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ment and a little fear on the part of the participants goes on for sometime until through someone calling one of the local organisers someone comes to translate and calm things down eventually the policeman is placated and after he has confirmed that there is a reason for these people to be here and has been given various documents to pass on to his boss he leaves allowing the traffic to flow again basically nothing happened but what lies beneath is most of the stuff that i loathe about this place there are also things i like about it here obviously but there are one or two things that i can t stand 1 small mindedness 2 racism 3 an institutionalised ingrained sense that romania is still a police state a sense that is shared by both the populace and the police themselves and 4 corruption ok that s four not one or two and what this incident contained was vivid reminders of 3 of those 4 piecing together what happened it seems likely that one of the turkish participants went to a local shop to try and get a sim card he didn t speak any romanian or hungarian and the shopkeeper didn t speak any other languages the interaction was challenging for both and i think ended unsuccessfully after he left we think that the shopkeeper who had possibly encountered a few such interactions in the day or so that they had been here took it upon himself to call the police to report the presence of suspicious possibly muslim foreigners in the area that of course is all speculation but obviously at some point somebody called the police for some reason and as there were no specific complaints that the policeman brought to the whole argument it can only be that he had been called to address the issue of suspicious people being around now rather than calling the manager of the building that they were obviously staying in and at that time directly outside and finding out who they were and why they were in town not that even that level of interference should have been necessary he chose to get in a van a van designed for multiple arrests make a fairly big scene on entrance and demand answers but of course without a common language to actually obtain those answers one thing that really annoys me among the many things that really annoy me about this incident is that i actually wondered before the course began whether we should let the police know that these people were coming and so i discovered did the local organiser but both of us concluded that we didn t need to and indeed shouldn t because after all this is not 1987 and ceaucescu is very much dead and there is no longer a securitate and having to inform the police that there will be some strangers in town is no longer a bloody thing or at least we d like to imagine so but the fact remains that i m not immune to this and i am infected by this idea that while we re not living in a police state that we should maybe act as if we are i think the whole pre revolutionary feel to this aside that the thing it reminds me of is the anti muslim racism that is just so utterly pervasive here thanks to people like orban viktor and a hostile and racist media i feel like i hear ignorant and ludicrously prehistoric views on a regular basis and it drives me crazy and makes me furious i even have doubts about posting this i ve been told enough times that it s better not to stand up and say anything here because well because 30 years ago to do so would mean very bad things for you and your family and i confess that i have pondered for a long time whether to say anything to complain about this to rail at the petty mindedness and racism and insular attitudes and heavy handed policing but i feel the need to not because i think my views will make a difference but because to not say anything means i too am stuck in this mindset posted by andy at 9 24 am 4 comments labels 1989 csikszereda politics rants ridiculous examples of life in romania scaremongering xenophobia sunday december 06 2015 standing up sometimes i ask myself what i would have done if i had been german in the 1930s i am imagining that most liberally minded europeans have asked themselves the same what they would have done not what i would have done i m not quite that self absorbed would i have resisted and spoken up at the risk of putting my own life in danger would i have kept my head down and hoped that this phase would just blow over would i have tried to help and shelter those being persecuted increasingly it s beginning to look like i will get to answer this question as the anti muslim rhetoric and attacks rise and become more and more mainstream what will i do what will we all do http www theguardian com world 2015 dec 05 far right muslim cultural civil war i m not keen on the term islamophobia because it implies the islamophobes oppose the religion when in fact it s racism and the anger and hatred is directed at the people but make no mistakes this wave of anti muslim ism is a vile and virulent form of racism sweeping europe and the usa we have to stand and fight it in no uncertain terms posted by andy at 9 12 am no comments thursday december 03 2015 a terrorist sympathiser writes 397 british mps are so desperate to be seen to be doing something that they have decided to see how many innocent people they can kill in response to innocent people being killed what s that maslow quote again if the only tool you have is drones every problem seems like collateral damage something like that and apparently all those millions of us who don t think indiscriminately killing a bunch of people is a good idea which will lead to world peace are terrorist sympathisers well i have no reluctance in turn to call those 397 appalling stupid murderous compassion less fucking morons scum every last one of the 397 utter scum i despair the world is fucked up beyond belief posted by andy at 7 55 am 1 comment thursday november 19 2015 whither democracy romania has a new technocratic government with politicians either corrupt or assumed to be there is a logic to that and the idea of having experts running the various ministries makes a lot of sense raed arafat must be about the longest serving effective actor in successive governments for precisely this reason however i can t help wondering about that whole democracy thing when we elect politicians to high office we do so based on the policies they espouse not on their competence obviously hiring the competent has its advantages but it s not like there is one single approach to education say such that hiring an educator to the education ministry is not a political act i m troubled by this and suspect that there will be a point when people will notice that iohannis ciolan have pretty much made a massively anti democratic set of decisions despite the fact that i trust this government to run the country more than any we ve had since i ve lived here if it works is that enough posted by andy at 1 34 pm 3 comments monday august 10 2015 human rights fundamentalism orban makes it clear where he stands i was away recently and while i was away hungarian prime minister came to tusnad near where we now live to make a speech at the annual tusvanyos event this was the venue last year for the famous speech he made where he argued for illiberal democracy this year s speech was not about that but about immigration and predictably was not exactly liberal or tolerant or even demonstrating any form of human empathy it may be that many people outside hungary are not really aware of orban and his views so i have decided to relay his entire speech here as translated by hungary today here a source which is not exactly anti orban and so i think you can take it as a fairly faithful translation of what he said i have annotated it not because i really think it needs to be annotated for normal people to see through the rhetoric and see what lies beneath but well because this is scary stuff and it needs to be highlighted and because from what i gather from social media hungary is currently in the grip of some very serious and very unpleasant anti immigrant rhetoric which is being played out very publicly and will before long i m afraid lead to worse than simply just angry words so anyway here in full with annotations in bold italics is orban s speech good morning allow me to welcome attendees at the open university camp i am glad to have the opportunity to be reunited with bishop lászló tőkés such a shame that one of the heroes of the 1989 romanian revolution should have sunk to being a puppet for this extremist hungarian pm i am pleased to see dozens of my old fellow combatants and i particularly welcome the szekler flags i can see thank you all for coming following my success last year in causing uproar provoked by my presentation on the end of the era of liberal democracies and the advent of illiberal democracy this year my task is not an easy one the bar has been set too high having searched through every available dictionary on political philosophy i drew a blank i could find nothing that representatives of today s western ideological mainstream could find sufficiently offensive compared with last year i don t know viktor you seem to have done a good job in coming up with the vile far right garbage you re about to launch into don t do yourself down so much rest assured you do manage to be deeply deeply offensive most of the time and now bishop tőkés has just said that at times he finds it hard to keep track and warned us that we should not overdo the brazilian style on the ball tricks because we might trip over our own feet ladies and gentlemen a year ago i said that we are living in times when anything can happen and this is still true today who would have thought that europe would be unable to protect its own borders even against unarmed refugees who would have thought that things would get to the point at which for instance the head of the islamic community in france would publicly suggest that the french state could hand over redundant christian churches because there is a demand for them to be converted into mosques this by the way is not true but even if it were if there are buildings lying empty as many churches are why not use them for something else there are converted churches all over the place why would it be a problem oh yes of course in the dog whistle world of orban this is all code for the idea that the muslims are taking over who would have thought that the united states was tapping the telephone conversations of german political leaders this has finally been revealed and it is not the end of the world and who would have thought that we europeans would act as if nothing had happened and amicably continue free trade talks with a counterpart who probably knows our negotiating positions before we do ourselves and furthermore who would have thought that the americans would deploy weapons in central europe and the hungarian parliament would find itself pondering the thorny question of whether or not hungary should sign up to this and who other than us would have thought that by the end of 2014 hungary would be the second fastest developing country in the entire european union ladies and gentlemen the uncertainty of the future may even prompt us to consider the nature of the future in a political context or more precisely the nature of being able to understand the future we tend to conceive of the future or to be more exact knowledge of the future as if we were a captain navigating our ship into the unknown we are at the prow with telescope in hand scanning the horizon for unknown shores those with the sharpest eyesight or the most powerful telescope will be first the first to possess knowledge of the future it is as if the future stood before us out there in the unknown like an undiscovered continent which existed in the real world and was waiting for our approach but dear friends the nature of the future is completely different from this its most important characteristic is that it is not fully formed indeed it does not exist at all and will only occur hereafter therefore there is no point in straining our eyes to see the future it is better to think of the future as if we were rowers in a race sitting with our backs to the bow like rowers we can only see what is already behind us and that which happens to come within our field of vision we must direct the bow of the boat towards the future and as the shore unfolds before our eyes we must deduce the future from that which we already know in other words in thinking about the future we are not competing to looking far ahead of us but rather competing to understand the past the winners will be those who can better understand the past and who can come to the right conclusions more swiftly and more courageously this is the starting point of political leadership and planning nicely put shame you ve started looking back and pining for the certainties of the 1930s dear friends this is good news because to understand we need intelligence we need brains and across the world nothing has been as intelligently distributed everyone is convinced that they have a little more of it than others do if we think about the future of the european union and our own future within it we should first examine the past of the european union despite all our sharply critical remarks we must point out that the european union is in itself a great success in terms of peace development and welfare it is nevertheless true that up until 1990 the peace that had endured since world war ii was not due to us europeans but to the americans and the russians who decided on the affairs of europe for us there is no doubt however that since 1990 the success we have achieved has been our own success whatever problems may weigh on our minds now this fact cannot be negated even by events since 2008 ladies and gentlemen at times there are phenomena which enable us to understand a given era and which encapsulate its essence in our lifetimes modern mass migration is just such a phenomenon looking through this window we can see the whole world it is by this that the world is framed and it is through this that we can understand where we are and what awaits us ladies and gentlemen let us speak plainly the intensification of modern day mass migration is a consequence of political processes primarily inequality mr prime minister though you re about to argue that it s something else the countries of north africa once functioned as a defence zone protecting europe absorbing the masses of people coming from africa s interior ah so the reason people are migrating to europe is because there is no gaddafi there to repel them and the real threat is not from the war zones ladies and gentlemen but from the heart of africa now we re getting to it now we re getting to the core of orban s dark heart so to speak the heart of africa that s the real threat no more dog whistle racism this is the real thing with the disintegration of north african state...