[NYC-L] Adulthood Calling

[Aferdita Hakaj]

Mr. Ademaj,

 

Do you know what I think is sad? Hypocrites!  I don’t understand why you go on and on criticizing Albanians on growing up (adulthood call as you say) when you, yourself, use the f... word every other sentence?????  I would suggest on broadening your vocabulary skills. Please don’t take this the wrong way, just some advice from a fellow Albanian.  

 

Although I agree with many of you statements, I believe that you are complaining too much about all the problems and you seem not to suggest any solutions.  Please do not misunderstand me, but if you attend to critique others, try to give some concrete suggestions on improvement.     

 

In addition, you seem to be completely pessimist on the future of the Kosovar youth, how can the youth ever progress when they have no encouragement from the leadership in Kosova.   I hate to say it but Individuals, such as you, are not helping the situation by “riding on adrenaline like angry children.”  If you are not happy with the way the youth is reacting to the situation, then try to change it.  This can be done with calmness and understanding.   

 

As far as your statement in which said, “if any of you would like to confront the international media's growing bias against Albanians, maybe you should try to avoid sounding like a guilty and petulant child."  Well, let’s see…all I can say is something my granduncle use to say to me, which is “if a child does not cry, the parent will not know what the matter is.”  In other words, if you do not express yourself then how will the international community know the facts?  I do believe that getting the facts straight from both sides can at least allow people to judge the situation more accurately.  I do not see this in any way as acting like a child.  However, I think that if we do not raise our voices, then the situation will lead to incorrect assumptions and escalating consequences.  Especially, when the NYtimes or any other credible media is spreading propaganda, we are obligated as Albanians to try to get the truth out.  

 

I tried to be as short and concise as I could. 

 

Best regards,

Aferdita H.

 

P.S. Kritikat jan te mire se ardhura J! 

 

Jeton Ademaj <jeton at hotmail.com> wrote:
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You know what's sad? ITS SAD TO THINK ALBANIANS HAVE BEEN SO BADLY STRUNG 
ALONG THAT THERE'S STILL A LARGE NUMBER WHO "THINK" THE WAY THAT YOU DO.

There can be no excuse for fascism or proto-fascism. Blather all you like 
with all the defensive, circular reasoning and angry asides and 'he hit me 
first!" that you can muster, but you are playing into kostunica's (and 
djindic's and slobo's) hands. Belgrade has ALWAYS coveted Mitrovice and 
Trepce and everything north of the Ibar, and has ALWAYS been willing to part 
with the rest! The 'mass evacuation' across the Ibar in 1999 was a Serbian 
masterstroke, they essentially laid claim to Mitrovice then, and UCK knew 
it, which is why UCK's commander in Mitrovice still enjoys the ignomy of 
surrender. Instead of pushing past the French KFOR in june 99 and ensuring 
the territorial integrity of Kosove, he held back and lost the moment.

SO, AFTER HE LOST MITROVICE (at least temporarily), some Albanians got 
sucked into a strategy of reverse ethinic cleansing. Forget about the 
potentially (and INCREASINGLY!) catastrophic loss of Albanian credibility, 
forget briefly about the fact that even the most die-hard Albanian 
supporters have trouble keeping a straight face when they hear rhetoric like 
yours, Ylli. Let's take this to the extreme...there are now reports that 
even US soldiers have been confronted by Albanian mobs...

...TELL ME, IF AND WHEN THE USA IS EVENTUALLY AND SUFFICIENTLY EMBARRASSED 
ENOUGH TO WITHDRAW IT'S TROOPS AND DISASSEMBLE BONDSTEELE, INTO WHO'S SPHERE 
OF INFLUENCE CAN ALBANIANS DRIFT FOR PROTECTION AGAINST THE SLAVIC SPHERE, 
HMMM??? TURKEY? PAKISTAN?? AL QAEDA??? Just for laughs, why don't you try 
telling me ALL about how "Albanians don't need nobody anyways, dammit" ?

"ENERGY CORRIDOR 8", TREPCE, CONTROLLING AN ASCENDANT EUROPEAN UNION, 
EXPANDING THE US SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, BUILDING BRIDGES TO ISLAM USING WHITE 
EUROPEAN MUSLIMS...NONE OF THOSE FACTORS, TOGETHER OR SEPERATELY, IS ENOUGH 
TO LOCK THE USA INTO A SUICIDE PACT OF EMBARRASSMENT WITH ALBANIANS...ALL OF 
THOSE BENEFITS CAN BE REACHED BY OTHER AVENUES.

Its utterly disgusting to hear Albanians whine about their feelings, their 
'right' to drown old serbian women in bathtubs (one alb schmuk accused of 
such crimes in summer 99 was actually a schmuck who attended NYC rallies in 
spring '99, just the kind of idiot who would climb up on police barricades 
and unzip his pants, telling anti-NATO demonstrators "THITHMA KARIN!!!" -- 
in front of CNN, ABC, NBC, FOX and every other media venue you can think 
of!! Until I'd YANK HIM DOWN, that is.)

YES, DAMN YOU ALL, THAT'S FUCKING EMBARRASING!!!!!!!!!! and STUPID@!@!
and counter-fukn-productive to ALBANIAN INTERESTS!! But noooooooooo, one 
infantile childlike psychopath after another comes "fixing the Serbian 
Problem" with torches and molotov-cocktails while the great mass of 
Albanians either keep mum or blather defensively and *I*N*C*R*E*D*I*B*L*Y*. 
Does anybody remember CREDIBILITY?? You know, when people BELIEVE what you 
claim rather than smirk disgustedly at you?

Albanians need to shape-the-fuck-up. We need to show responsible HOSPITALITY 
toward minorities and CONTROL of our own, something we used to be good at by 
all accounts. Albanians should be so fukn spotless that we can march across 
the Ibar and reclaim our own homes there, so spotless that KFOR becomes too 
embarrased to stand in our way, so powerful in our untiy that they think 
better of it. Instead we have the general freak-show which is the entire 
Albanian political establishment, from drunk traitors to criminal puppets, 
to the merely ineffectual...

Of course the EU never wanted Kosovar independence. They are INTEGRATING, 
and fear any form of DISSOLUTION, especially nearby. OF COURSE they were 
happy to obstruct 'final status' negotiations as long as possible. Every 
fukn senior player in the '99 war knew that then, which is why it's so extra 
sad to watch Albanians play into the belgrade/brussels strategem to this 
day. "Albanians are ethno-fascistically inclined, we cannot allow states 
based on ETHNIC PURITY" bla bla blahH!

We're becoming like the Palestinians, and God help us all if Serbia hasn't 
been learning the lessons of Israel -- to act all innocent while guiding and 
riding the wave to where BELGRADE wants it to go.
NO, i truly doubt there's much in the way of true organization behind the 
latest Kosova uprising, the fact that all of Kosova fears the latest round 
of 'partition' talks and that many have cellphones, pagers and internet 
access is more than enough to spark the kind of simultaneous disturbances 
going on. An inter-ethnic incident involving the homicide of children is a 
perfect spark to ignite this kind of horror, with all that anxiety and the 
humiliation of living under a hopelessly out-of-touch UNMIK as a background. 
But if any of you would like to confront the international media's growing 
bias against Albanians, maybe you should try to avoid sounding like a guilty 
and petulant child. I know Kosove is mostly young people demographicly 
speaking, but too many wiser older Albanians have tried reliving their lost 
youth riding on the adrenaline of angry children, while the whole train is 
riding right back into the Serbian station.

"GROW UP!" ----pass it on!

Jeton Ademaj
Bronx, New York


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Mr. Xharra I do not understand who you are trying to blame. On thing is
important to know. “What Serbs are capable of doing, no individual with
a human hart can.” If you don’t know, go and do some research. I know
that for some individuals, what happened five years ago has been
forgotten. But those who’ve been through that will never forget. It is
embarrassing to blame Albanians for burning some bullshit churches that
persuade and teach criminals how to kill babies and how to rape women.
And it is more embarrassing to support “so called” minorities who have
their hands full of blood and stay there only for trouble. I think, we
should blame UN for not keeping its promises, but not those individuals
that have become sick and tired without seeing the light. If you haven’t
been to Kosova lately, go and see how Albanians are treated? I assure
you don’t want that kind of life.

Best
Ylli.

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