Hungary’s government will initiate amending the constitution to limit the freedom of expression by restricting racist expression, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany told news portal Hirszerzo on Monday morning.
The PM spoke in response to Constitutional Court President Peter Paczolay’s recent statement that the Court would defend the freedom of expression. Paczolay said he would not consider restrictions even if harsher expressions than the much-disputed phrase “Gypsy crime” was used, which many consider to fall into the category of hate speech.
Gyurcsany said he did not agree with Paczolay’s views.
“My view is completely different from that. If a concept qualifies a whole group of society as criminals or makes its members feel scapegoats, then it violates the identity of that group and the dignity of its members,” Gyurcsany said.
The prime minister also cited a recent report by the Council of Europe, which said that Hungary’s laws were too liberal on the freedom of expression to make a legislation against racist expression possible.
Justice Minister Tibor Draskovics told reporters that the five-party talks on the planned constitutional amendment could start on Tuesday and the bill could be tabled in parliament as early as next week.
The main opposition Fidesz party said that it was not constitutional amendment but more stringent punishments that would help ensure public safety.
“Harsher penalties to deter criminals, faster court procedures and immediate reinforcement of the police are necessary,” Robert Repassy, a senior Fidesz official, told reporters.
Leader of the liberal opposition Free Democrats Gabor Fodor said they would examine the proposal in detail, but in general his party safeguarded the integrity of the constitution and did not favour its amendment unless it was absolutely necessary.
Leader of the small conservative opposition Democratic Forum Ibolya David said the issue required careful examination and they would comment once more details were known.
Amending the Constitution requires parliament’s two-thirds majority.
I fully agree with Gyurcsány on this. It’s unfortunate that it’s come to this but if some Hungarians need legislation to tell them how to behave then so be it.
Here comes Joe again with his tired gay agenda. He doesn’t care if the country is in ruins, he just wants to ban that offensive free speech. You find free speech offensive, most Hungarians find your obscene gay “pride” parades offensive.
Sorry Joe, you don’t count. Stay in Canada, you’ll be safe there. Buy a Gyurcsany sex-toy if you love him so much.
Care to address the issue, Stan? I didn’t thing so… Loser!
What’s the “issue” Joe? Your mental problem?
The issue is whether or not certain speech, such as “gypsy crime,” scapegoats a whole community. It does and I applaud Gyurcsány for addressing this very serious problem in Hungary.
No rebuttal is required. Just butt out!
Joe. I don’t care if you are gay,gormless, or, a gypsy yourself!
The political, and social problems in Hungary, are serious, and go beyond just the so-called ‘hate speeches’ against minority groups.
It is the ‘over-simplification’ and ‘personal views’ that have neither relevance nor justification on the issues they address, that is more often the crime.
So nothing should be said and nothing should be done ’cause the country has serious problems.
Who said the country doesn’t have serious problems?
Joe, were so sorry you didn’t find a guy with a big penis on this site. You have obviously mistaken politics.hu for a site catering to homosexuals. The first indication for you should have been the number of naked women without “large penises” between their legs. I would suggest that you look elsewhere on the web to help you visualize your obvious desire to be surrounded by penises. Have a nice day trying to convince yourself that you aren’t an example of a repressed homosexual.
For godless communist bastards like Joe and Gyurcsany…
“… The nation of the Hungarians loved and admired Budapest, which became its polluter in the last years. Here, on the banks of the Danube, I arraign her. This city has disowned her thousand years of tradition, she has dragged the Holy Crown and the national colours in the dust, she has clothed herself in red rags. The finest of the nation she threw into dungeons or drove into exile. She laid in ruin our property and wasted our wealth. Yet the nearer we approached to this city, the more rapidly did the ice in our hearts melt. We are now ready to forgive her.”
Horthy upon entering Budapest in 1919
P.S. Gyurcsany wants to do the same thing with this so-called “ammendment” by throwing people into jail for free speech, amazing how you see similarities with Kun Bela Commies and the neo-commies lead by Gyurcsany almost 100 years later, oh is is coincidence that both have Jewish backgrounds? Communists and former communists…hmmmmm
Joe, my dear friend Jozsi
I will have to SPANK you if you don’t stop you pussyboi
Isn’t it enough that you were outed on pestiside????Comment 83
Now you have to risk my good name also???!! You are a bad-bad boi what will the other passangers say on the bus???
The country does have serious problems,Joe.
It’s windbags like you who misconstrue and misrepresent what’s actually going on, here, with your contemptuous, ready-made views!
Stay in your log cabin in Canada reading copies of Mr Universe and other such fruit cake periodicals.
Leave the politics to the er.. “big boys”!
Yes, Hungary has serious problems. Good to see Gy doing the right thing for a change.
What’s with all the gay talk, Wayne?
What’s the “right thing” Moronymous?
“What is the right thing?” Whatever I decide is always right. My IQ must be higher than 160, since I’m definitely smarter than the average Hungarian, Stan.
Anonymous/Moronymous…Idiot Quotient = 160?
For sure! Keep on reading those Batman comics.
By the way …when is your release date..???
Idiot Quotient? – Is that what Hungarians measure? Now, that explains plenty, esp the mass 160 scores.
I think they’ve been reading too much Sad Sack, rather than Batman.
Idiot quotient = 160? Not Hungarians. Hungarians are educated people. That leaves you out, peanut brain.
These pages are for educated debate. That also leaves you out.
If anyone can make any sense of what, or who, you are, or what you are trying to achieve – they deserve an award. Meanwhile..got to the top of a big mountain and throw yourself off. You will rest in peace and, so shall we!
Looking at the childish comments from you, Gandi and Anonim, I’d guess you are still reading comics, and eating twinkies
Come back when you finish high school, preferably one where you didn’t cheat to pass.
This is why people hate (some) Jews:
“Wiesenthal Centre Presents Condolences and Solidarity with Roma after Pogrom in Hungary”
http://tinyurl.com/bbo26c
What “pogrom in Hungary”? Are these people for real?
They bomb the crap out of Palestine, killing hundreds of children, that’s fine, Jews are entitled to do anything these days.
One kid dies in Hungary, no suspects yet, so let’s call it a fucking “pogrom” and make the incredibly roma-tolerant Hungarians the bad guys.
No one seems to be interested that two years after the brutal “kill the Magyar” lynching of a Hungarian teacher by gypsies, there’s no progress in punishing the guilty. For some reason killing Hungarians is not a “hate crime” and appears to be business as usual. Something wrong with this picture. And the Wiesenthal Centre can kiss my ass.
Stan. You are correct once again. And, I repeat, “What about the foreign sportsman who was stabbed to death by three men of Roma origin in a nightclub in Vesprém, recently?
The silence is deafning on this one.
Jews have decimated Palestine and killed hundreds of innocent people. They have not got rid of the terrorists because the rockets still keep falling.
If Ferenc thinks that by trying to kerb “free speech” it will help the situation, he is mistaken.
If someone called him a crazy, big-nosed “kike”
for mishandling every political situation that has passed his way over the past two years. Would they be responsible for making a “hate speech”? Or,would they be applauded, and awarded a medal for reporting the truth..?
Carmen Miranda
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre would be dragged screaming through the Law Courts for the remarks posted on their website… “pogrom in Hungary..against the gypsies??”
Unfortunately Hungary is bankrupt and does not have the money to prosecute this libellous, zionist organisation.
Mis-informed comment and the unnecessary legislation being passed to prevent “freedom of speech” are things that will exacerbate, rather than help matters at the moment.
Hungary, and Hungarians, are not going to stand around and get kicked in the teeth by every self-righteous organisation that set out to exploit an already volatile situation at the expense of the truth.
Van Helsing
Actually, I am David Goldman, of the Goldman Institute of “Gurcsotany Does Not Lie…Ever” and I can verify that gyurcsontany has hungary’s best interest at heart…
That lowlife scum at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre must have based his “outrage” on the Bojan Pancevski nonsense in the Sunday Times, using that retarded bitch, Mohácsi Viktória as the original source. So much for truth in left-liberal pro-Jew-gypsy reproting.
See, children, this is how excessive political correctnes overrides correctness, facts and the truth. Now you know.