From: john_peter maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: balance
To my correspondents
I am sometimes accused of being "pro-Serb." I am, but not for
tribal
reasons. I am not a Serb, nor a Slav, nor eastern Orthodox. I
am an Irish
American Catholic Atheist.
The idea that being pro-Serb is reprehensible is reprehensible. I
am
accused of being pro-Zionist, too. The Irish Consul General in
Chicago
dubbed my ilk "fascist." His government, like the UK
jails, people on the
"suspicion" of a police officer, and imprisons
people in non-jury trials.
The biggest hate campaign of the 20th century has been directed
against
Serbs, bar none.
The idea that mutual guilt is the "right" opinion is to give equal time
to
lies and facts. to fascism and constitutionalism.
If I give the Serbs high marks, it's because I'm pro FACT. That takes
knowledge. "Balance" is mendacious in cases like the Balkans. The
cliché
"they're all bad" is a fig leaf to cover lack of
knowledge
In the Balkans one state is a civil state, based on citizenship, not
blood
or religion. Nine languages are mandated for use under
the constitution in
schools and courts. Compare the USA. Two dozen
nationalities are "Serbians",
not all Serbs.
Belgrade is home for example to 200 000 Albanians, who live there
unmolested. Many fled there from Kosovo, from Albanian chauvinists.
Serbia
is the only one a non-Serb would pick to live in, could live
in.
The war broke out because of secessions of Slovenia, Croatia, and
Bosnia-Herzegovina, these statelets all being proxies of big powers. The
map
of Europe today resembles that of 1938.
jpm
Take a look to the attachment
( John Peter Maher Curriculum
Vitae )
Minja
John Peter Maher
John Peter Maher Curriculum Vitae
John Peter Maher was born
of Irish parents in New York State in 1933. In 1955 he earned his B. A. from the
State University
of
New York at Binghamton and took an M. A. in Greek and Latin at The Catholic
University of America in Washington D. C.
After studying the
Serbo-Croatian language at U. S. Army Language School in Monterey, California,
he served on the
Yugoslav desk of the 430th Military Intelligence Battalion in northern Italy
from1959 to 1961, at the height of the Cold War.
After his army hitch he
took a doctorate in historical linguistics at Indiana University, minoring in
Latin and Slavic. He had
been a language teacher
in New York State high schools for three years, when in 1964 he began in
university teaching in
Chicago. In 1974 he was
awarded a tenured chair of English linguistics in the University of Hamburg,
Germany, where he
directed the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics (1977).
The same year he returned to Chicago. In 1993
he was appointed
professor emeritus. Since then he has concentrated his research and writing on
the subject of propaganda
in the current Balkan
wars.
His research specialty is
the interface of language and culture in modern languages and reconstructing
culture from language
evidence of ancient,
medieval and prehistoric European languages on the basis of Greek, Celtic,
Latin, Romance, Germanic,
and Slavic
vocabulary.
He is one of the few
original etymologists working today. He has published critical works in
theoretical linguistics and has
served on the editorial
boards of several journals. He has held Fulbright lecturing and research grants
in Ireland, Italy,
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. In 1997 he was an invited lecturer on
H0ungarian language and culture at the
Budapest meeting of
Young Presidents Organization.
In October 1997 he was
the guest of Dr. Biljana Plavši?, Prime Minister of Republika Srpska in Banja
Luka. n December 1999
he was a pilgrim to
Hilendar / Hilandar, the ancient Serb monastery on Mount Athos / Sveta Gora, to
Hagion Oros, near
Thessalonika, Greece.
1. In Latin, "ring"
translates as Anus
2. Dubrovnik hoax again
