Smearing the Swiss, Once Again

by Will

Link: http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/07/beware-william-tells-second-arrow.html

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 10, 2009

A decade ago, Switzerland was beset with spurious claims that its banks were hoarding gold stolen from victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Twice before Switzerland had conducted open and thorough investigations of those claims, which were found utterly meritless.

Nonetheless, a new smear campaign was inaugurated in 1997 that culminated with a huge transfer of wealth from the independent Alpine nation?s gold reserves and the imposition of a new constitution severing the tie between the Swiss franc and gold.

Now Switzerland is confronting an international defamation campaign intended to abolish that nation?s historic commitment to banking secrecy. The U.S. government is trying to force the United Bank of Switzerland to surrender data on 52,000 American clients suspected of avoiding US taxes.

Washington insists that Switzerland enforce US tax laws, even if by doing so that nation violates its own banking secrecy laws. The word that best describes a government that could issue such a demand is ?tyranny.?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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