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The Swiss have got it right
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Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View PostI did hear of a case of this but could not remember where. If memory serves me right - the man in question ended up in limbo in an airport, unable to leave nor able to enter the country.Comment
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Presumably he's now in the UK
Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View PostI did hear of a case of this but could not remember where. If memory serves me right - the man in question ended up in limbo in an airport, unable to leave nor able to enter the country.
tulip, must stop reading the Daily Mail.Why not?Comment
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Originally posted by Dundeegeorge View Postputting up house prices, causing AIDS and hanging around street corners wearing a hoodie.
tulip, must stop reading the Daily Mail.Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
"At the end of 2006, 5,888 people were interned in Swiss prisons. 31 per cent were Swiss citizens – 69 per cent were foreigners or asylum-seekers".
So in order to reject claims of nazism should they abandon the democratic wishes of the majority of citizens and surrender to anti-democratic forces of liberal socialist multiculturalism and Islamism?
I thought democracy was about letting the majority of people decide themselves what they want for their country?
Obviously I'm playing devil's advocate here, I was arrested myself as a foreign tram fare evader in Zurich. I could have been shot.Last edited by GreenerGrass; 13 September 2007, 19:21.Comment
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Swiss citizens are less likely to be prosecuted for committing the same offence as a non-Swiss.
A significant number of the "asylum seekers" have committed no crime, other than failing their asylum application. A failed asylum seeker is told they have to leave. But as they have no money, they can't. So they get jailed.
While in jail, they get fed on Muesli and Fondue. This must surely constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
There are 1,500,000 non-Swiss residents in Switzerland, who have no say in how the country runs. The Swiss living in Switzerland number about 6,000,000. In some cantons the proportion of non-Swiss to Swiss is much higher. Some Swiss recognise that this is a problem.
The funny thing is that you hardly ever see Swiss people in the workplace. The Swiss need foreign labour at all levels to run their country. In the pharmaceutical industry, the Swiss own the companies, the Germans manage them, and the Brits do the specialist work. The Italians do the admin.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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They appear before a citizenship committee and answer questions about their desire to be Swiss. After that, they must often be approved by the entire voting community, in a secret ballot, or a show of hands. .Last edited by Troll; 14 September 2007, 07:00.How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostThe Italians do the admin.
The Swiss need foreign labour at all levels to run their country
It sounds like the countries that have the nerve to critisize the Swiss are just bitter and jealous.Comment
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They have to be fluent in at least one national language. German, French, Italian or Reto-Romansch.
Only three people speak Reto-Romansch. And the majority of alledgedly German speaking Swiss don't speak German; rather their dialect.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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