Swiss Newspaper covers Anti-RFID Campaign and mentions Ron Paul’s CFL
Posted August 15th, 2008 by Colognepaulist
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Some of you may know the tireless work of Roger aka ‘swisstiger’, the guy from Switzerland running the bilingual german/english site Ron Paul Europe Network - www.ronpauleurope.net/ind... . He had recently to reduce his commitment for this online project due to a new threat to liberty in his country: the introduction of a new passport with RFID - chip and biometric fingerprint by the Swiss federal government.
A bill introduced by the governing coalition parties to comply with the ‘Schengen Agreement’ to remove all frontier controls and permit free movement of persons between the European Community and non EU-Member Switzerland got a majority in both chambers of Swiss parliament.
This bill exceeds by far the requirements of the ‘Schengen Agreement’ and implicates the strictest law worldwide by forcing the whole Swiss population to deliver their biometric data (fingerprints and biometric foto) to their government. Yet the Swiss constitution provides for a unique instrument for the people to block and bypass unpopular legislation: a referendum by the people.
With other freedom-loving Swiss Roger started the ‘Freiheitskampagne’ www.freiheitskampagne.ch to popularize the idea of a referendum to overrule parliament’s decision. “Freiheitskampagne”, which means Freedom Campaign, found instant support among a wide range of the political spectrum. Starting from right wing patriots to conservative groups, politicians from left and right wing parties to the national Green party, socialist and even communist groups, but also Human rights groups. Currently their work is in full progress to get the quorum of 50.000 signatures necessary to file for a referendum and, after the first month, they are on a good way to reach this goal.
Though yet a one-issue campaign at this stage “Freiheitskampagne” shows true Paulistic spirit by using the Internet to build up a grass-root campaign embracing freedom-minded people with different political backgrounds. And what’s great: Despite a media blackout in the Swiss Media “Freiheitskampagne” finally got a fair press coverage by one of Switzerland’s leading newspapers the “Basler Zeitung” and also managed to get Ron Paul’s CFL mentioned in this article as a model of this initiative. http://freiheitskampagne....
For those who have not the ambition to translate a Swiss-German news-paper article, here a translation of the passage mentioning Ron Paul’s CFL.
“Serving as a model for the ‘Kampagne’ is the ‘Campaign for Liberty’ of former republican candidate for US-presidency, Ron Paul. The maverick managed to mobilize his supporters also via the Internet – collecting six million in donations on a single day”
So much for anyone who doubts the world-wide implications of the rEVOLution !
Do you know any Swiss citizens? Send them this link:
(featuring the late Aaron Russo) and send it also to all german speaking people you know – the site is full of valuable information about the danger of RFID technology.
UPDATE here http://www.dailypaul.com/...
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Save the Swiss!
Oh shit! Save the Swiss! Save the Swiss!!!!! For Liberty and Switzerland!
stuki, well-written
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
Don't have the hubris to use technology against me.
I will win:
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Who's info would I choose to write into my passport?
http://www.hackaday.com/2...
An individual is smarter than 1,000 bureaucrats. This leads me to the conclusion that these things are meant to track the behavior of the average user, and not (as is claimed) to stop the bad guys.
You don't have to know how to clone passports to get one. You just gotta know how to find the kind of business that doesn't advertise in the Yellow Pages. Think terrorists don't have connections like that? Please... Don't insult our intelligence.
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Interesting link. Thank you
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All this ‘Eurofication’
All this ‘Eurofication’ of Switzerland is really starting to scare me. Now that the US no longer can lay claim to its traditional position as a beacon of freedom, I have been kind of counting on Switzerland to pick up the slack.
And, by the dismal standards of our age, they seem to have done a decent job of it. So decent, in fact, that one can be forgiven for wondering, if their combination of radical decentralization and direct democracy has not in fact proven better at curtailing government abuses, than the theoretically superior constitutional republic that once made America the worlds shining city on the hill.
So please, Swiss people. Take this opportunity to beat back the forces of tyranny so seemingly hell bent on dragging you down into the same hellhole of mediocrity that prevails in the lowlands all around you. There are sound reasons why, amongst people with the means and ability to settle anywhere they want, Switzerland is by far, in relation to its size, their destination of choice.
Where's the article link?
Nice, but where's the direct link to the original article?
(Und ja kann ich Artikel auf Deutsch lesen.)
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I don't think there
is an online edition of 'Basler Zeitung' showing this article.
Great you can read German. Have a look on the various Paulistic sites in German.
(This is a blog where you can start and find all the links http://ronpaul.blog.de/ .
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I love it when Ron Paul gets the respect that he deserves. This article moved me. Thanks.
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MOB RULE IS BAD
With other freedom-loving Swiss Roger started the ‘Freiheitskampagne’ www.freiheitskampagne.ch to popularize the idea of a referendum
referenda? Direct democracy? MOB RULE IS BAD(sarcasm)
Currently their work is in full progress to get the quorum of 50.000 signatures necessary to file for a referendum and, after the first month, they are on a good way to reach this goal.
Now you Paultards obveously dont know that the Swiss have this "referenda system" since 1291.
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Hence NO WARS since 1291, ...Secession for States, (last happened in 1996, for kanton/State "Jura"). It would take a referenda to give the Swiss Confederal goverment permission to invade another country. Direct democracy and mobrule are bad.(sarcasm). Having the people control the power of goverment is bad. We all know that right? i mean look at the Swiss,they have been doing it for 700 years and look what the mess they are in now.
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And it would work for the USA because you guys:
1.Have different DNA?
2.Eat hamburgers?
3. Have a different culture (what? you dont dont want freedom?)
4. American citizenry is to Stupid to be involved in lawmaking?
5....??
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I donno what the reason is, throw me a bone here.
"No visas for people from terrorist nations"
-- Ron Paul, presidential TV add on immigration.
Don't get over excited.
European supporters of Ron Paul are most often long time libertarians. Libertarians worldwide are all into US politics so they know Ron Paul. What I want to tell you is that Ron Paul did not converted any Europeans to libertarianism as he did in the US.
Libertarian is a word unheard of in the EU. And there's really not much freedom loving people here, Europe has no tradition of freedom really, only Switzerland and UK have some more significant groups of pro-freedom people (still small).
Most countries here are openly run by socialists, they don't even hide it, many parties here are just called socialist. Biggest party in the EU parliament is called socialist.
So you know, in the US it's sometimes enough to make someone realize that the Democrats are socialists (and the Reps not any diffirent), here it's a question of actually explaining why socialism is bad.
Only half true
At least in the German speaking countries I guess at least half of the Ron Paul supporters are NOT longtime libertarians, but first learned about libertarianism by learning about Ron Paul. I am the living proof - LOL. Though I thought myself well versed in political history, until a year ago all I knew about Mises was him being the teacher of v. Hayek.
Though I wouldn't say Ron Paul converted all of us newbies to libertarianism he opened our minds for libertarian ideas.
I agree libertarianism is hardly known in Europe. Having said this, I think it's a bit generalized to say people here are not freedom - loving. In everyday-life people here may be even more freedom-loving then Americans. Most people think, they need the welfare state to provide for their personal freedom (f.i. to keep their standard of living though being unemployed).
What's missing in Europe (perhabs with the exception of the UK) is conservative libertarianism. In Germany f.i. the conservatives are very much statist (due to prussian or to catholic tradition)
But the times are a'changing.
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But also don't be too negative
[quote] Libertarian is a word unheard of in the EU. And there's really not much freedom loving people here, Europe has no tradition of freedom really, only Switzerland and UK have some more significant groups of pro-freedom people (still small). [/quote]
Im a Dutch Libertarian converted last year by the first youtube movie I saw from Dr Ron Paul. Since last year im at times obsessed with American History and the erosion of its Constitution. Anyways I had to respond to your comment.
I fully aware that the Tradition of Freedom in Europe is has a LOT of flaws and dark moments. And yes Europe has a very strong socialist tendency wich will be extremely hard to shake off if ever...
But there also have been moments in history where freedom prevailed. For example my country The Netherlands was one of the first republics, has been a harbor for european refugee's, had freedom of religion early compared to most country's, founded the first stockmarket.
In the 20th century the US model for Liberty was certainly very influential, unfortunatly there also have been a lot of influences of socialism. Anyways what we now have does not differ that much from the US, it is also corporatism but with a mix of socialism instead of militarism.
What I like about the whole R3volution is that it has a clear idea of what is wrong, and it has rallied a lot of people to it. In the Netherlands we had Pim Fortuin a few years ago, the most "libertarian" leaning Dutch politician I have seen in my 24 years, he rallied a lot of people in a very short time. Unfortunately he got shot and the party he had was worthless without him.. Just like the US people, the Dutch are sick of there "leaders", unlike the US we don't have a strong theory or a constitution to set a goal. People defend the goverment to a point when I talk about the corrupt leviathans in power, but thats because im rather radical. It doesn't take long however for most to agree that goverment (worldwide) has grown to damn fat.
Pim Fortuin
In retrospect you are right. Perhabs Fortuin was the closest to a libertarian politician in Europe in recent years.
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Memory offline?
Europe has no tradition of freedom really,
Crap!
Maybe the State owned leftist controlled media have whiped out all pre 1960 memories. But Libertarianism was INVENTED in Europe and it will come back once the hold of the leftist on the state owned newspapers and radiostations are gone. Internet is taking care of that!!
"No visas for people from terrorist nations"
-- Ron Paul, presidential TV add on immigration.
By tradition of freedom I
By tradition of freedom I meant widespread support of pro-freedom policies. Just because I'm libertarian does not make my family libertarian, you know what I mean? Some people invented liberalism back then as that's what it used to be called, but it has never been implemented in any European country. Well there was a period that some "experts" call capitalist, but it was far from it, I guess that's because of impression that all the progress made back them, there was a GREAT change towards capitalism, but it never reached it. World just changed because of the new technology.
Oh, and the Pim Fortuin guy you're talking about, he does not seem that much libertarian, right wing definitely, but wouldn't say even libertarian leaning.
I think some of you are confusing libertarians a little bit with right wing guys (not addressing any one in particular), libertarian is a strict pro 100% free market and 100% pro personal liberties guy and sadly Ron Paul is not even one of them, whilst he's close, his not there.
He still supports social security, veteran benefits, building some fences on the south border and some other minor stuff.
Very good
I think us Ron Paul supporters should approach the issue of RFID differentiated, and NOT denounce every use of it! RFIS is used in logistics, and also lower costs and for security and it has been in military use already since WW2, where you want to differentiate between enemy and alliance planes.
So one should rather talk about the advantages and disadvantages of RFID
the possibilities and where it should not be used. With regard to retail, people are also working on RFID labels that would stop working once out of the shop. Also remember, if you have bought say some chocolate with an RFID tag, it does not mean people than track you many miles away. This is simply technologically IMPOSSIBLE! Also, your mobile phone can be used as a tracker, so if you really want to eliminate RFID at all, you have to eliminate mobile phones as well! And somehow I do not think anyone want to go there!
Awesome! Good luck to the Swiss!
We have that option too... but we don't need a referendum... just 1 in 12!
Get to know your jurist rights! We can change this country overnight by just educating people about what their real obligations and responsibilities lie. It's still all in our hands!
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The
The Ron Paul ripple effect all the way across the Atlantic. I dont think he really knows what he has started. Its fuckin gone worldwide!
'Ron Paul ripple effect'
Priceless!
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hey mac time or what??
I mean dinner....
and yes ..it will go world wide...BIG TIME
I have to work now
08:42 am here. So I have to log out for now. See you later.
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