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> Tomorrow it will be first day I would wake up and my first thought would be, my own government, my >own country is no longer suing me.. AND THAT would be.. different kind of feeling..

Remembering me, yesterday here.. bellow, promising my self how I would wake up today to feel different ? Well, guess what.. I have not slept at all and I usually do sleep very well..


At night I clicked on a few link below which reporting on our case, promising my self again I am smart enough to click on discussions below
what fellow citizens think of me.. the winner.., knowing Czech mentality..that I would rather not wanna know.. Few hours later I found my self in cramping in front of my PC.. reading some thoughts of my fellows countrymen and what more.. caught my self writing explanations and replaying to those.. and than I stopped and from now on decided I am gonna learn from my mistake, I am gonna be disciplined. So here you have it for all those who care enough to fine my explanatory notes, go to Czech version on this blog, as in English there was not demands nor nasty comments made towards to my family so far.

All best and God Bless you

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Guess what ? WE WON !

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 101 year old case is closed.. or.. is it ?

While media frenzy continues and for while you will not be able to open even tin of lunchmeat I wont stick my head out of it (<< meaning.. It's everywhere.. and I do mean EVERYWHERE..). Would be so smart of me to continue, to keep this blog alive.. after today's win, but in my head I feel EVERY single layer this complicated.. 101 year old and I would just not know.. where to start. I do know however how I would start tomorrow. Tomorrow it will be first day I would wake up and my first thought would be, my own government, my own country is no longer suing me..AND THAT would be.. different kind of feeling..

Today we have reach SOME kind of conclusion, but to win.. to win feels different.

And yes, I am referring to this “procedural” kind of win..we reached today.  

Today it was not proper winning, not based on merit of the case.  

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Yeah.. I know.. i do look fat, must be that camera lens :)

Don’t bark against the bad

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As a still small one I loved going through those hand written pages in old book; hard cover chronicle .. I enjoyed to read lines written in  ink by my great-grandfather and then by my grandad. It really was more bookkeeping book, then chronicle :) I wish.. I would have access to it today.. Even as I small one.. rummaging in that old farmhouse.. once I found those hand written chronicles I knew I have found something special.. :). Later I learned to not immediately to run, after every special find of mine, to adults with my prey :) to show it.. :); they would take it from me with that seriouse look at their face, saying it is nothing for me ..to play with… Pfff.. I knew that.. AND I WAS NOT.. playing with it ! Silly, picture jigsaw are for playing for small children ! Not my regular, special findings it that BIG farm house. I wander.. was I ever.. li’l one ? Sometimes I don’t think so.. Often I would be asked to not say / to not repeat conversations outside of the house, in front of..other people.. (cause of communism.. of course..).
 
By all those lines above you might assume I am nostalgic by trade. Nope ! If this weird dispute would not take place, I would have been.. suppressing those memories.. probably for ever. You might ask why, but..please don’t. Life of human is easy really, when you come think of it.. just people making things too complicated.
I do, time to time, pass thought that village, around that big family home.. in silent horror that grandma would open window, facing to the main road and would yell something .. at me.. 

Today I want to question my morality..

“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, ..” wrote James Allen in his book Above Life's Turmoil and that is precisely what I want to write about today.
Is it fair of me to bother you with such a negative issue like this on my blog ? Don’t we all fed up already with negativity of today's world ? 
And mainly I.. the NEWS Junkie, I should know better and not “indulge” in negativism..
My grandfather would say: „Who sow wind, would harvest storm..”.. Am I prepared for any.. kind of storm ? But was it me who “sowed” ? No, it was not. but yet feeling doubt and guilt; yet again… guilty as a sin..

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Be not impatient and delay,
But wait, as one who understands.
When spirit rises and commands,
The gods are ready to obey.
(by James Allen)

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The morality of it all / HR dept. of our..communist past

Now, I don’t meant to write about their morality.. Those.. state admin bureaucratic hypocrats; who still owe me land, yet suing me.. (for supposedly outstanding mortgage payment of mortgage from 1909). All this mess is created by my state who have not appreciated good rural work of decent farm people, the bread winner for the entire nation...
I wish I would have access to those old journals of my grandfather and his father, to be able to tell you to how many people my grandfather was giving job to..

May I to add to this place little story, to my surprise, I learn it VERY recently.. ? It just.. poped up.. in my mind..:

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li'l story of a "Kadrovak" of the past

My father was not from this family. He married my mum who was daughter of Josef we are talking about here.. My father’s family had no rural background what so ever and was not even was from the same locality, nor from nearby. My mum studied in Prague that time. Prague is close by that village, however she could not commute ..for obvious reason, back than.. Hard to imagine THOSE reasons today though: We are talking about time after that wild nationalization.. My mum would be followed from people from her own village to the Prague, for them to find out where she is studying at.. (To my knowledge this happened twice .. with hard.. consequences..). Those peeps who would stalk here (I do know his name.. his family still live in that village.. he is either dead now or.. still live somewhere in Prague. After Velvet revolution that man, he moved out of Svrkyne. I was regularly seeing him in bus.. while taking ride to Prague. He was visiting his son.. to whom he left his house in Svrkyne..); would be naturally NEW communists who have chosen to “cooperate” so well that they would go to my mum school; meet director of the school, telling him that he is letting daughter of kulak (here we go again….) to study there. How inappropriate ! My mum practically; in all her beauty, was.. enemy of the state !.. And that.. he has the only choice .. to let her go..(I believe my mum had to leave college twice.. So she worked in betweens, till NEXT director of her next school.. actually DID not mind at all.. so she was allowed to finish her economy study later at last..
But.. this was not the crux of this story.. :), see how hard it is.. to take you back.. to that time.. rally ? How am I won the case.. while there is constant need to go back into details to that communistic past..

My dad worked in well known company in Prague.. In every company (all of them owed by government - of course), back than, there was unpopular department, called: “Kadrove” < would be hard to translate it.. kadr might be >> “cadre”, but.. it would hardly tell you what that department would be about.. People working there would be heavily examined by communists.. whether they are.. obliged to communist regime.. Somehow.. HR department of the past in communistic, pitiful country of mine.. The main job description of that department would be to keep truck of all employees and mainly whether they are.. registered in communistic party..
(crux of this story..is SLOWLY approaching.. :) ) >> Once.. my father was talking to the lady she was from THAT department.. she would actually approached him and asked:

“Vaclav, I do believe your wife’s maiden name was.. Zabranska, isn’t that right ?” My father, back than was starting to worry what would.. come up next in THIS conversation.. But the “kadr” lady would follow: “.. My parents, both of them .. worked for you wife’s dad.. on the farm.. They always rave about how good meals they had; prepared by your.. mother in law; while working there.., delivered to the field.. everywhere where they worked..”.

THAT was NOT typical conversation you would get with lady from the “kadrove oddeleni”.. :), my father could not believe who did he just..heard..
It is just several month ago.. he told me this story..

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So look at me.. I thought I would just.. add a little story.. and here we go.. Now it seems I should change the tittle of this.. paragrapg.. cause.. originally I wanted to.. “Yada-Yada” about entirely different.. subject..

What now.. ? Shall I continue? Does really someone.. reading this !?!
Hello ?! Someone.. ANYONE ..:)!

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Many thanks !

 

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Original pages of LN of 21st of March 2009
1 pic = 1st page
2 pic = 5th page (could not get whole cover page for my self :( as yet again.. our government was falling so Mr. Kocka & president of this country took the rest of cover..)

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This 4th day of my writing I just want to thank to you all of you, from whom I got kind words of encouragement. You know who you are :) = thank you again ! Thank you for not much questioning my reasons why I do have to do this.. write it all off from my head..
See, this writing already is learning process for me. First, knowing lesson I got from this experience goes like this:
I believe I am rather.. sarcastic & lightly cynical one (..can you blame me ? Ok, go ahead…) AND what is worse I like myself like that.. (..can you blame me ?..ok..whatever..); it is quite comfortable and easy to do / to by my self.. So, so far when ever I heard some words of encouragement.. could be just: “good luck with that..” or any other version .. I use to be cynical & in my mind saying: “.. as IF THAT could help to that person who is having hardship..” or..any other dealing; he/she could do with..a little encouragement. Well, guess what ? It does work and I am glad I was on that receiving end of all your.. well wishes.
I just wanted to tell you I do appreciate it, heaps!

There is one.. let’s say.. encouragement I want to mention:

RE:
From:  PD
Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:26:00 AM
To:  Marketa

Zdar, kdyz pominu tema,ktere je pro tebe uz vycerpavajici a tahnes to v zivote s kouli u nohy, prave kvuli temhle vsem idiotskejm dopadum z davnych let, na ktere se nabalili a bali dalsi idiotska rozhodnuti,protoze u moci se strida jeden idiot za druhym...tak je to nahodu velmi ctivy a s nadechem jemne ironie a cynismu..fakt poutave cteni. a hod se do klidu...prosim..budes ho potrebovat a kocky taky
p.

^^ Although in all in Czech it does not really need any translation at all (nearly every second word is:”idiots” and that has.. international meaning.

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Of my 4th day of writing this blog.. I do have my doubts..
Don’t take me wrong.. I would still enjoy it as I did.. till today.. though..
If only I would not have to start my Czech version any time soon (on http://marketa-king.posterous.com/)

When I started to write I had no idea why I went straight to English to write. Now I know..
I am on the net since 1995, one year later I had my personal web side (in 1997 rated 17th best web side in CZ „miss internet“ <<without any naught pictures on it.. I might add..); I had great responses to it back than. Amongst returning viewers was even Mr. Paulo Coelho .. I went through that web frenzy phase, where I had that urge to be there..& to create.. Not anymore.. been there twice, done that.. The ONLY reason why I am doing this is already described somewhere..below.. >> the cost of herbal “calm down-nerve pill” is high.. and I thought this could be; while awaiting for that trial.., cheaper, but.. I subconsciously I was thinking of English blog.. NOT CZECH one..!  Don’t you know how Czechs are ? Sarcastic bastards ! For whom I would be writing that in Czech ? Those young ones, after revolution once.. they will not read it  ! & good on them ! Go;  let’s go to breed out that.. communism in us ! So for whom in Czech language I would write it ? For those who are .. suing me ? It seems kind of..pointless to do, I mean if they could read in Czech.. they would hardly sue me, no ? They could just.. read their files.. write apology letter to me & family and put it where it is all belong.. to the ugly past..

Lidove Noviny 21. 3. 2009

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Weird dispute that is, all right..

Chances are you can’t see a article above (in English..), then go here

Well.. ok.. I cheated. This is translation by Google :(. I know, I know.. say nothing..It's far from perfect, but good enough to get an understanding and you are smart cookie, you figure out. For original v. in Czech go here.

After so called: "The Velvet Revolution" here, in 1989, then after restitution, was the land given back to my family, and then some admin at Ministry of Agriculture woke up and have decided that they will claim that "outstanding" payments of that mortgage plus interest. Well, WAKE up you SILLY ignorant! There is nothing I can give you ! I would not be able to see my grandpa grave any more .. What I would tell him? That you can count with compound interest on something I do not owe you, but I can not apply the same maths when you owe me ?

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JUST wait I will attach my Excel sheet here, showing my compound interest of that missing payment of yours (20 hectares that was taken from us in 1948).
See they were times when grandpa was receiving statements and you were charging him  4.5 – 7.2 % of interests (??), forgetting that you took his livelihood away from him already, and that he is just a private person; working as a blue collar for rest of his life.

Sharpen your pencil !

 ok.. exhausted now.. need a bit of.. break..

  ~ooO~(_)~~~~~~

The Cow

by Robert Louis Stevenson

  The friendly cow all red and white,
     I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
     To eat with apple-tart.

  She wanders lowing here and there,
     And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
     The pleasant light of day;

  And blown by all the winds that pass
     And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
     And eats the meadow flowers.

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a few scattered thoughts of time back then…

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My grandfather's farm house

Yes, I think I kind of knew, while growing up there, that it’s quite big and its style has..nothing to do those..concrete block of flats, communists loved to build.

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Would it help me, if I would admit that I;.. even as a small one,.. felt guilty I live there ? I guess not.. I know.. guilty as a sin even back then.. See,.. there was that constant feeling around that we are outsiders somehow.. that we do not belong and yet we are firmly stuck with this old village for generation.. weird. I did not know much back than, but I knew it enough to feel that it’s kinda hard.. to live there and to approached the other kids in village..was even harder..

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Hey ! Marketa ! Stop being sentimental.. those a few peeps you dragged here.. they have other blogs to read, so no time for your.. pitiful feeling of childhood in this.. “ghost house”, so you better stick to your guns. They might still be eager to know what you are being accused of, why now (...who knows..!?) and why by Ministry of agriculture; by that VERY same Ministry office who STILL haven’t handed over to you all restitution property..  

Can you imagine that your life will be shuttered by hands of communists from one day to next one ? Your livelihood; in you family through generations, would be taken from you and you would be sent to prison without trial..

There is one thing I personally can not grasp: One day you are farmer, the next one you are JUST a private person, no longer “head of rural institution”, you no longer have property nor employees, what so ever.. so how can State claim back (even if there would be any outstanding payments of that mortgage..as they is not !), anything ? They took it ALL and 43 years they “farm” on ours..

All my grandad had on his mind back than was, how to make sure his children would not suffer in the future.. so he wrote & wrote & wrote to Ministry Office of agriculture for several year. As a good farmer he could predict that once those wild times would passes old deed book would need to get back in order and his outstanding payments of  now-his mortgage would still be next to his name. Mortgage which he would have, under normal circumstances, already paid off ages ago. Josef specifically wrote several times and asked to be credited for those taken, nearly 20 hectares, he never received payment of.

~ooO~(_)~~~~~~

Good farmer always knows best, he was right in many of his.. predictons with one.. mishap though.. his granddaughter is being sued..

~ooO~(_)~~~~~~

Come back tomorrow :), I can promise you I will be more.. constructive in my story telling :p)

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I thought you should know

This blog of mine would try to deal with one issue only. One is quite enough as this case is older than 100 years now. I would try to explain here, how and what for I and my family are for decade (!!) being persecuted in democratic Czech Republic now & in communist Czechoslovakia before.. It is quite..torture, but there is no political will to even properly look into this case. No political nor administrative.. after all this is just bureaucracy mistake to which no one looked into it. Instead I am being suied even though their facts are wrong. I also believe if good lawyer  / journalist for the matter.., wants to join me & give me hand with this one, he /she wont be sorry. Till than.. I will fight alone and do plan to end up in front of constitutional court.

This case is outrages in so called democratic country and all politicians to whom I wrote one year ago should feel sorry, they did not looked into it.. Later I will post list of all names to whose addresses I already sent my briefings and got no feedback.

You think I wanted.. to blog ?!
Boloney ! I hate to be “IN”; I never do what is IN nor I ever belonged to mainstream.. I was forced to ! Plus I love my privacy..Well, there it goas.. my privacy ! I fought quite battle with my self, but reasoning of my grandpa won. I have to do it for my grandad, if nothing else I have to do this. Cause I really do believe that if one of you would read it and you die later on... that you would find my grandpa up there..somewhere and you would tell him, that yes, I did inherit his omen, but.. fought with it too ! Please do tell, his name was: Josef Zabranský

Like's & dislikes

I dislike google, love Yahoo ! Think next to nothing about that.. new toy of yours: the IPad and I really do think that google wave is nonsence.. << See ? I told ya.. I am not your type nor blog type.

Do you know HOW hard it would be on me? No more movies, no more waste of my time on Twitter, neither virtual sex on Second Life.. Do you know, how hard it would be on my cats ? “..no, Daisy (..Misa) you can NOT sit on my keyboard now.. like usually.. mum is not cleaning up her Second Life inventory as it would be..usual. Now.. mum.. actually doas.. write The Blog.. The Blog how she is; how she..become..& why she is & how she will be.. “The kulak’s granddaughter..”

Still.. foreword..(I love forewords ..)

No, don’t tell me you are NOT interested.. even I am NOT interested either..Honestly I don’t and yet I have to wirte it.After all, who has the honour to be sued by the Czech government (by minister of agriculture..to be more precise); so I thought you really should know about it and how it come.. about. Wait ! It might be.. interesting though, but MOST of all it is SO damn funny.. listen up.. I am nearly starting:

(First of all.. do your self favour and do get used to my EVER present dots.. As I do believe you do posses some kind of .. imagination.. so .. use it ! I am also..not telling you that your sense of punctuation is wrong.. So it is advisable to.. leave my.. dots preciously where they ALL are....)

To which purpose this blog shall serve ?

..that trial of mine is slowly approaching, and I just can not take more herbal pills to further calm down my nerves, it does not work anymore. Have you ever been.. sued by your own government ? Ok, ok.. you maybe are, but .. I am not used to it ! I am good; decent girl without..major hiccups. I am not your Madoff nor I created your.. credit crunch.. I am decent ! (well, I was.. till I started to write this blog and decided to be private person no more..)

Who shall read this blog ?

No one would.. :( But it's being written to rightly ridicule our still communistic system and it's strongly targeted to ALL ministry of agriculture in Czech Republic.. for last 61 years. To target all those.. Gandalovic and Sebesta’s (last two ministers of agriculture. Here will be election this year so I guess I will be collecting soon yet another ministry letter head with different name on in); and the rest.. and basically to all..in power in my small; heavily corrupted & circus like country. See even without, not yet going into any heavy details:

Can you imagine that you are accused of something.. so you would go.. in attics in old farm house.. which doas not even belong to you anymore.. to search for historical documents of my grandad to just find out, that they are having it all wrong .. Imagine to go again & again to Ministry office for meetings.. (how many flipcharts I used in their offices.. to present them the reality.. you would not wanna know..); for just few month later on to learn that cause our government failure.. & opposition took it over (Remember ? Last year.. in the middle of our EU presidency..?!) so ALL those bureaucrats to whom you spoke for months now and reach some level of their understanding.. are gone - made redundant.. and new friends of new minister are starting from fresh :). Well, thank you for this "freshness" - it stink !

 

Am I drama queen ? (nah.. I am just a King..)

See, misunderstandings happens and whose government on this crazy planet of ours does play fair ? Which once ? But this is entirely something else.. As this; century old story would unfold.. you would learn how bizarre this case is ! (I will start tomorrow, as today.. I am still overwhelm by the fact I even started this blog..

Well now.. Now I really ought to explain what that “kulak” word stand for, ha ? I have asked my ex aussie lover.. he is quite smart.. and yet he did not know.. He checked on Google.. and guess what he come up with ? "the peasant.." was his answer...<<  hmm - wrong ! See ? What have I told ya ? Now it is up to me to explain it (or go to Wiki << it is safer..and I can fetch.. another box of chocolates) or wait on..

Please explain..

Although wiki wont tell you about the feel of that word..the word “kulak” comes from Russia, like nearly all “goodies” in our late 40’ & 50’ here in Czechoslovakia. That time, by this word communists marked our successful farmers, people with substantial wealth. Your “Great-landowner” might be it; however instead of our Czech “statkar” communists used the derogatory “kulak”. They mark you to be kulak first, than took all from you.. send you to prison.. and your kids could not get proper education. It would be in your papers forever. Communists done such a successful “marketing” that time.. that even today, when you just say the word “statkar” immediately you would feel that attachment of envy in that word.. That is what they done to us..

Timeline

Successful homestead run by my grandfather, taking over his dad; farmland in hands of one busy family for generations >> Grandfather is expanding; buying more land & properly from battling neighbour, together with his mortgage :( (in 1945) >> Communists taking over in Czechoslovakia >> slowly they are becoming ideologists & all prepared for socialism with “human face” so in 1949, communists scare of farm people and their influences in villages who’s deed / agricultural fields are greater than 50 hectares, they do made up law that reads: If you are having more than 50 hectares, we / state would “buy” if from you…(buy = estimated price based on location minus 20 % of it, the rest would be yours…) << Grandfather is forced to “sell” nearly 20 hectares, to never receive any money for it..They just took it.. bastards ! (mind you.. hard to pay mortgage he “bought” 4 years earlier >> Violent / wild nationalization by communists follows in 1950 (Grandfather managed to sow, but communists.. were harvesting that year..), property, farmland & machinery & all animals taken) >> Grandfather was sent to prison to work on uranium mines for 1 year << without tribunal, they just..took him; his family did not know where he was for some time..) >> (Josef Zabranský working ...to be continue..)

State of Mind

People here are still accustomed of communistic rhetoric; behaviour.. It is so hard to deal with state administration here; and I do speak of Ministry of Agriculture in particular. Many politician run wild, here trying to chase favours during their administration, very lacily, short one.. so they are even more.. savage.. Noting to do with democracy we gain here 20 years ago..

You are invited!

Done

You are invited! Come to non-communistic Prague to see how our jurisdiction works; 20 years after so called "The Velvet revolution". Come to see how they do handle case whose story is longer than 100 year (!!); suing the victims of wild nationalization of 1959; suing after 61 years of psychology torture.

Come to see how thief (the State) calling out: "Got ya !"

I can guarantee, the chances are it could be better that The Seinfeld show :p)