Magyar News, 2002. szeptember-2003. augusztus (13. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
2003-04-01 / 8. szám
The importance of being Bálint by Paul Craig Roberts, The Washington Times The readers of the Magyar News had the opportunity to read Bálint Vázsonyi ’s articles. He died in January at the age of 66. We send our deep sympathy to his wife and son. Editor Two hundred years after the American Founding came a defender of our Constitution's principles, Bálint Vázsonyi, who toiled in the tents of revival and rededication until he passed away last Friday. With nothing but hope and determination, Bálint, a budding concert pianist, walked out of Soviet-occupied Hungary with his mother and brother in 1956, crossing on foot through the mountains to Austria. He found his way to Florida State University in Tallahassee where he acquired both a music degree from a famous fellow Hungarian, Ernő Dohnányi, and his life's partner, Barbara, a gifted pianist in her own right. Those who have heard the Vázsonyis perform Wolfgang Mozart's "Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos" or Dohnanyi's "Valse Symphonique for Two Pianos" have experienced the sublime. Bálint had a career as a concert pianist, recording artist, and as professor and dean of music. But as years rolled by, Bálint grew increasingly concerned that American education was ceasing to pass cians, media, academics and intellectuals. He recognized it as the same hostility to freedom that he experienced under the Nazis and communists. The ideas that destroyed Europe are now actively at work in the U.S. To combat these ideas successfully, more of us need to rally to the defense of Y'the Four Points of the Compass". America's political and educational leaders have failed our country. They have worked to disconnect us from our ideals, and they have attached themselves to alien philosophies that oppose our principles. Bálint knew the enemies that most threaten us are not in Iraq but right here at home. We require politicians, Bálint said, who will Re-Elect America and actively oppose the practices and principles that are in direct contradiction to the American Founding. In the struggle ahead, celebrate and emulate the Vázsonyis. Paul Craig Roberts is a nationally syndicated columnist. on the principles and cultural wealth in which our success is based. Disturbed at the deracination of America, he resolved to do something about it. Bálint wrote an important book, "America's Thirty Years War" showing the source of the alien ideas that are subverting our culture and society. He became a newspaper columnist, and he and Barbara organized a crosscountry bus tour of state capitals to renew enthusiasm for the Constitution. Bálint's view was that America is his country, and he was not going to lose it because citizens neglected its principles. In his writings and lectures, Bálint stressed "the Four Points of the Compass." These are: the rule of law, equality before the law, which means individual - not group - rights, the security of property, and a common American identity. Bálint realized that multiculturalism, hyphenated-Americanism, racial quotas, redistribution, and rule by unaccountable regulators are erasing American principles and turning our country into something the Founding Fathers designed the Constitution to prevent. Bálint was struck by the hostility to American principles on the part of politiEthnic community groups work hard to keep traditions of their ancestors alive. Unfortunately slowly generation after generation it these traditions start to fade away. The last ones to go is the music and the food. Each group claims that their cooking is the best, though we Hungarians are sure that ours is above all. One of the dishes is the “gulyás” or as it is Page 2 known the “Goulash”. The United Church of Christ in Bridgeport besides the goulash offers stuffed cabbage, cheese or cabbage noodles and in a daring moment the “palacsinta”. In these pictures we see the people gathering for lunch and we also see the Chief Elder Joseph Poruban maintaining the table with the appetizer as an extra chore.
