I have been following your articles, interviews and decidedly clever replies to most of what concerns the current affairs in Serbia – but within this topic, you may have been blindsided or just plain wrong.

You seem to have suggested that one of the participants should visit Kosovo and continue his fight over there. I am scheduled to go to Serbia this Summer again – and I’ll be happy to give you my first hand report on KiM.

This is my objection. Within the functioning of the present government structure in Belgrade there seems to be a good number of neo-UDBA members of post-communism – just as I illustrated in the case of Dimitry Rupel. This excludes a whole new group of “Rent-A-Serbian” which is painfully obvious reading the Politika commentaries.

If Serbian officials had sufficient knowledge of the English language they can only learn and benefit from the articles of Dr. Trifkovic, your own contribution, Messrs. Averko and Baily, without any of them having to go to Kosovo and without any of them having abandoned their Serbian heritage. I continue to enjoy gibanica, kolo and many other things Serbian, but I don’t have to live in a hornets’ nest to be able to make the deaf ones regain their hearing – my presence won’t help. In my own case (and I suspect some others too) it is exactly the exposure to free thinking and the free idea exchange that some of the clever ideas have come to fruition. Don’t forget that Benjamin Franklin walked into the British Parliament as a British subject from the colonies, but walked out as an American patriot and revolutionary. Sometimes being away from home give you a far clearer perspective….

I was equally crucified by claiming that communism is alive and well in Serbia as much as in many countries of the former Yugoslavia. It is a nasty coincidence that during the EU rotating presidency it was a Slovene Foreign Secretery Dimitry Rupel was an admitted Communist who was expelled from the Communist Party and fought tooth and nail to be re-admitted. Today his Communist training is evidences in his encouraging the 3% of the Kosovo population go traspass on 15% of Serbian lands. It is this exact act that proves what a good communist Rupel was brought out to be. Communism's main target was the reducing "Serbian hegemony" (or influence/strength, etc.)

Therefore partitioning Serbia further and further indeed goes well in keeping with the Communist School of Thought. The Communists in Serbia are following the same line of thinking - partition Kosovo, Vojvodina, Sandzak, etc. Even the DS which deems itself largely non-communist has made and supported anti-Serbian moves. Every so often I find a befitting sentence by Njegos or Shakespeare. Every Serbian should now ask: Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?

So much for all those delusional views that democracy in Serbia is fully functional. Those that can read Serbian may feast their eyes on Rupel's deeply submerged communism in the Serbian daily Politika at the following URL: http://www.politika.co.yu/rubrike/redakcijski-komentari/Krivolov.sr.html

Remember also Patrick McGoohan in Secret Agent Man? They give him newer number and take away his name.

Sexy. Wow you look younger than 54'ish. Stay so...get up each day and admit that in reality you're not getting older you're getting younger.

UDBA! Undemocratic!! Bloodshed to come!!!

Pleeeeeease contain yourself, sir.

As I have mentioned to you earlier: see the calamity writ large in the west and then place Serbia within its proper context and not some inflated position.

For if I were to judge the three presidential candidates being foisted upon us as "choices" and how that came to be I might also smell something of a security apparatus at work, something distinctly undemocratic, and something that will definately lead to bloodshed (at least abroad, when the next wars come to pass). Now, if you really believe these three "public servents" to be cast from the same mold as Washington and Jefferson, well, then, I'm not sure that there is much I could explain to you. And if you also choose to ignore Dr. Kostunica's record of integrity with respect to constitutionally derived authority, not to mention his respect for western democratic traditions (he translated key early American documents into Serbian for goodness sake!), well, then, what can I really say when you condemn the man?

You should live in Serbia, your homeland. Being too far from your own land for too long is dangerous. It is not good for the mind of a man. Serbia is not perfect, but I cannot see your goodself seeing it properly. To say that it smells like Weimar Republic...You live in the UK, I guess? "Hundred times repeated lie becomes truth", that is what I think about the British press, for instance. But, I do not believe in that "proverb" being true. For had that been true, Goebbels would not have ended in the way he did.

Jack Bailey and Mike Averko are two completely different people.