Solutions not excuses My declaration was met with outrage by many in the gathered rows of our opponents that I addressed, indeed others grinned in disbelief. They in fact reacted in exactly the same way as many did, to my thought expressed some time ago, to the effect that two-thirds of the Hungarian people are Jobbik supporters, they just don’t know it yet. At the time many thought this laughable too, though today it is increasingly considered less of a humorous notion. Moreover I did not consider myself to be making a joke. Both then and now I meant these things in all seriousness. Radically.
But what does it mean when I use this word: radical? Does it mean that I was born into this world with clenched fists and foaming at the mouth? Or does it perhaps mean that at nursery school my favourite plaything was a model of a Molotov cocktail? Or does it in fact mean providing a real and truthful answer to a radically bad state of affairs?
Radicalism isn’t an ideology, neither is it a conception, it’s a perspective. If a person is struck by a car, and suffers serious injuries as a result, and two doctors arrive on the scene, one of whom slaps the injured fellow square in the face, while the other says, “Here, have a paracetamol;” the injured party would surely tell both of them to get lost. Hungary over the last decades hasn’t merely been struck by a solitary automobile, it has been positively mown down by dozens of freight trains: and yet this is precisely what has been done. The Left just keeps slapping and kicking the patient regardless, while the Right just keeps stupefying them with all sorts of well-meaning sanctimony.
Radicalism isn’t an ideology, neither is it a conception, it’s a perspective. If a person is struck by a car, and suffers serious injuries as a result, and two doctors arrive on the scene, one of whom slaps the injured fellow square in the face, while the other says, “Here, have a paracetamol;” the injured party would surely tell both of them to get lost. Hungary over the last decades hasn’t merely been struck by a solitary automobile, it has been positively mown down by dozens of freight trains: and yet this is precisely what has been done. The Left just keeps slapping and kicking the patient regardless, while the Right just keeps stupefying them with all sorts of well-meaning sanctimony.
Let’s be straight about it for once: they have deliberately and completely destroyed the country.
What we need here in the place of yet more slaps or painkillers is a radical – to continue the above analogy: a surgical – form of intervention. And in reality only Jobbik has the programme for such a solution. Such seriously deep matters require reform, that the current parliamentary parties – both of the Right and Left – have neither the nerve, the willingness or the nations’ consent to address. They have amply proved themselves incapable of delivering anything other than yet further slaps or paracetamol pills.
No one other than us dares to propose the renegotiation of the national debt, which has for decades stifled the life from the country’s economy. Nobody else suggests that the operations of the Hungarian National Bank be transformed to serve the nation’s needs. And who else would possibly have the nerve to meddle in the question of the taxation of multi-nationals? Certainly not political parties whose electoral coffers these self-same multi-nationals keep regularly topped up, with their requisite thirty pieces of silver... And certainly no one is rushing to address what will be the largest scandal of the coming years, the perilous state of private pension funds. Let alone possessed of the courage to suggest the imminent victims should be bought back under the coverage of state pension schemes.
That the forthcoming transfer of Hungarian land into foreign hands neither bothers nor astonishes a single soul sitting in Parliament, doesn’t even surprise me anymore. Yet a simple, majority passed, amendment to the Landownership Act could easily mark the beginning of bringing this national tragedy to an end. No doubt this task will await us also. Along with the abolition of the immunity from prosecution law, the ending of the parliamentary practise of holding multiple state posts, and the creation of a new law of impeachment. Of course we support the proposed halving of the number of MPs, but such a move hardly addresses the real issue, if 386 scoundrels are merely replaced by 200...
In terms of answers to the Gypsy issue no one else has the faintest clue or suggestion. The Sajóbábony affair has proven, that the situation in certain parts of the country is akin to civil war. In response the Socialist side refuses to recognize this fact, while the Bourgeois side simply pouts. And yet now only drastic interventions are capable of helping. Compulsory community work, family welfare funding that incorporates benefits’ cards and tax rebates – so that legitimate job seekers are supported, and not those who merely produce children to subsist economically. The legal recognition of the role of the Hungarian Guard, and clearly, a Gendarmerie.
We must produce an environment in which Gypsy people can return to a world of work, laws and education. And for those unwilling to do so, two alternatives remain: they can either choose to take advantage of the right of free movement granted by the European Union, and leave the country, because we will simply no longer put up with lifestyles dedicated to freeloading or criminality; or, there is always prison. Which in turn will be a very different place from the health spa environment enjoyed today, starting with the fact that inmates will be required to fund the cost of their upkeep through their own labour. No one other than us dares to propose the renegotiation of the national debt, which has for decades stifled the life from the country’s economy. Nobody else suggests that the operations of the Hungarian National Bank be transformed to serve the nation’s needs. And who else would possibly have the nerve to meddle in the question of the taxation of multi-nationals? Certainly not political parties whose electoral coffers these self-same multi-nationals keep regularly topped up, with their requisite thirty pieces of silver... And certainly no one is rushing to address what will be the largest scandal of the coming years, the perilous state of private pension funds. Let alone possessed of the courage to suggest the imminent victims should be bought back under the coverage of state pension schemes.
That the forthcoming transfer of Hungarian land into foreign hands neither bothers nor astonishes a single soul sitting in Parliament, doesn’t even surprise me anymore. Yet a simple, majority passed, amendment to the Landownership Act could easily mark the beginning of bringing this national tragedy to an end. No doubt this task will await us also. Along with the abolition of the immunity from prosecution law, the ending of the parliamentary practise of holding multiple state posts, and the creation of a new law of impeachment. Of course we support the proposed halving of the number of MPs, but such a move hardly addresses the real issue, if 386 scoundrels are merely replaced by 200...
In terms of answers to the Gypsy issue no one else has the faintest clue or suggestion. The Sajóbábony affair has proven, that the situation in certain parts of the country is akin to civil war. In response the Socialist side refuses to recognize this fact, while the Bourgeois side simply pouts. And yet now only drastic interventions are capable of helping. Compulsory community work, family welfare funding that incorporates benefits’ cards and tax rebates – so that legitimate job seekers are supported, and not those who merely produce children to subsist economically. The legal recognition of the role of the Hungarian Guard, and clearly, a Gendarmerie.
And truly who else but we would avow a constitution based on the doctrine of the Holy Crown?† The Left remains attached to its Stalinist “hodgepodge” for understandable reasons, while the Right thinks its paracetamol cure-all will work here too. To say nothing about the state confidential archive, a matter in which of course all those other parties have something to hide. Indeed can anyone possibly see the determination, the courage or the required probity necessary to bring political criminality to an end, to call a halt to privatization, indeed to re-privatize; in any of the current parliamentary parties?
Let us not even talk further about a patriotic perspective on the politics of education, culture and the media, because the attitude to these issues on both sides is appalling. Who will have the nerve to suspend the franchises of the big commercial television stations, to send back to Bologna the educational system that bears its name, or to declare June 4th a day of countrywide remembrance? And who will build a real Hungarian national defence? Who will defend Hungary’s railways, and its bus companies in the face of the multi-national motorway lobby? And who knows how many things I have left out, about whose solution only Jobbik has the necessary integrity, preparedness and resolve.
And so I’ll say it once again, so it’s clear to everyone, quietly, with no trace of doubt, and as a plain statement of fact: either the next government implement’s Jobbik’s programme, or it lets us, the better choice, do so. Anything else would simply be worse...
Gábor Vona
Jobbik President http://www.jobbik.com/hungary/3138.html
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