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From: Seke 
To: Andrej Grubacic 
Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 10:13 AM
Subject: Fw: ANTI-SERB PROPAGANDA


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> > Subject: STORMIE'S STORY
> > Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 15:34
> > 
 > > Dear Serbian friends ;
> > 
> > This is not intended to be a "spam" message by no means. I am here to
> > inform you about an anti-Serb propaganda book that is being used in a
> > class at Florida State University on "human rights investigations" and
> > my persecution by the campus police and the investigations of me by
> > the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
> > 
> > I took the class on "human rights investigations" believing that my
> > anti-NATO, as well as my belief that NATO committed war crimes in
> > Yugoslavia,  opinion would be respected.  The instructor, a graduate
> > student named Stefan Schmitt, subsequently had me thrown out of the
> > class, complaining that I "frightened him" and that I "threatened
> > him."  It seems that the truth is frightening to anti-Serb
> > propagandists like Stefan Schmitt.  Not only has he now had me thrown
> > out of class, but has had me banished from the Bellemy Building, a
> > main building on campus, under threat of arrest.  Not only can I not
> > attend classes there next semester, but I cannot attend meetings of
> > clubs I belong to. My whole educational future is threatened, and I
> > have not been arrested or convicted of anything, and I have now been
> > marginalized on campus.
> > 
> > Through his part-time employment with the Florida Department of Law
> > Enforcement as a forensic anthropologist, he has had me investigated
> > and which now threatens my ability to visit me state representatives
> > at the State Capitol.  I also have a lot of acquaintances that I know
> > at the State Capitol.  What is also scary is that there have been law
> > enforcement currently and formerly in his class, including members of
> > the FDLE, Florida Department of Law Enforcement.  If you are of Serb
> > descent, and you live or are traveling through Florida, and you need
> > assistance of law enforcement, the officer responding just might have
> > been exposed to this book, if he went to FSU.
> > 
> > The book that Stefan Schmitt is using for this class is called "The
> > Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar" by Eric Stover and Gillis Pervess
> > (1998).  This is a classical "good guys vs.. bad guys."  The "good
> > guys" are the Bosnian Muslims and non-Serbs.  The "bad guys" are the
> > Serbs and anyone and anything Serbian. It builds and reuses
> > stereotypes of the Serbs as "dirty, drunken, smelly and murderous
> > animals."  Over and over again in this book these images are used,
> > with absolute nothing positive being portrayed about "the Serbs."  In
> > protest and disgust of this book, I tore it up in front of the Hecht
> > House, the building where the Department of Criminology is located.
> > You can read my book review of this book at
> > http://www.abolishnato.com/abolishnato/graves2.htm ..
> > 
> > I am now doing a research project to replace this class.  It is on
> > anti-Serb propaganda and dehumanization through propaganda.  I have
> > discovered not only the concerted efforts to demonize the Serbian
> > people, but that "The Graves" is a well done piece of propaganda, as
> > well as being typical Western/NATO, anti-Serb, stereotypical trash as
> > well as outright lies. . .
> > 
> > I have meet two Serb professors on campus that I was put in touch with
> > by Petar, the webmaster of Srpska-Mreza website.
> > http://www.srpska-mreza.com
> > ..  I also will be showing the "NATO Targets" video on campus on
> > December 10th, which is "Human Rights Day."   I have suffered much
> > demonization and a now present threat and harassment of my academic
> > freedom.  Because I strongly object to a propaganda book being used in
> > a classroom on "human rights investigations," and because this
> > Serbophobic, propagandist, Stefan Schmitt, "feels afraid" of me, I
> > have been denied FULL access to all university facilities, and I have
> > committed no crime!
> > 
> >  Any support you can show in this fight is greatly appreciated!  I am
> > publishing this fight at FSU  on my web site, Stormie's Abolish NATO,
> > http://www.abolishnato.com , under "Racial Propaganda in Human Rights."
> > Together, we can get this propagandist exposed as a scholastic fraud,
> > who hides behind the police and uses the police and the FDLE to avoid
> > academic and intellectual debate regarding this anti-Serb propaganda
> > book.
> > 
> >    Stefan Schmitt also has a web site at
> >    http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~sss4407
> > , there it has a link to the course "Human Rights Investigations,"
> > with his office hours.  However, this propagandist is "at his office"
> > on Tuesdays between the hours of 4 and 5 (EST), Eastern time, at (850)
> > 410-7509.  Let him know just what a "scholar" he really is!
> > 
> > Lastly, I am not of Serbian descent, but I am a native of the South
> > Side of Milwaukee and I have had Serb-Americans marry friends and
> > family members.  I really would like to learn the Serbo-Croat language
> > soon.  The Serbs are a beautiful people with a beautiful culture, and
> > I am not one bit sorry for "making trouble" at FSU.  In fact, this
> > battle is just beginning!
> > 
> >  Stormie,
> > > Florida State School of Criminology http://criminology.fsu.edu
> > 
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