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Speech by Prof. Nestor Oginar given at the Hyatt Regency Reston Hotel in the
suburb of Washington D.C. on the occasion of the annual Congress of the
Schiller Institute held on September 1-3, 2001


The Balkans-Southeast Europe, has been, historically, one of the most crucial
areas in the world.  It has been, in the literal sense of the word, the
landbridge between Europe and Asia.  It is a crossroads of different
cultures, nations, religions and ethnic groups.  It is also a strategically
crucial area between North-Central Europe and the South, the Middle East,
Africa, Asia: It is the key bridge, the connecting point between east and
west.

    This area, for the last one hundred years at least, could have been
arguably one of the most economically developed areas in the world.
Unfortunately, those world powers who want to prevent an economic and
mutually beneficial collaboration and prosperity of the Balkan peoples have
an interest to set it on fire, which is happening right now!  It has been
their way to maintain the oligarchical control of the world, at any cost,
even if it involves destruction of entire countries, nations, cultures, and
societies - which is nothing but a genocide, a bloody crime against humanity.

    So, we have had this history of war and suffering in the Balkans for
generations and generations.  Ask my beloved, my suffering Macedonian people
and they will tell you.  Look at them now, as they are today, hopeless,
humiliated, homeless, displaced, ethnically cleansed, economically
impoverished, under military aggression, under military occupation, wounded
in body and soul, bleeding and dying, attacked by the wild Albanian terrorist
hoards, and their puppetmasters, disguised as NATO and the "International
Community," all in the name of peacekeeping, war-preventing, and human
rights.  What a sham, what a shame, what a theater of the absurd!

    Let me stress this point again: Macedonia is being destroyed, dismantled,
completely annihilated from the map of the world, as a country, as a
nation-state, as a society, as a constitutional democracy, as a peaceful
member state of the United Nations.  Astonishingly, all this is happening on
the world stage before the wide open eyes of an apathetic audience.

    But I cannot, we cannot blame only the mercenary KLA, which are but a
proxy, or better yet the puppets of greater and more incedious forces, whose
commands they obey.  We have to look at these forces, the real puppet-masters
more closely, because what is at stake is not just the very existence of
Macedonia, because what we are defending isn't just one small, proud,
ancient, biblical land - Macedonia.  We are defending, ladies and gentlemen,
an idea, an ideal; above all we are defending a principle: the
principle that Macedonia, like every other country in the community of
mankind, has the fundamental, the inalienable right to its own national
sovereignty, to its own self-determination, to its own national independence,
and national dignity.  The right of the
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people to be free of violence, of foreign interference and war-mongering,
from political and economic blackmail and coercion.  The right of a people to
organize its own democratic, economic and cultural development.

    And I contend before you that this is the reason why we the Macedonians
have a moral obligation, and a right to ask for the help of any individual,
any institution, any country of goodwill, include this illustrious Institute.
 Because we are convinced that in defending Macedonia on principle, we are
defending a universal principle.

    I am convinced as I stand here before you now, that Macedonia must take
and will take the lead on the international stage in the universal struggle
of humanity against this New-World Globalized Order, piloted and manipulated
by the predatory oligarchs, hiding in their headquarters in London,
Washington, Brussels, or Wall Street.  Just as in the manner in which my
ancient and glorious king, Alexander of Macedonia, defeated the old oligarchs
of the Persian empire, 2,330 years ago, just like Apostle Paul responded to
the pleading voice of the biblical Macedonian man to come and help, we the
Macedonia people, drawing on our rich, long history, that has survived many
invasions, must stand up and fight an honorable and great battle of ideas,
and give our contribution in the changing of the world system of injustice
and looting to a more just and humane one.

    We call upon you, all of you, to join us the Macedonians in our fight
against those who in the Balkans and elsewhere have drawn the georacist
designs of maps, to join us in our struggle to fight the Zbybniew Brezynskis
of the world, the Henry Kissingers of the world, the Lord Ownens of the
world, the Lord Robertsons, the Javier Solanas, the James Wolfensons of the
world, and he list goes on and on, ad-infinitum.

    We have a moral obligation to recognize that there is a monstrous design,
a monstrous racism behind the policies and ideologies of these people and
their likes, and we must do everything together to thwart them.

Ladies and gentlemen, need I remind you that we live in some of the most
tragic, dangerous, and trying times of our era, which test the very fiber of
our souls and consciousness' as member of different nations of the civilized
world, at the threshold of the twenty first century.  I can stand proudly
here before you and state clearly that as a Macedonian, and as an
intellectual, I feel that Macedonia is not defeated, the Macedonian people
are not defeated, the people who know, love and cherish the common welfare of
mankind are not defeated.  So long as our spirit is untouched, we are not
defeated, so long as our pride and dignity survive, we are not conquered.

    From this platform, I appeal to all of my fellow Macedonians, to all of
my fellow Americans, to all of my fellows present here at this esteemed
gathering, to all of mankind, we must resist the evil, dark forces that
threaten to destabilize the world.  We must resist the very same forces that
like hungry vultures have descended upon the innocent living organism of
Macedonia.  In order to do that, we must recognize, I repeat,

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we must recognize that we are all drifting in a vast, dark sea of crisis,
pilotless and starless.

    I am reminded here of a profound thought, expressed by Mr. Lyndon
Larouche and published in the August 20th issue of the "New Federalist."  Let
me quote it for you: "Two things are required.  First thing: people have to
recognize how bad the crisis is.  They also have to recognize how elementary
in nature the solution is.  And only when that perception of crisis occurs do
we have the possibility, politically, of doing what we must do."

    For me, personally, as a Macedonian, but also as a human being, the
biggest enemy with which we all are confronted in our time is not the
Albanian terrorist organization KLA, it is not their mentors and
puppet-masters embodied in NATO, EU and the "International Community."  The
biggest enemy of us all is the one that dwells and lurks within ourselves.
Within the dark recesses of our detached and immobilized minds.  The enemy is
in our demoralization, in our apathy, in our resignation, in our moral
capitulation, in our complacency and our readiness to accept the reality, the
Hegelian reality,  as it is thrust at us, on a daily basis.

    But I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in case you didn't know, that we
the Macedonians have it in us, in our blood, in our veins, all the strength
of our striving humanity, our national and cultural heritage, to strive, to
overcome, to vanquish and never to yield, to all of our enemies from within
or without.

    Countless generations of our proud Macedonian ancestors have bestowed on
us a priceless heritage and tradition of resistance, of fight and never
yielding to the forces of evil, no matter how powerful they may be.

    Our resistance must spring forth from the generosity of our hearts, from
the clarity of our minds, and from the nobility of our spirit.  We owe these
values to our children, and all new generations.

    When we succeed to extricate ourselves from the double psychological trap
of imposed fear and induced impotence, when we begin to realize that we are
embarked on a mission of grandiose and epic proportions, only then will we be
able to understand that we are not alone, isolated, abandoned and helpless
sheep surrounded with the army of enemies, and we can summon strength to
fight and to resist.

    Only then will we be able to realize that a small band of petty
oligarchs, plutocrats, speculators and usurers masked behind the metaphors of
the internation community, the international monetary Fund, the World Bank,
NATO and others, have subjected virtually the entire world to destruction,
and that my beloved and proud Macedonia is only another victim in the vast
gallery of horror.


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The only advantage of this evil is their ability, by way of brutal force and
deception, to carry out the policy of "Divide et Impera," divide and conquer,
to project the image of omnipotence, omniscience and invincibility, and to
bully, frighten, degrade and humiliate, morally and psychologically, the
countries which they choose to victimize in their pathological laboratories.

    I must say, over and over, so that I may be understood, that our
allegedly invincible enemy is not nearly so powerful as they like to be
perceived.

    I tell you that right now, as I speak, they are shivering in their
offices, wherever they are, at the very notion that tiny Macedonia and its
people will
rise on mass, by the millions and say, "It is enough!"  Stop this unjust
invasion!  Stop this military occupation!  We do not accept this framework
agreement being imposed on our pathetic, corrupt, inexperienced and cowardly
government by way of military force, and political and economic blackmail.
We refuse to accept it because it is in contradiction with the universal
principles of democracy, with the constitution of Macedonia as a nation
state, with the democratic processes as they are practiced all over the
world, and with international law and order as we know it.

    Like the Nazi-Fascist apparatus of World War II, NATO, the International
Community and its pathetic proxies, have overestimated their real strength,
and we know that they are beginning to rot and collapse from within, as does
the financial system that spawned them.

    So, you see, ladies and gentlemen, that there is no reason, no room for
pessimism.  We can win!  As indeed we must!  The real war, the factor that
determines the final outcome is not a military war, it is a battle of ideas.
It is a war of principles to be fought and played out, ultimately, in the
theater of civilized humanity.  The historical situation we encounter today
requires from all of us, in the paraphrase of the great German poet and
humanist, Friederich Schiller, that we become bigger than ourselves, so that
a great historical moment does not find us again - small people.

    Ladies and Gentlemen,
        Let me conclude by reiterating the thought that we must not remain
the mere spectator at what is happening.   That no man is an island, an
entity onto himself.  If Macedonia is destroyed, can Europe ever be the same?
 Will she not be diminished, dishonored and humiliated?  And, for that
matter, can the world ever be the same after the demise of Macedonia?
        That's why it is crucial that we organize and unite in our struggle
to save and preserve Macedonia, not only as a country, a nation
state, a constitutional Democracy, but an idea, and an ideal founded on the
inalienable universal principles of liberty, equality, justice and dignity of
the common man!
        Macedonia is our one, only and last remaining hope and we must save
her!


                            Thank You