re: #305 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

During which war? Why not just relink this, if you think it’s relevant? A lot of your posts have been deleted, so it might be in one of those.

Scroll up to #266 on this thread link is there. The Croatian war of independence, naturally.

also:

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910312&slug=1271252

Tuesday, March 12, 1991

Croatia’s New Nationalism — Symbols Of Pride Are Rekindling Terror For Ethnic Serbs

JOSEVICA, Yugoslavia - Bosiljka Juzbasic’s voice quivers as she recalls when she and other Serbs living in Croatia began to fear that the new government of the republic was plotting to kill them.

“It was when they put up those flags and shields at the police station,” says the bent-backed peasant, who looks 70 but is 52. “I don’t remember much of the war. I was too young. But I remember my mother carrying me, running with me away from that same shield.”

Croatia’s shield was used as a national symbol only once before: during World War II, when the fascist puppet regime of the Ustase systematically executed Serbs, Jews and Gypsies.

Now, the red-and-white checkerboard shield is back.

Since the republic’s non-Communist government came to power in May, it has embarked on a quest to form an independent Croatia, and the shield is fluttering on new Croatian flags outside police stations and government offices throughout the republic. Enameled checkerboard pins have replaced the red star on the caps and badges of police and the territorial militia.

While the unsubstantiated reports of an impending genocide might be disregarded by those who are educated and worldly, they have struck genuine terror in the hearts of Serbs in remote outposts like Josevica.

Flying of the checkerboard colors is seen here as proof that a civil war is about to begin. Hundreds of thousands of Serbs and Croats own guns, threatening an uncontrollable bloodletting if fratricidal fighting ever gets started.

“Why have they come here with their flags and machine guns, if not to kill us?” asks Milja, a saleswoman at the only store in this village of 350 Serbs and two Croatian women who married into the community. “All you have to do is turn on the television to see that Tudjman hates Serbs so much that he can’t even say their names.” The vendor did not give her full name out of fear of retaliation.

“The tensions started in September, with the police station incident,” says Petrinja’s mayor, Stanislava Gregurincic-Zilic, a Croat who is married to a Serb from Josevica.

The 55-year-old former Communist blames supporters of Tudjman’s Croatian Democratic Union for waving nationalist symbols and stirring up the current fever of hostility.

“The Serbs are irritated by these displays of flags and shields. They don’t accept them because they were the symbols of the Ustase,” she says.

Hey Serbs, don’t freak out we are using the same Nazi era symbols our grandparents used to kill yours in death camps. Oh, and by the way, blacks don’t freak out about that burning cross or the confederate flag - it does not mean what it used to mean. And the swastika nowadays in Germany? Has to do with Hindu good luck - honest.

Right?