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Swiss town denies passport to vegan campaigner 'for being annoying'

kunst nugget

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/switzerland-deny-passport-dutch-vegan-anti-cowbell-nancy-holten-animal-rights-annoying-a7520991.html

A woman has been denied a second application for a Swiss passport after local residents took offence to her rejection of traditions and her “annoying” campaigning.

Nancy Holten, 42, who was born in the Netherlands, moved to Switzerland when she was eight. She is fluent in Swiss German and her children have Swiss citizenship.

The animal rights activist has campaigned publicly against the local traditions of putting bells around cows’ necks and piglet racing, according to The Local.

In her village within the canton of Aargau, Ms Holten, a vegan, has rubbed locals up the wrong way by giving interviews to the media about her views on animal rights.

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FAILSAFE 00

Brilliant

silverharp

now that's democracy

Clarebelly

God help her children.

CaptainInsano

Thanks for that op. What's the weather for the weekend?

Help!!!!

Surely this should be in the politics forum as its about immigration?

Advbrd

She may have a point re the bells but leave the piglet racing out of it.

jmayo

Fook it I have long been a believer that the Swiss were a money grabbing lot who helped keep the Nazi war machine going for years longer than it should, but I am beginning to like the Swiss more and more of late.

kunst nugget

CaptainInsano wrote: »

Thanks for that op. What's the weather for the weekend?

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.

Commotion Ocean

jmayo wrote: »

Fook it I have long been a believer that the Swiss were a money grabbing lot who helped keep the Nazi war machine going for years longer than it should, but I am beginning to like the Swiss more and more of late.

Godwin's Law has been invoked by the 8th post. Is this a new record for boards.ie?

silverharp

dfeo wrote: »

Godwin's Law has been invoked by the 8th post. Is this a new record for boards.ie?

insert Princess Bride meme....

Stigura

Help!!!! wrote: »

Surely this should be in the politics forum as its about immigration?

Give him time. He can't be here 24/7

jmayo

dfeo wrote: »

Godwin's Law has been invoked by the 8th post. Is this a new record for boards.ie?

Why not check out history, you might learn something. :rolleyes:

Harry Palmr

Who could be against piglet racing?

mad muffin

What's wrong with an itty bitty bell around a cows neck?

*follows link*

WTF?!!?!?! The size of those bells?!?!? It's like a small hatchback!!! :eek:

yerwanthere123

I feel quite bad for her actually, she's lived in Switzerland since she was eight years old, so she is Swiss for all intents and purposes. Also, her being vegan has nothing to do with the story.

elperello

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Who could be against piglet racing?

Piglets maybe..??

Irish Guitarist

To be fair those cows look like their necks are about to break with the weight of the bells.

seamus

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

I feel quite bad for her actually, she's lived in Switzerland since she was eight years old, so she is Swiss for all intents and purposes. Also, her being vegan has nothing to do with the story.

it's virtue signalling for all the anti-liberals to come out and start flinging poo around.

"Annoying woman denied Swiss citizenship" doesn't quite get the donkeys braying loudly enough.

Harry Palmr

elperello wrote: »

Piglets maybe..??

I've never seen a piglet happier than when racing other piglets. Highly social animals.

gctest50

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

I feel quite bad for her actually, she's lived in Switzerland since she was eight years old, so she is Swiss for all intents and purposes. Also, her being vegan has nothing to do with the story.

Zwart Pete was on the baccy again, he was supposed to drop her off in Spain

Capt'n Midnight

jmayo wrote: »

Fook it I have long been a believer that the Swiss were a money grabbing lot who helped keep the Nazi war machine going for years longer than it should, but I am beginning to like the Swiss more and more of late.

If you want to hate them again then they are running a scam where all of Zambia's copper is exported on paper through a small village for tax avoidance reasons.

Scum.

FatHeadFred

The Swiss people get a say in who gets naturalisatised citizenship?

We should have the same here.

Venom

"Tanja Suter, the president of the local Swiss People’s Party, claimed Ms Holten has a “big mouth” and residents had not wanted to give her the gift of citizenship “if she annoys us and doesn’t respect our traditions”."

With 144 out of 206 residents not wanting her and her big mouth there, even if she gets the passport approved at a government level she would be better off moving to a different area

r3nu4l

elperello wrote: »

Piglets maybe..??

That's the talk of loser piglets. You won't hear the ones who win complaining!

Venom

r3nu4l wrote: »

That's the talk of loser piglets. You won't hear the ones who win complaining!

Loser piglets get eaten!

andekwarhola

jmayo wrote: »

Fook it I have long been a believer that the Swiss were a money grabbing lot who helped keep the Nazi war machine going for years longer than it should, but I am beginning to like the Swiss more and more of late.

They're the Prince Philip of Europe: wealthy, intemperate curmudgeons but mordantly amusing.

Zebra3

jmayo wrote: »

Fook it I have long been a believer that the Swiss were a money grabbing lot who helped keep the Nazi war machine going for years longer than it should, but I am beginning to like the Swiss more and more of late.

While you're at it, throw in Ford and General Motors.

diomed

Best thread of 2017 so far.

RobertKK

The Swiss love their cow bells, I got a very cheap flight to Switzerland last month with Ryanair, I was in Lucerne and heard this loud noise and decided to see what was going on - a man dressed as St Nicholas was parading through the streets followed by two groups of men and boys dressed in what I assume is traditional Swiss clothing, and they were ringing cow bells, they can't be too heavy, as the youngest boy ringing them must have been 8 or 9 years old.
It was also clear the Swiss cherish cattle, given I saw statues of cattle in two different cities.
That vegan woman who lived there since she was 8, was obviously blinded by her veganism to not see that she was attacking something that was very Swiss.

OxfordColours

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

If you want to hate them again then they are running a scam where all of Zambia's copper is exported on paper through a small village for tax avoidance reasons.

Scum.

You can't hate a whole nation of people, because of the actions of a single large corporate body?