You're going to say it's my own fault, I did choose to live here, after all.
I suppose you're right, I did choose to live here, but why, damn it, do the Swiss try to make me feel so uncomfortable with my choice?!

I am aware of the fact that I am a foreigner and that I shall remain a foreigner — always.
I was a foreigner in Germany too, but no-one tried to point it out to me every day.
The Swiss do:



This placard greets me wherever I go at the moment. It has exactly the same theme as last time, but this time round we have crows ripping poor old Switzerland apart instead of the multi coloured hands grabbing for passports.
The text has been translated in various news articles as "Free Passports for all? No" But it can also mean "free passage" and "not being held responsible for actions taken". In this case there is a tiny text that is overseen when you drive past the sign that says "Freedom of movement and residence for Rumania and Bulgaria NO" so I take it to mean "free passage".

This is another obscene example of Swiss Xenophobia being exploited by the Socialist Peoples Party.
Since the Schengen cooperation was introduced a few years ago, Switzerland has been forced to watch a flood of French, Germans, Latvians, Poles etc. stream into the country, oh, and myself of course! Same rights for all! Things are getting out of hand.

The Swiss borders have now been opened and the Customs Officers no longer check visitors entering or leaving the country – they only check for goods and then check the passports. Boils down to the same thing as previously actually ...
... but in theory unwanted strangers can now pass our borders unchecked – as in the rest of Europe.
Except, that is, Rumania and Bulgaria.

These are two of the countries that have signed a step-by-step-Schengen agreement (just like Switzerland) and haven't opened their borders for free passage yet. They can, however move freely around Europe.

Now we can't have that, can we!
It's bad enough that we have Brits here, without Rumanians too ...

Dear SVP get your act together and change your politics – there are no second-class-citizens!