Sep 24, 2015

Vers Mindenkinek

Petõfi Sándor:  

SZEPTEMBER VÉGÉN

Még nyílnak a völgyben a kerti virágok,
Még zöldel a nyárfa az ablak előtt,
De látod amottan a téli világot?
Már hó takará el a bérci tetőt.
Még ifju szivemben a lángsugarú nyár
S még benne virít az egész kikelet,
De íme sötét hajam őszbe vegyűl már,
A tél dere már megüté fejemet.

Elhull a virág, eliramlik az élet...
Űlj, hitvesem, űlj az ölembe ide!
Ki most fejedet kebelemre tevéd le,
Holnap nem omolsz-e sirom fölibe?
Oh mondd: ha előbb halok el, tetemimre
Könnyezve borítasz-e szemfödelet?
S rábírhat-e majdan egy ifju szerelme,
Hogy elhagyod érte az én nevemet?

Ha eldobod egykor az özvegyi fátyolt,
Fejfámra sötét lobogóul akaszd,
Én feljövök érte a síri világból
Az éj közepén, s oda leviszem azt,
Letörleni véle könyűimet érted,
Ki könnyeden elfeledéd hivedet,
S e szív sebeit bekötözni, ki téged
Még akkor is, ott is, örökre szeret!

(Koltó, 1847. szeptember.)

Sep 10, 2015

Why the European civilisation is in great danger



Just contemplating... News comes that the "refugees", who demanded and now reached Germany, refuse everything; food, water and shelter and demand to be transported to Scandinavia.

I am wondering why most of the "refugees are men? Strong, fit, healthy military aged men. Every photo that was published in the Australian media shows a crowd where in the front there are a few kids and women but behind them a SEA of men!

On the Hungarian videos that show riots, aggressive hordes turning against police, crowds throwing away food, drinks, blankets, clothes, toys donated by volunteers, trains packed with "refugees", you hardly see kids or women. One of the videos that show terrible conditions the refugees left behind at the stations just before cleaning it up, one of the refugees has a spine chilling message for Hungarians and the countries they go through.

If you ask me, 90-95% of the "refugees" that are on the photos and videos are men.

My question is, where are the kids and women? How is that these strong men fled instead of fighting and protecting their countries and their own families? If the situation is so horrible that they had to flee, have they left the vulnerable behind under those circumstances? What kind of men would do that? If these are real refugees, why are they tearing their way across five, six countries where there is no war? Why did they throw away their documents, why do they refuse to be registered, their finger prints taken? Why are they so aggressive, demanding, ungrateful? Why do they chant f**k you, Allah Akbar (watch videos from Hungary), why do they turn agains the police if they want refuge? What's more, why did a shipping container of weapons and ammunitions arrive as 'refugee aid' to Greece?

Europe has fought the way for centuries and established Western civilisation. Lead the way in science, achieved religions freedom, freedom of speech, eight hours working days, established the highest standard of education, built our human cultural heritage and achieved some kind of equal rights for women.

It is questionable if the values of most muslim countries are compatible with this. It is truly alarming that in these countries women are subordinate, prevented from education and work, rape and violence against women are accepted and in most cases goes unpunished. The judicial system of muslim counties are very different from the Western system. The rate of uneducated and illiterate amongst migrants is extremely high. Most of them don't speak English. How will they assimilate and find work in their new countries? How will their children fit into the education system and how the host country's living, education and social standard will drop from mass migration of muslims?

One could say, Australians have been doing this for a long time. Yes, but with controlled migration. Not millions flooding into unprepared countries invading their individual, unique and homogenic structure.

Hm.....however, the behaviour and attitude of this horde is threatening and devastating, not to mention what they leave behind.

Why do I think that real refugees behave differently, are grateful for what they get and happy once they are in a place with no war instead of tearing their way through a whole continent behaving like wild animals? 

Maybe because World War II was not that far and still very raw for anyone who lives or coming from Europe. We have seen enough.

Also, a small nation like the Hungarian in the middle of Europe, we have been always between East and West, our borders changing faster and more frequently than you change your underwear. We have been torn apart and dominated for hundreds of years by Turkey and Austria, then for decades by Russian soldiers, just to name the most recent few, sure these even you learnt in History lessons. If someone, we had to learn how to survive and protect our language and culture from extinction. Europe has seen masses put on trains, carried away, put in camps, even being gassed. These memories are all to fresh and raw, although we thought not!

But what is happening now in Europe activates our guards against invaders. Honestly, I am deeply troubled by the recent events. I am very concerned for my dear little home country, Hungary, for its people, troubled economy, its beautiful and ancient culture, language and everything that Hungarians gave their blood during the centuries.

Europe is not based on migration and multiculturalism like USA and Australia. The beauty of Europe is that it has all those ancient, beautiful pockets of different nations, cultures, languages, history, architecture, traditions, food and beauty that makes Europe what it is.

While helping refugees is our duty as humans, what is happening now is out of control and is endangering Europe as it is. By the way, nobody tells the Chinese that they are too Chinese and that they need to take in millions of muslims.

I am still contemplating...there is a massive problem identifying "refugees" as they have no documents. But they have iPhones and phones. Australian border security uses phones, its address book and GPS if necessary to identify locations and origin. How about that? Quickly could figure out who is from Syria, Iraq, etc. Also, a good interview with a few linguistic, origin, local knowledge questions quickly could sort out where people are coming from. I know, it's time consuming but millions will need food, clothing, shelter, documents, jobs, healthcare in a country....just saying...

Check out this great graphics on refugee flows to the EU. Use the graphics above to explore where refugees in Europe live. Select a country of origin to see what EU countries people fled to.

A video called What pisses me off about the European migrant crisis that everyone should watch to understand what's wrong with muslims migrating in great numbers to Western countries. You might not like his performing style but what he says, we must take on board!

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