1) LEVEL AZ AMERIKAI ELNOK-JELOLTEKHEZ

(Kerjuk az HL Amerikaban elo tagjait, hogy, ha egyetertenek az alabbi levellel, kuldjek el azt az amerikai elnokjeloltek alabb megadott cimeire.)

TO: BushCheney04@GeorgeWBush.com
BUSH, krysiagut@yahoo.com

August 13, 2004, Stamford, CT

Dear President Bush, Dear Senator Kerry,

I am writing to you as a member of the Hungarian Lobby of the United States.

As of yet, our lobby has not endorsed any presidential candidate. Therefore, your response to this letter will help us in reaching that decision. As you probably know, there are some 1.5 million Hungarian-Americans in the United States. They tend to be conservative and they reside mostly in the Northeast, Ohio and Florida.

What you probably do not know is that with the Albanians, Hungarians are the largest minority of Europe. The Hungarian-Americans are more than willing to cross party lines, if that is what it takes to help this minority. The Hungarians in Europe became a minority, not because they emigrated to other countries, but because the borders been redrawn around them. They became foreigner without leaving their thousand years old towns and villages.

The kingdom of Hungary was dismembered in 1920 (mostly because of French pressure, against the objections of President Wilson), because having a large and powerful Central European nation would have prevented Western Europe's hegemony over Europe. Hungary did nothing to deserve this. Hungarians defended Europe for a thousand years, never had any colonies, never had any slaves, did not practice segregation, were the first to declare the freedom of religion and contributed to the cause of freedom by mortally wounding Communism in 1956.

We, American-Hungarians would like to learn, if your foreign policy would include the protection of the collective human rights of national minorities, their right to local self-government and to dual citizenship? I would be very grateful if you could advise me about your position on these issues.

Respectfully yours,

AZ ÖN NEVE ÉS CIME

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