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Left-wing Dutch vegan who moved to Switzerland is denied a Swiss passport because she is too [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 10, 2017 | Kelly McLaughlin

Posted on 01/10/2017 9:55:29 AM PST by C19fan

A left-wing Dutch vegan who campaigned against cowbells in the Swiss village where she lives has had a request for a Swiss passport thrown out after annoying the locals. Nancy Holten, who was born in the Netherlands but moved to Switzerland at the age of eight, is a fluent speaker of Swiss German and has children who are Swiss nationals.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: animalrights; bells; churchbells; citizenship; cowbells; naturalization; swiss; switzerland; vegan
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HA HA!!! The Swiss are awesome.
1 posted on 01/10/2017 9:55:29 AM PST by C19fan
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2 posted on 01/10/2017 9:57:55 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Heh.

Lefties being routed all over the place lately.


3 posted on 01/10/2017 9:59:01 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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The Swiss have a fever.


4 posted on 01/10/2017 10:00:57 AM PST by dfwgator
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5 posted on 01/10/2017 10:01:57 AM PST by dfwgator
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Yes, they are.


6 posted on 01/10/2017 10:02:21 AM PST by jospehm20
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Nice feel good story with a happy ending.


7 posted on 01/10/2017 10:02:24 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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Have to admit, I kind of like the idea of individual Swiss towns having a say in such matters. Only thing is, what prevents a foreigner from picking a lib town and getting naturalized there, then moving as a “citizen” to another canton that doesn’t like the person to start a nest of vipers there?


8 posted on 01/10/2017 10:03:09 AM PST by piasa
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The Dutchwoman, who describes herself as a freelance journalist, model and drama student

A model? Really? Like a "Before" Model?

9 posted on 01/10/2017 10:03:38 AM PST by wbill
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Have to admit the cowbell on that poor cow further down in the article is YUGE... the size of a watermelon... if that’s what they all have to wear that would be awful... but I suspect that huge one might be there to stick it in her face during the parade.


10 posted on 01/10/2017 10:06:12 AM PST by piasa
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“left-wing Dutch vegan”

Some people seem to have no manner of luck at all in life.


11 posted on 01/10/2017 10:07:08 AM PST by V_TWIN
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She claims it is about animal rights [to get her nose under the tent] but then she’s also gone after church bells, too.


12 posted on 01/10/2017 10:08:01 AM PST by piasa
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We need laws like that.


13 posted on 01/10/2017 10:10:14 AM PST by McGavin999
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Problem is, we have people like this coming into the U.S. and telling us what WE should do.

F##k them and their ilk. Time to rid our country of this trash.


14 posted on 01/10/2017 10:17:28 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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I was expecting somebody that looks more, more, well, frumpy.


15 posted on 01/10/2017 10:21:44 AM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the https:// basket of deplorables.)
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Hmmm...

Vampire like skin tone looks Vegan-ish, but she also looks somewhat healthy (especially the hair) and has smile lines, which indicates that she does smile more than once a decade. Not sure if I can call b______it on the claim of Veganism with this one, but I am really close to...


16 posted on 01/10/2017 10:29:19 AM PST by L,TOWM (There is no longer a system to work within.)
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What is her position on Alpenhorns?


17 posted on 01/10/2017 10:39:13 AM PST by proxy_user
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“It is still very difficult to be granted Swiss citizenship and being born in the country does not give the children or even the grandchildren of immigrants the automatic right to be Swiss.”

We should take note.


18 posted on 01/10/2017 10:42:32 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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If animals like cows, pigs and chickens etc. aren’t eaten they won’t be raised and allowed to live their lives in the first place.

Why do Vegans hate animals?


19 posted on 01/10/2017 10:48:31 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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Holten said she does not have anything against Swiss traditions but in the end only cares about animal welfare

Liar. She also campaigned against church bells. Too loud for the precious pigs' and cows' ears?
20 posted on 01/10/2017 10:51:04 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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