The above thought has been in my mind again (I've written about it before), since I have been shocked to observe the weeks-long attacks on our anti-pedophile law package in the Western mainstream public opinion.
I see more and more that the paths of Western Europe and Central Europe are diverging again from a cultural and value point of view - but now we are finally on the good side. We've waited a long time for this moment.
What does this package of laws contain? On the one hand, it acts more strictly than before against all forms of pedophilia; on the other hand, it prevents the dissemination of homosexual and LGBTQ views and gender reassignment options among children. This law - which Jobbik also voted for - specifically serves to protect children, it prevents parents from taking the control and protection of their children out of their hands, which has been their natural right since the beginning of time.
For every normal thinking person, homo sapiens, this can only be an aspiration with a positive connotation. We naive Hungarians would think so.
The West - oh, the West, beautiful Wild West! (Bereményi) - however, he has not thought this way for a long time. For them, the Hungarian Child Protection Act is a serious attack on "common values".
Common values? Whose common values?
Maybe Guy Verhofstadt 's? Or Daniel Cohn-Bendit 's?
Or Frans Timmmermanns or Vera Jourova ?
Maybe György Soros and his son, Alexander Soros ?
Or whose?
Or what is there here, here on the Western scene, what is there in Europe and the United States?
The Hungarian law was attacked at all levels by almost everyone who belongs to the globalist and liberal mainstream. Just to give an example, the Dutch and American embassies protested against the law, the American foreign affairs spokesperson expressed concern, and the European Commission announced that it would launch an investigation into the law (this will be their three thousand five hundred and seventy-sixth investigation into Hungary, if I count correctly). In the EP, Terry Reintke of the Green party, an old hater of the Hungarian government and a champion of gay rights, says that the EC should severely sanction Hungary, since - in his opinion - this is what the EP representatives expect from the body (all of them?). Delbois-Corfield , the EP rapporteur responsible for Hungary , called on the member states to question the Hungarian government during the EP hearing. Going further, the Commissioner for Equality of the European Commission, Helena Dalli, directly calls for sanctions against Hungary, following the example of how six Polish cities were also hit with financial deprivation because they declared themselves to be LGBTQ-free cities (I note that the comparison of the Hungarian child protection law with the case of the Polish cities is totally inability).
More recently, the attacks have been about the fact that the Hungarian anti-pedophilia law goes against the basic values of the EU. In a statement, the 17 heads of state and government of the Union distanced themselves from the law and called on the European Commission to punish Hungary with the toughest sanctions. Earlier, the German Social Democratic Minister of State Michael Roth said similar things, and then the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte went even further, demanding that Hungary be brought to its knees and suggesting that the Hungarian government initiate its own exit from the union, the Huxit.
And here is Lopez Aquilar , the president of the extremely liberal European Parliament, the so-called LIBE Committee - I was forced to meet him as a CÖF delegate in February 2012 at a regular hearing. He put it this way: " Viktor Orbán's rogue aggression against the equal dignity of LGBTQ people is the fundamental opposite of EU values." And the conclusion came, the bloody sword: "More and more EU citizens are thinking about (for example him - FT) what Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party (sic) is still looking for in the European Union, what his government has to do with the EU and how long he will leave will this union continue?"
I say to this: Messrs. Roth, Rutte, Aguilar, you, on the other hand, have nothing to do with the classic, original values of the union, which we Hungarians adhere to, because we joined the union because of those values.
That's why I thought of Churchill's famous Fulton speech from 1946, when he told his audience: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain descended across the entire width of the continent. Behind this line are all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe."
They were very surprised by Churchill's words at the time, because the question of where Europe was going after World War II was still open, and Churchill guessed a little early what was going to happen.
Maybe I'm saying it a bit early, but I still have to say: after the political and military iron curtain of that time, a cultural - values and worldview - iron curtain has fallen in the middle of Europe, from Warsaw to Ljubljana, from Prague to Sofia, from Budapest to Belgrade.
But now we are on the good side of the Iron Curtain. And that's not a small difference.
Let us draw from this the faith and the resulting strength, which we will greatly need in the coming months.
( Tamás Fricz's article was published in Magyar Nemzet
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