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28.11.2010, 21:20
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: |  | | | You're not "thinking", don't you understand? You can't deport a Swiss Citizen...Nor can any other country deport a citizen of their country. Your point has no merit...  | | | | | ffs, i know that you cannot deport a citizen of the country! but you can make the punishment equal for everyone by not deporting the foreigners.
*bangs head on keyboard* | Quote: | |  | | | OK crimson
.You have a point ,lets Deport all the Swiss criminals to Greek | | | | | it is greece | 
28.11.2010, 21:23
| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | please, stop the simplistic analogies, i am not 10 years old.
swiss people are not the court, thankfully we have people who have studied to be judges.
how you found that my post implies that "foreigners should be allowed to commit any crime, do a little jail time, and be put back on the streets" is frankly beyond me. nobody (including swiss) should not do any crime and if they do so they should pay the price for it. which -for the third time- i believe should be the same for everyone.
as for the "luxury of swiss jails" allow me to know better if i have heard about it or not. | | | | | I'll ignore you, your verbiage is nonsensical... | 
28.11.2010, 21:23
| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | swiss people are not the court, thankfully we have people who have studied to be judges. | | | | | In Switzerland, the citizens set the laws. The judges study them and follow the laws. It's a very different form of democracy from other places.
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28.11.2010, 21:32
| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | First, I don't care about your nationality, that does not say anything about your knowledge of the matter.
Secondly, a constitution IS written in stone between two revolutions.
Thirdly, I am now informing the Swiss authorities that you want to start a revolution against the consitution.
Good night, I've had enough of this. | | | | |  ...You are funny!
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28.11.2010, 21:33
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | In Switzerland, the citizens set the laws. The judges study them and follow the laws. It's a very different form of democracy from other places. | | | | | so should the citizens be allowed to set any laws, even if they are against human rights?
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28.11.2010, 21:38
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | What is a criminal for you? Someone who only lives from crime work? What about a respectable father who always worked hard and pay his taxes and have invest time in the community lose his mind and kill someone on impulsion?
So if the guy is a foreigner, they will send him back where he is from? What about his family?
Is this a criminal or someone who once commited a crime? | | | | | Gee nil I think you know what I mean .Murderers,Drug Dealer and guys which stealing my snowblower | 
28.11.2010, 21:38
| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | so should the citizens be allowed to set any laws, even if they are against human rights? | | | | | Not really. Initiatives are screened by parlament before they are put to vote, and implementation is weighed against current treaties. In this case, it is not a human rights issue.
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28.11.2010, 21:49
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | Mainly because the governments are full of people who are educated. | | | | | ROFL...you're not serious are you?????
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28.11.2010, 21:51
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | Gee nil I think you know what I mean .Murderers,Drug Dealer and guys which stealing my snowblower  | | | | | That sucks for the snowblower, especially now!
I think you didn't understand what I was saying too. The murderers have their day life job and pay taxes. The drug dealer may have a day job too and the guys who stole your snowblower was probably too lazy or too cheap to buy one himself.
By kicking out the criminals, it will not make the country more safe, or having a smaller amount of criminals. New ones will always come over.
I would have less tolerance for someone coming over to abuse the system, take money from the government and refuse to work because is too lazy. Something we see too often in Canada. Oh! You are from this country? Please come in, take this check and this mountly payment from the population's pocket and Welcome to Canada.
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28.11.2010, 22:14
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | ROFL...you're not serious are you????? | | | | | Absolutely. That's the idea behind representative democracy . . . that full time politicians will know a bit more than most citizens. Arguably this is an outdated idea since the numbers educated have grown significantly since the representative systems were set up.
Nevertheless, if you look at, for example, the UK cabinet you'll see that out of 23, 16 went to Oxford or Cambridge, which are the top universities in the country. This compares to the general population where 30% of adults have no qualifications at all.
If you put capital punishment to a referendum in the UK, it would be passed. Our MPs don't support it though and that's partly because they've been educated.
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28.11.2010, 22:26
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | Absolutely. That's the idea behind representative democracy . . . that full time politicians will know a bit more than most citizens. Arguably this is an outdated idea since the numbers educated have grown significantly since the representative systems were set up.
Nevertheless, if you look at, for example, the UK cabinet you'll see that out of 23, 16 went to Oxford or Cambridge, which are the top universities in the country. This compares to the general population where 30% of adults have no qualifications at all.
If you put capital punishment to a referendum in the UK, it would be passed. Our MPs don't support it though and that's partly because they've been educated. | | | | | So, if they are so well educated, how did they get the country into such a pickle? Sometimes common sense is worth more than academic theories and a burning desire to play "Risk" for real....
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28.11.2010, 22:31
| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | Absolutely. That's the idea behind representative democracy . . . that full time politicians will know a bit more than most citizens. Arguably this is an outdated idea since the numbers educated have grown significantly since the representative systems were set up.
Nevertheless, if you look at, for example, the UK cabinet you'll see that out of 23, 16 went to Oxford or Cambridge, which are the top universities in the country. This compares to the general population where 30% of adults have no qualifications at all.
If you put capital punishment to a referendum in the UK, it would be passed. Our MPs don't support it though and that's partly because they've been educated. | | | | |
Oh great. Citizens turn off your brains and let the government do your thinking for you.
Sounds like a recipe for a fascist totalitarian state.
Wrong country bud. We're in Switzerland. | This user would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
28.11.2010, 22:41
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted?
How people can call this democracy is beyond everything...these initiatives has NOTHING to do about democracy...it's pure propaganda...pure and simple...and once again the "other side" was quiet as a mouse...the SVP spread false information which led Swiss citizens to believe that it's a huge problem in Switzerland...
once again...Switzerland you fail...miserably!
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28.11.2010, 22:47
| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted?
It's called Popular Sovereignty, and is documented here:
Swiss Federal Constitution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Constitution
I highly recommend anyone living here to become familiar with this so you know which country you are living it.
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28.11.2010, 22:48
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted?
My earlier comment was because you are putting us all in the same pot, just like this initiative is doing. And this initiative got through because of fear, fear of how the country is going, fear of being crowded out by people who are not like "us". Now some people are making an effort against this sort of BS and it's a lot harder to defend somebody else's interests against those who are defending their own. To be honest, if somebody then goes and says "you ALL fail", then my reaction is most likely to be "you know what? this isn't strictly speaking my problem, just an ideological discussion".
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28.11.2010, 22:49
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | How people can call this democracy is beyond everything...these initiatives has NOTHING to do about democracy...it's pure propaganda...pure and simple...and once again the "other side" was quiet as a mouse...the SVP spread false information which led Swiss citizens to believe that it's a huge problem in Switzerland...
once again...Switzerland you fail...miserably! | | | | | When 20% of the population accounts for 60% of crime, I think it is a problem. Here are the statistics prepared by the Federal Office for Statistics as background data for the initiative and counter-proposal: http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/d.../05/01/02.html | This user would like to thank Snoopy for this useful post: | | 
28.11.2010, 22:53
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Well, they are ticked off and frustrated about the outcome. I can understand that. But this can only be due to the wrong expectations. Failing to understand the country would lead to that. But hey... Welcome to Switzerland!
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28.11.2010, 23:03
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Exactly, what failed is the integration policy, it should be stricter but also more helpful. When I went to live abroad, I realised that Switzerland is a bit like a special club, a structure and system that stands quite lonely in the world and where everyone gets "trimmed" into a certain thought pattern, based very strongly around what everyone does. Now sure, some people love to make comments about us being like cattle or sheep, but that is usually because of some strong sense of their own reeeeeallly high importance, after all, they got hired from abroad and paid lots of cash, so they must be amazing, right? Thing is, if this place was full of over-individualistic people who think of their own rather than their greater good, it would be very different.
Yes, I know I've said this before. Heck, my Swiss friends frown at some of the things I say and do, as they consider them "outrageous" and "typically British", so I wonder what it must be like to be "pure" Swiss. Quite a few people come here with no idea of just how rule-bound and structured our society is and don't feel the need to stick to these rules anyway as they're only here for all the benefits that are to be had. A bit like a parasite, really. Now there are also Swiss people like that, but I think the general idea is that a state should only have to look after it's own messes, not everybody else's too. And that brings on the discussion over those that grew up here, which is far too long and complicated for a Sunday night.
All I can say, something has rapidly deteriorated in this country, there are numbers to suggest a correlation with a foreign element and everybody loves what seems to be a quick fix. This does not make us a bunch of closet fascists.
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28.11.2010, 23:10
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | All I can say, something has rapidly deteriorated in this country, there are numbers to suggest a correlation with a foreign element and everybody loves what seems to be a quick fix. This does not make us a bunch of closet fascists. | | | | | I still would like to see some stats which could back this up.
(Not the faked ones by the SVP.)
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28.11.2010, 23:16
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| | Re: What if? Consequences of expulsion initiative being accepted? | Quote: | |  | | | I still would like to see some stats which could back this up. 
(Not the faked ones by the SVP.) | | | | | See post #376 above with a link to the official Swiss government statistics.
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