Brickbat: Block Heads

Police in Zermatt, Switzerland, placed large concrete blocks in front of the entrance to the Walliserkanne restaurant after owners repeatedly refused to check the COVID-19 certificates of patrons. The certificates show whether someone has been vaccinated for or recovered from COVID-19 or has recently tested negative. They are required to dine or drink inside bars and restaurants in Switzerland. Legal experts say the owners could be fined up to 10,000 francs ($11,000 U.S.) for not checking COVID-19 certificates.

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[Commenter_XY]

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[Chumby]

Government blocking access like this reminds me of the Brandonberg Gate during the Cold War.

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[m4019597]

All this business has to do is claim they are checking, but can’t keep records of their patrons and compliance due to European medical privacy laws.

Let the canton press the case with the EU court system. They would lose.

The article here fails to mention, though, that the restaurant owner threatened inspectors that he’d get his gun. That’s not cool.

[Chumby]

The article is full of holes like Swiss cheese? The owner threatened to riddle inspectors full of holes like Swiss cheese?

[Stonebraker]

Sounds like the owner is going to have to fork over a lot of cheddar for this.

[Don't look at me!]

Those Swiss better watch what they are doing.

[Chumby]

You can bank on that!

[Utkonos]

I usually take Chumby’s side but I might st remain neutral on this one.

[Utkonos]

Seriously.. I do usually take sides, I just canton this one.

[Minadin]

Switzerland isn't part of the EU.

Everyone in Switzerland has a gun. By design - they are all reservists for their military.

[Cyto]

But, but... Wouldn't a gun in every home lead to millions of murders? Those things are all murdery!

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Swiss chocolate mellows them out.

[GroundTruth]

No more.

They had a federal referendum about 2 years ago in which they decided that it was better to have open borders with the rest of the Schengen group, than to keep their guns and have to have border checks.

[Chumby]

Had it been a politician that dictated that, they might have supported a recalla.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

Switzerland isn't in the eu

[m4019597]

Oh.

[Agammamon]

No, that is very cool. He shouldn't give warnings though;)

[Jerryskids]

A simple fix for this would just require the restaurant owner standing outside his restaurant ringing a bell and crying out "Unclean! Unclean!" to warn everyone of the restaurant's status.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Swiss may soon regret training all their men to operate firearms.

[Chumby]

Communist bloc has been replaced with concrete block. By blockheads. May those assholes bern in hell.

[Cyto]

And if one.... Just one person stood up and refused to become a state enforcer... Well, they'd shut him down and bankrupt him.

But... If two! If two people stood up.....

[Longtobefree]

It would be an insurrection, and they would be jailed indefinitely without charges.

[Longtobefree]

Except for the one they shot and killed.

[Lord of Strazele]

Great let's start with not enforcing all the laws and rules Republicans support.

[Cyto]

Didn't we already do that? Mayor's across the country refusing to allow police to stop rioting and looting, prosecutors across the country refusing to prosecute rioters and looters?

[Lord of Strazele]

You just made a comment asking for this and now you're complaining about it.

[Agammamon]

Immigration laws? Rioting laws? Self defense laws?

Stop with those laws?

[Don't look at me!]

SF allows shoplifting now. You mean like that kind of law?

[Cyto]

Oof... That snark didn't land well at all.. 3 posts listing entire categories of intentional and politically motivated lawlessness. Ouch!

[Unicorn Abattoir]

You can get anything you want at Walliserkanne restaurant...

[Tyval Dayall]

Isn't anyone going to say "they would call them both faggots"? or is everyone too scared of being cancelled.

[Roberta]

Took me a while to understand the 2nd sentence of:

The certificates show whether someone has been vaccinated for or recovered from COVID-19 or has recently tested negative. They are required to dine or drink inside bars and restaurants in Switzerland.

I eventually figured out "They" referred to certificates, not the people who were negative.

[Don't look at me!]

This is called “professional journalism” today.

[Dillinger]

we're expected to edit.

[CE]

I think that was in Wisconsin where the COVID positive are required to dine or drink inside bars and restaurants.

[Cyto]

Today in propaganda:

NBC Today Show with "Important testimony in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial"...

One of the men shot testified that he was at the rally as a volunteer medic and he feared for his life after watching Rittenhouse kill someone in front of him.

Cut to Grosskrautz saying he only pulled his gun because he was trying to protect himself and others.

No mention of the moment that every legal observer on the internet pointed out... That he testified that Rittenhouse held fire until the moment that Grosskrautz pointed his gun at him.

So if you watch NBC news, it is clear that "the walls are closing in" and a conviction is obvious and immenent.

NPR goes a lot further:

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1053567574/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-gaige-grosskreutz-testimony-kenosha

This article paints Grosskrautz as a heroic figure, selflessly devoting his life to helping others, gunned down and maimed by a murderous white supremacist vigilante thug.

If you follow any of the more in-depth reporting, you know that this is a self-serving and highly inaccurate portrait. The dude has domestic violence troubles, an extensive online history as an activist who is comfortable with violent action and generally nothing at all like the portrait they tried to paint. In contrast to the tearful testimony that NPR describes as he says he couldn't kill anyone, that isn't who he is or who he wants to be... He told his brother immediately after the incident that he was going to blow the kid's head off.

So two worlds. A world of corporate media working in lockstep with the establishment to pedal a narrative that is at odds with reality, and a world of independent voices of various ideologies and levels of trustworthiness that at least contain a these of truth running through the mess somewhere.

[Chumby]

NBC execs supported OJ’s innocence. Norm MacDonald called them out for that bullshit and they fired him. He was their last genuine journalist. RIP Norm.

[Cyto]

It was a funny bit too... A callback to the original cast and Chevy announcing "This just in... Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."

[Quo Usque Tandem]

I thought that was Garrett Morris yelling out the "news for the deaf."

[Don't look at me!]

The beginnings of show trials.

[Cyto]

But more than that... An intentional plan to divide a nation.

By preaching to the choir that the prosecution has a lock on the case and showing propaganda designed to incite anger in their base, they lay the groundwork for civil unrest should he be acquitted.

In isolation, you might scoff at the notion that any such plan exists.

But we all lived through the last 2 decades. A period where every national story was designed to divide. BLM was created out of a false narrative that was debunked within 24 hours... Yet that debunking was actively suppressed not only by the media but by the Obama administration. Once the riots were well entrenched, Holder finally announced that their investigation showed the narrative was false and the officer acted properly.

This ethos has ruled the day across the country. The unrest you see is a direct result. It took a lot to get it. A lot of lies, a lot of repeated pulling police out of situations, a lot of promises not to prosecute rioters...

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A good site for following the trial is Legal Insurrection, but I haven't been trying very many, there are no doubt a lot of them which may be better.

[Utkonos]

You know who else the Swiss blocked a border escape route for?

[Vernon Depner]

Topo Gigio?

[docduracoat]

The Swiss blocked the escape of The Jews

[Dillinger]

like Stonehenge large or like I can walk around them and still get waffles large?

[GroundTruth]

So glad it could never happen h......

Never mind.

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