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Jobbik: Europe reverberates the media law instead of the Hungarian people's problems

13/01/2011 17:46:00 admin

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Injured people in 2006: no condemnation by Brussels

There has been no real freedom of press in Hungary since 1990, not to mention during the communist era before that. What most of the international press mean by press freedom, however, is just a monopolist position of the extreme left, neoliberal media. It seems that all the condemnation and panic about the new Hungarian media law is actually about the fact that neo-liberals do not tolerate any real or presumed obstacles to their limitless media power.

In one way, it would be a welcomed measure by the Fidesz-government with its two-thirds parliamentary majority to somehow regulate the overwhelming weight of extreme left, former communist and now liberal 'journalists' and press but this is quite an unlikely scenario. Instead, Fidesz are doing exactly the same what they meant to regulate and fight against: invading the media, public televisions and radios with their own executives, building the orange Fidesz empire.

However, I consider a more severe problem in that Vikor Orbán and his Fidesz party are abusing the Hungarian voters' will. They were voted in and given license by the electorate to urgently deal with the Hungarian nation's crucial problems, such as the national debt, the economy and many important problems in the aftermath of 8 years of Socialist-liberal destruction. Instead, again, Fidesz is building its one-party national media.

When Hungary took over the rotating presidency of the EU on 1 January 2011, there should have been other questions on the agenda. The world press should echo and condemn the Benes decrees, the anti-Hungarian Slovak language law or the ethnic cleansing of Hungarians in Transylvania carried out by all-time Romanian governments. Viktor Orbán and János Martonyi seem to let great opportunities slip away with the mistimed media law. Thus the international press covers the media-law to such a great extent, whilst autonomy and self-government of Transylvanian Hungarians (currently under Romanian rule) or that of the Délvidék (an ancient Hungarian territory currently under Serbia) remains unmentioned.

Nevertheless we must point out and ask the 'frightened' and 'terrified' western media and the European Union: why were they silent during the rubber bullet fusillade ordered by the Socialist government in 2006? Why did they keep quiet regarding the brutal ferocities and the torture of peaceful, commemorating people on 23 October 2006? Police forces and masked security thugs blinded and semi-blinded 14 people and wounded hundreds in the flow of the 2006 carnage.

Or on Slovakia: where is the world media and the EU when one of its member states has been trying to ban official and in fact everyday use of Hungarian language for its 600,000 strong Hungarian minority? Or in Transylvania, where Hungarian tombs and cemeteries have been and are being systematically destroyed before the eyes of accomplice Romanian authorities? Was there ever such a concerted media campaign against the misuse of power by the Slovak and Romanian authorities in the western press or was there any official condemnation issued by Brussels?http://www.jobbik.com/jobbik-announcements/3194.html