"The amnesty case of the real terrorists of autumn 2006 has already been closed. Now the patriots are asking for mercy", says György Budaházy in his letter from the prison, on the twentieth anniversary of the capture of the Erzsébet Bridge.
It is known: in the so-called Hunnia trial, in the case of György Budaházy et al., which lasted for a decade and a half, the verdict was handed down in March. The Capital Court made the following decision : György Budaházy was sentenced to seventeen years in prison, with no parole. The former activist drafted a letter, which is published below in its entirety.
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"On June 17, it was 13 years since the Hunnia case started for me, but exactly 17 days later, on July 4, there is another anniversary. On this day, we remember our great national defense battle fought near Bratislava in 907, when our glorious leaders destroyed the united Western European armies invading our country (like our soccer players defeated the English the other day).
But now I don't want to talk about this, but about a much closer event at the same time, which also entered the pages of Hungarian history.
This year, on July 4th, it has been twenty years since we closed Budapest's Erzsébet Bridge with two dozen determined patriots on this day in 2002.
demanding a recount of the votes of the parliamentary elections.
In essence, this is when I became a nationally known public figure. But let's recall why we did this!? Well, only because heavy storm clouds suddenly appeared in the bright sky of the promising national development that started during Viktor Orbán's first government term. As a result of an election resounding with rumors of fraud, the left-liberal side won by tenths of a percent, and moreover, very suspiciously, the most harmful party of the regime change, SZDSZ, had just sneaked over the threshold into the parliament while the national radical party had just been eliminated.
Of course we did everything. After the first round, Viktor Orbán asked everyone to bring one more person to the second election round. Well, I myself campaigned for the Fidesz candidates with a thousand (Junghaus Rajmund in Fidesz in the 11th district should remember this), the right won the second round, but unfortunately it was not enough either. After that, many of us thought that after such a close and questionable result, we quite rightly demanded a recount of the votes cast in the election, especially in the first round.
Countless submissions were made, we demonstrated continuously, there was even a hunger strike, but everything bounced off the officials.
Then, as a final act of desperation, the closing of the bridge came in the hope that it would lead to a demonstration of such a size that it would be able to fight to prevent the impending destruction of the votes and a recount. That our expectations were not completely unfounded is clearly shown by the fact that several potentates close to Fidesz appeared among the protesters gathering at the bridgehead and eventually a significant crowd also gathered in Kossuth Square.
Unfortunately, in the end, the relevant political leaders did not side with the protesting people and the newly established (reorganizing) left-liberal government with the police dispersed the demonstrating crowd late at night. Thus, our action only partially achieved its goal (the date of the destruction of the votes was postponed by 2 weeks), we blockaders were dragged, I was condemned on 3 different legal grounds for the same thing. From then on, the country was destroyed by the left for 8 years, which strongly confirmed to us that it would have been worthwhile to stop them on July 4, 2002.
Fortunately, they have not been in government for 12 years, the prime minister is once again called Viktor Orbán and - no matter what kind of criticism anyone has about him - he has many excellent measures (now, for example, they are commendably restoring the names of county and mayor, and what the government calls the country's energy security the straight five-star does for his sake) and the stardom of the country is constantly rising under his control.
However, what I feel is wrong is that I am still in prison and it looks like I will spend this 20-year anniversary here as well. In addition, of the 5 places where I have sat in this case so far, this Gyorkogsi street institute is the worst. All this because of an unjust, left-liberal judge, whose bias is clearly shown by the fact that he even reported the national defender Tamás Gaudi-Nagy to the Bar Association, because he dared to voice his critical opinion and indignation due to the scandalous judgment during the sentencing.
The same judge, on the other hand, let the defendants of the cruel murder related to Vizoviczky's nightclub go free with the cynical reasoning we have experienced the other day. It is more than interesting that judge Ignácz found the testimony of the prosecution's crown witness in this case unsuitable for proving guilt due to its contradictory nature. In our Hunnia trial, on the other hand, he considered the proven innumerable contradictions and contradicted testimony of a person from whom the statements were extracted by the investigating authorities under circumstances indicating a forced confession, as acceptable evidence for our conviction.
Our petition for clemency submitted in connection with the verdict has been with the Ministry of Justice for a month, they are thinking and considering the case. In connection with this, I would like to clarify a couple of things.
First of all, whatever is in the indictment and the verdict, it is not terrorists who are asking for mercy. The terrorists have already been pardoned! They were paid in advance, so they didn't even have to ask! Not a single political leader, order-giver, or police officer had a single hair curled for shooting into the crowd in the fall of 2006, shooting people in the eye, beating people in the head, smashing demonstrations for years, robbing the country, and putting people in debt. They were not thrown into pre-trial detention, where they were constantly blackmailed into confessing to each other (what could have happened). They say thank you, they are well, they live comfortably, business is going well, money is pouring in and they can even get involved in politics.
In May 2006, the left-wing parliamentarians, including those who appeared as "victims" in the Hunnia case, giggled and applauded when Ferenc Gyurcsány's speech in Ószöd was delivered.
and none of them had the heart to say "You Feri, maybe it's not okay that we won the elections by cheating the people", just as they were not bothered by the fact that they shot into the crowd protesting against them. By the way, they were/are being slandered and they would be able to drown Viktor Orbán and the entire Fidesz in a spoonful of water. But somehow they got away with it.
So the amnesty case for the real terrorists of autumn 2006 has already been closed. Now the patriots (if you like the freedom fighters) are asking for mercy, who have never used the country's money while causing great damage, but they have suffered a lot so far and trust and hope that their ordeals and those of their family members will finally end as soon as the President of the Republic thanks to the favorable grace decisions of Mrs.
Featured image: MTI/Noémi Bruzák
