The Swiss banks and authorities have no obligation to cooperate with anybody outside their borders unless they have voluntarily entered into such an arrangement.

Many things are crimes, doesn't mean they are immoral. If a country is just going to spend that money getting involved in unjust wars, spying on it's population..., (and ze germans are no angels), one could even make the argument that the moral thing to do would be to ensure that as little money as possible gets into the government's hands, go Switzerland! woo!

That's why I won't be moving to, or holidaying in, America any time soon. That government is not getting a cent from me. Switzerland is pissing off the US and French governments? Es freut mich sehr.

(June 19, 2013 at 9:24 am)Stue Denim Wrote: The swiss banks and authorities have no obligation to cooperate with anybody outside their borders unless they have voluntarily entered into such an arrangement.

Well, then they shouldn`t be suprised if their actions will gain them some harsh reactions.

Quote:Many things are crimes, doesn't mean they are immoral. If a country is just going to spend that money getting involved in unjust wars, spying on it's population, one could even make the argument that the moral thing to do would be to ensure that as little money as possible gets into the government's hands, go Switzerland! woo!

That is the most retarded thing you ever wrote.

You are resorting to idiotic generalisation like a theist who defends his beliefs.

You seem to have absolutly no concept of current political affairs otherwise you would know what most goverments in Europe spend the biggest half of their money on - social securty.

Quote:That's why I won't be moving to, or holidaying in, america any time soon. That government is not getting a cent from me. Switzerland is pissing off the US and french governments? Es freut mich sehr.

Well, if they steal the money which belongs to the European social security systems, we should steal something from them. I might not approve of a total boycott, but I would approve of actions such as not letting planes destined to or from Switzerland cross German or French airspace.

Sooner or later they will have to learn that you have obligations towards neighbours.

Of course you have no interest in diplomacy or law and simply want to denfend your nonsence beliefs in a taxfree utopia of selfishness.

Like I don't know that many european nations are bloated welfare states, please.

The swiss stole nothing.
Germany stolen something from them though if I recall correctly, or at least purchased stolen property, wasn't there some banking info data thingy in the news a while back?

Fairly sure you have an airspace treaty in place already, too bad.

Why is it that they have an obligation to Germany to give them that info, why is it that Germany doesn't have an obligation to leave the swiss in peace and stop pestering them about tax issues?

A) you cannot read my mind, I'm quite interested in law. Diplomacy doesn't mean just getting whatever you want, it means dealing with other nations, and, as I said before, the U.S seems to have gone about it the entirely wrong way.
b) tax-free? I'm not an anarcho-capitalist.
c) nonsense? awww
d) please explain how that is the most retarded thing I have ever written (I've written some pretty stupid things) and what generalisations I have made.