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This included people from the Radical Party, the Socialist Party, Serbian Renewal, Serbian Unity as well as other parties plus tens of thousands of people who might have voted for the DOS authorities but are now furious that these leaders have kidnapped the former Yugoslav head of state, Mr. Milosevic, and shipped him to the discredited Tribunal at the Hague. This unity is a new feature, something special for Serbia. The Djindjic-Kostunica politicians are in disarray, fighting amongst themselves. The DOS coalition has splintered. The Montenegrin Socialists (SNP) resigned from the Federal government, causing it to collapse. The Serbian and Montenegrin socialists (SPS and SNP) called for a special meeting of the Federal Parliament for today, to vote down the extradition decree. The president of Parliament canceled the session giving reasons that are vague. Clearly, the DOS people are afraid to let the Federal Parliament meet because the SPS and SNP have together constitute a majority - they could form a new government. And on the other hand, if new elections were held today, DOS would lose many seats. The police were brought out in force Thursday and Friday, and threats were made but the regular police sympathized with the thousands of people protesting in the streets. Only the special police, some of whom are drawn from organized crime, are "reliable." In the face of many spontaneous demonstrations all over Serbia and immense demonstrations in Belgrade Thursday (totally spontaneous) Friday (due to police roadblocks, people could only come from Belgrade itself yet the crowd was huge, somewhere over 100,000 according to the SPS, the largest opposition party in Serbia. Meanwhile another rally which the SPS estimated at more than 20,000 took place in the city of Novi Sad) and today (SPS estimated around 200,000). The forces of national independence have immense strength. At today's rally, the largest yet, the police refused to let organizers set up loud speakers. As of my last information, the vast crowd was marching to the Serbian Parliament. The man I was talking to by cellular phone said he was afraid there would be too many people to fit in the square outside Parliament. "What will we do with all these people?" he wondered. CHRIS BLACK RECRUITS LAWYERS Meanwhile, at Slobodan Milosevic's request, Chris Black, the distinguished Toronto attorney and head of the Lawyers Committee of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic has been recruiting a crack team of lawyers to participate in Mr. Milosevic's defense however they are needed. These lawyers include: * Andre Tremblay, Professor of Law at University of Montreal, who addressed the European parliament this month, delivering a scathing criticism of The Hague Tribunal; * Peter Erlander, former Chairman of the National Lawyers Guild in the U.S., a highly experienced trial lawyer and Professor at the George Mitchell Law School in Minnesota * Professor Bhim Singh, president of the National Panthers Party in India * David Jacobs, a brilliant trial attorney with extensive experience in the Rwanda Tribunal FUND RAISING FOR LAWYERS Black told Emperor's Clothes that a number of people had inquired about raising money for the Lawyers, however as of today no fund raising committee for legal defense has been authorized or set up. As soon as Mr. Milosevic has had a chance to give the lawyers instructions, such a committee may be formed, says Black. Anyone interested in contacting Chris Black about future fund-raising may write him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] A NOTE ON THE SIZE OF THE BELGRADE RALLIES I attended and spoke at the March 24 rally in Belgrade's Republic Square. Over the years I have taken part in a dozen giant marches and rallies in the U.S., including the famous one where Dr. King made his "I Have a Dream" speech. The point is, I therefore have some idea about crowd size and also some idea of what it takes to fill Republik Square in Belgrade. The SPS estimated the crowd at the March 24 rally in Belgrade to number about 50,000. That seemed right to me. The German media said 5,000. Curiously, while the German media has continued to report much lower figures than the SPS (or people I have spoken to on the phone) the discrepancies follow a pattern: the German media figures are consistently 10% of the organizers' estimates. Now of course it is possible that the SPS, or I, might estimate high. But not ten times too high. But what about the Western media? It routinely fashions lies out of the whole cloth in the interest of attacking Milosevic and the Serbs. Consider this example. I would wager you have read in some newspaper or heard on some TV or radio that in June 1989 Milosevic made a speech in Kosovo during which he whipped up Serbian ultra-nationalism. The truth is, he did make a speech on June 28, but that speech called for ethnic unity. (If you haven't read the speech, it is well worth the trouble.) And it isn't as if one or two newspapers misreported - it appears that every account in the mainstream media, and coming from most politicians and even Balkans writers and "experts" reverses what Milosevic said. (Of course, saying you are for ethnic unity doesn't prove you are for ethnic unity - but they are lying about what he SAID.) The Western media, eager to give their readers and viewers the impression that most Yugoslavs are uninterested in the extradition of Milosevic, have a reason to drastically downplay the numbers involved in these protests. Though the media could easily film panoramic views of the demonstrations, they generally don't, because such views would make it impossible to hide the huge numbers of people involved. The pictures below (go to http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/j29.htm ) are of a limited part of the June 29th rally. It is clear the demonstration was immense. Anyway, if the SPS is making all this up, if vast number of people are not in the streets, protesting the extradition, why has the DOS coalition fallen apart? Why are Djindjic and Kostunica at each other's throats, each calling the other a liar? --Jared Israel *** URGENT APPEAL! 2 JULY TO THOSE WHO HAVE DONATED TO OUR FUNDRAISING APPEAL - THANK YOU! BUT EMPEROR'S CLOTHES STILL URGENTLY NEEDS HELP! 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