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Thread ID: 9461 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-09-02
2003-09-02 09:43 | User Profile
Vaunted Swiss forts helpless against this assault By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor
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CHAMPEX, Switzerland -- The simulated rock camouflage screens masking the embrasures of the mountain fort's 105 mm guns were lowered, allowing me to look down to the town of Orsieres, 350 metres below us, and onto the narrow road leading to the strategic Grand Saint Bernard pass.
Switzerland is only now beginning to reveal its deepest military secret: the hundreds of large forts and smaller defensive works built from 1940-1960. Upgraded, upgunned and made proof against nuclear contamination after World War II, the near invisible Swiss forts, dug into the sheer walls of its mountains, covered with lethal interlocking fire all passages through the nation's high Alpine region.
From heavily defended Orsieres to Montreaux, at the eastern end of beautiful Lake of Geneva - a mere 50 km - there are at least 14 major forts, and hundreds of smaller bunkers for mortars and machine guns. Last year, this column reported on mighty Dailly at the defile of St. Maurice, the Gibraltar of the Alps, an entire mountain turned into Europe's most massive fortress.
I mention these forts again because a pack of American lawyers seeking money from Switzerland recently accused the Swiss of collaborating with Germany and Italy during World War II. These claims are loathsome lies. After the fall of France in 1940, Hitler and Mussolini were preparing to invade Switzerland after it refused to join the Axis. Hitler sneered he would quickly crush "these insolent herdsmen and cheesemakers."
Switzerland, then a nation of only five million, mobilized 800,000 men. Swiss citizen soldiers were ordered to hold the mountain forts and passes, and wage guerrilla war. "Leave your wives and children behind. Fight to your last bullet; then fight to the death with your bayonet" came the chilling command. This little nation, since 1291 Europe's oldest democracy and freest nation, would not be conquered. Hitler and Mussolini wisely backed off.
After WW II, the Swiss briefly feared invasion by the U.S. and Britain. Then, from 1960-90, Switzerland became a potential target of Soviet invasion. The Red Army, in a mirror image of Germany's WW I Schlieffen Plan, devised a massive, strategic outflanking movement of NATO armies in Germany: an attack from Czechoslovakia, west through neutral Austria, then into Switzerland. Soviet tanks and armies would race across Switzerland's flat northern plain on a Zurich-Neuchatel-Geneva axis, drive into France's Rhone valley north of Lyon, then come up behind NATO forces and cut them off.
The Swiss reacted to the Soviet threat by keeping 600,000 men under arms, upgrading their forts, and came close, in the early 1960s, to building nuclear weapons.
Now that the Soviet threat is gone, the Swiss are slowly reducing their defences and plan to cut their citizen army to 190,000. But today, as in the past, each Swiss male is liable for military service and keeps his automatic weapon and ammunition at home. As Machiavelli rightly observed, "The Swiss are most heavily armed, and most free."
The Cold War may be over, but Switzerland today still finds itself under foreign threat. The U.S. and EU are pressuring Switzerland to lift its vaunted banking secrecy and reveal names of account holders. Recently, Switzerland reluctantly agreed, under threat of severe economic reprisals, to withhold taxes from accounts of EU depositors in its banks, and remit them, without naming names, to the appropriate governments.
The Swiss, who are intensely passionate about their liberties and independence, are also under other pressures from the European Community, which now surrounds it. The EU is trying to get the Swiss to adopt its semi-socialistic labour laws, human rights legislation, commercial codes and mind-numbing regulations on every product from chemicals to cheese.
If the Swiss refuse to comply with Big EU Brother, they risk being shut out of the EU market around them. The Swiss are finding themselves in much the same position as Canada does with its huge, often testy American neighbour.
Like the rest of Western Europe, Switzerland's population is aging, and foreign workers must be imported. Today, 25% of the total population is foreign born, and growing. Many Swiss, particularly in rural areas, feel their nation is being sold off, its cherished values of hard work, thrift, and honesty lost, and its pristine, crime-free society undermined by waves of newcomers from poor nations.
But younger urban Swiss want to join the EU and move freely in its vast economic area. Key Swiss industries, notably the beleaguered national airline, Swissair, urgently need European partners and access to the EU. But once Switzerland's doors are opened to unhindered EU investment, this world's best-run country risks becoming just another homogenized, bureaucratic, Euro-bland society.
The choice is stark: give up independence for economic gain or suffer the consequences. As one who lived many years in Switzerland, and holds it very dear, in my opinion wealthy Swiss have enough material goods. But they can never have enough freedom.
Swiss mountaineers fought ferociously for centuries to guard their political and economic freedoms. Their heirs should do no less. If the Swiss could face down Hitler and Mussolini, they can certainly hold the EU at arm's length.
2003-09-03 07:31 | User Profile
Sadly Switzerland seems to be falling to the NWO. Free Speech and the Right to keep Arms has been removed from the Swiss Constitution. A sad day!
Sgt. Skull's thoughts on the Swiss.
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**Heidi My Ass! - A Rant About Switzerland By Sgt. Skull
Company .......... Tenhut! OK you warheads, check out the map. The red area depicts the short-lived German empire of WWII at its greatest extent. Note that Germany invaded and occupied every country it bordered. Oops! Close but no cigar. What the heck is that tiny yellow spot almost dead in the center, sort of like a hole in a donut? Why it's totally harmless tiny little Switzerland, home of Heidi, yummy chocolate, and yodeling goat herders. My Ass! That's the image; here's the skinny:
Before the Swiss got rich, the only thing they exported was hordes of mercenaries. In fact, for a long time "Swiss" was a euphemism for "mercenary," throughout Europe because that was where the best mercenaries came from - companies of big dumb Swiss farm boys with no prospects at home. So they resurrected the ancient Greek phalanx perfected by Alexander the Great by forming companies of pikemen. (Pikes cost like nothing, so that's why the dirt poor Swiss farm boys used them.) The military trick of Phalanx is that the men must have iron discipline and unflinching courage, in which case neither the rich boys on horses nor the conscripted peasant infantry can crack them. In addition, Swiss mercenaries would actually fight, unlike the Italian mercenary companies who would take some Count's money and then decamp en masse like sensible fellows. So the Swiss became the goto guys for mercenaries in Europe until the invention of gunpowder, when all the big dumb farm boys got shot full of holes, leaving behind nothing but the celebrated Swiss Vatican Guards, and the inspiration for Swiss Cheese.
Not wanting to go back to herding goats, the Swiss got mixed up in an even filthier trade - banking. And that's curious. Why? Well consider where banks usually spring up - where there is mucho trade and commerce to finance, such as in London, Amsterdam, New York and Venice, to name a few classic examples. But hey, there was never any significant trade or commerce in Switzerland to finance. So why did banking get so big in Heidi land? Sgt. Skull is not sure, but he suspects that the Swiss reputation for keeping deals - like their honest, fighting mercenaries - had a lot to do with it. In any case the Swiss all got loaded from banking and accumulated vast stocks of gold, which we all know attracts the keen attention of covetous neighbors.
So the Swiss turned their whole country into a vast fortress surrounded by towering mountains, and all the big dumb farm boys were sent to school to undumb them, and then issued state-of-the-art weapons to replace their pikes. Some say Hitler didn't invade because the Swiss bankers cut some sort of deal with him. Maybe, I just don't know for sure, but I do know for sure that even the German blitzkrieg machine of WWII would have been mauled severely even if they had won. By the way, did you know that the Swiss government basically gives each adult Swiss male and fully automatic assault rifle and all the ammo they want - which they keep at home? If our government did that here they would all immediately begin "celebrating diversity" if you follow my meaning, and an instant Civil war Two would turn this ridiculous empire into a flaming, 3,000 mile Yugoslavia.
I also know that Masonry is very big in Switzerland, the notorious Alpina Grand Lodge being the party barn where all the banking masons diddle around with their hocus pocus baloney and cut megabuck deals. They were up to their necks in the infamous P2 Masonry lodge in Italy, which some say was connect with Kissinger's rubout of top wop Aldo Moro. I've also found out that the top Swiss banking families are actually Swiss, not like the hodge podge of nomadic opportunists that are so common in the "British" banking circles.
The point I want to make that is that Switzerland is one vast mountain fortress staffed by perhaps the world's finest soldiers who are armed to the teeth, despite any image to the contrary that you might have of them. Also, Switzerland is a major player in the NWO because of its banking wealth. Switzerland is the playground of the rich and famous. Maybe it's the final refuge for the Black Nobility of Europe when the NWO $#!+ hits the economic fan. Maybe, maybe not. I do know that Switzerland is advanced beyond all other nations in underground bunkers. Heck, even the peasants all have underground bunkers, so we can imagine what the bunkers of the rich Swiss are like - doubtless nuke proof and stocked with everything from gourmet food to Jacuzzis to last for years.
Frankly, I think everyone should hate the Swiss, or at least keep an eye on these burrowing fellows. Since 911 paranoia has gone mainstream, so Sgt. Skull feels free to let his suspicions run amuck. What if the rumored NWO plan to depopulate the world is stone cold fact? Maybe some day soon the Black Nobility of Europe and their banker buddies will all disappear and fly to Switzerland and go underground, while their American counterparts all duck into their bunkers at Greenbriar just outside D.C.. Then they H.A.R.P. the whole world, throw nukes like snowballs, and uncork all their genetically engineered bugs. Then they emerge into their Tavistock dream world, pleasantly cleansed of all the "useless eaters." Maybe, maybe not. But know that Switzerland is no Heidi land. Switzerland is one vast fortress/fallout shelter, and a major player in the NWO. Sgt. Skull will keep an eye on them, and so should you. Troops dismissed. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.
Switzerland's Valley of Death - (and this ain't even 5% of what they got - Skull) [url=http://www.foreigncorrespondent.com/archive/sargans.html]http://www.foreigncorrespondent.com/archiv...ve/sargans.html[/url]
Swiss Mercenary Pikemen finally get their comeuppance at the battle of Marignano setstats 1 [url=http://www.niderost.com/pages/Battle_of_Marignano.htm]http://www.niderost.com/pages/Battle_of_Marignano.htm[/url]
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