Gypsy Voivod confronts PM Orban at a Gypsy crime debate

The Gypsy Voivod at the Fidesz event

There are hundreds of articles and publications on the internet or in the written press about the Hungarian patriotic, conservative Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik), where the patriotic, conservative party is regularly pictured as an "anti-Roma", "anti-Semitic", or an "extremist" political party. To an objective reader the question will come naturally why a Hungarian political party, with considerably strong representation in the National Parliament is constantly portrayed in such a manner in the press.
It is not our intention to judge the quality of the work of those journalists whose "objective and informative" publications will usually be confined to a simple copy and paste action. The readers will judge themselves.

A current worldwide example of the copy/paste mentality of "journalists" these days, was the 700 major media organisations around the world who all published false information this week concerning the famous Wikileaks organisation web site, which was started by one single blog which has an agenda against that organisation.

The labels that Jobbik has been slandered with are so similar that one might think that there is a Word Document template circulating between the journalists, and where the lazy and not so brave hide behind referring to and quoting from other shady articles that had no single elements of truth in them.

A recent example of this, when journalism yet again hits rock bottom, is the article published in the German publication "Der Spiegel", where it is obvious that the publication is fuelled with some unexplainable hate against Hungarians, imagining Jew and Roma persecutions and a new "nazi-era".

Jobbik.com has already published an article "Frequently Refuted Lies" that is highly recommended to anyone wanting an insight into the so-called "anti-semitism" or "anti-roma" labels. Further exploring the "anti-Roma" issue, especially in recent developments in Europe, it is worth knowing where the expression "Gypsy crime" originates from.

Gipsy crime is a definition already used in Hungarian criminology referring to the predominant commission of certain types of crimes by the Roma (Gypsies).

In the autumn of 2006, in the town of Olaszliszka a mob of gipsy men battered to death Lajos Szögi, a teacher of Tiszavasvár, after the teacher, by accident, peripherally swiped the daughter of one of the gipsy men. The two daughters of the teacher had to witness the murder of their father.

The public uproar about the unspeakable murder was enormous and Jobbik first advocated strict measures on what it called "Gipsy crime". What was at first categorised as a "politically incorrect" statement, during the last few years has become widely accepted and already known to the general public about the certain crimes and offenses carried out by the gipsies.

Roma crime -- while governments denyied public debate about the issue -- became such a serious issue that it partly assisted Jobbik to enter Hungarian Parliament for the first time, with 17% in April 2010. It is however important to note that it only partly assisted the success and that this was not because of its anti-Roma message but because of Jobbik's open debate about the problem and Jobbik being the only party that actually offered help to the phenomen.http://www.jobbik.com/hungary/3187.html