[ WGC ] In Retrospect: The Hungarian TO Attempt (+Evidence)
SensibleVoices
My fellow countrymen, in the past few days, as we all know, we witnessed an attack on our beloved country by insurgents. The insurgents attacked us from a completely different front. An attack we were not well prepared to handle, but we withstood nevertheless. I present you a retrospective view of what transpired.
The Roots of Insurgence
It all started when the former party president of the BPQ, Miloslav decided not to contest for his party's presidential election. Why the 5-time congressman from Quebec did not choose to contest those elections is not known. Also, it's not known why the Quebecer chose to run in Manitoba this time. In any way, whether intended or not, his actions (or inactions) allowed the Hungarian rogues to take control of one of Canada's top parties and take the first steps in seeding the takeover attempt.
The Day before the Elections
The day before the elections, the Prime Minister declared a nation-wide emergency. Joey Phillips first noticed the anomaly in the BPQ and tipped off the authorities. Due to the lack of time and the extreme grave nature of this situation, Prime Minister Bruck made a "list" of active Canadian congressmen and advised all Canadians to vote for. The CAF was called home and deployed to vote in regions where there was high risk.
The candidates on this list were from all political backgrounds. The list was hailed by all major political party leaders including the leader of the opposition Zanalan. The essence of the list was to strategically vote for 'real' Canadians into congress rather than getting the votes distributed(or concentrated) among 'real' Canadian candidates.
Naysayers of "The List"
Even though the list prepared by the government was very effective and the only viable option left, it was in no way inclusive of all the Canadian candidates. The candidates who were left out from the list were very disappointed. They likened the list to dictatorship and oligarchy. Some of them, unfortunately decided to vote for the BPQ feeling betrayed by the government. They felt they are in a dictatorship anyway, what difference would it make if Hungarians ruled over us?
As unfortunate as it sounds, it wasn't the perfect solution to the problem. Nor was the list the fairest one possible. In no way, it is in Canadian values to predetermine who one should vote for. If anyone had any better ideas to quell this insurgence, they should have come forward with it instead of just complaining. Given the time frame, this was the only idea which made sense. So what if you can't vote for any one who you want for a day? The bottom line is that we want a free Canada, and in no way were we going to be free under the Hungarians. At least the present government was an elected one.
In such times of crisis, we may to put your values behind you for a moment, and follow your leader. That's what leaders are elected for, to make decisions for us. Bruck proved to be a great leader in this case.
Election Day
eCanada was abuzz that day, the IRC, forums and media was full of action. Many Canadians stayed on IRC all day to direct voters to the right direction. Moving tickets were also being sold/distributed on the IRC for voters. Unfortunately, some congressmen were found poaching on the IRC even though they didn't need any more votes. They were looking for personal gains rather than that of Canada as a whole. I personally got three offers, one of them, a very influential Congressman but turned them down politely because I wanted to vote in the last moments to make my vote as effective as possible.
JT_Vanguard and others, led the IRC and directed voters tirelessly all night. It was partly due to his efforts, we stand today as a free nation. He instructed me to vote for a specific candidate in the last 10 minutes of the night, as a result of that single vote, there is one less Hungarian today in the congress. His efforts will not be forgotten by the citizens of Canada. It was due to the collective effort of all Canadians that we stand today as a strong and independent nation.
To the Hungarians
Many of you claim that you come here in peace (or was it PEACE). Canada is a welcoming country, in RL as well as in eRepublik. But no person who migrates to another country runs for congress in the first opportunity. If you wanted to start a new life here, you were welcome, we respect hard working people. But no immigrant in his right mind would first TO a political party and then try to TO the congress.
If you came in peace, why did you have to have 25 Congressional candidates in your very first month here?
Why did none of your "good willing" candidates have anything close to a Presentation?
Why did you fly so many people into our country on the day of elections?
Why did we find this document floating around in the Hungarian IRC?
Find a clearer version here.Images Courtesy: RoyMunson
In the above document, we see a clear effort by the insurgents to take over 25 seats, thus gaining a majority in Congress.
Ok, Let's still give you the benefit of doubt and believe you!
After getting a handful of seats in the Congress, why did you have to propose a series of laws which could have been detrimental to the Canadian Economy?
And, who were you kidding with the badminton story?
How can we be safe in the future?
- Spread out Canadians, your eRep location doesn't have to be your RL location. Provinces which are sparsely populated have a higher chance of being taken over and are seen as soft targets by foreign invaders.
- Don't desert your political parties. An empty party is like giving a Hungarian rapist viagra.
- Stay united in the face of foreign aggression.
- And never my friend, Never invite your Hungarian friends over for Goulash
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Comments
badminton
please address those Hungarians with your article how responsible for the whole situation and leave the rest of us alone.
I'm happy for you that you were able to deal with the situation!
Personally I have nothing to do with this TO, along with the 98% of the eHungarian population.
No matter whos behind it, TO is a shameful part of this game :/
I dont know anything - other than newspaper stuff - about the TO, but... do you seriously believe that if Hungarians were involved, you evidence (the picture of a chart) would be in English?
Hungarians speak Hungarian language as mother tongue, not English (ie. not everybody speaks English in the world - even fewer as a mother tongue...)
Something you really misanderstood. PEACE is a military organization like ATLANTIS. You are member of ATLANTIS, we are member of PEACE. These two side are at war against each other, so our nations are at war.
Anyway, most of us are not agree with TOs, and TO-attempt in Canada was not suppport by government, that was an individual mission by some "clever" citizen from Hungary. We sorry that, but we cannot say everybody that what to do.
"Why did you fly so many people into our country on the day of elections?"
Check our population number. If we'd really want to do it (as I said in another newspaper) we'd move more people to your country. As Szalacsi said, we can't control everyone. We had the orders: DON'T move to Canada - and hell yeah, not every hungarian can read. Shame, but I guess it happens everywhere.
Great article Sensible.
Booooooooooooring
Voted, I agree it is a great article. Yes I know I might not be the most poular person in Canada nowadays, but I though I drop by to say hi 🙂 Well we did not succeed, but we achived that Canada became more united then before our "attack", you gained useful experienced of being attacked politically. About the law proposal made after the election by bpq congressman: our group was against that, but some ppl in our team found that funny to propose nonsense laws, I guess they got upset by the arrogant (and sometimes racist) tone of certain Canadaian offical(s), I remember one of them was Augustus Baldwin, and actually he's articles and comments helped us to gain a lof of votes from eHungary after him calling hungarians barbarians and uncivilized.
Take care, and be aware
the barbarian huns never sleep 😉
Szalacsi clever in quotemark hurts, especially from you... Mer ugye vizbolveszikia zokszigent...
Jo Estet: We needed your help in more important areas (for example Norway, Ukraine), in countries that important to avoid to be in romanian control. So that is why I use it this way. Teccikérteni? 🙂
Szalacsi come to chat if you want to discuss that, we had our resons not helping the norway TO
Ok! I can't wait to hear your reasons. 🙂
That was a partisan action! You should know that.
I don't think that this document from the "hungarian IRC" is real. Or do you realy think that Hungarian people speaks english between each other?
So I'm guessing this back and forth between Szalacsi and Jo Estet is supposed to convince us that there was no plot right? 😉
Bye bye barbarians! 😛
@Alias Vision:
You are becoming paranoid. The organizers of this TO were even banned from the Hungarian chat to avoid them getting voters away from the official TO attempts. And do you think we would have wasted votes on the totally unimportant Canada when the Norwegian TO was hanging in the balance?
Believe me, most Hungarian were actually pissed off by this attempt.
@Nagyzee:
Hungarians do protest too much. ; )
Hardly paranoid. I believe that Hungarians (and any casual observer) would have gathered a lot of very useful information by these actions. I also think that the Canadian response caused by this rather modest expenditure of these rogue elements, so called, was well worth it (from a Hungarian perspective).
I believe you entirely when you say that the primary target was Norway and that many were angered that all resources where not used there. What that tells me is that Hungary is not adverse to TOs as some have been trying to convince us.
Someone tried to be insulting and said we finally had something to talk about... well... we do and there is nothing wrong with that. : )
Great article!
Alias Vision:
Not using TOs when the other side uses it would be shooting ourselves in the foot.
However the Hungarian government so far never supported a TO that was not of strategic importance for Hungary or PEACE and probably never will. We haven't robbed any new state yet for example and I really hope it stays this way.
And btw this partisan TO attempt in Canada would have been even less successful if you (I mean your media) hadn't used such strong words about Hungarians in general. Barbaric Huns and so on. That probably angered some.🙂 Not me though because in my opinion writing crap falls back on the one doing it. At least I hope so.
Thank you SensibleVoices, this is a great report of what occurred and i'm glad you presented the side of those that feel the Government should not tell them who to vote for. Of course though I made a list of suggestions, no one can force anyone to vote for anyone after all. Given the short amount of time we had to prepare, I found out about this at 8AM the day before the elections and worked tirelessly all day, the list was the only option and I stand by my actions.
Bruck I think I'm developing a man-crush on you, Little Britain style.
Everybody keep in mind this: many of these Hungarians are still here, and many of them are currently at odds with the current Hungarian administration. As Canadians, it is in our blood to give them a chance to prove themselves.
Canada FTW
Brilliant!
good article in some ways but i think you pushed your luck in how much you made up with that chart.
A lot of questions asked about the document I posted.
It was disclosed to me by my trusted friend Roy Munson. He had skimmed it of the Hungrian IRC. It was being updated every 5 minutes or so by someone. It just goes to show that it was a very planned attack against us and not a group of people who want just came to start a new life here.
@Dade, they have 7 congressmen and they have a chance to prove themselves. And you saw what they did, they put up absurd law proposals which made no sense... Do you still think they need a chance?
A good summary of the situation, SV. I hope Dade paid particular attention to that last line.
However, SV, one might easily argue that the exagerated media response to the TO left our new 'Hunuck' congressmen less interested in cooperating with us. Of course, proposing nonsense laws is a childish response to an equally childish use of slander and prejudice.
Hello, all you Canadians! Please read the following article: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/read-this-for-realsies--765693/1/20
Thank you. :3
SV, yes I do - but not those ones. Painting every Hungarian with the brush of a couple rotten apples is silly. Go read Kharchy's articles, and you'll see they're not all out to get us.
@Dade, I'm still suspiscious about their motives. If a community wanted to start a new life here they could start witha handful of congressmen first. But having proposed 25(50% +) in their first shot clearly sets my alarm bells ringing. I smell conspiracy in all this.
In no way am I or the majority of Canadians Xenophobes/rascists, but we DO have to maintain our nations security from threats, be it from any source.
TOs are a shameful part of the game.
Great article Sensible-Voices - although i was not alone in helping Canada- Bruck with his cabinet, Coda with the CAF, along with many others played a vital rolein spreading the information:
- special thanks to everyone who stayed up for the last few minutes to vote to ensure no more huns go into congress
- special thanks to everyone who followed the candidates list and helped in minimizing the effects of the attempted Take-Over.