A MAGYAR LOBBI AKCIÓ FELHÍVÁSA
(2012, Április 6)
MUNKÁNK ALAPELVEI ÉS CÉLJA:
v Azon igyekszünk, hogy a költő álma valóra váljon: „ A magyar név megint szép lesz, méltó régi nagy híréhez!---és, hiszünk abban, hogy ezért érdemes dolgozni, nem szavakkal, tettekkel!
v Célunk a Trianon okozta sebek gyógyítása, elszakított testvéreink autonómiája
v Célunk a fassizmus és kommunizmus ejtette lelki sebek gyógyítása
v Terjesztjük az „Aki magyar velünk tart" és a „Nézz a tükörbe!"szellemét, nem a másikra mutogatunk, hanem tesszük amit lehet, mert, „a jövő rajtunk múlik!"
v Szolgáljuk a szomszédainkkal való megbékélést, a Visegrád-szerű összefogást mely idővel elvezethet a Dunai Konfederációhoz és Európa nyugatra billent egyensúlyának helyreállítását.
v Tudjuk, hogy a nemzet erejét nem a hadserege, hanem tankönyvei és a közös kulturális öröksége jelentik.
v Nemzetünknek a multban legnagyobb hibája az volt, hogy vagy nem bízott önmagában vagy elbízta magát. Ezen fogunk változtatni.
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Széchenyi István:
" Egynek minden nehéz; soknak semmi sem lehetetlen....Tõlünk függ minden, csak akarnunk kell... Azokból a kövekbõl, melyek utunkba gördülnek,egy kis ügyességgel lépcsõt építhetünk....Magyarország nem volt, hanem lesz!"
Deák Ferenc:
„Magyarországot nem uszító gondolatokkal nyugtalanítva, hanem köznapi, hasznos és a jólétet gyarapító tettek sorával kell szeretni!"
Bibó István:
„Demokratának lenni mindenekelőtt annyit tesz, mint nem félni: nem félni a más véleményűektől, a más nyelvűektől, a más fajúaktól, a forradalomtól, az összeesküvésektől, az ellenség ismeretlen gonosz szándékaitól, az ellenséges propagandától, a lekicsinyléstől és egyáltalán mindazoktól az imaginárius veszedelmektől, melyek azáltal válnak valódi veszedelmekké, hogy félünk tőlük."
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TARTALOM:
Múltheti akcióinkról
Akció 1: Levél a State Department-nek
Ludányi András levele
HSA Newsletter
Akció 2: Rákoczy Szövetség támogatása
MELLÉKLETEK:
Obama elnök úrnak küldött Petíció és az aláírók listája
A magyar írók, művészek és tudósok szövetségeinek Nyilatkozata
Erdélyi zsidó népzene bemutató a Magyar Konzulátuson
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Múltheti akcióinkról
Elnézést kérek, hogy az egyéni levelekre az elmúlt héten nem tudtam válaszolni, mert úton voltam. Ugyanakkor egy ismétlődő kérdésre most válaszolni szeretnék, arra ugyanis, hogy a mult heti akció javaslatomban miért nem említettem a magam találmányát? Ennek oka az, hogy az RFC kivitelezése hatalmas befektetést és évtizedes kutatómunkát igényel, míg én olyan terveket kivántam a magyar kormány illetékeseinek ajánlani, melyek biztosan számíthatnak EU támogatásra és azonnal a munkaalkalmak ezreit teremthetik meg.
Külön megköszönöm a Magyar Érdekszövetség azon résztvevőinek munkáját, kik vagy arról értesítettek, hogy továbbították az új technológiák Magyarországon való kivitelezési javaslataimat, vagy segítettek abban, hogy megőrizzük az ország legfontosabb képvislője feddhetetlenségét, méltóságát. Most (mielött e heti akcióinkra térnék) arra kérem az HL résztvevőit, hogy segítsenek annak elérésében is, hogy az új elnök, az összmagyarság képviseletére érdemes, pártokon felül álló, nyelveket beszélő és köztiszteletben álló személy legyen. Másszóval kérjék a FIDESZ vezetőit, hogy ne használják ki parlementi többségüket, hanem úgy bonyolítsák le a választást, ahogy akkor látnák azt kivánatosnak, ha kisebbségben lennének.
Akció #1: Levél a State Department-nek
Korábbi egyik akciónk volt egy 2011 Január 31.-én feladott és 107 személy által aláírt petíció elküldése Obama elnök úrnak (melyhez a Magyar Írószövetség nyilatkozatát is mellékeltük) és melyben azt kértük: utasítsa a State Departmentet, hogy más államok belpolitikájába ne avatkozzon bele (Melléklet 1). Ugyanerre kértük később a JHU-n és a Princeton egyetemeken dolgozó és a magyar ellenzékkel szimpatizáló csoportokat is. Akciónk eredményes volt, a fent említett gócok elcsendesedtek és a State Department sem tett további lépéseket.
Most azért írok, mert az amerikai magyar egyetemi tanárokat képviselő Hungarian Studies Association (HSA, http://www.hungarianstudies.info/news/2011-05.pdf , www.hungarianstudies.info ) egy levél tervezetet köröz, mely újra felkavarhatja ezt az ügyet, ugyanis újra elismétli az otthoni ellenzék politikai álláspontjait és a demokráciáért való aggódás címén újból a State Department beavatkozását kéri a magyar választóknak, a szavazó urnáknál kifejezett demokratikus döntésébe. A HSA vezetői által megfogalmazott és a tagság aláírásait kérő levelet, melyet többek között a State Departmentnek is elküldenének károsnak és elfogultnak tartom.
Ezért alább ide mellékelem Dr. Ludányi András erre vonatkozó levelét, illetve a HSA levélvázlatát és kérem az HL résztvevői közül azokat akik egyetértenek Ludányi Professzorral, kérjék a HSA vezetőit, hogy hagyjanak fel igyekezetükkel, ne küldjék el a State Departmentnek ezt a levelet:
HSA Elnök: Iván Emese - emese.ivan@gmail.com
HSA Közlöny Szerkesztő: Glanz Zsuzsa - glanzs@gmail.com
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LUDÁNYI ANDRÁS LEVELE:
TO: emese.ivan@gmail.com, glanzs@gmail.com
Emese, Cathy, and all enthusiasts of the "draft" letter as well as friends and colleagues:
I too want to join Professor Jeszenszky in congratulating George Karolyi (of the Joseph Karolyi Foundation) for his principled and balanced critique of the proposed "draft" letter to the U.S. State Department.
I also would like to join George Karolyi in distancing myself from any effort to involve the U.S. State Department in the internal affairs of Hungary. Ms. Ivan's draft letter is nothing more nor less than part of a concerted effort to besmirch anything that relates to present-day Hungary. This campaign is orchestrated by a handful of disappointed MSzP and SzDSz party fellow-travelers. The very terminology, the propagandistic edge, and non-scholarly approach as Professor Klimo notes, is self-incriminatory. The HSA should not be signatory to it as an association. If individuals wish to send such a letter it is their personal prerogative. But the HSA should not become party to the process for at least three reasons: 1. the objective and style of the letter, 2. its contradiction of the purposes of the HSA, and 3. that such a letter violates the rights of all members who do not want to be signatories. Overall it is nothing more than fouling your own nest. Sincerely,
Andrew Ludanyi
Emeritus Professor of Political Science
Ohio Northern University
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March, 2012 , HSA NEWSLETTER
Letter to Hungarian Embassy, Hungarian Cultural Institute, and the US State Department
At its 2011 annual meeting held in Washington, D.C. at the meeting of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), the Hungarian Studies Association expressed its concern about certain policies of the current Hungarian government and the two governing parties of FIDESZ and KDNP, which falsify or distort Hungarian history. The Hungarian Studies Association (HSA) was founded in 1970 as the pre-eminent academic organization in North America promoting the study of Hungarian history, society, and culture and working to maintain contacts with scholars in Hungary. In recent years, our membership has expanded to include colleagues from around the world, including Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, and Japan.
In the past year, the current Hungarian government has taken steps to remove historical symbols from public spaces that do not conform to its politicized interpretation of national history. It has passed laws that impose greater state control over school curricula across the country and that associate members of the main opposition party with the Communist-era Hungarian Socialist Worker's Party. Finally, we are also disturbed that open denials of the Holocaust have met with no public rebuke, despite the fact that a 2009 law prohibited Holocaust denial. That law was reconfirmed in 2010 after the victory of the present coalition government. Given these events, our members have no choice but to express their collective dismay in this formal letter.
The Removal of "Politically Incorrect" Symbols and Statues
In the past year, the government has taken the following Orwellian actions to remove unwanted historical figures from public sight and thus from public memory:
1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Square was renamed Széchenyi Square at the initiative of the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, József Pálinkás, a member of the cabinet in the first Orbán government. Removing the name of the U.S. President, who was a leader of the Allied forces in World War II, from this prominent square contributes to the revival of a long-discredited interpretation of the war, according to which Hungary joined forces with Nazi Germany in a "just" war against the Allies.
2. At a recent unveiling of a Trianon memorial , Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén blamed Count Mihály Károlyi, the late President of the First Hungarian Republic (1918-1919), for the punitive Peace Treaty of Trianon, despite the fact that prominent historians in Hungary and in the United States have shown this canard – a staple of interwar-era right-wing rhetoric – to be false. Representatives of FIDESZ and the neo-Nazi Jobbik Party, who together form a majority in the City Council of Budapest, compounded this problem in mid-November this year, when they voted to turn off the nightly spotlight on the statue of Károlyi.
3. The planned governmental reconstruction of Kossuth Square in front of Parliament to its 1944 state will lead not only to the removal of the statue of Count Károlyi, but also to that of the Hungarian poet, Attila József. József, who was a committed leftist throughout his life and was for a time a member of the illegal Communist Party, is now universally regarded as one of the greatest of Hungary's modernist poets. He has also been among the most widely read and translated Hungarian poets internationally. Given József's political commitments during his life, it is difficult to see the current government's removal of the statue of Attila József from Kossuth Square as a simple act of literary criticism. Instead, this too is a politically motivated reinvention of Hungarian history.
4. We are also disturbed to see that the Hungarian Parliament passed a law that abolished the Imre Nagy medal as an official decoration of the government. Nagy was the martyred prime minister and leader of the 1956 Revolution. Because Nagy was a communist, those in power now underplay his historic role, rewriting and falsifying the history of the 1956 Revolution in the process. The government's decision to deny continued financial support to the 1956 Historical Research Institute is further evidence of this trend.
Repeated Acceptance of Public Holocaust Denial
5. On November 17, 2011, Tamás Gaudi-Nagy a Jobbik MP, denied the Hungarian Holocaust on the floor of the Hungarian Parliament. Neither the Speaker of the House nor any other government official reprimanded Gaudi-Nagy or initiated any type of sanction against him. Indeed, anti-Semitic speeches from the right that are based on the falsification of history are now almost daily occurrences on the floor of Parliament with no sanctions raised against them.
Legal Distortion of the Past and New Barriers to Historical Research
6. On December 20, 2011, parliament passed the Public Education Law. Among its many provisions, this Law imposes mandatory directions for lesson plans, which leave very little room for individual teachers to construct lessons independently. The Law also increases state control over the publication and distribution of textbooks to schools, virtually eliminating the possibility of any alternative textbooks. We do not take comfort in the statements of Hungarian State Secretary of Education, Rózsa Hoffmann, who explained that this law introduces a "value-based school system," which will replace an older "value-neutral – decisively liberal – mentality." Clearly the
intention of the government is to control more carefully the interpretation of Hungarian history that will be taught to schoolchildren across the country.
7. On December 30, 2011, FIDESZ and Jobbik MPs hastily passed a set of laws at year's end, after the left-of-center parties, protesting the proposed legislation, walked out. A part of Law T/5005 (Magyarország Alaptörvényének Átmeneti Rendelkezései) identifies the democratic opposition Hungarian Socialist Party (HSP) as successor to the pre-1989 communist Hungarian Socialist Workers Party (HSWP) and holds it responsible for the "crimes" of the HSWP. Holding the HSP responsible for the actions of the HSWP is like blaming the children for the crimes of their parents. This is a clear distortion of recent Hungarian history. According to the new law, a National Memory Committee (Nemzeti Emlékezet Bizottság) will be set up "for the sake of the preservation by the state of memory connected with the communist dictatorship" and will publicly identify the "holders of power" during the communist period. These individuals would then labor under this public stigma and would have no right to privacy. The law defines the term "holders of power" vaguely and broadly; in effect, the term could include anybody who lived under the communist regime and who held even a minor leadership position in the HSWP or in a branch of the state government. This policy will have a chilling effect on historical research since most historians who deal with the communist period would understandably be reluctant to see the results of their research used as evidence in a witch-hunt. This policy, like the others described above, clearly manipulates historical memory and historical research to political ends.
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Akció #2: Rákóczy Szövetség Támogatása
Kérjük az HL résztvevőit, hogy vállaljanak részt a felvidéki magyar családok magyar nyelvû iskolába beiratkozó gyermekeinek támogatásában. A program keretében a magyar iskolába beíratott gyermekek a beiratkozás évében egyszeri 10 ezer forintos ösztöndíjban részesülnek. Ezidáig a Rákóczy Szövetség már több mint 3,000 ilyen ösztöndíjat adott. Az adományok a következő címre küldhetőek:
| RÁKÓCZI SZÖVETSÉG Cím: | 1027, Budapest, Szász Károly utca 1. IV. em.1. |
| Postacím: | 1255, Budapest, Pf. 23. |
| Telefonszám: | 0036/1-201-3067 |
| Fax: | 0036/1-212-8891 |
| E-mail: Web: | |
| Bankszámla: | 11705008-20488172 (OTP Bank) Felvidéki Oktatási Támogatás |
Melléklet 1: Petíció Obama Elnök Úrnak
Béla G. Lipták, P.E.
84 Old N. Stamford Rd., Stamford, CT 06905,
Tel/Fax: 203-357-7614
January 31, 2012
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
Please find attached a petition signed by a number of American-Hungarians, including myself. The signers are all independent voters who are concerned about the letter that was sent to Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This letter resulted in a media campaign against Hungary, with some articles actually suggesting that the American goal is to topple the Hungarian government by using our influence on the IMF/ECB to deny them the needed loan guarantees. We are asking you to categorically deny all that.
We are asking you to correct this unfortunate anti-Hungarian impression and instead to support our main concern, which is the guaranteeing of the collective human rights of the oppressed Hungarian minorities in the neighboring states of Hungary. We also ask that when you have received the reliable report from our Congressional Delegation, which will be visiting Hungary later in February, please do reverse the present misguided anti-Hungarian policies.
We ask you do reestablish our historic friendship with the nation that in 1956 lost 2% of its population in the struggle that mortally wounded the brutal Soviet Empire, a struggle that was fought for the American ideals of freedom and independence.
Dear Mr. President, thank you in advance for helping Hungary and be assured that we, the politically independent Hungarian-Americans will reciprocate by reelecting you in November.
Respectfully yours,
Béla Lipták
CC : The 9 members of the Congressional Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
Hungarian-American Petition to
President Barack Obama
We are from among those members of the over one million Hungarian-American community who are politically Independent voters. We are concerned about the letter which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent to the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán. We are concerned, because by supporting the opposition, the letter interferes with the internal political affairs of Hungary. We do understand that the Secretary's letters are prepared by her assistants, - some probably supporters of the Hungarian opposition -, but her letter was sent under her signature and therefore the media views it as the American position.
The IMF and the EU are applying pressure on Hungary which borders on the neo-colonial behavior and unlike Greece or Italy, Hungary is also being lectured about her "democracy". As far as the EU and the Western media are concerned, the "crime" of Hungary is not only its inept economic strategy, but also its promotion of cultural and political values that run counter to what is deemed to be "politically correct" in Brussels.
As you know, the current Hungarian government was swept into office by a landslide and in spite of the state of the economy, still enjoys the support of a significant majority of the voters. This was shown on the 21st of January, when well over 100,000 pro-government citizens demonstrated and expressed their displeasure with the foreign interference in Hungary's affairs. They feel that their government had the right to revise the institutional infrastructure and and it's officials as necessary, because the previous administration was corrupt, incompetent and served the pre-1989 political elite..
While parts of the harsh criticism in Secretary Clinton's letter might have some validity, that is not the point! The point is that the letter should not have been written in the first place! This is because:
1) The Hungarians have the right to decide how they want to structure their institutions and this structure is consistent with European standards. For example: The number of judges on our our Supreme Court changed several times. The Hungarian media is not supervised any more than others in Europe and the Media Authority, - the equivalent of the FCC -, was cleared by the EU itself. On the issue of religion, similarly to Hungary, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Norway all emphsize their Christian heritage and Hungary's Christian view of merriage is not unique at all in Europe.
2) We also object to Mrs. Clinton's letter, because its content came, from the supporters of the Hungarian opposition, having the goal of toppling a freely elected government.
3) Because although the leaders of China, Russia or Saudi Arabia might deserve such letters, the Prime Minister of Hungay does not.
4) Because Mrs. Clinton's letter resulted in a media campaign against Hungary, with some articles actually suggesting that the American goal is to topple the Hungarian government by using our influence on the IMF/ECB to deny Hungary the needed loan guarantees. Mr. President, we are asking you to categorically deny all that. This media campaign hurt Hungary's good name, reputation and gave an excuse to the IMF and ECB to resist issuing their loan guarantees. We used the term „excuse" because these banks are not truly interested in cultural or ideological matters. The reason they are retaliating is because Hungary dared to tax the banks and limit the salaries of their officers.
5) Mr. President, it is the above propaganda campaign that is our main concern. We are not concerned about the EU court case! Those legal issues are resolved as routine technicalities: there are some 2,000 such cases pending in the EU and last year just Hungary resolved some 14 or Spain 60 of them. So the new ones will also be easily resolved.
We ask you, Mr. President to help make us, Hungarian-Americans to be proud of our heritage. Please help to protect Hungary from the suffocating exploitation by the globalized banking industry and please speak up for the collective human rights of the oppressed Hungarian minorities in the countries surrounding Hungary. We ask you that when you receive the report of our Congressional Delegation that will be visiting Hungary in February, please do reverse the present misguided anti-Hungarian policies of your administration. Please do reestablish our historic friendship with the nation that in 1956 lost 2% of its population in the struggle that mortally wounded the brutal Soviet Empire, a struggle that was fought for the American ideals of freedom and independence.
Dear Mr. President, thank you in advance for helping Hungary, so that we, the politically independent Hungarian-Americans, can reciprocate by reelecting you in November.
Respectfully yours,
The list of the signers f the above petition as of February 6, 2012
| Dezso Acs | Oakdale MN. 55128 | |
| Aranyi Katalin | No data | |
| Agnes Arany-Makkai | WAIANAE, HI 96792 | |
| Prof. Karoly Balogh | Lincoln, MA 01773 | |
| Dr. Sandor Balogh, prof. | North Port, FLA, 34287 | |
| Sara Balogh | North Port, FLA, 34287 | |
| Emoke Basa | Centreville, VA | |
| Rev. Béla Bernhardt | Lakewood, OH | |
| Ildiko Berty | Tustin, CA 92780 | |
| Thomas E. Berty | Tustin, CA 92780 | |
| Bela J. Bognar | CASSTOWN, OHIO 45312 | |
| April Minor Bognar | CASSTOWN, OHIO 45312 | |
| Dr. Laszlo J. Bollyky | Stamford, CT | |
| Klara Borossay | Oceanside,Ca. 92057 | |
| Arpad Steve Borossay | Oceanside,Ca. 92057 | |
| Eva Botai | Warren, NJ 07059 | |
| Matild Crawford | Honolulu, HI. 96825 | |
| Beatrix K. Csaky | Gilbert, AZ 85233 | none |
| Julius I. Csaky | Gilbert, AZ 85233 | |
| Gyula L. Csaky | Franklin, NJ | |
| Miklos A. Csaky | Gilbert, AZ 85233 | |
| Adam Csapo | Warren, NJ 07059 | |
| Csaba Csenteri | Centreville, VA | |
| Kinga Csepreghy | Bellevue, WA 98007 | |
| Laszlo Csepreghy | Bellevue, WA | |
| Geza Cseri | McLean, VA 22101 | |
| Czabaffy Csaba | Chicago, IL 60646 | |
| Hedy Devenyi | Sarasota, Florida | |
| Rev. Arpad Drotos, Pastor | New York, NY 10028-2701 | |
| Melinda E. Dugan | Ambler, PA | |
| Victor L. Fischer | Wantagh, NY | |
| Peter Forgach MD | Williamsville, NY 14221 | |
| Dr. Gellerd Judit | Honolulu, HI | |
| Stephen Gulyas | Cresskill, NJ | |
| Winifred G. Gulyas | Darien, CT | |
| Winifred W. Gulyas | Cresskill, NJ | |
| Eva E. Gutay | West Lafayette, IN | |
| Prof. Laszlo J. Gutay | West Lafayette, IN | |
| Dr. Laszlo Gyulassy | San Francisco, Ca, 94123. | |
| Prof. Miklós Gyulassy | Pelham, NY 10803 | |
| Györgyi Gyulassy | Pelham, NY 10803 | |
| Marian von Hanstein | Sun City, AZ | |
| Ilona Hargitay | Scottsdale Arizona | |
| Susan M. Marton Herger | Westminster, CO 80031 | |
| Zoltan L Herger | Westminster, CO 80031 | |
| dr. Tamas Hetenyi | North Billerica, MA, 01862 | |
| Andy Hites | Columbia, Ca. | |
| Edith Holeczy | Gurnee, Il | |
| Edit L.Horvath | Minneapolis,Mn.55421 2448 | |
| Jeno Horvath | Rochester NY, 14609 | |
| Lajos J.Horvath | Minneapolis,Mn.55421 2448 | |
| Prof. Agnes Huszar Vardy | Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Frank Kapitány | Annapolis MD, | |
| Laszlo Kerkay | Garfield, NJ 07026 | |
| Gabriella Kiss | Peoria, Arizona | none |
| Joseph Kiss | Peoria, Arizona | |
| Joe Kiss | Sausalito. California | none |
| Tunde Kiss | Phoenix, Arizona | nine |
| Laszlo J. Korbuly | Sarasota, FL 34238 | |
| Ferenc Korompai | Temple, TX 76502-3137 | |
| Geza Kosa-Szantho | Port Chester, NY. 10573 | |
| Vilma Kosa-Szantho | Port Chester, NY. 10573 | |
| Zoltan Kosa- Szantho | Port Chester, NY. 10573 |
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| Géza J. Kogler | Garden City, MI. 48135 | |
| Dr. Peter Kovalszki | Shelby Twp,MI 48317 | |
| Dr. Kövári Katalin | Tavernier, Florida 33070 | |
| Joseph Kruy | Weston, MA 02493 | |
| Charlotte Kruy | Weston, MA 02493 | |
| Laszlo Laskai, Ph.D. | Jersey City, NJ 07303 | |
| Lath Jozsef | Newton MA 02460 | |
| Kalman N. Lehoczky, P.E. | Palmetto, Florida | |
| Melinda A. Lehoczky | Palmetto, Florida | |
| Ilona Lin | Wauconda IL 60084 | |
| Béla Lipták | Stamford, CT | |
| Rev. Zoltan Lizik | Windosr, ON | |
| Judith Magyar | Somerset, NJ | |
| Kálmán Magyar | Passaic, NJ | |
| Prof. Dr. Adam Makkai | Waianae, Hawaii | |
| Balazs Markos | Homesdale, PA 18431 | |
| Akos L. Nagy | Not available | |
| Louis I. Nagy | Rochester, NY 14613 | email: lnagy@rochester.rr.com |
| Prof. Judith Némethy | New York, NY 10012 | |
| Dr. Valeria Nemeth | Barrington, IL60010 | |
| Rev. Gábor G. Nitsch | Latrobe, PA 15650-1644 | |
| Kinga Novak | New York, NY 10012 | |
| Agnes Pap | Gilbert, AZ 85233 |
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| Attila Pegán | SavageMinnesota55378 | |
| Prof. Dr. András J. Pellionisz | Sunnyvale, California, 94086 | |
| Prof. George Sz. Petrovay | Los Angeles, California | |
| Andrew Pongor | Fuquay Varina ,NC | |
| Marta Pongor | Fuquay Varina ,NC | |
| Alexandra Szablya Ramdin | Seattle, WA 98115 | |
| Dr. Rédey László | Not available | |
| John Z. Santo | Larchmont, NY | |
| Judit Santo | Larchmont, NY | |
| Tamas Scullin | Homesdale, PA 18431 | |
| Géza Simon | Minneapolis, MN | |
| Camilla Sohar | Warren, NJ 07059 | |
| Paul Sohar | Warren, NJ 07059 | |
| Helen M. Szablya | Seattle WA 98105 | |
| Steve Szappanos | Mentor, OH | |
| Susan Szappanos | Mentor, OH | |
| Prof. Dr S. B. Vardy | Pittsburgh, PA, 15217 | |
| Maria Vargha | New Brunswick, NJ 08901 | none |
| Joshua Wangler | Homesdale, PA 18431 | none |
| Kinga Wangler | Homesdale, PA 18431 | |
| Csaba K. Zoltani | Lutherville, MD 21093 |
CC : The 9 members of the Congressional Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
Representative Dan Burton
Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
Rep. Gregory Meeks
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
REP. Del. Donna Christensen
Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
Rep. John Carter
Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
Rep. Phil Gingrey
Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
Del. Madeleine Bordallo
Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
Rep. Steve Pearce
Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
Rep. Andre Carson
Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
Rep. Frederica Wilson
Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
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Statement by Hungarian Writers, Artists and Scientists
We, Hungarian citizens - writers, artists and scientists by profession - who live in the everyday life of our country and sense and bear the consequences of government decisions, have read and heard with increasing indignation the libellous statements made in the world press and media by certain political circles on the 'democracy deficit' in Hungary. We are aware that such allegations are also made by some Hungarian intellectuals - writers, philosophers, musicians and journalists - with affiliations to the present-day political opposition, whose names are known in the West and who are accorded wide publicity for incitements against their country.
It is imperative that we, intellectuals, belonging to the significant majority of the Hungarian society speak up and reassure those in the Western democracies who are concerned with Hungary's future. We declare that the Hungarian Government has made no encroachments on the basic democratic rights, which the overwhelming majority of Hungary's inhabitants themselves embrace, as they demonstrated in 1956.
Those Hungarian electors who, in 2010, voted the conservative political forces into government with a two-thirds majority, entrusting them with the improvement of social and economic conditions, which had severely deteriorated under the previous socialist administrations, feel especially great responsibility for their homeland. They therefore feel that Hungary should not break away from the democratic community of European nations and the Atlantic world.
The present Hungarian Government, despite external circumstances that have proved more difficult than expected, and despite a few errors they may have made, still enjoys the confidence of this majority. However, they have had to experience that by throwing in false news and lies and hiding behind democratic slogans, some forces aim to divest our people of the very essential democratic right they cherish: the right to judge the performance and the achievements of our Government at the ballot box.
We hope that the intentions that jeopardise Hungary's freedom will be overwhelmed by unbiased public opinion in the Western democracies.
Presidency of the Hungarian Writers' Association,
Presidency of the Hungarian Academy of Arts,
Presidency of the Batthyány Society of Professors
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Erdélyi Zsidó Népzene Bemutató a Magyar Konzulátuson
MUZSKÁS: "The lost Jewish music of Transylvania"
Monday, April 16, 2012
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Hungarian Consulate of New York
227 East 52nd Street, NYC
