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2008-06-01 Europe

Swiss far-right looks to curb foreigners getting citizenship

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Posted by gorb 2008-06-01 01:41|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 It is a bare minimum but it would be a start in the right direction.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-06-01 08:19|| 2008-06-01 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Even if it does pass, is it too late?

No. Unlike England which has disarmed its citizenry, the Swiss with universal conscription, has each soldier/citizen keep his weapon and ammo at home for quick mobilization. Don't expect the Berne government to act like the ruling caste in London.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-01 08:42|| 2008-06-01 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Switzerland still has its own government. The English do not.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-01 08:49|| 2008-06-01 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 This just in: Swiss voters rejected Sunday by nearly 64 percent a far-right initiative that would have made it harder for foreigners to become naturalised citizens, according to official results reported by the Swiss News Agency.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-06-01 12:59|| 2008-06-01 12:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I notice they don't say where in the Balkans: Croatia? Montenegro? Kosovo? Senegal?

From swiss blog commenters, most of them are serbians or kosovars (plus lotsa "romanians, that is gypsies, not technically from the balkans I guess), both type being heavily represented in organized crime, and the later siding with Youths when their timeframe is right, to beat up ethnic swiss and say they "don't want them in their country", aka the Inverted World.

Switzerland's most wanted.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-06-01 13:05|| 2008-06-01 13:05|| Front Page Top

#6 30 wanted criminals, 2 swiss guys.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-06-01 13:07|| 2008-06-01 13:07|| Front Page Top

#7 That causes me to suspect they're the latter, which relieves me of the nightmare of imagining the Horst Wessel Lied yodeled to the accompaniment of an Alpenhorn.

Alpenhorn or not, the Swiss have not been involved in a large scale military conflict either internal or external for nearly 700 years. Since we no longer have any say in it here, I'll let the Swiss be the judge of who gets citizenship.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-01 14:01|| 2008-06-01 14:01|| Front Page Top

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