* Special rapporteur on racism, Doudou Diène, himself a dyed in the wool African racist from the UN World Body Cadaver, cries foul:
His Excellency Doudou Diène, warned earlier this year that a “racist and xenophobic dynamic” which used to be the province of the far right is now becoming a regular part of the democratic system in Switzerland.
* If only!
Proposed Swiss immigration laws show ‘rise of new racism and xenophobia’
Proposals for draconian new laws targeting Switzerland’s immigrants have caused concern over the rise of a new racism in the heart of one of the world’s oldest independent democracies.
The Swiss People’s Party (the Schweizerische Volkspartei or SVP), which has the largest number of seats in the Swiss parliament and is a member of the country’s coalition government, is planning the new measures “For More Security”.
With a general election due next month, it has launched a twofold campaign which has caused the UN’s special rapporteur on racism to ask for an official explanation from the government.
* Get stuffed, Doudou! Go and complain to Mugabe, you hypocritical racist creep!
The party has launched a campaign to raise the 100,000 signatures necessary to force a referendum to reintroduce into the penal code a measure to allow judges to deport foreigners who commit serious crimes once they have served their jail sentence.
But far more dramatically, it has announced its intention to lay before parliament a law allowing the entire family of a criminal under the age of 18 to be deported as soon as sentence is passed.
It will be the first such law in Europe since the Nazi practice of Sippenhaft – kin liability – whereby relatives of criminals were held responsible for their crimes and punished equally.
The proposal will be a test case not just for Switzerland but for the whole of Europe, where a division between liberal multiculturalism and a conservative isolationism is opening up in political discourse in many countries, the UK included.
A poster campaign depicting three white sheep standing on the Swiss flag, with one craftily kicking away a black sheep, has been launched – and plastered on to billboards, into newspapers and posted to every home in a direct mailshot.
The poster is, according to the United Nations, the sinister symbol of the rise of a new racism and xenophobia in a country where one in four, like the black sheep in the poster, are now foreign immigrants to this peaceful, prosperous and stable economy with low unemployment and a per capita GDP larger than that of other Western economies.
Zürich has, for the past two years, been named as the city with the best quality of life in the world.
Dr Ulrich Schlüer, the brains bedhind the poster, is a small affable man. But if he speaks softly he wields a big stick. The statistics are clear, he said, foreigners are four times more likely to commit crimes than Swiss nationals.
“In a suburb of Zürich, a group of youths between 14 and 18 recently raped a 13-year-old girl,” he said.
“It turned out that all of them were already under investigation for some previous offence. They were all foreigners from the Balkans or Turkey. Their parents said these boys are out of control.
“We say: ‘That’s not acceptable. It’s your job to control them and if you can’t do that you’ll have to leave’. It’s a punishment everyone understands.”
* Right on, doctor Schluer: make them understand. Deportation is the way!
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* If only!
It would happen here. I’d vote for it!
* xenophobia
Fear of Xenon?
* The statistics are clear, he said, foreigners are four times more likely to commit crimes than Swiss nationals.
This is similar to what happens in the UK, with “minorities” much more likely to end up in the criminal DNA database. Suggested solution? DNA Test everyone, as it discriminates against minorities if they are in the
d-base & the majority (of law-abiding citizens) aren’t – (Lord Justice
Sedley).
The peaceful ones have forced people to take one side or the other-either you coddle them or you kick them out. The middle is shrinking rapidy because the peaceful ones have rejected assimilation for the most part. They have only themselves to blame.
My great great great grand parents battle over the ideal of freedom for all and laid the bricks for the first factories.
My great great grand parents laid the steel for the railroad and stretched the cable for the telegraph across the continent.
My great grand parents strung up the electrical lines and paved the roads for early cars.
My grand parents built massive hydroelectric dams to light cities and carved freeways through the mountains to connect the metropolises.
My parents sent man to the moon and spun the fibers for the Internet.
During that whole time they sent ambassadors of good will to share their ideas with nearly every nation on earth. Some of these nations followed suit while some would not. Now refuges from these areas that would not accept these concept come banging at my doors. They want to be let in to receive the benefits of running water, mass transit, and instant communicating. Some of them also want to be on the public dole. Some of them want to bring the very cultural practices that prevented their home nations from developing. And no some think they are above the laws of my land too.
Islamic followers, not being a race, seem to be demanding citizenship and a vote in every democracy around the world. At least the unlawful Mexican immigrants here in the US are largely integrating and will fight for their new homeland even though they can not vote. Since they actually cherish freedom as much if not more than some americans they really make you see the Islamic issue as the real threat to our way of life. The immigration issue is simply whether one enters with legitimacy. I find nothing legitimate about having divided loyalties and an aversion to cultural acceptance.
White Sheep : Black Sheep.
Love the poster!
Foreigners to white Christian Democracies do commit crimes of violemce much, much, more often than the natives. Therefore it is definitely not xenophobic, nor racist, to insist that they are refused entry in the first instance and deported if they are found to have penetrated into the country.
This is called Wisdom.
Good of the Swiss to set the agenda. It is unfortunate, that we in the rest of the Western world, do not have the same kind of direct democracy that can say boo to the socialist/lib sharia friendly appeasing politicians that we have, and then set the law of the land.
Moslems have to go back to lands where their culture of Jew-Christian-Hindu-Buddhist-athiest-gay hating culture is accepted as the norm. It is good for all people, Moslems in particular, or else a civil war will erupt that will make WWII look benign by comparison. Heaven help us then.