NOTE: I pulled this from Birdman Bryant's site, so the link is temporary. According to him it's the unedited version of the article the American Free Press ran. I don't know if it's accurate but it's extremely interesting that this is all happening 50 years after the Revolution of 1956. -- FJ.

http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Temp/Temp-CurrentHungarianRevolt&ALessonForAmericans-feenyite.htm

In Budapest the Spring Comes in the Fall, Again

Fifty years ago

Many of our readers will recall the pictures of October 23rd, 1956 from the blood-soaked, bullet marked streets of Budapest. On that day a large group of demonstrators arrived at the front of the hated symbol of the communist disinformation and oppression activities –The Radio Building - and the event was soon followed by rifle and machinegun fire all over the country. After our initial victory the agents of communism who ran all the way to Moscow returned with the Red Army and a few thousand battle tanks – and it was war again. A war where we burned hundreds of T-34 battle tanks with Molotov cocktails on the narrow streets of Budapest and in return our opponents made sure that there was almost no undamaged building in this city of two million people.

On the surface it looked like a useless sacrifice by the thousands of freedom fighters who lost their lives. But after the initial wave of terror Hungary’s communist party became the softest, most liberal bunch in the Eastern Block.

And there was one more direct result that might be even more important in a historical perspective; The communist parties of Western Europe who were roaring ahead with full speed toward new election records every year in France, Italy and Spain, suddenly felt like they ran into a concrete wall. The bloody pictures of torture and murder served as a reality check for the brainwashed masses of Paris, Rome and Madrid. Suddenly they lost their appetite and refused to follow the teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin setting new courses for domestic politics in their respective nations for the second half of the 20th Century.

Déjà vu in Budapest

On the 17th of September, 2006 a very similar set of events were repeated on a smaller scale in Budapest. The outburst of the sudden revolt was just as wild, spontaneous and unpredicted as it was fifty years earlier on the very same streets.

The events were rooted in the last election when a coalition of socialist and ex-communist (“liberal”) groups gained a marginal victory over the more conservative but still well controlled opposition party, FIDESZ. (The leader of the “opposition” party, Mr. Victor Orban was educated in the US, courtesy of the George Soros Foundation.) The marginal victory was gained by the MSZP (Hungarian Socialist Party) and Prime Minister Gyurcsany by using very expensive bank loans to float the budget and giving handouts to the poorest, most gullible segment of the population in order to gain their support. Not long after the election the reality started to come forward; Draconian price hikes of gasoline, medications and basic services were introduced. Government employees were laid off by the thousands. New type of taxes and fees that nobody heard of before were introduced on savings accounts, real estate, health care and education. Benefits of those like families with three children or more were taken by the government.

Different groups in larger and larger numbers started to show up on the streets, criticizing the government.

On the 26th of May, 2006 Prime Minister Gyurcsany delivered a secret speech to his 120 most trusted party officers. The ninety minute speech was an extremely vulgar and candid summary of the financial disaster where his party took the whole nation.

A few quotes from the speech:

“We do not have too many choices. Because we fucked up. Not a little bit but a lot.”

“It is completely obvious that we lied for the last one and a half or two years. It was totally clear that what we said was not true. We had overstepped (the financial) opportunities of the country to a degree that we could not have imagined earlier that it can be done while the country is governed by our coalition of the Hungarian Socialist Party and the liberals and otherwise, in the meantime, we did not do nothing for four years. Nothing.”

and

“I almost died from pretending for a year and a half that we were governing, instead we lied in the morning, in the night and in the evening.”
Somebody from the party officers secretly recorded the speech, made a dozen cd copies and sent them out to all media buildings in the city of Budapest with a motorcycle messenger service on the afternoon of the 17th of September, on Sunday.

In the next two hours this was the only issue on the airwaves of this poverty stricken nation. (Average income of those who have income is around $500/month while the cost of living in Budapest is above most American cities; some areas of the country have 30% to 35% unemployment, about half the Hungarian families have zero savings, living from week to week, from loan to loan.)

By seven pm in the evening one could hardly make a phone call or send an SMS message, all systems were overburdened.

By 9:00PM there were 5,000 chanting, screaming people at the front of the Hungarian parliament building on Kossuth Square. A smaller group tried to approach the residence of the Prime Minister but the police blocked their way.

And the things they were chanting were rather unkind toward the Prime Minister who became the focal point of this uncontrolled wave of anger. Violence, anger and frustration were in the air and uncensored words were flying around. Many of the demonstrators kept it up for twenty-four hours and by next evening the numbers of the rebels swelled to 15,000 and demonstrations flared up in other cities as well.

There were patriotic songs alternating with the chanting of the people like; ‘Throw Gyurcsany in the Danube River and Demszky right after him!” (Demszky is the liberal major of Budapest.) It was raining on and off but the demonstrators were overheating and the place became too small for them. Only a few blocks away stands a huge, block sized building with four feet thick brick walls, the Hungarian Television Center. The building and its occupants are a hated symbol of the government managed and paid flow of disinformation by many citizens in this country, just like they were under the old communist system.

The leader of 64 Counties, Mr. Laszlo Toroczkai, a patriotic organization gathered his 300 men and walked over to the TV Building. (The name of the organization, 64 Counties is a reference to the time when Hungary had 64 Counties but lost 2/3 of her territory after loosing in WWI.) Mr. Toroczkai the leader was trying to submit a short declaration to be read to the country on TV, giving a five minute deadline at the door.

The five minutes quickly went by and there was no reading. Mr. Toroczkai quickly walked back to the parliament where the 15,000 demonstrators were singing their songs grabbed the microphone and asked them to help out. 3,000 men followed him to the TV Building and in the next three hours the area became a war zone.

The freedom fighters first crashed with a group of well equipped riot police who were using mace and buttons to protect the main entrance to the building. After this force was beaten back additional waves of riot police showed up with water canons on a large truck. The demonstrators picked up the cobble stone street covering and used it against the police. Cars were burned and small fires were set to smoke out the inhabitants of the building and their defenders. Waves of police force were sent in and were beaten back. People were taking their clothes off, covering their bodies with their national flags and taking the full force of the water canon jets with their bodies. Three hours later the captain of the police force from inside the building radioed to his superior that his people will die inside the building from the smoke and he will take them out even if he will be court marshaled. The rebels took over the building and held it but were unable to make TV transmissions, the equipment was disabled. By early morning they pulled out of the building.

The remaining TV stations of the country were in total shock, trying to explain the event to the general population. They were talking about hooligans and right wing extremists and out of control football fans but nothing did help. The situation was just way to obvious. The few hundred rebels who did most of the action could have taken over the Hungarian National Bank building that contains tons and tons of gold and cash a few blocks away by using less force. They did not! These “hooligans” and “vandals” preferred the “National Center of Disinformation” as opposed to truckloads of money for some strange reason.

At the same time the country lit up all over like it was a 4th of July celebration. In every medium sized and large city there were demonstrations, often with several thousand participants. The Socialist Party buildings were burned at several locations, causing varying damages. Thousands of people fought running battles for the next few days with the riot police on the streets of Budapest.

The police resorted to increasingly brutal tactics and people started to refer to them in their chanting as “AVH”. (AVH was the Hungarian version of KGB under Russian occupation.) The usual process followed was to split up larger groups by firing teargas grenades into the crowd and after they were dispersed the cops encircled smaller groups and brutally beat people, often innocent bystanders as well.

On Wednesday night a policeman aimed his weapon toward a man’s head from ten yards away and hit him with a teargas charge, the man fell to the ground with a bleeding head wound, next to us.

By Thursday they were able to block larger numbers of people from gathering at different locations in the city but the original crowd at the parliament was way too large to be attacked. Therefore they declared that group a legal demonstration. Every night around 15,000 people collected at the parliament, the police force present did not have a chance against these kind of numbers.

Saturday (9-23-06) was the day when FIDESZ, the opposition party was supposed to hold a rally. These events did draw in excess of half a million participants before. Two days before the event Mr. Orban the leader of the party dismissed the meeting, stating that credible evidence was offered by the government that terrorist action is planned against the participants. The maneuver was obviously designed to avoid a rather large, uncontrollable crowd on the streets.

Our numbers grew to at least 50,000 by late afternoon at the front of the parliament on Saturday. It is very difficult to judge the exact numbers because people did not fit into the plaza; they were around us even on the side streets. Listening to the chanting one had the impression that a tsunami wave hit the center of the city. There were dozens of foreign media people everywhere, I have seen the shock on their faces, they had never seen anything like this.

The government offered irrefutable evidence again, in the shape of a phone call, placed from a public phone by an unknown individual, stating that the Southern Railroad Station will be blown up on Saturday. They were just glad to close the station and stop the train traffic in the Western half of the country, blocking untold thousands of people from joining the demonstrations.

The agents of disinformation were working day and night.

We caught and photographed police informants on the streets who mixed with the demonstrators.

Government officers told the police that the rebels killed three of their men in order to motivate them for more brutal behavior.

One of the pro government TV stations reported Sunday afternoon that the Prime Minister’s car was at the side entry of the parliament building, we were supposed to destroy the car and give the police a green light to attack but we did not take the bait.

Our wounded were taken to hospitals and chained to the beds. There were reports that some doctors, hostile to our cause further brutalized them.

Hundreds of our people were arrested while hundreds are in hiding. Special police units are chasing them around in the city KGB style, brutalizing their relatives.

The courts are already in action. They are talking about five to twelve years sentences for the participants of the revolt. There are no safety guards for defendants in Hungarian courts. In our beloved “democracy” anybody can be arrested and held for three years without a trial. The jury trial is an unknown quantity. The very same judges who were nominated by the very same corrupted to the bone political elite will have you arrested, keep you in prison and sentence you. A completely feudalistic legal practice. In the year 1215, after the introduction of the Magna Carta in England the average English citizen had more legal rights than a demonstrator today in Hungary.

As of Monday night (9-25-06) the mandatory, hard core 15,000 participants kept showing up every night. The international political elite is turning against the Prime Minister. Z B (the ex US cabinet member, ranking CFR character with Polish origins whose name I can not write or pronounce, maybe Brezinsky?) gave Gyurcsany what equals to the “kiss of death” in the mafia. He made a negative public statement about him. Watch the damage control brigades in action when Gyurcsany’s head rolls off of his neck. There is a whole mafia behind this man, nobody, not even the Prime Minister can steel billions of dollars alone.

Gyurcsany was already investigated for a number of shady business dealings before the present events.

Several weeks before the demonstrations broke out some of us were already investigating an obviously corrupted deal by Gyurcsany. He went to Indonesia last year and offered a $4 BILLION! loan to the local government. (Source is the Sumatra Post.) The money can only originate from the European Union and government loans received by Hungary. The real goal of the transaction can be only theft, corruption and money laundering. Hungary is simply in no position to offer a loan to anybody.
On the 20th of September EU investigators arrived in Budapest from Brussels. They are investigating the whereabouts of billions of dollars that were transferred to the government by the EU.

On Friday a $20 million kickback was publicized by the press. The money was paid directly to the socialist party’s bank account from a German company as a reward for certain state contracts.

Friday, the 29th of September is a possible crashing point, the government already declared that they will try to clear the parliament area from demonstrators at midnight, because of the coming municipal elections.

Many of our people are placing their jobs, businesses and private lives on hold in order to spend time there every day. We believe that we can win this confrontation and force the Prime Minister to resign only by keeping up the pressure.

Our goal is to keep up and further expand the demonstrations all the way to the 23rd of October, the 50th anniversary of the 1956 revolution.

We are slowly getting organized, our demands are being formalized and our goals are clarified.