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As I reported, the two leaders of the idiots' revolution branch of the Hungarian far-right called upon "Hunnia's Armies" to protest against today's Gay Pride march. Police said they prepare for them. Here is my summary of actual events based on the article of Index.hu.

The few hundred rioters, many of them mummed, started to walk in opposed direction to the 1000-1500 participants of the Gay Pride march. Police erected cordons along the way, which was voefully inadequate: the rioters attacked police with Molotov cocktails and torn-up pavement, managed to burned police cars at the very beginning, and threw bananas and tomatoes at the marchers.

Police at least caught a group of six who wanted to trow some liquid chemical substance in vials from the balcony of a building.

In the now traditional streetfights, police chased the far-right rioters (chant of the day c.: "Gyurcsány [the PM] fuck off / also take your faggot") ahead of the march, who - another tradition - again knocked out a reporter too.

However, the Gay Parade was to end with a concert, and there things got chaotic, police had to bring away people (including politicians) in police cars under attack from rioters while police itself was dispersing the now 500 idiots. Altogether 13 police cars were damaged.

49 arrests - I must say only. Another blamage for police.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sat Jul 5th, 2008 at 05:36:41 PM EST
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About the photo choice: skinhead homophobia is really ironic, with skinhead visual 'culture' being full of homoerotics...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Jul 5th, 2008 at 05:59:18 PM EST
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I recall that the good Dr. Freud noted, in effect, that those who were most vulnerable to homo-erotic impulses were those who most needed to "defend" their psyche from the risk of the eruption of said impulses.  Case in point?

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Jul 5th, 2008 at 09:24:28 PM EST
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SOP for authoritarian personalities. Anti-gay violence is a form of psychopathology.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Jul 5th, 2008 at 09:37:02 PM EST
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Yeah, they are often the ones most in need of such "defense."  How they were raised both gives rise to the violence and the impulses--which must be denied.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Jul 5th, 2008 at 10:53:40 PM EST
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