- Liittynyt
- 5.10.2006
- Viestejä
- 1 192
Swiss vote after 'ugly' campaign
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2570
The right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), already the largest party in the parliament, is leading in the opinion polls and now expects at least 27% of the vote.
But the party's campaign has focussed almost entirely on immigrants.
Its controversial poster, showing three white sheep kicking a black sheep out of Switzerland, brought sharp criticism from the UN's special rapporteur on racism, Doudou :D Diene.
An even more graphic SVP video contrasts the "heaven" of a Switzerland in which trains run on time and families hike in the Alps, with the "hell" of veiled Muslim women, immigrant teenagers attacking Swiss girls and black men standing idly in the street.
About 20% of our population is foreign now and some of them are very aggressive. I think portraying them as sheep is too nice - I like sheep
-Swiss farmer
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2570
This was the ninth time since 1984 that Switzerland's asylum law has been amended, but the breach had been so wide, for so long, that SVP could not sit on its laurels. Consistent with the Swiss tradition of the direct referendum, in May 2007 SVP launched an initiative to append to the Swiss Constitution a ban on the construction of minarets, i.e. the towers from which mosques' call to prayer are supposed to ensue. The rationale, SVP officers say, is that the minaret is a symbol of a political and aggressive Islam, and of Sharia law that is incompatible with Switzerland's legal system.
In August 2007, SVP launched a direct mail, print and advertising campaign to gather 100,000 signatures supporting another Initiative; this one for the deportation of criminal foreigners after they have served their prison sentences. The measure also calls for the deportation of the entire family of a convicted criminal under the age of 18.
SVP cites official statistics showing that foreigners, who make up 22% of the Swiss population, are four times more likely to commit crimes than Swiss nationals, commit 85.5% of all rapes, 66% of all extortion, 55.5% of all murders and 52.7% of assaults (5). As well, 50% of the $1.5 billion in fraudulent Swiss Social Security claims originate with the immigrant community. Enough is enough.
SVP has visualized its campaign with a poster showing three white sheep standing on the Swiss flag, with one kicking a single black sheep off the flag. The caption reads: "Bringing safety". It has been roundly denounced by the liberal elite and media, which probably means that the Swiss people will, again, give the finger to their hallucinating bien pensants, and go with the SVP.