I would encourage anyone here who has the time to post responses on the TSR Infrarouge website in order to fuel the debate and increase awareness amoung the Swiss of how bad the situation is:
http://www.infrarouge.ch/ir/thread-364069-suisse-protege-assez-peuple-contre
I am pleased to have now invited Jeff D Tomas, nom de plume, from Switzerland to contribute here at Isaac Brock. To give you a sample of his writing, I reproduce here his recent comment at Isaac Brock and his editorial, in French, at Infrarouge. As many at Isaac Brock are able to read French, they can see how embarrassing it should be for the United States to be criticized in this manner, as the US policies violate not only the US constitutional protections but forces other sovereign states to violate their own human rights codes, not to mention the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. Jeff commented:
I was looking at usxcanada’s site and came across this:
In more than 4 out of 5 of 3233 responses (as of 14 Jan 2012) to a Globe and Mail online poll, individual U.S. citizens in Canada indicate either uncertainty or an intention to do nothing in the belief that they can remain undiscovered by U.S. authorities. — G&M Poll
It is hard to believe this is as of last Saturday. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to get this message across. I shudder to think that the worst is yet to come. Any thoughts about this?
Apparently, Mr. McKenna did not see our press release or chose to ignore it. I have pasted most of it with a link in the comments.
I received this from Just Me:
ML,
First of all I am sure you have already seen the spat of stories about the VDP, so won’t belabor it here.. However, earlier today I found some other interesting comments /stories which are below. I conclude with something I posted at the WSJ.
[Just Me]
In looking back to President Carter’s amnesty of Viet Nam War draft dodgers, I have a profound sense that he made the right decision. His presidential pardon set free hundreds of thousands from the fear of prosecution. Andrew Glass at the Politico wrote the following:
Dual nationality exists when two or more nations claim jurisdiction over an individual. This may lead to disputes between the nations claiming the allegiance of the person, requiring that international law settle the matter. This has led to the doctrine of dominant nationality.
See also:
Dual Citizenship and National Laws
Dominant nationality protects individuals from state overreach
Dual citizenship and forced marriages, by Alison Symington
On 18 October 2011, The Globe and Mail reported reassuring words from the Ambassador of the United States to Canada:
“My message on this is to sit tight,” Mr. Jacobson said in a speech to the Canadian Club of Ottawa on Tuesday. “We are not unreasonable. We are not unsympathetic. We are not irresponsible.”
The IRS is exploring ways to accommodate the roughly one million dual Canadian-American citizens living here, Mr. Jacobson said.
An American-born Campbell River senior [Paul] – a Canadian citizen for 40 years – fears he and other ex-patriots are about to become the victims of a mean-spirited money grab by Uncle Sam.
Paul said, ““Once I showed my Canadian passport at the border and the U.S. border guard told me ‘you are a U.S. citizen until we tell you you’re not.’”
A law which is unjust does not seem to me to be a law.
St. Augustine, On Free Choice Of The Will 1.5
Once a free person determines that a law is unjust, it is not wrong, if he or she disobeys that law. I consider the FBAR law unjust, especially in its application to US persons abroad, who by nature of their residency outside the United States, innocently open up financial accounts to store and invest the capital that they have saved after duly paying taxes. Continue reading
