He tried to attack Momentum, but another inescapable relativization emerged from the Facebook post of former SZDSZ and DK politician Tamás Bauer on May 5.
It happened that the DK 2.0 youth department placed folding tables and chairs on Kossuth Square on Labor Day, setting it up as a catering terrace, just to show how fed up they are with this dictatorship, in which the caterers can open, but they can't. they can demonstrate. Because life is not life without demonstrations, isn't it? However, according to Bauer, the perfectly tailored performance was marred by the fact that those present held signs reading "Stealing public property is treason" in front of them.
Until now, this entry would not have been special, we could say, just the usual bickering between comrades, enriched with boringly familiar panels, such as talking about "unconstitutionality, restriction of fundamental political rights, or the frivolous protection card". Uncsi.
But after that, the author turns to the point and begins a relativization that smells of sweat, in the course of which he also establishes, as it were, "by the way" that
The Rákos exercised their power in the country as vassals of the Soviet Union, but they were convinced that what they considered to be the Hungarian national interest - the "construction of socialism" and the economic upliftment of the country in this way - could be achieved in an economic, political and military alliance with the Soviet Union. They built a terrible world in Hungary, but what they did was not treason. (And the tar-headed comrade couldn't be bald either, that goes without saying. He just lacked hair. - ed.)
A beautiful thought! Especially in light of the fact that Bauer himself defines the concept of treason a paragraph earlier, albeit somewhat simplified, but still quite precisely:
Treason means that someone knowingly causes harm to their own country for the sake of a foreign power.
According to Section 258 (1) of the BTK, a treasonous citizen is "a Hungarian citizen who establishes or maintains contact with a foreign government or a foreign organization for the purpose of violating Hungary's independence, territorial integrity or constitutional order, shall be punished for a crime with imprisonment from five to fifteen years".
Bauer is therefore aware of the concept, yet he acquits Rákosi and his accomplices of the crime with one light gesture. And so that the wine-soakedness of his argument doesn't hang in the air, let's look at an example: if, according to Bauer, the Rákosi's act committed out of "conviction" is not treason, then I won't be a murderer either if I cut someone's throat tomorrow out of the same deep conviction? For example, one from DK, because I think he is just a sore on the back of Hungarian society and harming the country?
By the way, characterizing Rákosi's government as merely "an economic, political and military alliance with the Soviet Union" is like shouting to a flock of sheep that the neighboring pack of wolves will bring them "economic uplift" and create a world in which everyone will be equal.
However, it is an even more serious crime that he wedged this acquittal between the governments of Horthy and Orbán, graciously "acquitting" them of the charge of treason. How nice of him, isn't he?
And finally, as a bonus, the usual theft cannot be left out, as the author says:
There is no doubt that they (the Orbáns) "steal", use their political power to enrich themselves and their clients, which will certainly exhaust the criminal law facts.
They understand, right? They steal. But at least they're not traitors!
Of course, the theft is not explained this time, why, the time for facts has passed, the audience has no need for such disturbing elements, it would distract their attention from the bright shine of the glass beads.
Finally, Bauer concludes by saying that the opposition "saves themselves the intellectual effort that would be needed to understand the Orbán system and Orbán's policy and describe them in appropriate terms. However, this effort cannot be spared if we want to overcome this system at some point".
And I want to! What is that, really!
I almost feel sorry for Bauer. I'm sorry, because the poor man has had to suffer so many retorts since the fraternal Soviet Union took its watchful eyes off him and his comrades! Brush it, eh, it's not the real thing, well, where is the article from the week, the blue helmets? However, the dirty Hungarian right wing, my kind of fascists, have already robbed the country, taken the property of the Bauers, swept their attics, took their sons, kicked their daughters out of universities, but even their grandchildren are no longer allowed to hold public positions. Their wealth did not increase (enough) for the devil to take it away, they could not get any villa for free, just for pennies, and they could not threaten school principals, priests, doctors! It became a dog world.
However, Bauer and his colleagues may have already learned one thing, especially the LMPs, but it doesn't hurt to keep it in mind for us either; the glint of glass beads here or there, politics cannot be anything other than what a person is.
Careful trash, put it away by 2022!
Cover image: mult-kor.hu
