Where did the allusion to rats come from?
I used the metaphor with rats because it in a way speaks about the syndrome of the destruction of everything around oneself. Rats eat everything around themselves, and when they run out of food, they first eat the weakest among themselves. If someone insults thousands of slain youngsters, that most beautiful Croatian youth sacrificed for the Homeland, the river of blood that was spilt, in the most just war ever led by the Croatian nation, if someone deliberately spits on the victims, butchered women and elderly, he behaves exactly like a rat. Individuals to whom I referred behave like that; they know why they do that, but the Croatian public also knows and feels that. They do that partly for ideological, political, but also for very concrete reasons having to do with money. This is a political problem, and that is why under the pressure of Budisa and Granic the Government of Croatia adopted the 13-point declaration about the cooperation with the Hague. I personally support that Declara
