Quoted from The Times:

"Swiss voters defied their Government and clerics yesterday and approved a ban on building minarets — reflecting an alarming hostility to a rising Muslim minority.

Fifty-seven per cent of voters in a referendum supported the direct democracy initiative, which ensured international embarrassment for Switzerland and a backlash in the Muslim world, upon which the country depends for exports.

A large majority of the 27 cantons supported the move, inspired by the Right, with opposition strongest in the German-speaking part of the country. In Geneva, home to United Nations agencies, the voters rejected the initiative by nearly 60 per cent."

Whichever, it still went through, meaning that minarets can't be built. This in a country in which it is already illegal to construct buildings that don't fit into the surrounding cityscape. Just plain xenophobia.

What's more scaring is that Switzerland has a direct democracy, meaning that this was not passed by any government or parliament, but approved through a NATIONWIDE REFERENDUM. For those of you who don't understand, it means that PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY VOTED AND AGREED ON IT. Does anybody see what's going on here?

Does ANYBODY see what I'm getting at here?

For some time now I've held the belief that democracy will be it's own undoing, this practically confirms everything I've suspected so far: people don't know what the HELL they are DOING. Soon they might start approving referendums that strip right from Muslims or Middle-Easterners, turning them into second-class citizens or even thow them out of the country and prohibit Muslims from entering it. If such consitutional power is vested into simple, stupid little people, then these will be the results. In the end, they'll have stripped themselves of all their OWN rights before they know it. Because people really are that stupid, the tens if not hundreds I see each day only affirms that belief.

This referendum is a clear sign that things are starting to go HORRIBLY WRONG here in Europe, it's a scaring development, to say the least, that these right-wing extremists are starting to gain a real foothold among the masses. What's more scary is that it's our own forms-of-government that allows all this to transpire. I can already promise you, Switzerland isn't the first nor the last country to start this shit.

Just a year ago, if not earlier, Slovakia banned Hungarians from calling Slovak cities by their Hungarian names, a ridiculous law yet scary when we look at what they might entail further on. In Austria, the far-right would've won had their party leader to gotten himself killed in a car accident, drunk (just goes to show what kind of leaders these people have), while in Hungary, the Jew-hating far right is probably going to win the elections next years, meaning that the shit'll hit the fan for all the thousands of Jews and Gypsies, not to mention all the Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants who "tuk öwr jööööbs!".

This, in my meaning, is a problem that lies rooted in democracy like heart-diseases lies rooted in our genes. This would probably never have happened had the country followed the meritocratic system (such as the one I presented a couple of years ago), because a capable, able leader with some real brains would never have approved something stupid as this. This is an error committed by the stupid masses, that is SHEEP, which seem to inhabit the vast majority of this godforsaken lump of dirt that we call our homeworld. A leader chosen through trial that tests his full capabilites, intellectual and otherwise, would never (or in extreme situations, perhaps only) resorted to such overly extreme and unneccessary measures.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy is not good! It'll be it's own downfall! It is this flawed system that in the end will strip us of our freedoms!

Not that anybody will heed my warning, since it's been hammered into every skull that democracy is what gives us freedom of speech and all those goodies. I would beg to differ: those could work with any system, provided there is an apparatus that keeps it in check. In a democracy, the apparatus that keeps our right from being stripped is the same one which CAN strip it from us: the People. That is NOT GOOD! It is inherently flawed, down to it's very core! Am I the only one who can see this?

I'm not that vehemently opposed to democracy that I'd exchange it for dicatorship, and anyone to insinuate that deserves a good slap in the face. What is needed is a change in our current systems, something that'll bar ourselves from stripping ourselves of our own right, or a new system that can better protect these. Otherwise we're most likely fucked.

This is also the reason why I'm probably going to move to Canada when I get the chance. At least there I won't have to contend with all this nationalistic bullshit that we're mired in here in Europe. At least there, democracy isn't threatened by it's own people like it is here.

Now hopefully, the Swiss will wisen up and counter this idiocy and vote to remove it in a new referendum. If I read it correctly, most of them were against it.

I guess people are just to lazy to go and vote nowadays...

Which, I'd like to point out, presents the second largest danger to our way of life.

Cheers!

Annons

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September 2010