Serbia & Montenegro Beat EU On Anti- Counterfeiting Laws & EU Standards
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When traveling throughout Serbia & Montenegro in August 1999 for three weeks vacation. I also found Serbia & Montenegro banks to be 100% in accordance with EU anti-counterfeiting laws & guidelines.
In fact, as an American citizen with a United States Passport, I had an extremely difficult time when attempting to walk into any bank to exchange my United States Dollars into either Serbian Dinars and/or Euros. When exchanging money on my vacation, all bills (U.S. Dollars) had to be crisp and dry, without one tear or crease; I was always asked at all banks throughout my travels in Serbia & Montenegro to present them with more than two forms of official photo ID for transactions. When I asked them why, the bank representatives todl me they have to be extremely careful of counterfeit bills.
In fact, I was starving one day with some friends by the Kosovo border and one bank would not even exchange my United States Dollars into Euros at all! We were about 10 meters outside of Kosovo where western media was committing gross lies about hundreds of thousands of refugees being homeless by the borders of ALbanian and Kosovo. I saw noy one person anywhere insofar as refugees and/or homeless people during my trip in mid-August 2002.
Yet here I was, in a small ethnic majority Albanian town...anyway, back to my story...
I had been swimming earlier in the morning and had gotten all my money wet. Yet here I was, an American citizen and even 10 meters outside of Kosovo, not one Montengrin bank would easily exchange my US Dollars into Euros because it was a bit damp.
And I was hungry!
They would not even exchange it when I showed them my United States valid Passport along with additional forms of Identification. Talk about banks being overly cautious!
Since it has become a private joke of sorts between myself and my friends what we had to go back to our hotel rooms often and actually blow-dry our money; almost taking an iron to iron it perfectly dry, before any bank in either Serbia or Montenegro would exchange our currency (no matter how much I whined).
WHEN I EXPLAINED TO THE BANK TELLERS THAT I WAS VERY HUNGRY AND NEEDED TO EXCHANGE MONEYS TO BUY LUNCH, AND, ASKED THEM WHY ALL THIS ATTENTION TO MONEY EXCHANGES OF VERY SMALL AMOUNTS UNDER $50- EVEN, I WAS TOLD BECAUSE OF THEIR COUNTRY’S VERY STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-COUNTERFEITING LAWS.
SO WHEREFORE SHOULD NOT SERBIA AT ONCE GAIN ACCEPTANCE IN THE EU?
INSOFAR AS WAR CRIMES, AS A PERSON WHOM IN AUGUST 2002 TRAVERSED FROM THE SERBIAN/CROATIAN ADRIATIC BORDER TO 10 METERS FROM KOSOVO/MONTENEGRIAN BORDER, I DID NOT SEE ANYONE ALBANIAN, SERB AND/OR ROMA NOR ANY REFUGEES IN THE COUNTRY ANYWHERE AT ALL.
EVEN IN THE ETHNIC ALBANIAN TOWN WHERE I BROUGHT MY FRIEND’S WIFE TO AN ALBANIAN DENTIST AS A SERBIAN LADY FOR DENTAL CARE, ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN WERE WELL FED, VERY WELL DRESSED AND THEY WALKED UP TO ME (I TOLD THEM I WAS A US POLITICAL SCIENCE STUDENT AND AMERICAN CITIZEN AND THEY DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT SERBS AT ALL.) THEY ONLY ALL TOLD ME THEY WANTED TO STUDY IN NEW YORK ONE DAY. BUT AFTER I TOLD THEM ABOUT MY TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE BEING THROWN OUT OF THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH IN MANHATTAN FOR MY ANTI NATO VIEWS, THEY TOLD ME PERHAPS THEY WERE WRONG ABOUT THINKING THERE WAS TRULY ACADEMIC FREEDOM ON THE USA.
THEN I TOLD THE ETHNIC ALBANIAN STUDENTS NOT TO STUDY IN NEW YORK CITY BECAUSE OF HOW I ALSO WAS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON AND SETON HALL AS WELL ON ACCOUNT OF THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH’S VIOLATING MY DISABILITY RIGHTS.
WE DISCUSSED HOW THE NEW SCHOOL DID NOT LIKE MY STRONGLY VOCALIZING MY ANTI-NATO VIEWS TOO AND HOW FDU WOULD NOT ACCEPT MY MA THESIS WELL.
DURING MY TRIP I DISCOVERED THE AMERICAN AND WESTERN EUROPEAN NEWS MEDIA WAS LYING TO THEIR PUBLIC LISTENERS.
I MYSELF COULD NOT LOCATE ONE REFUGEE ANYWHERE IN EITHER COUNTRY , EVEN 10 METERS OUTSIDE OF KOSOVO ITSELF, I FOUND NOT ONE ETHNIC TENSION AND PEOPLE FROM ALL PARTS OF EUROPE WERE STAYING IN BUDVA MONTENEGRO WITH ME (GERMANY, NETHERLANDS ETC.) WE WERE ALL EQUALLY ENJOYING OUR VACATION. THE MAN AT OUR HOTEL FROM GERMAN PLAYED SOME CHESS WITH ME.
JILL STARR IN NJ
PS: NO ONE RAN UP TO ME FROM ANY ETHNIC NATIONALITY IN ANY ONE PLACE CRYING TO ME ABOUT WAR CRIMES AND RAPE.
SINCE THAT TIME OF MY 2002 VACATION IN SRBIA AND MONTENEGRO, I HAVE PERSONALLY ALSO MET WITH SEVERAL UNITED STATES MARINES STATIONED IN PRISTINA DURING THAT TIME RECENTLY SPENDING TIME IN NEW JERSEY. THEY ALSO TOLD ME “I WAS NOT REALLY LOOKING JILL BUT I DID NOT SEE ONE REFUGEES MYSELF AND I WAS STATIONED IN PRISTINA IN KOSOVO –AND YES THE US AND WESTERN MEDIA MADE UP SOME OF THE LARGEST LIES IN THE WORLD AND LIES AGAINST SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO..” THIS WAS SAID TO ME ABOUT 3 WEEKS AGO BY A SHERIFF’S OFFICER IN PASSAIC COUNTY NEW JERSEY IN 2006.
JLS
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