Where honesty is lacking, there is no peace and there never will be. Written by Katalin Kondor.
They are slanderous. There are plenty of them. I am deeply convinced that the next few days - maybe even weeks - will be spent reacting to this year's current Orbán speech.
It is the job of our experts to analyze what the prime minister said, but due to a strange play of fate, it happened that on the same day, on the Klubrádió channel - I think it was not the first time - a conversation appeared in which a certain József Kardos told the reporter that Viktor Orbán a scrappy crook. All that was known was that the recording was played for the first time on February 13, and then, as usual, it went viral.
I won't say, I was a little surprised.
I was not really surprised by the two words characteristic of the Prime Minister, obscenity has been a daily habit in certain circles for a long time, but by the fact that the person in question did not mention a single specific example during the conversation.
He talked about corruption, theft, the country's split, Fidesz becoming a far-right entity, the lack of dialogue, the opportunistic Fidesz who are in the background, and he made many other accusations about the ruling party, but he did not mention a single concrete thing, he did not provide a single piece of evidence. to prove his claims.
The reporter did not ask why not.
I suppose if this evidence had been in his pocket, he would have just pulled it out when asked by the reporter. He didn't pull it out.
Well, here is the point when we have to remember how many and how many times in the past period we have experienced in Hungarian public life that masses of accusations and slanders are thrown at the head of someone, someone, and we never come across the proof.
I don't understand why anyone thinks they can do that. And why can he do it with impunity? If there is no evidence, then it is defamation. If it is defamation, then you should be criminally liable.
In the conversation, thief, crook and many other epithets were used for the prime minister, and don't be surprised, I say, maybe all of them are true.
It's just everyone's duty to prove their claim.
And because this did not happen, we can rightly say that this act is also a shame for the rule of law. Where are the volunteer defenders who constantly preach about the rule of law? When will slander have real consequences?
We've been asking this for years, but no one is answering.
The current government is not responsible either.
However, if we look at Hungarian history - especially the most recent one - we can certainly mention many "slanderous cases", which were all based on lies, and the majority of which did not have any expected consequences, but the victims even paid with their lives for the slanders.
Let's jump back a bit, into the history that lives with us. February 25, the Memorial Day of the Victims of Communism, is approaching. We still don't know enough about the lives and sufferings of the victims. They also hurled a flood of slander against their guard, they could not defend themselves because they were not given the opportunity to do so. Many have paid with their lives for their non-existent crimes.
It wouldn't be good if even today our daily lives were accompanied by continuous "slanders" that do not require proof.
Not so long ago - in connection with a conversation - László Bogár said: "I am deeply convinced that our great national tragedies could have occurred because most of the nation was unable to see what was happening to it. As painful as it is to face this, he had no real knowledge, if he had knowledge, he had no courage.”
It is indisputable that it is so, and it is true to this day, i.e. also in relation to the events of today and the recent past. So we have to see what happened and is happening to us. And for this, secrecy must be abolished.
Defamation must be punished.
But let's also add that no one has been punished for slander, hiding or distorting historical facts. A few years ago, on Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism, I spoke with a couple of university students who had completed their first year with excellent results and were studying economics. They did not know that a large number of Hungarians were taken to Soviet labor camps and Hungarian ones. So much for real knowledge, the possession of which has undeniably been tried to be prevented in the past decades. With success.
It would be good to analyze very carefully why this is so, and why thirty-four years after the change of regime (?) can something like this still happen?
Wide-ranging debates and dialogues should therefore be organized, partly so that all worthy people can express their opinion about the cause of this lack of knowledge, and at the same time about how the lack could be filled, and how slander and lies should be handled "fairly".
Where honesty is lacking, there is no peace and there never will be.
In connection with this, we can also think about what will happen to the world if there is and will not be reconciliation, dialogue, understanding and rapprochement.
Well, then there will be war and destruction, as is already happening in almost every field, and the masters of the world are already sure that they have won. From their diabolical point of view, they are right.
But from a divine point of view, they will never be right, because that requires confrontation, honesty.
If we look back to the 20th century (but we can even do this to the beginning of known history), the mass of lies has been falling on us for more than a hundred years. If there was some truth about the socio-historical events thanks to some historians, the factory of lies was immediately started as a refutation. As well as a campaign against those who write and reveal the truth. The Habsburg era, the First World War, the Horthy era, the Second World War, the history of communism, Trianon, 1956, the regime change, all distorted, falsified, lied to.
Our everyday life too.
Just think of the Islamization of Europe! Has a single true word been spoken about the influx of people who lied to the refugees? About its cause, origin, intentions? It wasn't said. On the other hand, forced resettlement also threatens us. So we live in a culture of lies, a culture of lies forced upon us. Where ugly is said to be beautiful, violence to be justified, and truth to be false. This should end.
So it's a wake-up call, you can't avoid having real knowledge and courage at last!
Everyone adds their experience, let's decide what to do in an organized and smart way. And we refute the false ideas of the heralds of the new world order, just like the slander.
It is likely that many people will find it strange what I end the above reflection with. The story is circulating on the Internet, I think I've already told it once, but repetition is the mother of knowledge, it's worth bringing it up again. Well, they interviewed the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid al Maktoum, who said this about the future of his country: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, my grandson will also ride in a Land Rover, but my great-grandson will have you have to ride the camel... - Why? asks the reporter. - Hard times raise strong men, strong men create easy times. Easy times breed weak people, weak people make hard times.”
The hard times are here, they don't want to go away. Where are you strong men?
