So is it just me, or does the reaction in Hungary to the recent surge in planned and executed attacks on government officials seem weirdly muted? On Friday, just before everyone took off for the three-day weekend, Justice Minister Tibor Draskovics said that the four suspects apprehended in the planned assault on Socialist MP László Ecsődi were also preparing to attack – and possibly kill – several other politicians and law-enforcement officials. And now we hear that two Socialist offices out in the countryside were firebombed sometime this morning. But a quick scan of some of the mainstream press over the last couple of hours shows little sign of the sort of hysteria you might expect, or even any attempts to “connect the dots” between the two attacks. I’m not saying people should be hysterical about these stories, or even particularly nervous. I just expected people to be slightly more hysterical, and the fact that they aren’t is making me slightly nervous.
No need to worry, it’s just a terrorist onslaught
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Fear not dear article writer.
Everyone knows that as soon as they start making molotov cocktails for the wider population the alchohol will be drunk rather than set fire to and put to waste on some government building. They’ve caught the only 4 T-total Hungarians prepared to sacrifice this resource.
Peace will be restored by the Hungarian law of physics known as the “conservation of alchohol” principle.
Erik: The muted reaction is evidence that violence has become an accepted means of political expression in Hungary. At least when employed by far-right wackos. Nobody calls it what it is: terrorism.
Another reason for the lack of response is that a lot of people prefer to believe that the government just makes up these stories for its own purposes. Sad.
@Desmond: Well, the *really* sad/scary thing is that even some pretty solidly neutral observers such as me are willing to entertain the possibility that some of this violence is the work of agents provocateurs dispatched by the gov’t, or shawdowy bits of the state.
@Erik: Exactly. One of us is clearly losing his mind. I’m just glad it’s you.
@Desmond: Actually, I’d say to totally discount the possibility would be nuts
But in all seriousness, I am not talking about murder or anything like that, just vandalism, and possibly riling up demonstrators.
Sherlock ‘Erik’ Holmes. Connect what dots?
Reading some of the comments on these pages, it’s a wonder that the whole, rotten, legion haven’t been, ‘put to the sword’!
….And meanwhile 2 Hungarians, well a Transylvanian and half Hungarian/Bolivian were involved in a bigger bang in Santa Cruz with an Irishman…all 3 were shot dead in their underwear by a group of elite police from La Paz. Eduardo may have been a soldier of fortune, but no terrorist.The Serbs hated him and tried to pin some murders of non existant foreign journalists on him when he led the Foreign Brigade in 1991 fighting in Croatia.