White Nationalists Gather in Hungary, Richard Spencer Arrested
Update: Richard Spencer was released from detention and left Hungary October 7, according to the site . He is banned from entering all twenty-six for three years. Those are European countries that have abolished passport and other controls at their common borders.
In the end, it was the little conference that could.
Last week, a key conference scheduled in Budapest by the U.S.-based white nationalist think tank (NPI) hit several snags. Officials at the planned venue for the conference, the Larus Center, cancelled reservations and the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban announced that the government would use 鈥渁ll legal means鈥� to prevent the gathering. Nevertheless, NPI managed to congregate informally in Budapest, and even have a couple of speeches even though Hungarian police broke up a gathering the evening of October 3rd at a restaurant and arrested NPI director Richard Spencer.
of American Renaissance provided a of the hastily organized gathering put together after the formal event was dismantled.
According to Taylor, he arrived in Hungary on Sept.29. By that time, Taylor said, publishing scion William Regnery had been stopped at the Hungarian border, put in a detention cell and then deported to London. The gathering also lost the support and sponsorship of , the Hungarian far-right nationalist party whose success has made it the third-largest party in the country鈥攑erhaps the largest blow to the conference.
Still, Taylor managed to secure an alternate venue for Saturday, Oct. 4鈥攁 private room in The Clock Caf茅, a local restaurant鈥攁nd arranged a meeting point nearby to direct participants to the new location.
A day later, however, Richard Spencer met informally with other participants at the caf茅 and was arrested by Hungarian police and detained. According to Taylor鈥檚 report, he will probably be deported this week. Paul Brian, a self-declared 鈥渏ournalist at large,鈥� was on the scene at the caf茅 and a few minutes of it to YouTube.
On the 4th, Taylor claimed that 鈥渢rusted Spencer associate鈥� Kevin Deanna went to the redirection point and helped shuttle participants to the restaurant. Deanna is the former president of the now-defunct white nationalist student group, .
Deanna鈥檚 presence is surprising. Since he from the group in 2012, Deanna has dropped out of the public eye and, what鈥檚 more, references to Deanna were scrubbed from Taylor鈥檚 account sometime before October 6. (The original can still be seen in the .)
Only two speakers made it to the dinner, though: Taylor and , a Croatian who is part of the academic racist right. Taylor to the gathering.
Titled 鈥淭owards a World Brotherhood of Europeans,鈥� he cheered the 鈥減riceless genetic heritage鈥� of Europeans, saying that, 鈥淲e Europeans, all of us, are united at the most basic level by biology. We are of the same tribe. We, in this room, have a much closer physical kinship to each other than to anyone whose origins are outside of Europe.鈥�
Taylor lamented the shifting demographics in the United States and warned about diversity, saying, 鈥淭he American 鈥榙iversity鈥� ideology really means national suicide through immigration: the replacement of European people by non-Europeans. 鈥he state is betraying its deepest obligations when it permits large numbers of aliens to settle in a country. From a cultural or genetic point of view, immigration is no different from armed invasion.鈥�
Taylor then turned apocalyptic. , lamenting further that, 鈥淚 have not lost just one nation. After losing the Confederate States, I am now losing the United States. I am losing it because my government, which once defended Europe and the genetic heritage of Europe, has opened the gates to an invasion. My country is becoming a monstrous, unheard-of mix without an identity of any kind. America鈥檚 own rulers are piling up the bonfires that are destroying it.鈥�
His solution? 鈥淢en of Europe, we must stand together. We must struggle together, so that together we will prevail.鈥�
Given the events of the past week, that seems like a tall order.
