26.09.2004 18:21

Since I have been complaining so much about rightwing tendencies in Germany in the last days, I won't spare Switzerland now. There is absolutely no reason for thinking that our passport is something unique in this world. The one and only red booklet, that makes you happy. It is much the same problem as with the "Frauenstimmrecht" 30 years ago: how can all these very normal (already Swiss) people dare to deny to some other very normal (not yet Swiss) people the right to participate in the political life of a country where they have been living for many years? How can they dare to judge wether those people will be good Swiss citizens? What's that anyway? I am probabely a very bad one, so why don't the come and take my passport away? Of course if everybody had to pass an exam prior to get his passport, Switzerland would be the most horrible country of this world, since that test would be set up by Mr. Blocher and his friends and no sensible person would ever even try to pass.
By the way have a look at this strange commentary by the NZZ. There is a good intension behind it, but it's at best childish. Or what am I to think about the "rasende Jugendliche vom Balkan". That sounds to me like a real good party with some nice and very fast gipsy music.
There have been a lot of warnings to the people of Brandenburg and Saxonia that voting for the NPD/DVU was no good for the image of their region and therefore would in the end be damaging for the economy. I don't know how far the impact of such a bad image is, and it is probabely worse for Germany due to history than it is for Switzerland. But take it for granted, all negative reactions I receive when I tell somebody that I am Swiss, has something to do with Mr. Blocher and the fact that his politics is so popular.
If you ever hear something about Switzerland in the news here, it is something of that kind. The fact that you do not notice that down there in the Alps is just due to the fact that Switzerland is so unimportant, that nobody really cares about what's going on there.
I am planning to make a huge party once we get rid of the SVP. You are all invited. But I will probabely never get the occasion. :-(
Of course the Romandie was doing fine again. My grandmother is from Neuchatel, where foreigners have had the right to vote for many years. (since 1857 !)
So, I already spent too much time on that posting, and I have to go back to work. Greetings from a "renitente" Swiss citizen living far away in Eastern Europe in a place full of "rasenden" youngsters. Cheers!