La Turquie? Non Merci!
No Minarets Please, We’re Swiss
George Handlery about the week that was. Direct democracy, minarets the burkas. The trend toward qualified equality. The grab for power by those who wish to save mankind.
1. Among the informed, Switzerland is noted for her stability and the predictability of her system of governance. These qualities were the foundation of the general wealth of that land-locked country blessed by nature with a rough climate and a matching forbidding geography. The average person associates Switzerland with the coo-coo clock – actually made in Germany – and myths about bank secrecy that is said to protect crooks only. In addition to its above oddities, the country also practices direct democracy. That means that the people can legislate by making laws or by invalidating existing ordinances without the legislature’s nod and against the executive’s recommendations. As a result, referendums are regularly reoccurring events. This makes Switzerland THE country were the people’s voice on the issues of our time can be heard directly. An interesting vote is coming up in November. The “sovereign” – the local legal term for “people” – will have to decide whether the erection of further minarets is to be forbidden. The right of Muslims to build houses of worship is not effected by the vote. Even so, led by the commands of “multi-culti” sentiment, the country’s PC “establishment” is dead set against the – admittedly symbolic – minaret ban. Indirectly, the largest party, which is, however, by rational calculations, unable to achieve absolute majority, supports the initiative.
Freedom Go to Hell
Popped down to Westminster to see the fuss around the visit of Geert Wilders to be greeted by the Islamist rent-a-mob. Seems to me that Mr Wilders may well have paid them to turn up just to prove his point.
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