TIME TO SAY - ENOUGH!

DEMOCRACY means tolerance of diverse and often not very palatable views.

However, there comes a point, when people, the decent majority say - "ENOUGH!"

That was the situation when thousands poured into the streets of Budapest's XIIIth district on an April day. They were responding to a small bloc of extreme rightwingers, who have got the idea, they have freedom of the streets of this beautiful city.

That misconception was corrected in a resounding and, frankly, very satisfying manner when the decent folk of this city made their views known in a very public manner. And it wasn't confined to the ordinary people. Hungary's Prime Minister was on hand and thunderous ovation greeted the speech of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who announced - "We will stand up to them!"

There we all were, Jews and non-Jews, Skinheads Against Nazis, Gypsies, men, women, young and old, black and white, sweeping the rubbish from our streets.

Young men and women holding up their names and phone numbers, to show the bastards that decent people are not afraid.

It was a good day to be alive, a good day to be in Budapest, a good day for decent folks.

And, a very bad one, indeed, for the lunatic thuggish fringe. They have remained conspicuously absent from the streets of the city ever since.