
> support for Mr Vitogoj Kodarin, whose ongoing 11-year battle to open  
> an independent private radio network in Koper, Capodistria has now  
> become also a question of principle.
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> In December 1992 Vitogoj Kodarin attempted to fulfil a lifelong dream  
> by formally setting up Radio Mega.1. One month later the Slovenian  
> ministry for information granted a licence. But corrupt administrative  
> and political practices prevented the radio from broadcasting. 
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> Mr Kodarin did not have the right connections and was unwilling to pay  
> backhanders for something that was his legal right as a Slovenian  
> citizen. Finally, three years ago the radio was struck off the  
> official register against Mr Kodarin's will.
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> Mr Kodarin's efforts to obtain justice have fallen on deaf ears, with  
> two distinguished exceptions: Dr Sandra Basic-Hrvatin, the chairwoman  
> of the Slovenian telecommunications council, and Mr Janez Drobnic, an  
> opposition member of the Slovenian parliament. 
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> Dr Basic-Hrvatin told JUST Response that she was approached by Radio  
> Mega.1 two years ago and began to investigate their case. She  
> confirmed that she had helped them raise the issue before the  
> Slovenian parliamentary petitions commission. 
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> Meanwhile Mr Drobnic has just raised the question in the Slovenian  
> parliament. But the governing coalition has blocked any decision on  
> the matter.
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> Mr Kodarin said: "My case confirms that in Slovenia everything is  
> possible for some and nothing is possible for others. Here in Slovenia  
> we have one man who possesses no fewer than 36 radio frequencies. The  
> sad truth is that Slovenia has become a sort of Stalinist banana  
> republic."
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> Ironically, Slovenia is the only ex-Yugoslavia country with a  
> corruption prevention bureau. It was set up in 2001 on Council of  
> Europe recommendations. But it has been strongly criticised by its  
> former director Bostjan Penko on account of its dependence on the  
> cooperation of other government bodies.
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> Domenico Pacitti, the editor of JUST Response human rights journal,  
> said: "Mr Kodarin's case highlights the true nature and extent of  
> corruption in Slovenia on the eve of its accession to the EU. A  
> consistently negative example to citizens by corrupt politicians can  
> have devastating consequences. The disservice these people are doing  
> to their country is inestimable. Corrupt politics, corrupt nation,  
> corrupt soul."
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> The Editor and Staff of JUST Response
> London & Rome
> 24 March 2004
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> NOTE: JUST Response published this appeal on 24 March 2004.
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