Swiss citizenship system 'racist'
By Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Geneva



Switzerland makes it very difficult for foreigners to become Swiss
An official report into the process of naturalisation in Switzerland says the current system is discriminatory and in many respects racist.

The report, from Switzerland's Federal Commission on Racial Discrimination, recommends far-reaching changes.

It criticises the practice of allowing members of a community to vote on an individual's citizenship application.

Muslims and people from the Balkans and Africa are the most likely to be rejected, the report points out.

Switzerland has Europe's toughest naturalisation laws. Foreigners must live for 12 years in a Swiss community before they can apply, and being born in Switzerland brings no right to citizenship.

Under the current system, foreigners apply through their local town or village.

They appear before a citizenship committee and answer questions about their desire to be Swiss. After that, they must often be approved by the entire voting community, in a secret ballot, or a show of hands. This practice, the report says, is particularly likely to be distorted by racial discrimination.

It cites the case of a disabled man originally from Kosovo. Although fulfilling all the legal criteria, his application for citizenship was rejected by his community on the grounds that his disability made him a burden on taxpayers, and that he was Muslim.

The report recommends that decisions on citizenship should be decided by an elected executive and not by the community as a whole. But such a move is likely to encounter stiff opposition.

Foreigners are a key issue in the run-up to Switzerland's general election next month.

The right-wing Swiss People's Party, currently leading in the opinion polls, claims Swiss communities have a democratic right to decide who can or cannot be Swiss.

Swiss citizenship system 'racist'
By Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Geneva



Switzerland makes it very difficult for foreigners to become Swiss
An official report into the process of naturalisation in Switzerland says the current system is discriminatory and in many respects racist.

The report, from Switzerland's Federal Commission on Racial Discrimination, recommends far-reaching changes.

It criticises the practice of allowing members of a community to vote on an individual's citizenship application.

Muslims and people from the Balkans and Africa are the most likely to be rejected, the report points out.

Switzerland has Europe's toughest naturalisation laws. Foreigners must live for 12 years in a Swiss community before they can apply, and being born in Switzerland brings no right to citizenship.

Under the current system, foreigners apply through their local town or village.

They appear before a citizenship committee and answer questions about their desire to be Swiss. After that, they must often be approved by the entire voting community, in a secret ballot, or a show of hands. This practice, the report says, is particularly likely to be distorted by racial discrimination.

It cites the case of a disabled man originally from Kosovo. Although fulfilling all the legal criteria, his application for citizenship was rejected by his community on the grounds that his disability made him a burden on taxpayers, and that he was Muslim.

The report recommends that decisions on citizenship should be decided by an elected executive and not by the community as a whole. But such a move is likely to encounter stiff opposition.

Foreigners are a key issue in the run-up to Switzerland's general election next month.

The right-wing Swiss People's Party, currently leading in the opinion polls, claims Swiss communities have a democratic right to decide who can or cannot be Swiss.

Elected executives can be bought, it's only the price. Switzerland is going the right way by letting their people decide as their people know what's good for them. Very good on Switzerland, truly a land of the free.

They don't have to claim such rights, citizenship isn't a right, it's a privilege. A country can refuse anyone it wants to.

Foreigners are a key issue in the run-up to Switzerland's general election next month.

The right-wing Swiss People's Party, currently leading in the opinion polls, claims Swiss communities have a democratic right to decide who can or cannot be Swiss.



My wife and I will be voting Swiss People's Party in the national elections next month.

My wife and I will be voting Swiss People's Party in the national elections next month.
You lucky bastard, you found yourself a Swiss wife, congratulations.

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After that, they must often be approved by the entire voting community, in a secret ballot, or a show of hands. This practice, the report says, is particularly likely to be distorted by racial discrimination.

Is this supposed to be "unfair" or something. Aw, my heart bleeds. How fair is it for a whole shitload of foreigners to come into your nation every day and you, and other native citizens, have no say in the matter whatsoever?

Don't get too exited folks for there are niggers and assorted muds resident in the land of chocolates and clocks who are there by virtue of asylum and refugee status.

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This says a thousand words! I love it! Bah, bah, black sheep... get the hell out!

Don't get too exited folks for there are niggers and assorted muds resident in the land of chocolates and clocks who are there by virtue of asylum and refugee status.
Yeah, there are quite a few in some places, particularly in the French speaking areas. There are a lot of left liberal and jeeboo worshiping scum bags in Switzerland who feel soooo guilty about living in such a rich, beautiful and “safe” country. I put safe in quotations because some areas, are actually not that safe anymore, thanks to the niggas and other mud scum. I have heard that some refugee houses are actually privately financed by human rights and church groups, often these fuckers run these refugee houses in smaller towns and villages, thus you sometimes see smaller towns with serious nigger crime problems.

Although fulfilling all the legal criteria, his application for citizenship was rejected by his community on the grounds that his disability made him a burden on taxpayers, and that he was Muslim.

LMFAO :krofl
I love how they turned it... "And *ahem* oh yeah, huh.... muslim too"


The report recommends that decisions on citizenship should be decided by an elected executive and not by the community as a whole. But such a move is likely to encounter stiff opposition.


Yeah right. Democracy in action. Easier to buy one guy who decides for all than going to the frontlines against the will of the people heh ?

I wish those who issued this toilet paper "report" get "disappeared"...

Letting the community decide who becomes a citizen and who doesnt is a good thing. I'm all for letting the decision making part of goverment decentralize. Indeed more democracy is a good thing.

Its much harder for the capitalists to influence the masses of people than it is to buy out a small group of decision making politicians.

Nevertheless, even the direct-democracy model of Switzerland is no solution in itsself. Switzerland has about 21% foreigners while Germany in comparisson 9% .

http://www.20min.ch/images/content/2/3/8/23898972/4/1.jpg

You are the SPP mascot goat and it's your job to.....for example;

Eat the passports that the state is helicopter dropping before the aliens get them. :eek:
Butt the black sheep out of Switzerland :D
Or use your crossbow to shoot the foreign taxmen :krofl
Stop the state grabbing too much of your money. ;)


http://www.zottel-game.ch/ :rofl