"It is sometimes easier to fight for principles than to live up to them" (Adlai Stevenson 1900-1965)
Stevenson was the US-American diplomat and UN ambassador for his country, going on the Cuban missile crisis in 1963 in the UN Security Council the Soviet envoy to task and ridicule before the world was when he still tried to deny that there were Soviet medium-range missiles in Cuba. He was willing to wait until the Russians bring his evidence, "until hell freezes over ! " (to hell freezes over). The good Soviet citizens were sitting in their tight, cold multi-person households, with their sad and heroic stories from the Second World War and knew about the whole thing: nothing. There was no press there was no medium that was able to report freely and critically what happened in the workers' paradise or in the world. The only newspaper - Pravda ("Truth" - of all things) wrote about a reality that the Central Committee was agreeable to a reality that did not exist in reality!
free press, freedom of residence and choice of occupation, free elections and a free civil society is established in the discourse on the projects, ideas and experiments they dare to form a community - there was in Russia at that time not . In Switzerland, at the same time, however, already. Switzerland had there been no on the contrary, had the Swiss, the citizens of this country, no such freedoms fought for. That was only three or four generations before. All Europe had giggled hysterically, when the Swiss are a democratic-liberal constitution gave.
Our Constitution and our country has remained - where are those who laughed at the time? You can search for it in history books, the rest is history.
And again we are at the crossroads: Europe seems to have this stubborn, hopelessly backward Swiss laugh that prefer to go the difficult, unsexy, "outmoded" way as an outsider - such as inappropriate!
All Swiss? No, a small group of head of intellectuals in the writing rooms of the nation combined with a few artists and € turbos under the people's representatives working hard on the abolition of our country and mock the loudest about the stupid Tubel of citizens who wants to admit not simply that and comfortable way is the better way.
It almost seems, in a reversal of the verdict of Adlai Stevenson, it's easier is to live the principles, say, the benefits of the "special case" to enjoy a free, independent and rich country. At the slightest resistance serenade from abroad to immediately deposit the assault rifle in the armory and explain with white linen sheets and the surrender with tears of gratitude, the apotheosis, the rise in hlg. Roman Empire European nation hinzugben longing. Come o Big Karl and impregnate me with your bureaucratic pile, tear me into pieces and let me ghaddaffische burning in sweet Selbstnihilierung lick the saliva blessed to belong and sniff the breath of all European vulgarity. Schmacht!
Is not it really the case that the pacifist Stevenson here and now true in its reversal of all, it is to live simple principles and take them for granted, but when it comes to them enzustehen to fight it to defend and then hangs the Helvetic Schnäbi deep (or longer as bammelt before it, because it has certainly shrunk down by autonomous enactment already on the EU standard)?
What do you think? If we free ourselves from the narrow prison of our Schweiztums? Urs Paul Engeler Or was correct in his statement: "The Swiss are now a collection of people, who want to enjoy yourself, preferably without resistance and give everyone to understand at every opportunity awareness that they like nothing better than the same as residents would be "? Would not it be better if we stop the experiment and Switzerland are quite ordinary EU citizens?
To return to the Swiss of the Year 1963: dedicated to my today's entry I of the occasion of a Swiss specialty compare, which gives it as anywhere, and has been for 60 years
Le Parfait symbolizes! for me all that is Swiss:
- economy (but no Paté Yeast as a basic component)
- charm (creamy, not too spicy, not too greasy, not too bulky, not too colorful)
- diligence and innovation (in the war were due to scarcity)
- Interculturalism (? who invented a Welscher.)
- pragmatism (le foie dans le Tube Les Francais hulls les Nazes?)
- modernity (there was over time a yellow with chicken liver, a vegetarian and a tuna)
- success (for the first crazy idea of a student who later bought Nestlé)
- tradition (long a family in TPF)
- integration (whether Croat from Basel or Tamil from Brig - everyone knows Everyone likes it!)
- integration (whether Croat from Basel or Tamil from Brig - everyone knows Everyone likes it!)
- social (located at the millionaire as well as in the street wiper in the refrigerator)
- cosmopolitanism (you ashes once friends from abroad so ...!)
- versatility (for canape as well as for picnics)
- friendliness (it is still a Schlaargg when the Tune expertly squeezes)
- Chic , almost elegance (see pictures)
- Amicable (the tube moves in a circle at a picnic)
- Sexy (the silent gentleman keyword. Breakfast in bed ...!)
Ihne erschte Auguscht s beautiful! Until hell freezes over!