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COMMENT: For some time, we’ve reported on the disintegration of Hungarian democratic institutions, as the country slouches toward its Arrow Cross fascist past. (The Arrow Cross was the Hungarian fascist party that was allied with the Third Reich during World War II.)
Now it appears that the obituary for Hungarian democracy is ready for publication.
Noting the disparity between the troika’s highly activist intervention in Greece’s economic and political sovereignty, the article expresses puzzlement at the EU’s desertion of democratic principle.
Apparently, they have not adequately considered the possibility that this was part of the plan for Europe all along.
For background on the return of fascism to Hungary, including the pivotal presence of Arrow Cross veterans in the GOP’s ethnic outreach apparatus, access FTR #‘s 709, #465, as well as the posts below:
“Hungary Is no Longer a Democracy” by Benjamin Abtan; The New Statesman; 4/2/2013.
EXCERPT: It is now a fact: Hungary is no longer a democracy.
President János Áder has just signed the implementation decrees for new constitutional reforms that wipe out what was left of opposition forces against the government.
More particularly, the Constitutional Court is no longer allowed to give its opinion about the content of laws and to refer to its own case-law – which results in the loss of almost all monitoring power on the legislature and the executive.
This meticulous destruction of democracy and its values – whose starting point was the landslide election of Fidesz in 2010 – has taken place over months and months, under everybody’s eyes.
The attack was clear and continuous: crippling restriction of the freedom of the press, political direction of the Central Bank, inclusion in the Constitution of Christian religious references and of the “social utility” of individuals as a necessary condition for the enforcement of social rights, deletion of the word “Republic” in the same Constitution to define the country’s political system, condemnation of homosexuality, criminalisation of the homeless, attacks against women’s rights, impunity afforded to perpetrators of racist murders, the strengthening of a virulent anti-Semitism . . . .
. . . . Only a few days ago, prime minister Viktor Orban officially decorated three extreme right-wing leading figures: journalist Ferenc Szaniszlo, known for his diatribes against the Jews and the Roma people, who he compares to “monkeys”; anti-Semitic archaeologist Kornel Bakav, who blames the Jews for having organized the slave trade in the Middle-Age; finally, “artist” Petras Janos, who proudly claims his proximity to the Jobbik and its paramilitary militia, responsible for several racist murders of Romani people and heiress of the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party, that organiZed the extermination of Jews and Gypsies during the Second World War.
This political degradation gives us a gruesome historical and political lesson. Throughout the twentieth century, representative democracy suffered the attacks of the two major totalitarian systems of the century – Nazism and Communism. Nowadays, in the twenty-first century, it is under the blows of an anti-European, nationalist, racist and anti-Semitic populism that democracy has fallen, at the heart of Europe, amidst the indifference of the European Union and of too many of its citizens and leaders.
Obsessed by economic and financial issues, too indifferent to its fundamental values of freedom, equality, peace and justice, the EU has abandoned the fight to promote or even maintain democracy as the political system of its member states.
Unlike Putin’s Russia, for example, Hungary is not a world power, and realpolitik cannot be invoked as a reason for this desertion. Since Hungary is strongly dependent on European subsidies and assistance, and since the EU has ominously shown in Greece how its financial support can be politicised to the extreme, its supposed lack of room for manoeuvre cannot be invoked either.
The fundamental reason is unfortunately as simple as it is worrying: it is a lack of commitment of the citizens and European leaders towards representative democracy as a political system.
This is why, since his re-election in 2010, Orban has received the unfailing support of many European leaders, notably from his own political family; this is also why the European Commission does not use any of the instruments available – though it does have many – to enforce the EU’s fundamental values. . . .
Dave, the situation in Hungary is very disturbing. There are Arrow Cross elements who are ethnically Greek, according to some reports I’ve seen; and this possible personal connection with Golden Dawn is doubly disturbing.
I was listening to your WACL (World Anti-Communist League) series and wanted to run down more bio on Ferenc Nagy, of CAL and Permindex fame and possibly someone connected to the JFK assassination (a big step up for Nazism). I haven’t checked out the links in this present article, but I did go to the article in The New Statesman. I found the NS article rather uninformative, but what is worse is that it appeared in what has seemed to me and still seems to be a pro-Islamofascist rag. With no exception that I can find, The New Stateman columnists seem to take the side of the “poor Syrian oppositionists” (my impression: not a quote from them), and continually characterize the government and army as butchers. I’ve paid close attention to what has been going on in Syria; and my conclusion is that it’s a matter of the Nazi un-Muslim Brotherhood playing their hand (on cue from the re-emergent Nazi International) after having served as a NATO/Nazi fifth column in Syria for over 30 years. This move on their part has nothing to do with the authoritarian nature of the Assad Government nor any purported persecution of the Sunni majority, most of whom support the government because they realize that the Masjid-bombing, Imam-killing, and child-massacring “Free Syrian Army” are an immediate mortal threat to anyone not espousing the Nazi terrorists’ particular sect (for which reason they are known as “takfiris”) and even those of their sect who are not sufficiently supportive, for which sin they are brutally murdered and, if they are female, raped and then brutally murdered. I stress this point because I am very unhappy about your choice of The New Statesman.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/02/05/hungarian-jewish-group-considering-physically-preventing-jobbik-from-protesting-at-former-synagogue/
Hungarian Jewish Group Considering Physically Preventing Jobbik From Protesting at Former Synagogue
February 5, 2014 9:41 pm 3 comments
Author: JNS.org
Right-wing Jobbik Party members in Hungary are planning to hold a rally in a building that formerly functioned as a synagogue. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
JNS.org — The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) is considering sending people to physically prevent Hungary’s ultra-nationalist Jobbik party from holding a rally at a former synagogue on Feb. 14.
Jobbik, which holds 43 of 386 seats in the country’s parliament, is planning the rally in a building in the city of Esztergom which had once been a synagogue. The Jewish community in the city was killed during the Holocaust. The Jobbik party leader, Marton Gyongyosi, had demanded that the Hungarian government make a list of citizens with Jewish ancestry who might post a security risk to the country.
“In case this [gathering] will not be prohibited the Mazsihisz and Jewish civil organizations will protest and physically hinder the Jobbik rally on the spot,” Mazsihisz President Andras Heisler told the Jerusalem Post. Holding the rally at the former synagogue would be an “unworthy, ugly, and cynical desecration of the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and the sentiments of the survivors,” Esztergom’s Socialist Party chairman Tamás Gál wrote in a letter to the town’s mayor.
Meanwhile, the Rabbinical Council of Europe (RCE) has announced its plans to hold a conference in March that will cooperate with the Hungarian government. “In the past few years, the voices of anti-Semitic ideology have become louder in the country. The conference is aimed at showing support to the Jewish community, and to the majority of Hungarians who experience with fear the negative developments,” RCE Director-General Rabbi Menachem Margolin said in a statement.
Reason number *insert large number here* why mindless financial austerity is a losing proposition: These guys win:
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Austerity, mindless profit-maximizing globalization and a crazy EU helps.