In response to remarks on the defamation of Ms Reisman, these were certainly not staved off by her own unsupported and serious accusations aimed at defaming others with no claim to evidence that would support her statements.

As a person born and living in Croatia I can also safely say that the claim that the majority of the people support Ms Vidovic Kristo or Ms Reisman is at best highly debatable, and in all probability no more than an illusion.

Croatian Radio-Television, HRT, suspended Producer/Presenter of its international TV program THE PICTURE OF CROATIA because she used excerpts from the American made documentary THE KINSEY SYNDROME. Also, THE PORTRAIT OF CROATIA was completely taken off air without any contact let alone understandable explanation to the Producer.

This unprecedented happening began on 30th December 2012, when the following announcement (in Croatian) suddenly appeared on HRT TELETEKST:

“HRT apologizes to the viewers of THE PICTURE OF CROATIA, which is broadcast for emigrants, for its Saturday (29/12/2012) program that was produced and presented by Karolina Vidovic Kristo.

We emphasize that the views expressed in that program are not those of HRT. Due to serious rule-breaking in the professional context and misuse of authority HRT shall conduct stringent measures.”

The announcement appeared without any prior written and/or verbal contact with the PORTRAIT OF CROATIA Producer/Presenter Mrs Karolina Vidovic Kristo – something that would not perhaps be normal in North Korea but not in any civilized and democratic country, including Croatia.

The HRT Management obviously reacted in this unprecedented way to the content of THE PICTURE OF CROATIA broadcasted a day earlier which focused on the new controversial and much debated sex education curriculum in Croatian primary schools. The alleged ‘rule-breaking’ and ‘misuse of authority’ was evidently related to excerpts from the American film The Kinsey Syndrome, by Professor Judith Riesman, which exposed the controversial Kinsey sexual experiments on children.

The most shocking fact is that over the next few days, nobody from HRT Management felt obliged to contact Program’s Producer/Presenter Mrs Karolina Vidovic Kristo. She contacted
HRT TV Editor in Chief Dean Sosa on 30th December 2012 to find out what happened and why. His answer was: “You tell me”. Without any understandable explanation he added that he is “ashamed because the program that went to air”. On 4th January, when she met with him face to face, Mr Sosa could not give Mrs Vidovic Kristo any further explanations about the decision to suspend her and to completely abolish her program THE PICTURE OF CROATIA. But he promised to give her a written explanation in due course. So far, this has not happen. Why? What was he afraid of? What was he hiding? For days there were no answers to any of these obvious questions.

Shocked and disappointed since her program was never
before under any scrutiny, Mrs Karolina Vidovic Kristo wrote to the HRT Board seeking their assistance and reaction. Among other things, she stated that in a recent meeting (which took place before the said program was broadcasted) the newly appointed HRT Director General Goran Radman gave her and her overall contribution at HRT his full support. Furthermore, there were no reasons from the past o present that would justify the sudden abolishment of THE PICTURE OF CROATIA. Despite that HRT Board and Management decided not to provide any
adequate replies – either written or verbal.

In the meantime, nationwide debates on the controversial sex education curriculum have continued dominating on most media
outlets – many of them started including the case of Ms Karolina Vidovic Kristo’s suspension and the abolishment of her program THE PICTURE OF CROATIA. The debates are still going on and the views range between those of total support to total dismay. For example, the Head of the Catholic Church in Croatia
Cardinal Josip Bozanic personally met with Ms Vidovic Kristo on 7th January 2013 to show his support, while the Croatian Journalist Association in its media release condemned her for using the American documentary film. The Association President Zdenko Duka even described the said program produced by Mrs Vidovic Kristo as “unprofessional”. Mr Duka started his journalist carrier in the communist era.

Finally, on 24th January 2013 some of the questions started being answered – at the Government level. During Question Time in Croatian Sabor (Parliament), the Prime Minister Zoran
Milanovic was asked about the controversial abolishment of HRT’s program PORTRAIT OF CROATIA and the suspension of its Producer/Presenter. Naturally, he first denied any involvement but then said that the Producer of PORTRAIT OF CROATIA did not have the required TV rights to broadcast the excerpts from the said documentary film and that she presented a huge and renowned organisation in a bad way.

This is far from the truth because the author Professor Judith Reisman has given the required rights to broadcast and rebroadcast her documentary film The Kinsey Syndrome,
not only to the Producer of THE PORTRAIT OF CROATIA but many other classic and internet media outlets around the world.

The most logical assumption is that the Croatian Government
and/or its institutions are involved in this obvious case of clumsy censorship
– primarily the Education Ministry which has been blatantly and stubbornly avoiding constructive public debates about its new health education program for schools
– something that many church leaders and civil associations have been strongly demanding.

Parents reportedly support the new Croatian health program but many of them seek explanations about its sex education module. Especially controversial is the so called “instruction literature for teachers”. Parts of that literature allegedly instruct teachers to promote homosexual and other minority choices at the expense of those of traditional family values. Some critics of the so called “sex module” also claim that it will cause a “total destruction of the society as we know it”.

On the other hand, there is no doubt that the film by Professor Judith Reisman strongly attacks all reforms (past and present) that were originally instigated by Kinsey. It deals with the controversial experiments conducted many years ago by Kinsey and his team. It is also controversial because it suggests that it inspired many negative changes to the traditional family lifestyle in the USA and other democratic societies. However:

· Can governments be democratic if they suppress public debates?

· Can media organizations continue to be in the category of ‘public broadcasters’ if they censor films that have been broadcast in other democratic countries?

· Should public broadcasters be allowed to suspend producers and journalist for doing their jobs – for seeking and investigating all available sources and materials in order to find the whole truth?

· Why did HRT entirely abolish broadcasting of PORTRAIT OF CROATIA, the only program that promotes interaction and integrations between homeland Croatians and those who live and work in democratic countries on all continents?

· Why shouldn’t journalists, in this day and age, internationalize and globalize their investigative work in all areas of public interest – including sex education?

· Can international media organisations, journalist associations and human rights observers remain inactive in this case of pure discrimination?

The “official” reason for the suspension (to the best of my understanding of what happened) is due to copyright issues. HRT says that Karolina did not have the rights to the content that she used in her program.

The odd thing is that Prof. Judith Reisman says that Karolina had all rights to use all parts of the Kinsey documentary on her show. Prof Reisman allows everyone to use the documentary in their struggle against the sexual social experimentation being carried out by the liberal left.