Once again, the Black Panther story!

Hostile Intentions ?

Could the Black Panther be the “inner enemy” of the modern regime in Slovenia? Officially, the Panther image is not forbidden in Slovenia, but no Slovenian journal dares to publish it. Why?

by Dr. Jožko Šavli
July 24, 2010

I was very surprised, when I read in the weekly Demokracija (Lublana), Nr. 29 of 22 July 2010, an article entitled Sovražni naklepi (Hostile Intentions), written by Pavel Ferluga from Komen. The author deals with the recent phenomenon of patriotism, which is growing among the Slovenian youth, much to Ferluga's annoyment. Among other quotations in his article, the following statement deserves my full attention.

… It is evident, that lately different “patriotic” organizations appear, in particular on Facebook and other websites, where they are gathering sympathizers for their “patriotism”. It is incredible, how much the young people are up to their tricks and nice words, and even associations like Panterji, Hervardi, Tukaj je Slovenija, SNN and others join this “national salvation” rhetoric of the secret service (Udba). Indeed, terrible is the blindness of the Slovenian man….

Mr. Ferluga, I was the one who discovered the sign of the Black Panther as the coat of arms of Carantania. The sign appeared for the first time on the seal of Otokar III, Margrave of the Carantanian March (later Styria), in 1160. At that time, Carantania was still a Grand Duchy and was composed of the Dukedom of Carinthia and the Marches: the Carantanian March and the March of Carniola. The Eastern March (Austria) on the Danube, administered by the Babenbergs, already advanced to a Dukedom in 1157. On top is the beautiful Black Panther coat of arms of Pürgg (Styria) from about 1200 AD.

Carantania, also called Sclauinia, was a Slovenian state in the Middle Ages. Of course, this statement is in opposition to the interpretations of the official historiography, which are still self- serving ideologies, in our case the Southern Slav theory. According to these interpretations, Slovenians never had a proper state of their own. It was about a directive issued by the Belgrade regime. I cite an assertion made by one of their very important leaders:

Says Pavle Ivic, a linguist and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts: “The Croatians and Slovenes have practically no history, and they never fought for their nation. They have suffered, perhaps quite naturally, from an inferiority complex, first toward Austria and then toward Serbia.” (Times International. Nr.41, October 14, 1991). It is a statement without proof by a member of an “academy”!

Anyway, such was the obligatory historical image of Slovenians in the ex-Yugoslavia. It has been treated as credible by the academic world under the regime’s control. Such ignorance was well prepared by them and then inoculated into the public through school programs and the mass media system for more than a century until today. So, it has been preserved until this very day.

This image remained in force even after the declaration of independence of Slovenia. Then, when different interpretations of the facts began to be spread, the ex-Yugoslav secret service foisted such a “historical” image of Slovenians on the Pope, when he visited Slovenia in 1996. Therefore, he congratulated Slovenians that they “for the first time” in their history were able to shape their own proper state. The biggest impact from the Pope's declaration was felt by the Slovenian faithful, because the Pope is “infallible” in everything he says. (In fact, only when he declares a religious doctrine).

Anyway, this did not mean, that such “historical” image of Slovenians would remain for ever. Indeed, if now the Black Panther has been discovered as the true sign of historical Slovenia, then the Slovenian youth is not joining the rhetoric of “national salvation” diffused by Udba, i.e., by the ex-Yugoslav secret service, which under the name Kos is still operating in Slovenia. The great interest of the youth without doubt concerns only the true history of Slovenians. It is about discovering the historical realty outside of the academic distortions, which have been conditioned by ideologies, first by the pan-German, then the pan-Slav and Yugoslav as well as others, the liberal and the proletarian ones. These distortions have been financed by political regimes. In the former Yugoslavia it was evidently nursed by the regime of Belgrade.

Your statement, Mr. Ferluga, that this occasion is about a question of “national salvation” of Slovenians must be considered true. Anyway, this is a national salvation without quotation marks. Because finally, Slovenians must be saved from false doctrines, which for a long time have been inoculated in their mind like: eternal serfs, without a proper state, under a Millennial German yoke, from which they were saved by their Serbian brethren not earlier as in 1918…

In this way, Slovenians were not to live in a proper independent state, “which they never should have had” in their history. Therefore, after the decay of the former Yugoslavia, another community is ready and already seen on the horizon. This is the Western Balkans, which only would protect Slovenians from expansion of Germans and Italians. The Western Balkan community, (as the Serbs call it) – how could it be otherwise - can only be led by Belgrade? This is a move against the newly created Indipendence of Slovenia. Anyway, Mr. Ferluga and other Belgrade fans, you are striving in vain to demolish Slovenia! The historical Black Panther, the protector of Slovenia, is out there and is very much alive.

The Black Panther Story!

Frustration of an honest Slovenian!

Dr. Jožko Šavli, FAS, KdB, FSAI
Fellow of the Augustan Society
Knight de Bryan
Fellow of Sodality of the Ark International

At the beginning of the eighties I came across an excellent book entitled Das Landeswappen der Steiermark (The Coat of Arms of Styria, Graz 1900) written by A. Anthony von Siegenfeld. The author was one of the best heraldic writers in the Habsburg monarchy at that time. He was however German national oriented and he was a sympathiser of the pan-German movement, which tended to extend the German speaking territory from the North Sea toward the South to the Adriatic Sea.

In order to carry out such an expansion the whole territory of Slovenia should become the victim of such an idea. Therefore, the pan-German circles in the Monarchy began to germanise the Slovenian speaking population. To carry out this idea, Slovenians had to be made aware of the fact, that they were a people „without proper history". In other words, the Slovenian people will never achieve a state of their own. It was drilled into their heads that the Slovenian culture was more like a tribal culture, and the Slovenian language was not fit for already acknowledged history - in contrast to the Germans, who were supposedly the bearers of progress in Middle Europe. In this sense, the Slovenians should disappear from the map, without doing damage to the European civilisation.

I thought the public of Slovenia remained indifferent about the Black Panther, which I discovered as the Coat of Arms of Carantania. However, in 1990 on the threshold of the declaration of independence a group of youngsters proposed that the new coat of arms should be exchanged with one that reflects the Republic of Slovenia in communist Yugoslavia. Three members of the Historical Institute of the Slovenian Academy - Prof. Bogo Grafenauer, Mag. Stane Granda, and Dr. Bozo Otorepec rejected such a proposal - they even signed a declaration in regards to this subject (No. II - 128/90). They did not even mention the Panther by its true name but referred to it as an „animal-figure". Read for yourself:

… We condemn the misuse of historical facts which are incorrectly and voluntarily interpreted by the media… who create confusion among the people, in particular because they propose as Slovenian national symbol colours and an animal-figure, which was until 1918 and between the two wars the symbol of power, belonging to the main bearers of germanisation and their fight against unity and freedom for Slovenians.

This declaration reflected the obligatory point of view in matters of Slovenian history, and that's how Belgrade consistently imposed it. It was, in fact, ammunition against Slovenians who at that time proposed a referendum of independence. It was impossible to deny that such a declaration was made by people, who had an academic degree and advanced in their career under the Yugoslav regime, in conformity with the Yugoslav ideology. Indeed, the academic world in Slovenia remains in the same position even nowadays. Moreover, it is not tolerant toward individuals who wish to express different opinions.

To me it was clear that this situation was created and directed by the Yugoslav underground, which still exists in Slovenia after the declaration of independence, and who gained even more and more on potency. In fact, in today's Slovenia it is not possible to publish articles and pictures of the Black Panther. The Yugoslav underground gradually started to control the media and public thinking in Slovenia.

In April 2000, Father Tomazic and I received an invitation from Television Ljubljana to register for a discourse about the Veneti and Carantania. The following day a group of Slovenian skinheads took to the streets carrying the Black Panther sign, which they misinterpratated as a neo Nazi sign. They were evidently paid by the Yugoslav underground to demonstrate the Black Panther as Neo-Nazi. Our discussion forum on TV Lublana was transmitted in August, when the majority of people are on vacation. It seemed that even this broadcasting troubled the underground. Two weeks later, the newspaper Delo of Lublana published on the front page, in a very visible spot, the picture of skinheads carrying the Black Panther. It made the headlines above an article in which a columnist reported that German Nazi skinheads killed a coloured man.

It was a bitter primitive move which had no connection whatsoever with the historical Slovenian Black Panther symbol. This bad move was born and assisted by sick journalists of the national newspaper Delo in Lublana. Indeed, a very shallow and nonchalant gesture of the Yugoslav underground in Slovenia, which was intimidating and offensive to the Slovenian public and showed its true pan-Slavic face.

By all means, the Slovenian public understood immediately the real background of the gesture. Since then, the popularity of the Panther is on the rise and is unstoppable.