I recommend that all well-intentioned and decent people who care about democracy, human rights, morality, and the honor of a country should support Ákos Szilágyi's proposal.
Ákos Szilágyi, a personality of the conservative camp, came up with a proposal: a statue should be erected at the corner of Dohány utca in memory of the police brutalities and even carnage in 2006. The moment when an unknown policeman shot László Nagy in the eye with a rubber bullet at Dob Street, he was blinded in his left eye, and was helped to an ambulance by his comrades, including Ákos Szilágyi, at Dohány Street.
Ákos Szilágyi plans the monument as a symbolic statue, which would serve as an eternal reminder that in 2006, on the 50th anniversary of the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle, Hungary had one power, one government, and its prime minister, under whose leadership, recalling the worst dictatorial times attacked his own people and crushed them, trampling on human rights and democracy.
To this day, shameful events must really be remembered. I agree with the initiative. In order to remind us: such and similar events must never happen again in Hungary, which wanted and was freed from the pressure of the dictatorship!
Allow me some cynicism: I would suggest that we also make a statue of Ferenc Gyurcsány, a life-size one at that, with a triumphant man, say in Kossuth Square, and write on it: this is the man who brutally beat the peaceful Fidesz protesters with his police, but for that he still did not answer for his disgraceful and vile, unforgivable act, his actions remained without consequences! Moreover, Gyurcsány is still an active and proactive, even successful leader of the left-liberal side.
We are a special country, because the left is already rebelling against the erection of the statue. We need to know that to set up such a statue, of course, permits are required, first of all, based on the location, the relevant VII. with the consent of the district municipality. Do you know who VII. district mayor? His name: Péter Niedermüller. The man who said the following on ATV in January 2020:
If we look at what remains when you strip away these things of hatred, we listed them: the non-Hungarians, the others, the migrants, the Roma, I don't know what, then there remains a terrifying formation in the middle: these white, Christian , heterosexual men - and there are also women among them. This is the concept of family. This is horrible, because if you look at what the so-called white nationalists all over the world are made of: this, I tell you quietly.
This man, who simultaneously embraces the woke movement, the LGBTQ concept, gender ideology, the abolitionist culture, the BLM movement and all the important theses of every "mainstream" - that is, the extreme neoliberal-neocommunist - direction, has already instructed with alarmed haste back the suggestion.
Are we surprised? Obviously not a bit.
In relation to the statue, the approval of the representative body is required for the use of public space. Since VII. in the district, there are a majority of representatives linked to the left, so there can be no question that they naturally reject the erection of a monument that hurts their leader Ferenc Gyurcsány in any way.
The twenty-third of October is also the day of the Gyurcsány terror
Source: Magyar Hírlap
Oh well. I live in an age on this earth (free after Miklós Radnóti) when there has been a statue of Gyula Horn, one of the suppressors of the 1956 revolution, the infamous pufferfish, in the capital for years. Then they named a public area after him, while this is clearly prohibited by our laws, since you cannot name a public area after a person who created, managed or defended any dictatorial, oppressive system. In this context, I am not interested in the fact that some people think that Gyula Horn was an extremely talented, skillful and smart politician who can be learned from. What can be learned from him, I respectfully ask? Maybe the fact that he later changed his cloak, even as big as Lacháza's? Is everything alright with him then? And when, to the astonishment of all of us, the traitor of 1956 became prime minister in this country after the regime change, did he introduce the Bokros package for the sake of the people, which was nothing more than the misery of the population (in addition, the Constitutional Court struck down some elements of the package)? When and why and in whose interest is it to protect Gyula Horn? Anyone who can answer this.
So I live in an age, and so do you, my dear readers, when
There is a statue of Gyula Horn in the capital, while there is still no memorial to László Nagy, who lost half of his eye during police brutality and cruelty and died a year ago, and through him to the vileness of Gyurcsány.
How long is this tolerable, how long is it acceptable? I don't think so.
I recommend that all well-intentioned and decent people who care about democracy, human rights, morality, and the honor of a country should support Ákos Szilágyi's proposal.
Let it be a civic initiative, let it be the initiative of the people. As we, the founders of CÖF, said in 2009: let the people decide!
Perhaps no one can resist pressure from below. Neither Péter Niedermüller nor VII. district representative body, nor the entire left. For me, there can be no doubt that the national side has a duty to support this statue. Besides, this memorial would only be a sort of consolation even if it did materialize. It is little consolation from the point of view that 2006 did not have any legal consequences either.
Yes, of course not! After all, in 2015 (!), the Capital District Court handed down a verdict in the case of some police leaders in the case of the September-October 2006 atrocities, at which time two defendants were reprimanded, and everyone else was acquitted (!).
Due to appeals, the "case" - which is much, much more than this - was brought before the Capital Sentence Board, and here finally in February 2017 (!) a truly proportionate, powerful, very strict verdict was handed down, beating, humiliating, mutilating many innocent people, against his chief leader, the police chief of Budapest at the time, Péter Gergényi! Which was nothing more than a HUF 400,000 fine. I would like to say: the investigation is closed, forget it! No! This must never and cannot be forgotten! Anyone who does this is a silent accomplice to what happened in 2006.
Fidesz did not accept the decision either, and reacted immediately as follows:
The punishment imposed on Péter Gergényi is outrageously light. Péter Gergényi is one of the people responsible for the fact that Ferenc Gyurcsány violently dispersed the crowd peacefully protesting against him in the fall of 2006.
Also:
it is unacceptable that the innocently beaten commemorators received much more severe punishments during the concept proceedings than the guilty ones. We believe it is important that the judiciary provides a reassuring, proportionate response to crimes in each case, and does not leave unanswered these serious crimes that legitimately irritate public opinion. In the fall of 2006, unprecedented violence was committed against the Hungarian people, which is why the current verdict is outrageous.
That's right.
In the end, I can only say the following: if this figure named Ferenc Gyurcsány is already walking around us and spoiling the public atmosphere of the country, and for some unfathomable reason this cannot be changed, then at least there should be a memorial to the victims of the disgrace and crime in Gyurcsány . Perhaps one day the time and moment will come when this situation will change and the real main culprit will receive his deserved punishment.
Who lives, helps with this!
Source: Hungarian Nation
Front page image: Budapest, September 26, 2006. Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány thanks the policemen for their actions on behalf of the republic. MTI Photo: Tamás Kovács
