Hungary will receive one former inmate from the Guantanamo prison camp, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai announced on Wednesday.
Hungary will choose from a list the name of the prisoner who will be allowed to settle permanently in the country after an 18-month integration period, Bajnai said. He added that parliamentary parties have been informed of the government’s decision.
The prisoner is likely to be a Palestinian man, government spokesman Domokos Szollar said.
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unbelieveble!!!! What is a palestinian man has to do in Hungary? Why should we take a prisoner from the US? So we going to build a strong and big moslim community too in Hungary, like in western europe. We can see what happened there to cities! If you don’t know visit Holland, Great britain ect and see for yourself. Read the about it, there is a lot of news on the web about this!
We are taking in this prisoner because Hungary is like the fat kid on the playground… The kid that will do anything to be accepted.
The other kids know this. So they taunt him, humiliate him and get him to do things that he would not normally not do, just to be accepted.
That is why we taking in this Palestinian.
So we are not taking in this Palestinian man just to make all these Jews that exist in Hungary and rule this country, feel at home?
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Beju, visitor, why are you not defending this decision?
Surely it must be the most anti-Jewish thing the Govt done the last 100 years?
Actualy Viking, not all those inmates were guilty of anything but being Muslim. Maybe he’s one of the innocent ones.
I see this as an extension of the whole trend of “outsourcing” and “subcontracting” that has become so popular and prevalent in the US. from private industry to govt.
In the case of Guanatanmo, the US govt. doesn’t want to house the inmates on the US mainland, yet doesn’t want to go on maintaining the Guantanamo facility becuase of the poltical fallout. They don’t want to turn them loose, so that only leaves the option of incarcerating them in some other host country. No doubt the prospective host nation can ask for and likely will recieve some “jutalom”, i.e. “consideration” or juice, for all of it’s time and trouble. A new and seperate facility will have to be found or built, maintained and staffed, all to be paid for (on an ongoing basis) by Uncle Sam.
Some seem to get hung up on who these men are or aren’t, but I see it more as a govt to govt. “business transaction”. The question really is, does the Hungarina govt. want to “do the deal”? If not, some other plucky nation will be found, whose rulers will gladly take the “skim” of monthly maintenance dollars that the US will no doubt provide.
If the sub-contracting jailor nation does a good job with the Guantanmo crowd, it will have earned “gold stars” with Uncle Sam, and then could likely expect more “business” in the future. Many US inmates could be exported, to nations where it is much cheaper to house them. When you look at inmates as an item of commerce, it all makes sense, in a strange cold way.
Palestinian or convicted terrorist – we shall never know.
A token gesture and a facile one at that of
accepting a soldier of fortune from the
American bootcamp in Cuba.
Hungarians were caged by the restrictions of
communism and the soviets up until twenty years
ago. Not allowed to have bank accounts, and foreign visits all but strictly forbidden. Lake Balaton
was the tourist capital of the “some pigs are more equal than others” brigade..Mao tse tung, Fidel Castro, to name but two taht visited these shores.
Quickly forgotten is some of our more recent history!
Hungary is about to lose what it has managed to
salvage from its chequered past in terms of culture and tradition courtesy of the boring, and steadfast, bureacratic EU legislation.
Never mind. Let’s revive that old chestnut the Treaty of Trianon. Always a safe bet to win votes
at the next election.