Glancing through one of the leading Croatian newspapers, this morning I come across a letter to the editor to the effect that decisions of the court in Strasbourg are binding in Croatia, as well. Namely, there was a recent article in the same newspaper in which some person of note expressed surprise at such a possibility, as though the court in The Hague is not another example of the same principle of international justice. At any rate, the letter got me thinking about my own story. My appeal to the decision of the court in Pazin is now with the highest Croatian court in Zagreb. The insult lawsuit by the mayor of Motovun is nothing but a case of blatant political repression, and the court is Strasbourg is sure to agree with me on this point. The mayor has pursued me with such untoward zeal that he has endangered his own legal case. But the next twist in my own thinking surprised even myself: what if the court in Zagreb agrees with me, too? To my horror, that would mean that I would not get my satisfaction from Strasbourg, as I have long expected, but in Zagreb, of all places. It is the Croatian oppressive legal system I wish to put into question, though, not only my own case. The systematic abuse of the libel law is at issue. Whatever the odds, I now pray that the Zagreb court upholds the decision against me. Without Strasbourg, my political case is as good as lost.