It is all in perspective.
We need a "liberal's eye view of the political world..."
Posted on 10/07/2007 9:20:08 PM PDT by GregoTX
SCHWERZENBACH, Switzerland: The posters taped on the walls at a political rally here capture the rawness of Switzerland's national electoral campaign: Three white sheep stand on the Swiss flag, as one of them kicks a single black sheep away. "For Greater Security," the poster reads. The poster is not the creation of a fringe movement, but of the most powerful party in Switzerland's federal Parliament and a member of the coalition government, an extreme-right party called the Swiss People's Party, or SVP. It has been distributed in a mass mailing to Swiss households, reproduced in newspapers and magazines and hung as huge billboards across the country. As voters prepare to go to the polls for a general election in two weeks, the poster - and the party's underlying message - has polarized a country that prides itself on peaceful consensus in politics, neutrality in foreign policy and tolerance in human relations. Suddenly, the campaign has turned into a nationwide debate over the place of immigrants in one of the world's oldest democracies and over what it means to be Swiss. "The poster is disgusting, unacceptable," Micheline Calmy-Rey, president of Switzerland under a rotation system, said in an interview. "It stigmatizes others and plays on the fear factor and in that sense it's dangerous. The campaign does not correspond to Switzerland's multicultural openness to the world. And I am asking all Swiss who do not agree with its message to have the courage to speak out." Interior Minister Pascal Couchepin, of the Free Democratic Party, has even suggested that the SVP's worship of Christoph Blocher, the billionaire who is the party's driving force and the current justice minister, is reminiscent of that of Italian Fascists for Mussolini.
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"an extreme-right party called the Swiss People's Party, or SVP."
The "peoples party", and the NAZI Party (National Socialist German Workers Party), Italian Fascists for Mussolini, and other European Racists are called "Extreme Right" by the media.
It is all in perspective.
We need a "liberal's eye view of the political world..."
Immigrant populations make up a disproportionate amount of the prison population. Immigrant populations make up a larger share of government programs than natives. Immigrant populations cry racism, classism, ***INSERT YOUR OWN***-ism here and say any attempt for a nation to try and maintain its historical borders, language and culture is akin to Nazi’s, Mussolini blah blah blah.
It’s the same play book the world over.
Think the protest would have been any different if the flock was black sheep and the sheep getting the boot was a white sheep?
Nope.
...so the “far right wing” party wants immigration reform...
so does the “extreme left wing” party want immigration to stay the way it is? Or is status quo the “moderate” position?
Rightwingers want nationwide vote on minarets
The construction of minarets in Switzerland looks sets to go to a nationwide vote after a group of rightwing politicians launched a campaign calling for a ban.
The country’s Muslim community says it is stunned by what it sees as an “Islamophobic” move...
http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=43&sid=7777264
Citizens all over the planet are being called all sorts of fowl names, if they simply request their nations to enforce the laws on the books.
Now that’s really a far right thing to do in our nation, considering a majority of the Senate and Congress as well has the President had to sign off on it in the first place.
NAZIs? Gobbles would be proud.
Let’s put this in perspective. Lets try to imagine this situation...
Christians show up in Damascus and build a tower. Then three times a day they play homages to Jesus Christ over a bullhorn that can be heard for about half a mile in all directions, and urges folks to pray to Him.
My prediction:
Hour two... no more Christians in Damascus!
I believe people should be thinking in terms of colonization, when considering these minaretes. This doesn’t seem to be an attempt to assimilate into the United States, but rather claiming new ground for Islam.
The day these minaretes show up in my town and the call to prayers is broadcast across the city, I’ll move away. It will have achieved their goal, but I won’t bother to put up with it.
Thanks for posting.
About the only info I’d heard on this before was a snippet I caught
on the BBC news program on our PBS station.
And yes, the tone of the show was “how dare those Swiss citizens
protect their extensive national heritage!?”.
The look more center right to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_People‘s_Party
The nerve of them to want to keep their gun right.
They are the largest party and were formed in 1917, with the formation of a Farmers’ Party.
I like them.
Can I buy a black sheep shirt?
Note the fact that the media who compares the “Far Right” to the Nazis for daring to see a very real jihad in their mist. And looking the other way when real Jew hating Nazi loving immigrants are exposed.
Here's an image of the poster:
"Sicherheit Schaffen" means to create security. The stuff with the sheep is that this is a play on words in German. Schaf = sheep and schaffen = to create. What this poster refers to is the SVP's proposal to deport criminal aliens. So, when foreigners commit a crime in Switzerland, they ought to be deported, ie, the black sheep ought to be kicked out.
The SVP has become the largest party in Switzerland and is expected to pick up more votes in the October 21 election. This poster obviously hits a nerve with Swiss voters. They know that the crime rate among foreigners is huge; 53% of all crime, 55% of pre-mediated murder, 66% of extortions and 85% of all rapes. Many of these foreigner are members of the religion of peace, who in Switzerland, like everywhere else, demand to impose their culture on the natives. The Left in Switzerland, like the Left everywhere else hates the Christian foundation of Western Civilization, so join with the Islamists to destroy that basis by all means necessary.
In Switzerland, what they did this weekend was to have an orgy of destruction, in which they destroyed the installations set up for an SVP rally in Bern's Bundesplatz, which is right in front of the Swiss Federal Parliament. It would be comparable for the Lefties to destroy the speaker's stand set up for a Republican rally on the mall in front of Congress. They succeeded in stopping SVP's planned march to the Bundesplatz. This riot was a direct assault on freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and legal, peaceful political activity during the election campaign.
This is what the MSM and the International Herald Tribune is defending by attacking the SVP and attempting to make the SVP to topic of the story. The riot, the criminal activity, the destruction of private property in Bern and the assault on democratic activity is a nothing to the MSM. They are on the side of the Left-fascists, the criminal aliens and against the ordinary citizens in Switzerland and everywhere else.
BTW, the sheep are the centerpoint of SVP's campaign with their mascot Zottel the goat. Here's a link to online games you can play with Zottel and white and black sheep: Here.
yes :
” people should be thinking in terms of colonization, when considering these minaretes. This doesn’t seem to be an attempt to assimilate into the United States, but rather claiming new ground for Islam. “
I once heard a newscaster on CNN call an old-style communist politician in Russia "far Right." Seriously.
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