It’s time to get rid of the political lunatics before the madness begins to spread among people

Amra Vrabac

He will cool down, he needs to let off steam, he will come back, there is no secession, it is Dodik - we are used to it… are some of the naive assessments by the politicians who are in power with the SNSD. He has neither cooled down nor returned to the state institutions, and the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been in crisis for more than half a year. Tensions and war allusions are increasingly occupying the public space, although the position of security experts is that the war has never ended, because the hybrid war has been going on ever since Dayton.

Those who said that Dodik did not commit any crime, today have a different opinion and claim that he does not intend to stop on his way to the secession. With the recent 'marching for the cross', 'the March on the Drina', which welcomed him at the Kozara barracks a few days ago, and the message that he will keep moving in line with the decisions of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, Dodik confirmed that he would keep marching all the way no matter what price he'd have to pay, but unfortunately also the citizens of the RS.

Calls to the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina to prosecute Dodik and his followers in the overthrow of the state and the secession of the RS – remain unanswered.

The case relating to the attack on the constitutional order and hearing of witnesses, but not of suspects, was just throwing dust in the eyes. It is no secret that Dodik invited the employees of that Prosecutor's Office and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to consultations and gave them a deadline to leave the institutions. The RS Prime Minister Radovan Višković's statement that two judges of the BiH Constitutional Court are ready to leave the Constitutional Court whenever Dodik and the government ask them to do so - sounds incredulous. Dodik announced the adoption of a law on the RS High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council by the end of this month, which, after conclusions on the transfer of jurisdiction in the field of justice, is the second step towards the goal - complete collapse of the BiH judiciary. A few months ago, judge Branko Perić called on the judiciary to stop political violence. So far there has been no reaction. And we cannot expect anything other than silent observation from the judiciary in which politics has long been domesticated.

The same judiciary did not react to the participation of the Border Police in the marking of the unconstitutional January 9, and Galić's assistant Dragan Kulić attended the ceremony at Borik Hall.

Dodik should have been sanctioned at his very first mention of the siege of the BiH Armed Foces barracks. The American and European administrations were late and failed, waiting for Dodik to come to his senses. Directly affected by the situation are the citizens who are leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina, fleeing war drums and saber-rattling.

Only those who plunder the budgets of this country are loyal to Dodik, and they are digging it (the country) from the inside. But those who did the same with bad but suitable staff, loyal but with fake diplomas, are also to blame. What is it exactly that the state police and security agencies are doing today? Instead of protecting the legal order of the state, they participate in its overthrow.

It is quite clear that push has come to shove and the time has come to finally get rid of the political lunatics before the madness begins to spread among people, from which we would never recover.