Entries by Karl Steinacker (1)
White Sheep and Black Sheep
Switzerland is famous for its democracy. Nowhere else on this planet the population is solicited so often to pronounce itself on issues that concern the community: the funding of infrastructure projects, tax and welfare issues, but also foreign policy questions, such as should the country be a member of the UN and the EU? When I look out of my window at work I can see the posters and slogans. I would like to share the one which caught my eyes:
What I am showing is a xenophobic poster which calls for the expulsion of "criminal foreigners": Law abiding white sheep from Switzerland kick-out a black one. Someone wrote "HONTE" on this blatantly xenophobic and racist campagne poster. It is this one single word "Shame" that gives hope.
Funny little sheep
There is evidence on Swiss internet sites that the SVP/UDC propaganda has triggered creativity rather than uproar. It is just too bad that we
can't see these "modified" posters in the streets.
www.ignoranz.ch/item/die-lustigen-schaefchen/
Xenophobie - Mode d'emploi
A diffuser largement
Chères amies, chers amis,
L’UDC, grâce à un généreux sponsor, a fait parvenir dans toutes les boîtes aux lettres de Suisse un formulaire pour signer son initiative contre les étrangers délinquants.
Ne jetez pas le formulaire : renvoyez-le dans une boîte à lettres de La Poste!Comme il est en catégorie “envoi commercial, port payé par le destinataire”, chaque formulaire renvoyé coûte à l’UDC et diminue son budget de campagne.Si toutes celles et tous ceux qui l’ont reçu faisaient de même, l’UDC en serait pour une facture de près de CHF 4’000’000.— !
Renvoyez le formulaire vide de signature. Y’a de quoi leur pourrir un peu le travail...
MERCI
(found at www.lescommunistes.org/spip.php?breve680)
Betise sans frontiere... / Dummheit ohne Grenzen / Stupidness without Borders
"Le Monde" is reporting that the xenophobic and racist Swiss campaign has "inspired" the German neo nazi party NPD.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3214,36-962207,0.html
Moutons de Garde
L'association «moutons de garde» etait créé en réaction aux dérapages de la campagne des élections nationales suisses d'octobre 2007. (Der Verein «moutons de garde» (Wachschafe) wurde als Reaktion auf die Entgleisung der Kampagne der eidgenössischen Wahlen 2007 gegruendet. / The association «moutons de garde» (Guardian Sheep) was established as a reaction to the Swiss election campaign in 2007 and its derailments.)
"Nous en appelons au respect de la différence et des individus, car c'est ensemble que nous trouverons des solutions pour notre pays, et pas en montant des catégories de population les unes contre les autres. Vous pouvez rejoindre notre mouvement enmouvement en signant notre appel":
http://moutonsdegarde.ch/mdg/view.php?p=3&lang=fr
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,507481,00.html
A commentary from the English Independant is titled "Switzerland: Europe's heart of darkness?":
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2938940.ece
Doudou Diène tance les affiches UDC
<img src="/storage/Image%201.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1192826214206" alt="Image%201.png"More xenophobic innovations

Xenophobia and racism can be so funny! If it needed another proof, the UDC party put it on the net: With "Zottel rettet die schweiz / Zottel en course pour la Suisse" we have now the ultimate entertainment: the kicking sheep preventing abusive naturalizations and that criminel foreigners to enter Switzerland.
http://www.zottel-game.ch/
Preliminary end of the Sheep Story
Summer time is over. Automn started. The Swiss elections are also behind us. The far right advanced as never before. The campaign posters are gone. But the memory of this season of sheep will stay with us.


[Source: Nivene in the office next door. Thank you Nivene!]



