When I - with some masochism - read DK's announcements, I think of Julius Caesar more and more often. Not the real one, but the one from the Continue Kleó! can be seen in the movie, and who always starts his confusing speeches like this: My friends, Romans, earthlings.

Their latest announcement was made by Shadow Foreign Minister Sándor Rónai, which reads, among other things:

"24.hu wrote that Turkish dictator Erdogan's men, who were visiting Hungary, may have assaulted a Hungarian man in Budapest..."

Well, then: My friends, people from Rónia, my countrymen. I would like to know whether they distributed or looted, i.e. abused or could only abuse. It really doesn't matter. The former expression is a statement of fact, the latter an assumption. Maybe. Maybe. It is not impossible.

This is the worst form of scaremongering, because in theory it doesn't claim anything, but in practice it does.

And as it is customary with far-leftists, or rather neolibs, they will now act as if the affair had definitely taken place. Jelzem, the incident was also published on the 24.hu website under the title: "Erdogan's men may have abused the Hungarian man running for Turkish president in Budapest, TEK had to rescue him" . On the other hand, the first word of the article no longer uses the conditional mood, it clearly states: Abused...

This is how to do it like a librarian! First maybe, then definitely. Nice job guys, you didn't deny yourselves!

Otherwise, the story is confusing and hardly believable. It is said that Erdogan's bodyguards in civilian clothes attacked the man who protested in a very cultured way, showing the middle finger, but how do you know that they were the president's men? Maybe it was written somewhere on the civilian clothes that it was Erdogan's security men? Why would a professional security service care who shows what? It is much more likely that the attackers came from among Erdogan's followers in Hungary, they could have been Turks living here. But no, this possibility did not cross the minds of the writers of 24.hu, HVG, or Mérce, because they very objectively decided that the Turkish president's men, whom they had dictated, attacked, period.

Apart from the small matter of why you have to point in a jerky way at any president, which of course the person has the right to do, he certainly didn't have a children's room, so apart from that, what could the poet have been thinking? After all, my saint is a dictator, showing off to a dictator is not exactly life insurance. But I repeat, in the given situation, the attack by Erdoğan's security people can be classified as a fairy tale.

Comrade Rónai does not classify it there, but among the irrefutable facts. The announcement goes on to talk about the case as if the allegation had been proven. And he calls to account, he demands:

"how is it possible that the Turkish dictator's men beat a Hungarian man in Hungary, and the Hungarian government watches all this in grave silence? How is it possible that Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who regularly lashes out at our country's European allies, has not yet summoned the Turkish ambassador? Are the "friends" of the Orbán government allowed to do anything, including beating Hungarians?"

Well, my friends, the people of Róna, this is also a nice bunch, a mess dressed up in questions. Has it been proven that the people of the "Turkish dictator" (Erdogan was kept in office by a democratic election, just like Viktor Orbán. Oh, sorry, this is not an argument in your eyes, since you also dictator the Hungarian Prime Minister) beat anyone? No. And what is it that the Hungarian government "looks on in grave silence"?

Assuming, but not allowing, that the Turkish security guards were the attackers, no major trouble happened, because the TEK members protected the attacked.

Is it a greater crime if a few steamy figures push a protester who is protected by Hungarian law enforcement officers, or if Hungarian police officers beat Hungarian people to death, shoot out their eyes, and arrest innocent people in droves, who were actually protecting them?

The law enforcement officers of the time certainly didn't, but neither did the politicians in power. They did not observe the events in grave silence, on the contrary, they even honored the domestic terrorist leaders of the government at the time. At that time, it was not the friends of the Orbán government who beat the Hungarians, but the partisan organizations of your government. Have you already forgotten this, Comrade Rónai? And yet your dictator was the prime minister at the time.

Just tell me, Mr. Rónai, why did Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó have to invite the Turkish ambassador? What would he have told her? Maybe that, please, here are some of my very authentic organs, 24.hu, HVG, Mérce and a few others who, in their opinion, President Erdogan's people slapped a show-off Hungarian citizen. This is a nasty thing. The ambassador just stands there ashamed, sorry, we won't do this again, will the attackers kneel on their knees for two hours?

Yes, we could order in the Turkish ambassador and make fools of ourselves. You would certainly have done it, although in your case it should not have been done.

At the end of his announcement, he cannot state that the Shadow Government is the cure for our problems, that "there is an alternative capable of governing, which can lead our country back to the ranks of European democracies."

You know, Comrade Rónai, knowing today's European "democracies", one does not wish to be led back into them. If what the "self-governing states" or Brussels present is mocked as democracy, then I would rather continue to suffer in this "Orbán dictatorship".

Author: György Tóth Jr

Front page photo: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (j) receives Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Carmelite Monastery on August 20, 2023, in a photo published by the Prime Minister's Press Office. MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Benko Vivien Cher