New World Order in evidence as FBI go in to investigate violence by ethnic Hungarians against Romany Gypsies
Roma activists claim that a hit squad is operating, and witnesses talk of masked men and mysterious SUVs that roar off in the night. There are disturbing similarities between the murders: the killers usually target the last house in the village to make a quick getaway. The murders are planned with military precision, say the Hungarian police. The police chief, Jozsef Bencze, has 100 investigators working on the murders. The FBI and Hungary's military intelligence service have been called in. A new rapid-response mechanism can lock down any part of the country within five minutes of a new attack being reported. But there have been no arrests.
That rage has grown louder and more vociferous, as crime rises and feelings of insecurity, especially in the countryside, strengthen. Jobbik is expert at channelling public anger, away from political institutions and on to the streets. It also has a uniformed wing, the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard). Its several thousand members wear black paramilitary-style uniforms and march in formation. They target villages, protesting against "Gypsy crime". In December 2007 the Garda held a rally at Tatarszentgyorgy, where Robert and Robika Csorba were killed in February 2009. Garda leaders condemned the crime and there is no evidence that its members were involved. Critics say that the Garda's uniforms are similar to those of the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian Nazi movement, which killed tens of thousands of Jews. Jobbik strongly denies that it is anti-Semitic and has condemned the Holocaust. "We are not against anyone, just for Hungary," its leaders say. Their uniforms are not paramilitary, but are based on the traditional outfits of Hungarian folk dancers. Maybe, but folk dancers don’t march in military formation. An allied website - jobbik.net - carries a lengthy article explaining how Hungary is a "Jewish colony".
In an already shaky democracy, these feelings of insecurity, whether genuinely rooted or imagined, are the weakest part of the social contract between citizens and the state. In my novel, the conspiracy reintroduces the Gendarmerie, the national paramilitary police force that in 1944 forced half a million Jews on the trains to Auschwitz. The Gendarmerie was disbanded after the Second World War. Its return is now a major plank of Jobbik's platform. Last month Jobbik caused uproar when it signed a "co-operation" agreement with the Independent Police Trade Union, a radical group with almost 5,000 members. Consider: thousands of armed public servants, responsible for law and order and public security, are now allied with a far-Right political party with its own uniformed guard. There is a whiff of the Weimar Republic here.
[ "Far-right" is a slur upon the Socialist nature of ethnic unity. Interesting developements in Hungary. Things are really coming to a head over there. ]
nationalist on 06.09.09 @ 02:14 PM CST [more..]