September 30th, 2014

Banned conference not racist, says Jobbik official

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The right to freedom of speech should not be extended to include hate speech and this must become a legislative principle enshrined in the constitution, page symptoms Zsolt Nemeth, the head of the Hungarian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

Addressing a plenary session of the Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly, Nemeth emphasised that efforts against hate speech must include targeted steps taken to protect debates in parliament as well.

Nemeth, speaking as the keynote speaker for the European People’s Party, said the strengthening of extremist parties, a phenomenon present everywhere in Europe, must be handled at a European level, to which the CoE offers an outstanding forum.

“Extremist forces must not abuse the opportunities offered by the democratic state,” he said. This means that house rules must be tightened, he added.

Extremists must be prevented from abusing the right to free assembly, too, and punitive legislation must be extended to deal with “uniformed criminals” who instill fear in the Roma and other national minorities, Nemeth said. He added that the freedom to use symbols must not be extended to the use of totalitarian symbols and added that the European Court of Human Rights should respect that member states have differing legislation regarding this issue.

The deputy leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party has denied he had any information about a racist conference planned in Budapest this week, price but said he did not agree with the Hungarian government banning organizations.

“Freedom of speech does exist at the moment, information pills and should allow a lot of things, viagra sale although I am sure this is not a racist conference,” Tamas Sneider told a Budapest press conference.

Sandor Pinter, Hungary’s interior minister, has banned a conference the US-based “extremist and racist” National Policy Institute planned to hold in Budapest from October 3 to 5, the ministry said on Monday. Pinter also instructed the national police chief to ban the planned participants’ entry into Hungary, as “the organisation professes an overtly racist ideology and the speakers champion racist ideas” which are incompatible with Hungary’s fundamental law.

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  • MagyarViking

    It is interesting that Fidesz media likes to portray this as a “US-based “extremist and racist” National Policy Institute”, instead of hinting that the Main Speaker and celeb on this “conference” would be Putin’s mental coach Alexander Dugin, a real hotshot in ruSSia and the planner of NovoruSSia’s erection on Ukrainian and Moldovian land

    So as usual – blame the US and “ignore” ruSSia…

    • wolfi

      Here again is a report (in German) on that conference in Moscow where the same people met – including Gergely Pröhle from Fidesz (it’s already been reported on pol.hu):
      http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/Wir-sind-Freunde-Russlands/story/28796329

      “Von Wladimir Putin wurde eine Grussbotschaft verlesen: Die
      Mehrkindfamilie müsse zur Norm werden. Weitere Teilnehmer waren der
      Moskauer Patriarch Kyril, der erzkonservative Oli­garch Konstantin
      Malofejew, der ungarische Regierungspolitiker Gergely Pröhle sowie der
      EU-Abgeordnete des Front National Aymeric Chauprade.”

      These loonies already met in Vienna this summer:
      “Gudenus, Chauprade, Malofejew und Dugin trafen einander schon bei einer Geheimkonferenz Ende Mai im Wiener Palais Liechtenstein.”

      So has Fidesz now got cold feet or what?

  • vikra

    well, in my personal opinion, tha banning is no good for democracy and pluralism, even if the speach is racist and the speaker is nazi or commie…orban again chosen the wrong way…what could have been done differently? he could let dugin and the rest of nazi camarilla in the country, arrest them on counts of provocation or such, and kill them like dugin’s co-nationals did with Imre Nagy. But orban is not that kind of man, he is too much of a coward….

  • Hungarian

    A repost of a comment I made on another rethread:

    Some commenter here made a claim that he not racist and I will not find anti-gay or anti-Semitic writings by him. It took me all of 5 minutes to find plenty of bigoted writings (anti-gay and anti-Semitic). The link below is regarding race.

    Spencer speaking about minorities: “He didn’t mean the government should encourage people to use birth control pills and condoms. He was advocating for some type of government-forced sterilization.”

    Who does that sound like?

    http://www.npiamerica.org/the-national-policy-institute/blog/the-end-of-the-culture-war

    Conferences organized by racists are typically racist conferences.

  • Democrat

    The headline has it spot on. Conferences cannot be racist and therefore should not be banned. Much better to let it run and then nab individuals who make racist remarks. That way you champion free speech and outlaw the individuals who break the law.

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