-Caveat Lector- we went on an irish rock and roll tour and ended up in a sweet little swiss hamlet called winterturm there in an irish bar we played our gig .... we finished the set with the song called the rare old mountain dew - and the chorus went - give me enough of that real good stuff - the rare old mountain dew - which is a song glorifying irish whiskey. at the end of the gig - franz came over and started talking to us very seriously - it sounded like there was something really wrong ... 'you know - zee jews zey cum over zee mountains with zee albanians and cause much crime ... !' but veee --- veee are all good celtic bruders .. ya ! -
he thought the song 'the rare old mountain dew' was the song 'the rare old mountain jew' !!!!! and bidding our aryan bludbruder a fond goodnight we headed off back to Konstanz - keeping a lookout in our rear mirrors :) we didn't have time to buy chocolate, cheese or cuckoo clocks or open a swiss bank account :) andrew hennessey read about or bizarre rock and roll tour of europe at www.scottishgenius.com and click on the amsterdam link ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 2:27 AM Subject: [CTRL] Hail, Switzerland! > <A HREF="http://www.sobran.com/columns/011213.shtml";>http://www.sobran.com/colu mns/011213.shtml</A> > > > > Hail, Switzerland! > > December 13, 2001 > > Whenever I hear someone brag that America is “the greatest country on > earth,” I want to ask, “Have you ever been to Switzerland?” Well, I > have. I spent a whole week there once. Very dull. No war, no > international crisis, no crime, none of the things that give life its savor > for red-blooded people like us. Nobody even knew who the president of the > country was. The Swiss have never even had a great president. Their > national hero is still that guy with the crossbow. Their national pastime > is yodeling. > > I don’t intend the blasphemous suggestion that Switzerland is the Greatest > Country on Earth, but it has a fair claim to be the sanest. It has had > less history over the last thousand years than most African countries have > had in the last generation. You know the old Chinese curse: “May you live > in interesting times.” The Swiss have no memory of interesting times. They > have a proud history of not making history. > > Switzerland sat out two world wars, for which it is resented by the sort of > people who think war is a duty. The Swiss seem to feel that the rest of > the world can enjoy mutual slaughter perfectly well without them. They > have never joined the United Nations, NATO, or the European Union. They > are content to hunker down within their sheltering Alps, while Americans > will cross two oceans, simultaneously if necessary, to get into a good > war. Nor do they have troops, battleships, submarines, and military bases > around the world. And no nukes. > > In short, the Swiss are what all right-thinking people have learned to call > “isolationists.” They have stubbornly maintained their independence. As a > result, an awful lot of Swiss didn’t die violent deaths in the twentieth > century. > > Oh, by the way, the Swiss aren’t afflicted by terrorism. Osama bin Laden > has probably never heard of Switzerland, unless he stashes his money > there. It may not be the Greatest Country on Earth, but nobody calls it > the Great Satan, either. > > Not that the Swiss aren’t ready to defend themselves. The men are required > by law to serve in the militia and to keep firearms in their homes. But > when they say “defense,” they mean defense — not empire, not New World > Order, not “global leadership.” They have a federal system of government, > and in Switzerland federal still, oddly enough, means decentralized. > Each canton treasures its independence. > The national president has little power, little opportunity to achieve > “greatness.” The Swiss franc is one of the world’s most stable > currencies. Swiss banks are the world’s most secure vaults. > > Naturally, a country like that, free, peaceful, and prosperous, isn’t going > to be left alone. A few years ago there was an outcry against Switzerland > as a repository of “Nazi gold,” which turned out to be a scam, an attempt > to blackmail the Swiss. They were given a choice between coughing up > billions or facing international opprobrium and sanctions. It later > transpired that the Nazi gold was mythical, the accusations a cynical smear > campaign. > > Independence is always hated by centralizers and internationalists. The > papacy is hated because the Pope, unlike politicians and journalists, can’ t > be bought or bullied. Switzerland is hated because it remains aloof from > the “international community.” I’d offer other shining examples of > resistance to the pressures of internationalism, if I could think of any. > > Switzerland has enjoyed the kind of history Americans once hoped for. But > while America has been drawn back into the quarrels of the Old World its > people had hoped to escape, Switzerland has in effect managed to secede > from that world’s strife without leaving the continent. If you want > excitement in Switzerland, you just have to roll your own; the state won’t > provide it for you. You can sum it up by saying Switzerland is a country > that has lost more lives in skiing accidents than in war. > > The story of Switzerland is the greatest political success story of the > modern world, yet we never hear about it. > Why not? Because it puts all other states to shame. Most rulers want to > Americanize their countries; but if they really cared about their people’s > welfare — lives, liberty, property, and all that — they would try to > Swissify. It’s a sign of the times that I am forced to coin this > indispensable verb. > > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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