"Peace! Rule of Law! No fascists!"

And the Jack-Boots Go Marching On...
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And on... and on...
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The Roma of Hejoszalonta united against the storm troopers the Magyar Garda. With their community linked arm in arm they shouted "Peace! Rule of Law! No Fascists!". And yet the black uniformed Jobbik army still went marching on.
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Stomping their jack-boots and lifting torches the neo-Nazi army stormed the village of 850, only 350 of which are Roma. Their angry tone was amplified in the blaring of their heavy metal rock music. The sound of the bass drum mocked the sound of war drums as the "Magyars" attempted to spread terror amongst their intended victims.
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In March the Jobbik party had organized a larger march in Gyongyospata where around 3,000 of the black shirts raised their torches and whips. There they had marched up and down the village streets as they shouted their anti-Semitic and anti Roma chants. All in the name of Nationalistic pride.
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"Jobbik were deliberately provoking them. Parents held the teenagers back because the fascists wanted an excuse to attack. It would have been a bloodbath," an observer noted in Hejoszalonta. Had the Roma youth been allowed to lash out the battle would have been a "bloodbath". The homes of Roma and suspected Roma would have been set ablaze. The women and children would have been beaten to an inch of their lives and their men shot. This is how Jobbik treats Hungarian Roma.
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When Roma and Human Rights Activist petitioned the government to form a "human chain" between the Magyar Garda and the Roma houses the government forbid them to do so. Instead they allowed the Jobbik clan to march right up to the Romany houses with torches ready. Armed men with fire in hand were allowed to terrorize the Roma children held captive behind chicken wire.
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In the past Hungary and much of the Eastern Block nations have witnessed and participated in pogroms that start much like the scenario listed above (thankfully this one ended without bloodshed). Jobbik and its Magyar Garda allies have committed such acts of genocidal ferocity. Men, women, and children are all considered "targets" simply because they are Rom.
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Most of the time these scenes end with Roma houses being burnt out. In the Czech Republic these scenes end with a Roma body found filled with holes. In Romania these scenes end with a Roma boy found bloody face down in a muddy river. Yet Jobbik still seems capable of holding its seats in Hungarian government?
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This sort of fascist behaviour can not be rewarded by the outside world. Other European countries need to apply pressure on Hungary and force change in its ever leaning right culture (but most of them too are leaning the same direction these days). And most of all, America needs to be more vocal in its defense of what we consider to be inalienable human rights. We need to condemn these kind of acts where ever and whenever they occur... regardless of who is committing them.
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"Peace! Rule of Law! NO FASCISTS!"
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