Riots in Budapest,
today we woke up to news of mass riots in budap
est, the riots were in response to a taped confession by the prime minister, here is the translated versions of what he said "We have not much choice. Because we have screwed it up. Not just a bit, big time. No country in Europe has ever done anything so impudent(boneheaded) as we have done.We have obviously lied over the past one and a half to two years. It was absolutely clear that what we were saying was not true... I almost died when I had to pretend for one and a half years as if we were governing. Instead we lied in the morning, we lied in the evening and at night."
We lied in the morning, we lied in the evening, we lied at night, now how would you react hearing the head of your country admit to such things. Now I am in no way saying rioting this way especially with the amount of violence is acceptable, (almost 115 police were injured by the crowd of over 10,ooo) but these statments are something to shock even the most un-political person (lynnette!). The taped admissions was geared towards his own party and not supposed to be for the public, but he is saying he really doesn't mind it being released.
Now I don't pretend to know all the reasons behind his statements but this is geared towards the "political elite" of the country. I agree with him that it is more than just a one party problem, and this is not just a problem in Hungary, as we saw in Canada with the 100 million dollar advertisment scandal only a couple years back. During the recent elections, promises were made to lower taxes here and recently it has been the complete opposite with taxes sky-rocketing, and now with this tape coming out Hungary is at a cross roads of were the future may lie. Now having the largest defiect in the EU and with this will cause the economy more damage there is un-certainty of what is next. Pray that God would use these days to open hungarians eyes, that man may fail us in trust and hope but God will never. Obviously these pictures were not taken by us but we will be in the city on sunday and since where these riots took place is on of favorite squares to just go and sit we may have to stroll by and see the damage, so we will keep you all up-dated.