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Switzerland takes step closer to military conscription for women
TheLocal.ch ^ | 23 May 2017 10:12 CEST+02:00

Posted on 05/23/2017 9:54:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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1 posted on 05/23/2017 9:54:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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If they are in it to kill the islam threat, then go for it!

Urine be upon the filthy islam filth.


2 posted on 05/23/2017 9:56:04 PM PDT by soycd
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Thinking and acting differently would be good for the Swiss Army? How ridiculous. The Swiss have a good military system, they shouldn’t muck it up with PC stuff.


3 posted on 05/23/2017 10:26:48 PM PDT by River Hawk
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4 posted on 05/23/2017 10:30:40 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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Seems like the male conscription + female volunteer system was already pulling in the capable women that the military needed. Of course, Switzerland taxes the citizens who cannot serve or refuse to, so maybe this is an underhanded money grab.

5 posted on 05/23/2017 10:43:02 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Olog-hai

Nuts


6 posted on 05/23/2017 10:50:06 PM PDT by Theophilus (Repent)
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Not enough men in Switzerland? Or perhaps the Swiss are anticipating an external problem...

Switzerland is good country. The only area besides Italy and Ireland I’d be inclined to visit.


7 posted on 05/23/2017 10:59:36 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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There’s no better way to lower the birth rate. If there’s a war, it gets even worse.


8 posted on 05/23/2017 11:53:41 PM PDT by Crucial
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I think there are other reasons, (cough-cough) there is not much crime there, but I am a horrible person


9 posted on 05/24/2017 2:06:01 AM PDT by brucedickinson
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"There’s no better way to lower the birth rate."

Yup, exactly what I was thinking. I wonder how many moslim women will sacrifice marriage, children and family for a career or military service?

10 posted on 05/24/2017 2:43:42 AM PDT by protest1
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To: Olog-hai

It would be interesting if we did that here. Two years of service in any branch of the military or Peace Corps, Americorps,or US Public Health Service. Buy out $100,000.


11 posted on 05/24/2017 3:24:29 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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This story is fake news.


12 posted on 05/24/2017 6:24:48 AM PDT by american_ranger
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To: Jimmy Valentine

This story is fake news.


13 posted on 05/24/2017 6:24:49 AM PDT by american_ranger
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Oh well. Still think we should draft everyone here at 18 for two years service


14 posted on 05/24/2017 9:40:24 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Olog-hai

Switzerland has always been a puzzle for me. Requiring military service is not in accord with liberal freedoms, yet they are a country not willing to let someone else pull the weight for their own defense. They kept Nazi confiscated gold which was reprehensible, yet provide protection for money against state interference.

They also function too much on referendum to make decisions.


15 posted on 05/24/2017 11:53:32 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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Yes. Call me weird, but when we landed in Zurich the sight of officers walking around with full automatics in the airport gave me a sense of peace.

Apparently however Swiss officials can stop a citizen say in Zurich and demand identification. I don’t agree with that.


16 posted on 05/24/2017 11:55:33 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

Conscription is incompatible with freedom in Ayn Rand’s fantasy world. In the real world it is quite compatible with freedom.


17 posted on 08/31/2017 5:41:33 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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I would like to hear the argument for it? Americans opposed efforts from the British the conscript them, did they not?


18 posted on 09/05/2017 2:02:03 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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Apparently however Swiss officials can stop a citizen say in Zurich and demand identification. I don’t agree with that.


I lived there 10 years and no one ever asked me for ID on the streets. However, when citizens go to vote, they do ask!


19 posted on 09/05/2017 2:06:24 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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This may be another case of Travel Books being full of shite. My bad.


20 posted on 09/05/2017 2:07:27 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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