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Various forms of lithic disguise
BLDGBLOG ^ | June, 2012 | unattributed

Posted on 06/27/2012 4:02:06 PM PDT by dynachrome

how the Swiss military has, in effect, wired the entire country to blow in the event of foreign invasion. To keep enemy armies out, bridges will be dynamited and, whenever possible, deliberately collapsed onto other roads and bridges below; hills have been weaponized to be activated as valley-sweeping artificial landslides; mountain tunnels will be sealed from within to act as nuclear-proof air raid shelters; and much more.

First, a quick look at the system of self-demolition that is literally built into the Swiss national infrastructure: To interrupt the utility of bridges, tunnels, highways, railroads, Switzerland has established three thousand points of demolition. That is the number officially printed. It has been suggested to me that to approximate a true figure a reader ought to multiply by two. Where a highway bridge crosses a railroad, a segment of the bridge is programmed to drop on the railroad. Primacord fuses are built into the bridge. Hidden artillery is in place on either side, set to prevent the enemy from clearing or repairing the damage.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: selfdefense; switzerland
And do they still have the will to use their defenses if needed? I note the heaviest defenses seem to be on the German border:

Near the German border of Switzerland, every railroad and highway tunnel has been prepared to pinch shut explosively. Nearby mountains have been made so porous that whole divisions can fit inside them. There are weapons and soldiers under barns. There are cannons inside pretty houses. Where Swiss highways happen to run on narrow ground between the edges of lakes and to the bottoms of cliffs, man-made rockslides are ready to slide.

1 posted on 06/27/2012 4:02:17 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

I own a couple of books on this topic and it is fascinating, but I did know a Swiss PHD female who had never known about it.

When I was asking her about the mandatory service, guns kept at home, built in defenses, she had no idea what I was talking about.


2 posted on 06/27/2012 4:19:55 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12

Or maybe it’s like fight club, they don’t talk about it.


3 posted on 06/27/2012 4:33:41 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

I think it was just a chick thing.


4 posted on 06/27/2012 4:36:42 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12

The book Total Resistance by Major H. Van Dach is written on this very subject. Very illuminating.


5 posted on 06/27/2012 4:38:34 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it is the only answer.)
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To: dynachrome

Why are they scared of the Germans?


6 posted on 06/27/2012 4:56:43 PM PDT by Copenhagen Smile (Are you not entertained?!)
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To: Lurker

My copy is less than 2’ from where I am sitting.

Excellent book. Every Patriot should own a copy.

Paladin Press
Boulder, CO
ISBN# 0-87364-021-7


7 posted on 06/27/2012 4:58:19 PM PDT by panaxanax (Voting 'Third Party' will ensure a Communist-Marxist-Socialist dominated Supreme Court!)
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To: dynachrome

and they allow in very little muslim immigrants

The swiss do it right!


8 posted on 06/27/2012 5:00:16 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: dynachrome

Looks like a plan to me (former cbt. engr., cbt. type).


9 posted on 06/27/2012 5:00:42 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: dynachrome

Now if we could just figure out how to blow up the Rio Grande.


10 posted on 06/27/2012 5:25:17 PM PDT by Blado (Obama's brain is a coprolite from the Late Soviet Era.)
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To: 2banana

One of the first acts following the takeover of a country by muzzies has often been to destroy the accomplishments of the defeated countrymen.

Switzerland is just preparing the place for them to do it in a big way.


11 posted on 06/27/2012 5:30:14 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: dynachrome

Good for them. Not bad to be a boy scout.


12 posted on 06/27/2012 5:46:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Copenhagen Smile

Past history. They were the only country in Europe not overrun by the Nazis, it was too difficult to take conventionally. Good thing we got the bomb before the swishyboots did.


13 posted on 06/27/2012 5:49:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Blado

Or make an artificial Rio Grande exactly along the border. Big, big drop.


14 posted on 06/27/2012 5:50:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: dynachrome; Lurker; panaxanax

I knew the title sounded familiar, I googled the image to see if their was an older cover and saw that it is a book that I own, and like, but my copy (which is buried somewhere around here) is the old paperback with the cross on the cover.

It is a very good book and a light, easy read.


15 posted on 06/27/2012 7:49:01 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: dynachrome
Switzerland is a Neutral state, not a pacifist one.

It is the only place in the US or Europe where I have seen a National Guard soldier taking a train to a meeting while carrying his rifle and ammo.

16 posted on 10/15/2012 3:53:28 AM PDT by Makana
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